Before you get your cake, you have to eat your veggies. So here is today's history lesson, brought to you by Landlocked Music: International Workers' Day (or May Day) is the commemoration of the Haymarket Riot of 1886 in Chicago, and a celebration of the social and economic achievements of the international labor movement. The 1st of May date is used because in 1884 the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, inspired by labor's 1872 success in Canada, demanded an eight-hour workday in the United States to come in effect as of May 1, 1886. This resulted in a general strike and the riot in Chicago of 1886, but eventually also in the official sanction of the eight-hour workday. You may now pass Go! ................................................................... Select New Releases for May 2nd, 2006 ................................................................... Alejandro Escovedo - The Boxing Mirror CD (Back Porch) ................................................................... Escovedo's first album since nearly succumbing to hepatitis C and crushing debt in 2003 is the darkest, most mysterious album of his career--a harrowing, poetic soundscape partly the result of producer John Cale's industrial-noir sensibilities, but also Escovedo's own avant-garde punk roots. Writing with his wife, poet Kim Christoff, as well as Chris Stamey and guitarist Jon Dee Graham, Escovedo isn't just confronting his own mortality and the mistakes which plunged him into a nightmare. He's courting a danse macabre for the sounds and poetry he finds there. (AMA) Tool - 10,000 Days CD (Volcano) ................................................................... With a majority of the songs on 10,000 Days clocking in well past the seven-minute mark, you wouldn't be entirely mistaken in thinking that the title of the album refers to how long it actually takes to make it through the whole thing. Two of the tracks--the sitar and tabla enhanced "10,000 Days (Wings Part 2)" and its suitably epic psych-rock sister "Rosetta Stoned"--even linger on for nearly a dozen leisurely minutes each. That's delightful news for the legion of Tool fans that have been waiting five years for the follow-up to 2001's Lateralus, which debuted at number one and sold 2.3 million copies in the United States. Singer Maynard James Keenan is back on mystical form after his hiatus with the politically slanted A Perfect Circle, sounding at once ethereal and eloquent as he calmly charges through the metal tempest. Complete with ridiculous packaging! (AMA) Black Keys - Chulahoma: The Songs of Junior Kimbrough CD-EP (Fat Possum) ................................................................... Chulahoma is a brand new 6 song ep from the Akron, OH two-piece The Black Keys. Produced and recorded by The Black Keys the songs on Chulahoma were originally written by the late Junior Kimbrough. Dan Auerbach (guitar/vox) and Patrick Carney (drums) have an impressive ability to re-work Kimbrough's material without sacrificing any of the song's character. Their music has been described by Rolling Stone as, "...woozy and sometimes warm, the type of emotions you'd expect from frontman, Dan Auerbach, who modulates his cynicism with folkiness..." And Pitchfork said, "The Black Keys may be just a couple of white dudes from Akron, but they seem closer in spirit to something that Muddy Waters himself might've considered 'the blues' than to any midwestern bar-band's approximation of it." (FP) Court and Spark - Hearts CD (Absolutely Kosher) ................................................................... With Hearts, The Court & Spark have created their meisterwerk, a rarified record that seamlessly stitches together their shimmering river hymns, fuzzy sci-fi sky songs, acoustic drone in the key of OM, dusky West Coast C&W (that's country and western), spectral discreet music, and serpentine motel blues into an album as rich, nuanced, and irreverent as it is ambitious. Hearts is about love, sanity, spirituality, and death on the borderlands of the 21st century, and it's the band's finest work. (INS) Wolfmother - Wolfmother CD (Interscope) ................................................................... 12 tracks of glorious rock symphony, reminding of the likes of T-Rex, The Beatles, Cream and so many more of your favourite bands. It's like Sabbath and Zeppelin were cryogenically frozen but took a knowledge pill and were thawed in 2006. It's like Kyuss but all slowed down and fucked up and with odd but somehow right time changes and bold as chord shifts. But it's different. It's no throwback or pastiche or parody, but sounds fresh and exciting, a celebration of love for the music. It's Wolfmother a 3-piece rock'n'roll wet dream from the abyss that are going to make you peer inside your brain and howl at the moon. From Dimension's military, thundering drums, roaring axe intro and stunning melody, to Woman's showcase of vocalist and guitarist Andrew Stockdale's shivery holler, right through to the chugging riffs and sludgy breakdown of Apple Tree and the freaked out psyche of The White Unicorn. (AMA) Gomez - How We Operate CD (ATO) ................................................................... There's