Yes, your Landlocked Beacon has arrived a day early once again, aren't you lucky? Three items of note: 1) Tonight we have a lovely live performance in our space. Fresh off their tour with Wilco, Early Day Miners are ready to rock their hometown with new songs, old songs and songs they havent even written yet. Pela, from NYC opened for a few dates of the recent EDM tour, someone once told them that their music sounds like what might happen if Modest Mouse hitched a ride on U2's tour bus. Catch em before they explode. 2) Our super-special Pavement promotion is going on through the middle of this week only! Get it while the gettin's good. With your preorder you get the reissue Wowee Zowee, a poster, 7inch, and live show for the same low price, but you MUST pre-order it as they are only shipping as many of these as pre-orders we receive. More info available in store and at http://landlockedmusic.com/wowee.html 3) Your delicious, nutritious new releases for Tuesday, October 23rd... enjoy: Select New Releases for 10/24/06 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Blow - Paper Television (K) ................................................................... The Blow's songs are light enough to sail easily through the air, landing simultaneously on the turntable of a London DJ, in your mom's car stereo, and in the iPod of a middle schooler in study hall. However, they're somehow heavy enough to stick around, laying in your mind long after their new album is over. No-wave and glitch-hop, club anthems, and doo-wop all party together in the architecture created by The Blow's sound. Bright Eyes - Noise Floor - Parties: 1998-2005 (Saddle Creek) ................................................................... A collection of singles, one-offs, unreleased tracks, collaborations, and covers recorded between 1998 and 2005. Variously recorded to cassette four-track, mini-disc, reel-to-reel tape machine, ADAT and computer, these songs trace Bright Eyes' evolution from basement project to band of international repute. Many of these gems previously lost to out-of-print obscurity are hereby resurrected. Curtains - Calamity (Asthmatic Kitty) ................................................................... The fourth Curtains record from Deerhoof's Chris Cohen is brimming over with what was only hinted at before. Casually veering from melodic pop ballads to unclassifiable stylistic mish-mashes to unabashed bubblegum and garage punk to mysterious and brooding art song, Calamity continues The Curtains' project of poker-faced genre disobedience. But this time Chris's singing and newly discovered interest in song form has pushed the band's music to a new level of immediacy. Damsel - Distressed (Temporary Residence) ................................................................... This is the collaboration between avant-jazz legend Nels Cline (Wilco, Thurston Moore, The Geraldine Fibbers) and omnipresent beat freak Zach Hill (Hella, The Ladies, Team Sleep). Sitting somewhere between the most abstract freak-outs of Wilco's more recent material and the looser, more minimalist moments of Hella, Damsel exhibits a surprising amount of control over its chaos. The four improvised pieces here run the gamut from serene electro-acoustic ambience to unhinged, cathartic squall. It's not the sound of losing control so much as it is trusting in an intangible force. De La Soul - Impossible: Mission (Red Lion) ................................................................... Any and all arguments of hip hop's greatest groups have to include De La Soul. The brand new mixtape "Impossible: Mission" officially declares their free agency, and unofficially declares their continued supremacy over this hip hop game. In a surprise move, De La opened their vaults and let us in on 16 tracks, freestyles and skits. With production from the likes of Oh No (Murs, LMNO), Geology (Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Jill Scott, Bahamadia), Supa Dave West (Phife Dawg, Reflection Eternal), and De La Soul themselves, this album should definitely wet their appetites. Aimee Mann - One More Drifter In The Snow (Superego) ................................................................... Grammy winner and Oscar nominee Aimee's first Christmas album is a collection of holiday classics (I'll Be Home For Christmas, You're a Mean One Mr Grinch, Winter