Hello, I know we are early, but hopefully that is alright by you. Our reasons are twofold: 1) We are so darn excited about the plethora of fantastic new titles arriving at the store this week and wanna give you a head start on learning about what you need to make it through this week. 2) We have a super special in-store performance TONIGHT, 9/11, at Landlocked, featuring Austin TX's I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness. Lets jump to it: Select New Releases for 09/12/06 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Album Leaf - Into The Blue Again (Sub Pop) ................................................................... Jimmy LaValle's varied experience includes stints with Tristeza, The Locust, GoGoGo Airheart, The Blackheart Procession, and Sigur Ros. "Into The Blue Again" sees LaValle handling the bulk of the vocal and instrumental duties. After tracking, he took the concentric billows of feathered keyboards, filmy strings, and chiseled drums to Iceland for three weeks of mixing to tape to maintain Brian Eno-informed translucence. Having shared so much time and space with others on the road, LaValle proves, with this personally charged release, that The Album Leaf resonates most profoundly when he goes it alone. Basement Jaxx - Crazy Itch Radio (XL) ................................................................... This album swerves from the all-out drama on the operatic "Intro" straight into the jet-packed kaleidoscopic pop of "Hush Boy". Next is "Take Me Back To Your House", a sexy, energetic moment of what they call "banjo house". Then there's Balkan folk woven into vocals from Swedish pop sensation Robyn on "Hey You", a hyper grime tune called "Run 4 Cover", and a Wil Malone-scored beauty with legendary British singer Linda Lewis called "Lights Go Down". "Think Daft Punk with soul, or Fatboy Slim with sophistication, or early 80s Prince let loose on late-90s technology" Black Keys - Magic Potion (Nonesuch) ................................................................... Magic Potion, the Black Keys' 4th album, is a spectacularly stripped-down set of sneakily melodic blues-besotted rock concocted in the Akron, OH basement studio of drummer Patrick Carney. The Black Keys maintain a punk terseness to their adamantly DIY sound; they're as single-minded in their idiosyncratic evocation of the electric Mississippi blues as artists like the late Junior Kimbrough and RL Burnside as the Ramones were about early 60s rock. However, there is nothing high-concept or ironically distanced about their style; it's all sweat and sincerity. Richard Buckner - Meadow (Merge) ................................................................... Buckner's eighth full-length soars and swells around his signature trifecta of enigmatic poetics, swirling melodies, and that voice - a soothing drawl that's somehow road weary and buoyant all at once. The melodies are fleshed out by an all-star band: Doug Gillard (GBV, Cobra Verde), Kevin March (GBV, Those Bastard Souls, Dambuilders), JD Foster, and Steven Goulding (Mekons, Graham Parker, Waco Bros). Fresh and evocative, poignant and real, it documents "the modern age wrapped up in the frustrations and sympathies of a wanderer." Catfish Haven - Tell Me (Secretly Canadian) ................................................................... These three raw dogs named for singer George Hunter's childhood trailer park home have crafted one hell of a break-up record. Like Otis sweating out "Pain In My Heart" or Marvin begging "Please Stay", C'Haven are amongst few bands that can command a stage; keep a crowd up with a high energy live performance and still deliver such heartache. With the addition of smooth horn arrangements and even smoother back up vocals, Tell Me, is the realization of what a heartbroken boy can do when given a little time and recording studio full of toys. Dead Moon - Echoes of the Past 2CD (Sub Pop) ................................................................... Oregon's Dead Moon have been churning out their own indescribable brand of rock and roll for nearly twenty years now and they've yet to slow down. They're the model of DIY self-sufficiency, having recorded almost all their output themselves, released much of it on their own label (Tombstone Records), and even cut their own masters. This is the best of Dead Moon as compiled by rock and roll legend and survivor Fred Cole. 49 tracks! Angela Desveaux - Wandering Eyes (Thrill Jockey) ................................................................... This Canadian singer-songwriter's brilliant voice has drawn comparisons to Lucinda Williams. "Wandering Eyes" is a sparkling country debut that highlights both Desveaux's voice and her poignant songwriting, inspired by Gillian Welch and Lucinda Williams with an alt-country twist. Her band includes members of Wooden Stars, Arcade Fire, Strange Attractors, GYBE, and Hangedup. Engineered by Howard Bilerman (Arcade Fire) and produced by Brian Paulson (Slint, Superchunk, Wilco). Favourite Sons - Down Beside Your Beauty (Vice) ................................................................... In 2005, Ken Griffin (Rollerskate Skinny) joined forces with four members of Jagjaguwar's now defunct psych-pop band Aspera. They released their first 7-inch, toured, and now offer this stellar debut, mixed by Victor Van Vugt (PJ Harvey, The Fall, Pogues). With songs reveling in emotional extremes, the album is at once intimate, muscular, vulnerable, and arrestingly beautiful. Indian Jewelry - Invasive Exotics (Monitor) ................................................................... Renegades to traditional song structure, Indian Jewelry mix drum machine, noise, percussion, loops, dance beats, guitar, keyboards, scraps of metal, and other sounds into an unpredictable mash of aural delights, drones, and melody. RIYL: music based in cowboy motorik, hyperliterary chants and magical realism, concrete sound, endless drones, pre-cognitive dissonance, mesmerism, and atavistic junk. Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye (Domino) ................................................................... The Canadian-based duo has emerged with a pop statement that's easily one of the best albums of the year. It's a work that exhibits a confident mix of focus, clarity, and ambition. From the upbeat single, "In The Morning" to the somber triptych that closes the record, which touches such kindred spirits as Sylvian, Ferry, and Sinatra, Junior Boys manage to tease soul and longing out of their machines in a way that few have dared to try. Magnolia Electric Co - Fading Trails (Secretly Canadian) ................................................................... Jason Molina has lived in nine different locations and has had a dozen different backing bands on record in as many different recording environments. "Fading Trails" was recorded in four different studios. The essence of these recordings was extracted to create one cohesive being and thus defines what Magnolia Electric Co. truly is - something that's hard to define. One head, multiple bodies - the opposite of a hydra head. Mars Volta - Amputechture (Universal) ................................................................... The Mars Volta returns with a fresh dose of epic rock n' roll. Opening with the seven-minute "Vicarious Atonement," the closest the group has ever come to a ballad, the album then moves back to familiar expansive musical territory on the nearly 17-minute "Tetragrammaton," and also features two other tracks that clock in past the 11-minute mark, "Meccamputechture" and "Day of the Baphomets." The disc itself runs more than 76 minutes in length. In addition to contributions from RHCP guitarist John Frusciante, "Amputechture" also features Paul Hinojos' (At The Drive-In) first studio work with the Mars Volta since joining as a touring musician in 2005. the Rapture - Pieces of the People We Love (Universal) ................................................................... Knuckling down to writing duties upon their return to New York, the group emerged in a confident stride with 30 songs in their pocket and an itch to get into the studio. They road-tested some of their new tunes in a series of low-key live shows up and down the east and west coasts. The results were suitably exciting, and in Spring 2006 they took these songs into the studio with Paul Epworth (Bloc Party, Futureheads) and Ewan Pearson (mixer for Chemical Brothers, Depeche Mode and Gwen Stefani) in Manhattan, and then with Danger Mouse in LA. TV on the Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain (Interscope) ................................................................... Like Mogwai, Sigur Ros and a dozen others, TVOTR excels at making slowly-evolving tunes with vaguely anthemic choruses and lots of loud-soft dynamics. This record is crisper-sounding and incorporates more dance-based elements, but it's essentially a pop album. The album percolates with enough pre-apocalyptic tension to satisfy anyone. In a Prince-pitched falsetto, the group sings "I was a lover/ Before this war," While throughout, the combination of melody and invention is always pitch-perfect. TVOTR deliver what we really need in our popular music is more weirdness, and more truth. Wovenhand - Mosaic (Sounds Familyre) ................................................................... David Eugene Edwards delivers his 4th album; again put to tape by Robert Ferbrache, the one-time lap-steel player in 16 Horsepower. He doesn't stray much from his signature sound: mournful, minor key dirges Within which Edwards Ruminates on his recurring themes of faith, the fallibility of man, and the folly of the non-believer. But on "Mosaic", he unleashes a maelstrom of intensity and conviction that is as captivating as it is deeply spiritual. It's magical, dark, mysterious, sinister and gorgeous. Xiu Xiu - The Air Force (5RC) ................................................................... A feverish and disturbing set of songs, but it's also some of the group's most accessible. His songs play out like bedroom symphonies, bedroom confessions over chimes and gonging bells and industrial beats and buttery guitar leads that slide through the songs like a straight razor opening up skin. Elaborate, ornate, and bubbling over with noise, but with a sense of less-is-more; minimalism over excess. A 35-minute dreamscape of scraping urgency that haunts and disturbs. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You, and I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador) ................................................................... This bold, eclectic, 80-minute album is the pinnacle of the band's 20-year career. From eleven-minute guitar jams to gorgeous ballads to winsome horn-drenched pop songs, this album is all over the map, in a very good way. Features the talents of longtime Nashville producer Roger Moutenot, violinist Dave Mansfield of Dylan's Rolling Thunder Review, and the jacket artistry of Gary Panter (Raw, Jimbo). Also Released On This Day: ................................................................... Carbon Leaf - Love, Loss, Hope, Repeat (Vanguard) Coach Fingers - No Flies On Frank (Locust) Electric Six - Switzerland (Metropolis) Envy - Insomniac Doze (Temporary Residence) Great Lakes - Diamond Times (Empyrean) Hella - Acoustics EP (5RC) Eric Matthews - Foundation Sounds (Empyrean) Miss Violetta Beauregarde - Odi Profanum Vulgus Et Arceo (Temporary Residence) Mono & World's End Girlfriend - Palmless Prayer... (Temporary Residence) Mooney Suzuki - The Maximum Black EP (V2) Mouse on Mars - Varcharz (Ipecac) No Wait Wait - About You (Chairkickers) Now It's Overhead - Dark Light Daybreak (Saddle Creek) Tara Jane O'Neil - In Circles (Quarterstick) Page France - Hello, Dear Wind (Suicide Squeeze) Ethan Rose - Ceiling Songs (Locust) Tall Firs - Tall Firs (Ecstatic Peace) Justin Timberlake - FutureSex / LoveSounds (Jive) Viva Voce - Get Yr Blood Sucked Out (Barsuk) Young Widows - Settle Down City (Jade Tree) ................................................................... Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... Bonnie Prince Billy - the Letting Go (9/19) MC Chris - Dungeon Master of Ceremonies (9/19) Ensemble - Disown, Delete (9/19) Hidden Cameras - Awoo (9/19) Indigo Girls - Despite Our Differences (9/19) Mos Def - Tru3 Magic (9/19) Nina Nastasia - On Leaving (9/19) DJ Shadow - The Outsider (9/19) Whitest Boy Alive (Erlend Oye) - Dreams (9/19) Pere Ubu - Why I Hate Women (9/19) Red Sparrowes - Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red Sun (9/19) ................................................................... Coming Soonish (dates subject to change): ................................................................... Adem - Love and Other Planets (9/26) Akron/Family - Meek Warrior (9/26) The Black Crowes - The Lost Crowes (9/26) Feathers - Synchromy EP (9/26) Four Tet - Remixes (9/26) Lucero - Rebels, Rogues & Sworn Brothers (9/26) My Morning Jacket - Okonokos: Double Live Album (9/26) Scissor Sisters - Ta Dah! (9/26) Sparklehorse - Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain (9/26) Wolf Eyes - Human Animal (9/26) Weird Al Yankovic - Straight Outta Lynwood (9/26) And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - TBA (10/3) Beck - The Information (10/3) Dears - Gang of Losers (10/3) Decemberists - The Crane Wife (10/3) Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America (10/3) Jet - Shine On (10/3) The Killers - Sam's Town (10/3) Kooks - Inside In/Inside Out (10/3) Lady Sovereign - Public Warning (10/3) Planes Mistaken for Stars - Mercy (10/3) Thunderbirds are Now! - Make History (10/3) Blood Brothers - Young Machetes (10/10) Califone - Roots & Crowns (10/10) Clinic - Visitations (10/10) Hisato Higuchi - Dialogue (10/10) the Melvins - Senile Animal (10/10) Robert Pollard - Normal Happiness (10/10) Rope - Heresy, and Then Nothing But Tears (10/10) Nikki Sudden - The Truth Doesn't Matter (10/10) These Arms Are Snakes - Easter (10/10) Goldfrapp - We Are Glitter (10/17) Squarepusher - Hello Everything (10/17) XTC - Fuzzy Warbles 9CD Box (10/17) Bright Eyes - Noise Floor (10/24) Walkmen - Pussycats Starring The Walkmen (10/24) To Live and Shave in LA - Noon and Eternity (10/31) Joanna Newsom - Ys (11/14) Swan Lake - Beast Moans (11/21) Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards 3CD (11/21) Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank (12/19) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs and LPs from Grizzly Bear, Hem, Iron Maiden, Jucifer, Pinback, Beyonce, Bob Dylan, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Roots, The Tyde, William Elliott Whitmore, Shawn David McMillen , Method Man, Eric Bachmann, Broadcast, Early Day Miners, Paul Flaherty, J Dilla, Kelis, Lambchop, Mark Mallman, Jason Molina, Mountain Goats, My Brightest Diamond, Nouvelle Vague, Outkast, Pajo, Ratatat, the Thermals, Tortoise, M. Ward, Against Me, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Boxhead Ensemble, Cursive, Deadsy, Tod Dockstader, Verona Downs, Eluvium, the Gossip, Neil Hamburger, Headlights, Judah Johnson, Amy Millan, Mono, Jennifer O'Connor, Primal Scream, Radio Birdman, Geoff Reacher, Henry Rollins, Snowden, Starsailor, Uzeda, Chad VanGaalen, Wilderness, Windsor for the Derby, Wooden Wand and the Sky High Band and much much more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ We have real live music in our store, too! Check out our upcoming performances: Monday, September 11th @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music - $5 ................................................................... I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - http://www.chosendarkness.com/ Lone Logician - http://www.lonelogician.com/ After a lifetime of nightfall and foggy moonlight, Austin's I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness creeped out of the shadows this past spring with their long-awaited full-length debut, Fear Is on Our Side. The record is more sadness than joy with lonely lyrics and hauntingly echoed guitar persuaded by chorused basslines. The sound is coaxing and familiar, textured guitar melodies alternately subtle and entrancing; then howling and anguished. From opening tragic tale "The Ghost," the five-piece echoes past ages and foretells the future. Powerful layers rip through the silence, bonding strength and longing with the weight of a sigh. Their single, According to Plan, was described by Res Magazine as an "ethereal anthem with a great bass hook and gently chiming guitars", the song transcends and destroys the generational gap that plagues so many bands these days who were influenced Joy Division and New Wave hookery. MP3s: http://www.scjag.com/mp3/sc/accordingtoplan.mp3 Friday, September 22nd @ 6pm - 10pm @ Landlocked Music - $5 donation$ ................................................................... Bloomington Improvising Artist Series Mini-Fest featuring Tatsuya Nakatani also appearing: Guth 3-tet, DMC-trio, Art Deco Quartet, Rob Dietz, Dan Wick, Drekka, Too Many Wolfs, Saxophone Cartel Originally from Kobe and Osaka, Japan, internationally renowned percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani has toured extensively throughout the world, having performed in approximately 80 cities and 10 countries. Utilizing drumset, gongs, cymbals, singing bowls, metal objects, sticks and bows, he creates collages of sound, which combine the sense of space and beauty found in traditional Japanese folk music with the extended techniques of New Music, yet with great energy and intensity. Although his music defies category or genre, it can be viewed as a cross-cultural mixture of improvised music, experimental music, jazz, free jazz, and rock. He is the recent recipient of The Bronx Arts Council Individual Artist grant. MOVIE: http://www.hhproduction.org/Movies/TN%20solo(webstream).mov Monday, September 25th @ 7pm @ Landlocked Music - FREE! ................................................................... Sam Lowry - http://www.exilesuite.com/ Andy Storms - http://www.andrewstorms.com/ Sam Lowry spins tales of broken relationships and the fool's hope that moves us all from one disaster scene to the next, like some mid-west Raymond Carver with a guitar. With a deflated, Leonard Cohen-like grumble and an unexpected musical backdrop that blends together traditional acoustic instruments like banjo, guitar and fiddle with warm yet tricky drum loops and vintage-sounding keyboards, Lowry has concocted an honest, dark and surprisingly melodic exercise in aural subtlety that works to maximum effect. His textural, slanted and poetic take on Roots music gives new meaning to the phrase "American Gothic." This night sees the release of his 4th CD, 'Songs of My Enemy'. Thursday, October 5th @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music - $5 donation$ ................................................................... Matt Weston - http://www.mattweston.com/ Matt Weston plays percussion and electronics, and has performed throughout the US and in Europe. His work has earned critical praise from such publications as the Wire, the Village Voice, Signal To Noise, Cadence, All About Jazz, Grooves, and Bananafish. He has studied and/or collaborated with Arthur Brooks, Bill Dixon, Milford Graves, Kevin Drumm, William Parker, Jack Wright and others. His solo album Vacuums has garnered international acclaim, as have his recordings with Barn Owl and with Tizzy. He is a sound explorer on an apparent endless quest for purity. MP3: http://www.mattweston.com/vacuums1excerpt.mp3 Sunday, October 15th @ Landlocked Music ................................................................... Swearing at Motorists - http://swearingatmotorists.com/ More information about these shows and more on the horizon is available for the technologically inclined at http://myspace.com/landlockedbton and 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 whatcha need. We are an exclusive Stanton dealer now! We now have three models of turntables and we also stock 2 different cartridges for your decks. Our newest turntable is the Stanton t.60, which is an intro level direct drive deck. Other varities available upon special request. If these fine products do not quite meet your fancy, then we can also order other items from Stanton- mixers, CD decks, power amps, cartridges, headphones, and more! Check 'em out and let us know whatchu want... http://www.stantondj.com/ We have tickets for all kinds of upcoming shows in town. We also have more shirts (boys AND girls) as well as more sizes (S, M, L, XL, 2XL) of said shirts! Feel free to forward this to all your lovely friends that need to know whats going on, we'd love to have them join our little party here on the newsletter. Tell us what you think, what you desire. ------------------------------------------------------------------ BFF, Jason & Heath info@landlockedmusic.com Landlocked Music 314 S Washington St (next door to Boxcar Books) Bloomington, IN, 47401 http://www.landlockedmusic.com/ http://myspace.com/landlockedbton (812) 339 - 2574 Hours of Operation: Monday - Saturday : 11:30am - 7:30pm Sunday : Noon - 5pm