always been something a little mysterious about Gomez. Yet no one would mistake them for a dream-pop or shoegazer act. The UK quintet relies too much on acoustic instrumentation (violin, mandolin, harmonica, etc.) and rocks too hard to qualify. In fact, they've never been part of any "scene," British or otherwise. This, their fifth album, isn't an about-face and it's unlikely fans will feel betrayed by the shift, but it does represent the most direct expression of their artistry yet. It's as if they peeled away a layer or two in order to reveal more of the pop band beneath the off-kilter country-rock trappings. No doubt producer Gil Norton (Pixies, Foo Fighters) was an invaluable aid in that process: vocals are cleaner, arrangements tighter, mood more upbeat. (AMA) Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam CD (J) ................................................................... On its eighth studio release--and first since 2000--the band socks away the adventurous experimentation that dogged some of its most recent records to investigate a post-September 11, war-ravaged world overflowing with urgency and significance. Yet the album's spark is more than political. Songs like "Life Wasted," "Comatose" and "Big Wave" embrace the garage-rock past, as guitarists Mike McCready and Stone Gossard play off each other with the primal lucidity of a decade ago. (AMA) ................................................................... Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... Neil Young - Living With War (5/9) Paul Simon - Surprise (5/9) Jolie Holland - Springtime Can Kill You (5/9) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium (5/9) Red Red Meat - Debut S/T [Reissue] (5/9) Test Icicles - Dig Your Own Grave EP (5/9) Wooden Wand - Harem Of The Sundrum And The Witness Figg (5/9) Grandaddy - Just Like the Fambly Cat (5/9) the Stills - Without Feathers (5/9) Danielson - Ships (5/9) Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast (5/9) Black Heart Procession - the Spell (5/9) Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere (5/9) ................................................................... Coming Soonish (dates subject to change): ................................................................... the Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers (5/16) Twilight Singers - Powder Burns (5/16) Mason Jennings - Boneclouds (5/16) Boris - Pink (5/16) Dinosaur Jr. - Green Mind & Where you Been [Reissues] (5/16) Murder by Death - In Bocca Al Lupo (5/23) Sebadoh - III (reissue) (5/23) Scott Walker - Drift (5/23) Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That (5/23) the Walkmen - A Hundred Miles Off (5/23) Mission of Burma - The Obliterati (5/23) Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom (Mike Patton) (5/30) Les Claypool - Of Whales & Woe (5/30) Asobi Seksu - Citrus (5/30) Boards Of Canada - Trans Canada Highway EP (6/6/6) Loren Connors - Night Through: Singles and Collected Works 1976-2004 (6/6/6) Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth (6/6/6) Ice Cube - Laugh Now, Cry Later (6/6/6) Josef K - Entymology (6/6/6) Mojave 3 - Puzzles Like You (6/6/6) Oakley Hall - Gypsum Strings (6/6/6) Hot Chip - the Warning (6/13) Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped (6/13) Lisa Germano - In The Maybe World (7/11) ------------------------------------------------------------------ We also have still fresh CDs and LPs from Spank Rock, Notwist, Thursday, the Streets, Tom Verlaine, Bruce Springsteen, Mr Nogatco (Dr Octagon), Aphex Twin, Elf Power, Eleventh Dream Day, Starlight Mints, Secret Machines, Dudley Perkins, Fiery Furnaces, Drive-By Truckers, Be Your Own Pet, the Church, the Black Angels, Dresden Dolls, Matthew Sweet/Susanna Hoffs, Built to Spill, Tanakh, Calexico, Mono, Lambchop, Wilderness, Parts & Labor, Avail (reissue series), Flaming Lips, Morrissey, Eagles of Death Metal, Eno/Byrne reissue, Liars, Howe Gelb, Band of Horses and much much more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ We also have real live music in our store as well. check out some of the upcoming performances: Tuesday, May 2nd @ 9pm @ Landlocked Music - $donation$ ................................................................... Movie Night! A first in what we hope to be a long series of regular nights at LLHQ. Curated by the kind folks at Plan9 Video, they will be bringing an enticing spread of delicious movie shorts and oddities, the likes of which you have never seen before in your life- voted on and chosen by us, the audience! Fancy. Thursday, May 4th @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music - $4 ................................................................... Tanakh (Alien8 Records, Italy) - http://www.myspace.com/jessepoetanakh Rooster (formerly the Vegetables, Julian of the Spirits) - http://www.myspace.com/thevegetables Tanakh are a band from Florence Italy, but they are led by ex-pat Jesse Poe who is originally from Muncie. He's an old friend of mine, maybe my oldest--we had the same babysitter when we were toddlers. The highly respectable label Alien8 outta Montreal puts out Tanakh's