Wonderland, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, White Christmas, etc) and two original, beautiful, and bittersweet songs written by Mann and husband Michael Penn. Reminiscent of classic albums of the 40's and 50's, but without any retro kitsch. Like Frank Sinatra, Johnny Mathis, and Peggy Lee, Aimee Mann captures the emotional beauty of Christmas. Frida Hyvonen - Until Death Comes (Secretly Canadian) ................................................................... Sweden's Hyvonen is a talented piano-based songwriter in the vein of Laura Nyro with a passionate bite and a voice like an icicle that cuts deep. This debut features a raw home-recording feel not dissimilar to The Stones' "Beggar's Banquet", Joni Mitchell's "Blue", or Carole King's "Tapestry". Perhaps you saw her this past year opening and playing in Jens Lekman's band at 2nd Story. Josef K - Entomology (Domino) ................................................................... There needed to be a gloomy, remotely intimate glam pop group named after a character created by Franz Kafka who detuned their pained, pining guitars like the Velvet Underground, who screwed up dance beats with as much nimble knowingness and/or amateurish exuberance as Devo, who faced up to long lasting reality with as much sad, mad grace as Magazine, who got stuck into logic as defiantly as Pere Ubu, who had spent a lot of time watching Television and listening to the first six or seven songs written by the Buzzcocks. Skygreen Leopards - Disciples of California (Jagjaguwar) ................................................................... A mix of pop melodies, minimal country truisms, jingle-jangling Californianism, and angular folk. Lyrically and conceptually, the duo continue down their twisted path after five full-lengths and an EP in their five year history. The ghosts of girl-beauties, whispering trees, swimming-hole cousins, crippled horses, and human-faced animal-saints all join the dizzying parade. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Broom (Polyvinyl) ................................................................... Their debut is an expertly crafted indie pop gem. Spin declared the Missouri band "could succeed The Shins." Then a slew of bloggers ranked them ahead of Wilco and Iron & Wine in Leafblower's annual "Top Bands Of America Today". "Broom" sparkles when it rocks, has hooks galore, and should make a lasting impression. Think The Shins, Pavement, Of Montreal, and Elliott Smith. Jeff Tweedy - Sunken Treasure DVD (Nonesuch) ................................................................... Recorded over five nights during his 2006 solo acoustic tour, the first ever Jeff Tweedy solo DVD showcases songs from Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, and Loose Fur, including the unreleased "The Thanks I Get." The audio tracks of all the songs featured on the DVD will be available for anyone who purchases Sunken Treasure to download for free. Directed by the duo behind the documentary series Burn to Shine (Christoph Green and Fugazi's Brendan Canty). the Walkmen - Pussy Cats Starring The Walkmen (Record Collection) ................................................................... During John Lennon's separation from Yoko in 1974, he romped around LA with his buddy Harry Nilsson, getting drunk and getting thrown out of nightclubs. In the midst of the party, Lennon, Nilsson, Ringo Starr, Keith Moon, and a rag-tag gang of others headed into the studio. The result was Pussy Cats, a fascinating and often misunderstood album featuring a mix of classics and originals rearranged by Nilsson and Lennon to suit the wild mood of those infamous days. After finishing the final mix for their new record, The Walkmen decided to recreate Pussy Cats. After all, it's the great buddy record of the 70s; a celebration of rocknroll, good friends, alcohol, and excessive instrumentation that's right up their alley. Bonus DVD features a 20-minute psychedelic documentary. Wee Hairy Beasties - Animal Crackers (Bloodshot) ................................................................... Cyril the Karaoke Squirrel (Jon Langford), Marjorie the Singing Bee (Kelly Hogan), Monkey Double Dippey (Sally Timms), and the amazing musicians of Devil in a Woodpile firmly believe that "kids' music" need not be unlistenable! In fact, their dance-with-ants-in-your-pants blend of back porch country blues, hippity-hop country, and wiggly old-timey swing is bound to please any child or adult. Thrill your thorax with the sing-a-long tunes about ducks, squirrels, flies, newts, turtles and more! Let your inner music geek marvel at the dexterous harmonica and clarinet action - and the waterbug-graceful National steel guitar playing! All creatures great and small will benefit from the important lessons about road safety, keeping flies off your supper, and the perils of karaoke. Also Released On This Day: ................................................................... Tony Conrad - Joan of Arc (Table of the Elements) Converge - No Heroes (Epitaph) The Drones - Gala Mill (ATP) Everything Now - Sunshine of Doom LP (St. Ives) Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics CD+DVD (WEA) Ben Folds - Supersunnyspeedgraphic (Sony) Miho Hatori (Cibo Matto) - Ecdysis (Ryko) A Hawk and a Hacksaw - The Way the Wind Blows (Leaf) Keenan Lawler - Music For Bluegrass States (Table of the Elements) MXPX - Let's Rock (Side One Dummy) My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade (Reprise) Norfolk & Western - A Gilded Age (Hush) Brian Setzer - 13 (Surfdog) Sparta - Threes (Hollywood) Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road 2CD (Mercury) ................................................................... Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... Animal Collective - Hollinndagain (10/31) Boduf Songs - Lion Devours the Sun (10/31) Boris/SunnO))) - Alter (10/31) Isis - Absense of Truth (10/31) The Knife - Deep Cuts & S/T [reissue] (10/31) Lady Sovereign - Public Warning (10/31) Malajube - Tromp-L'Oeil (10/31) My Latest Novel - Wolves (10/31) Andy Partridge - Fuzzy Warbles Collectors Box 9CD (10/31) Peter and the Wolf - Lightness (10/31) Siouxsie & Banshees - Voices on the Air: The Peel Sessions (10/31) To Live and Shave in LA - Noon and Eternity (10/31) USA Is A Monster - Sunset at the End of the Industrial Age (10/31) Vampire Can't - Key Cutter (10/31) The Who - Endless Wire (10/31) ................................................................... Coming Soonish (dates subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... Isobel Campbell - Milk White Sheets (11/7) Evens - The Evens Get Even (11/7) Talib Kweli - Ear Drum (11/7) Lithops - Mound Magnet (11/7) ODB - A Son Unique (11/7) Pavement - Wowee Zowee [Reissue] (11/7) 31 Knots - Polemics EP (11/7) Voxtrot - Your Biggest Fan EP (11/7) And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - So Divided (11/14) The Clash - The Singles (11/14) Les Georges Leningrad - Sangue Puro (11/14) Mum - Peel Sessions (11/14) Joanna Newsom - Ys (11/14) White Magic - Dat Rosa Mel Apibus (11/14) Dave Fischoff - The Crawl (11/21) Jay-Z - Kingdom Come (11/21) Simon Joyner - The Skeleton Blues (11/21) Mirah - Joyride: Remixes (11/21) Mission of Burma - Not A Photograph DVD (11/21) Snoop Dogg - Blue Carpet Treatment (11/21) Sufjan Stevens - Songs for Christmas (11/21) Summer Hymns - Backward Masks (11/21) Swan Lake - Beast Moans (11/21) Vollmar - Okay (11/21) Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards 3CD (11/21) VA - Plague Songs (11/21) Max Richter - Songs from Before (11/28) Rivulets - You Are My Home (11/28) Mos Def - Tru3 Magic (12/5) Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity (1/23) Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer (1/23) Shins - Wincing The Night Away (1/23) Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank (1/23) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 10/17 - 10/23: 1. Bert Jansch, The Black Swan CD/LP 2. Sadies, Tales of the Rat Fink OST CD 3. Decemberists, The Crane Wife CD/LP 4. Hold Steady, Boys and Girls in America CD 5. Squarepusher, Hello Everything CD/LP Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs and LPs from Annuals, Badly Drawn Boy, Dean & Britta, Jeremy Enigk, Ghost Mice, Tim Hecker, Bert Jansch, Joe Jack Talcum, Madeline, Sadies, Squarepusher, Count Bass D, Tonya Donelly, Dosh, Goldfrapp, Gomez, Hi-Tek, Imitation Electric Piano, Califone, Chavez, Dead Can Dance, El Goodo, Gothic Archies, Tommy Guerrero, Hisato Higuchi, Damien Jurado, the Melvins, Robert Pollard, Portastatic, Rope, Nikki Sudden, These Arms Are Snakes, American Hardcore OST, Bloodshot Records DVD, Annuals, Blood Brothers, Busdriver, Rhys