records. You might know them from that weird Unicorns LP from a couple years ago, as well as a slew of Godspeed related stuff. As far as Tanakh's music goes, Jesse sounds like a mix between Elliott Smith and John Martyn and his band is like Crazy Horse after returning from exile on the island of Elba. I really want him to have a good show here in Bloomington, so please come out if you can. Also on the bill Thursday is Rooster (formerly Julian of the Spirits, Vegetables). You might recognize these sharp dressed Bloomington gents. They are quickly becoming one of my favorite new(ish) bands. I haven't really figured out how to describe them yet, which is fine by me. I can say they sound more like Caravan than ZZ Top. - (JN/LL) Saturday, May 6th @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music ................................................................... Sunburned Hand of the Man - http://www.sunburnedhandoftheman.com/ Horns of Happiess (Aaron from the Impossible Shapes & 2 lovely ladies) - http://myspace.com/thehornsofhappiness Boston's purveyors of the big-band freak folk sound (like No Neck Blues Band or Jackie-O MF) with more funk for your trunk. Members claim that B-ton's Screaming Gypsy Bandits (circa 1972) are their main inspiration. A shit-spangled banner from the nexus of the new weird america. Take everything you know about music and purge it from your boundary-constrained mind as heat allows the release of molecules to exit the heaviness of liquid into the freedom of the gaseous state. And Thurston Moore loves them! Wednesday, May 10th @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music ................................................................... The Robot Ate Me (5RC) - http://www.therobotateme.com/ Puppy vs Dyslexia - http://www.fmsmprc.com/puppy.html The Robot Ate Me is a self-eating happy sad sing along experimental-pop band based out of the sunny and mostly superficial San Diego, California. They keep you on your toes, warm under blankets and shivering all at once. The songs hang on gently orchestrated hands that break, pull, smile and play with instruments that create themselves and themes that are extracted from political insanity, the politicization of mass murder, the politics of religion, death, loss, love, and being eaten to pieces by everything and everyone. Friday, May 19th @ 9pm @ Landlocked Music - FREE! ................................................................... Murder by Death Listening Party / CD Launch - http://www.murderbydeath.com/ Local lovelies MBD are about to hit the road for an eternity to support their 3rd album, In Bocca Al Lupo. Come see them off, buy the CD, listen to their new songs, wish them well, learn some Italian, and see the new music video featuring some faces you might recognize... Tuesday, May 23rd @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music - $5 OBO ................................................................... Jon Mueller & Jim Schoenecker - http://jonmueller.net/ http://croutonmusic.com/ That Bitch Reptile Singing bowls, vibrating drums and a synth so cold it could re-freeze the polar caps. A minimalism that patiently builds from a whisper to muted holler. Transfixing to say the least. Saturday, May 27th @ 2pm @ Landlocked Music - FREE! ................................................................... Gentleman Caller - http://www.myspace.com/thegentlemancaller Chris Kupersmith (formerly of Fabric, Uvula) Kenny Childers has made his mark through his involvement with such bands as The Mysteries Of Life, Brando and Velo Deluxe. He has now hooked up with some of Bloomington's finest musicians to create a musical landscape that is deep, dark, and real. Gentleman Caller combine the soaring arrangements of The Zombies with the unerring sensibilities of New Order, then temper that sweetness with a dose of John Lennon's grittiness and Lou Reed's acerbic wit. Friday, June 9th @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music ................................................................... Everything Now Miranda Sound Tamar More information about these shows and more on the horizon is available for the technologically inclined at http://myspace.com/landlockedbton ------------------------------------------------------------------ Find all the basic information you crave at http://www.landlockedmusic.com/ We are looking to buy/trade all your old unwanted CDs & LPs! Bring em in and we'll make an offer. We are also ready, willing and able to special order anything for you. Email us or drop in and we will hook you up with whatchu need. Don't fear the rain, come smell the flowers, play in the park, and check out some tunes. We keep growing every week! We sold all our turntables but hope to have more soon. We also now have our fancy delicious t-shirts back in stock and for sale and fingers crossed on our buttons soon... ------------------------------------------------------------------ BFF, Jason & Heath info@landlockedmusic.com Landlocked Music 314 S Washington St  (next door to Boxcar Books) Bloomington, IN, 47401 (812) 339 - 2574 Hours of Operation: Tuesday - Saturday : 11:30am - 7:30pm Sunday : Noon - 5pm Closed Mondays