Chatham, Cold War Kids, Isis / Aereogramme, Johann Johannson, Pit Er Pat, Senses Fail, Sybarite, Air, Akron/Family, Beck, Neko Case, the Decemberists, Elephant Micah, Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3, The Hold Steady, the Kooks, Sean Lennon, Nina Nastasia, Pernice Brothers and much much more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ We have real live music in our store, too! Check out our upcoming performances: TONIGHT - Monday, October 23rd @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music - $3 ------------------------------------------------------------------ EARLY DAY MINERS - http://www.earlydayminers.com/ PELA - http://www.pelamusic.com/ Over the course of the last decade Daniel Burton has become one of the midwest's best kept secrets. Mentored by Daniel Lanois at his Teatro Studio in Los Angeles, Burton has been putting his project-oriented stamp on a variety of records for the last 10 years. Anywhere from early Songs: Ohia recordings to the pink noise and melodies of Windsor for the Derby, Burton's ideas and experiences with various bands in the studio have coalesced into this career-defining work, Offshore. Equally beautiful and noisy, composed though loose; akin to late 80s/early 90s 4AD-laden world of shoegaze wash-rock like Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, Mark Hollis, their predecessor Peter Gabriel or modern day saint William Basinski. Pela lives in the not-so-fashionable waterfront neighborhood of Red Hook - the setting of Hubert Selby's Last Exit in Brooklyn. It's also home to many artists, dock workers, cranes, and shipping containers. They make desperate songs about addiction, isolation, hope, murder, sex, and Mexico. It's pretty dark stuff, but a lot of people find their songs really catchy. Someone once told them that their music sounds like what might happen if Modest Mouse hitched a ride on U2's tour bus. They've opened up for Rainer Maria, The National, The Decemberists, Earlimart, Sleater Kinney, and a recent string of dates out east with Early Day Miners. MP3s: http://www.scjag.com/mp3/sc/returnofthenative.mp3 Monday, November 6th @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music ------------------------------------------------------------------ DRAKKAR SAUNA - http://www.drakkarsauna.com/ THE HOLLOWS - http://www.myspace.com/thehollowshome RUEBEN Drakkar Sauna, two dudes from Lawrence, Kansas, very much belong to that Fugs / Holy Model Rounders school of weirdness. Almost every one of their songs consists of acoustic gee-tar, rattling percussion, chord organ and some of the most gorgeous (in that weird Fugsy way) old-timey harmonies you'll ever hear. They sing about canoes and death and the Civil War and loose women - the sorts of things that matter to folks like you and me on a daily basis. Be careful, their heartbreaking melodies are liable to charm the pants right off ya, and never will you be stuck with such a shit-eating grin, pantsless, than you will at a Drakkar Sauna performance. The Hollows are the lovely duo once known simply as Kate & Alex (Long & Mann). Every once in a while they let out their belts and expand slightly to include lap steel magician Evan (Farrell). Some might say that Kate's voice is not unlike Aimee Mann serenading the hills of a lonesome ranch, and they'd be right. MP3: http://www.marriagerecs.com/sound/omjohnsurratt.mp3 Wednesday, November 15th @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music - $5 ------------------------------------------------------------------ CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE - http://www.cftpa.org/ THE PAPERCUTS - http://www.panamericanrecording.com/ E.P. HALL - http://www.ephall.com/ Casiotone for the Painfully Alone is the musical alias of film school drop-out Owen Ashworth. Over his first few albums Ashworth defined a hybrid strain of raw, emotional, and very homemade synth pop that was instantly recognizable as his own - claustrophobic 2-minute character studies shuddered with reverbed beats, blown-out chords, and simple but infectous melodies, all layered beneath Ashworth's sometimes funny but always heartbreaking lyrics. Now the sound of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone has grown to include pianos, organs, strings, flutes, drums, and pedal steel guitars in addition to Ashworth's signature electronics and drum machines. Papercuts is part of the emerging San Francisco indie-singer/songwriter scene that produced the critically acclaimed Cass McCombs and Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. The band is the brainchild of Jason Quever, who engineered and produced Cass' first two releases. Papercuts' first formal release is a collection of beautifully orchestrated lo-fi chamber pop with glimmers of Americana, bringing to mind the best of Smile-era Beach Boys, Beachwood Sparks, and Elliot Smith. MP3s: http://teamclermont.com/CFTPA_YoungShields.mp3 http://www.panamericanrecording.com/mp3s/poor_and_free.mp3 Monday, November 20th @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music - $5 ------------------------------------------------------------------ KEENAN LAWLER - http://www.myspace.com/keenanlawler MIKE TAMBURO - http://www.miketamburo.com/ NICK SCHILLACE - http://nickschillace.com/ + TBA Keenan Lawler is a composer/ improviser from Louisville, Kentucky, with an intensely focused, minimalist approach to steel guitar, playing drawn-out bluegrass-inflected tonalities along a harmonic series of sharp, electronically treated clouds. Both hypnotic and ringing, his playing often involves unusual string technique which is tightly integrated between the sounding of harmonics and articulation of notes. Dwelling in a blurring string-space between Tony Conrad and Elliot Sharp, Lawler has created an original idiom of music that is at once monolithic, cosmic, and yeah, deeply American. The acoustic guitar isn't a new instrument to Mike Tamburo. It was his main axe in his former outfits, Meisha and Arco Flute Foundation, though his recordings since leave his playing rather starkly unadorned by sidemen or accompaniment. Tamburo's no purist, he has no qualms with regard to augmenting his pieces with other instruments, or making use of nontraditional techniques in his playing, but his emergence as a solo artist marks a turn into more folk-tinged territory for the guitarist. Comparisons in his playing can be made to the usual suspects, Fahey, Basho-Junghans, and their ilk, but Tamburo isn't a straight disciple of any of the prevalent deities of acoustic guitardom. Nick Schillace is a Detroit area artist, teacher, and musicologist exploring what it means to be an American musician. In 2002 he completed a graduate thesis on the late guitarist John Fahey, and utilizes Fahey's self-described style of syncopated "American Primitive" fingerstyle guitar as the foundation for his own technique. This style, based on early forms of blues, folk, and old time music provides the perfect foundation for larger and more expansive musical compositions incorporating a wide range of his own idiosyncratic influences. Sunday, December 10th @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music - $5 ------------------------------------------------------------------ PSYCHIC ILLS - http://www.myspace.com/psychicills INDIAN JEWELRY - http://www.swarmofangels.com/indianjewelry.html + TBA Psychic Ills is a band known for their squalling live shows that combine post-punk sonics, deafening drones, psychedelic weirdness, rhythmic tribalism, and loose, shambolic, improvisational jams. They have obvious influences of course - who doesn't? - Spacemen 3, early Sonic Youth, La Monte Young, Terry Riley, the Velvet Underground, 13th Floor Elevators, Pere Ubu when they were dangerous; these are obvious ones, but so are bands like Section 25 and Joy Division. Their silvery, slithering melodic fabric has no seam, everything lies down together in a psychedelic rock & roll orgy of acid-guzzled, dark-thrummed bliss. 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. MP3s: http://thesocialregistry.com/_mp3/mp3/psychicills/pi_january_rain.mp3 http://www.monitorrecords.com/MP3/IndianJewelry-ComeCloser.mp3 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 have tickets for Drive-By Truckers at the Bluebird and Jandek in Indy... and we also have more shirts (boys AND girls) as well as more sizes (S, M, L, XL, 2XL) of said shirts! We are an exclusive Stanton dealer! We now have 3 models of turntables and we also stock 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 (we have a poster of everything on our wall now)! Check 'em out and let us know whatchu want... http://www.stantondj.com/ 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