Sure does feel like everyday is Halloween. Or at least since friday night. We are in a genuine sugar-buzz coma. One item of note is that our instore show for 11/15 with Casiotone for the Painfully Alone has sadly cancelled (along with his whole tour). We all hope to make it up to you early next year. Instead we have added a couple more exciting shows, check em out below. And also, this coming Monday we still have Lawrence's own Mr Congeniality, Drakkar Sauna performing in our space along with the heartbreakin' Hollows and Biff Rose-esque Ruben. Do not miss it! Stop in today in your amazing costume that you've been wearing for the past 4 days and maybe we will sell you one of these hot new releases for your pumpkin pail... Select New Releases for 10/31/06 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Animal Collective - Hollinndagain CD (Paw Tracks) ................................................................... Available for the first time since 2002 is Animal Collective's rare live album Hollindaagen. Originally released in a limited edition of 300 hand-painted LPs, this album documents live performances by the group during the first half of 2001. No studio versions were ever made of the seven songs on the album. A sweet document of a band that always does it a little differently. Boduf Songs - Lion Devours the Sun CD (Kranky) ................................................................... Mat Sweet's fragile, rustic brand of neo-folk has already developed considerably since his debut EP, and the songs on his first full-length Lion Devours The Sun have a richness and maturity at odds with his youth. Recorded at home with a 4-track and single microphone, the album retains the withdrawn, restrained air that gives Sweet his distinctive character as a songwriter, utilising acoustic guitar, toy piano, an e-bowed autoharp, and various musical props to generate an unearthly, pagan atmosphere. His alchemical power to transform a minimal palette of common musical elements into something that is not simply psychedelia or folk is in evidence more than ever on this darkly accomplished record. Boris/SunnO))) - Altar CD (Southern Lord) ................................................................... Altar is a collaboration that is a result of both bands conceptualizing, writing and recording the album together as one entity. Both groups have stepped outside their previous sounds and created a wholly unique album that stands on its own unique ground. There are elements of each groups trademark sound within the album but true to each groups progressive and experimental aspects, Altar moves into a completely new dimension. The tones, emotions, and energy that lurks within Altar is beautifully ominous. It is a very bold statement from both artists that will not only appease the present cult following but brazenly induct new devotees. Karen Dalton - In My Own Time [reissue] CD (Light in the Attic) ................................................................... Once upon a time, when the elements of the counter-culture slid into forces beyond this realm, Highway 61 Revisited and Bitches Brew bass player Harvey Brooks lured a powerful young woman out into a wilderness studio called Bearsville. Brooks produced Karen Dalton's "In My Own Time," full of roots and raw energy, deep folk-soul music resonance and antediluvian majesty. It features songs like "Katie's Cruel," covered on recent albums by Bert Jansch and White Magic, and the sweeping, Scott Walker-squeezing "Something On Your Mind." This electrifying 2nd full-length had been lost to the ages, never released on CD before, now it is escaping both the clenched hands of mad fans of music like Devendra Banhart, Nick Cave, and Lenny Kaye, who have written the liner notes for the fat, sleek reissue. Isis - In the Absence of Truth CD (Ipecac) ................................................................... Critically revered as the vanguard of "art metal," the band has consistently exploded the idiomatic structures that have traditionally defined heavy music, with each new release expanding and improving upon the innovations of its predecessor. Produced and recorded with the utmost clarity and fidelity, In The Absence Of Truth is a living, breathing panorama of soaring melodies, dizzying rhythmic ziggurats and seismic heaviness. Lady Sovereign - Public Warning CD/LP (Def Jam) ................................................................... The plus-sized hype surrounding this pint-sized 20-year-old hailing from Wembley, England is the subject of her new single, "Love Me Or Hate Me." All punk and grime snot-nosed British attitude over an undeniable 808-fueled electro-pop-n-lock beat courtesy of NYC producer Dr. Luke. For Lady Sovereign, it was a quick leap from bloggers' pet to critic's darling. The press has been voracious, heaping praise on Lady Sov to the tune of "The Queen of U.K. Grime," to "Hip-Hop's great white hope," even likening her to a female Eminem. My Latest Novel - Wolves CD (Bella Union) ................................................................... Scottish 5-piece whose songs are complemented by violins, xylophones and undulating percussion. Bohemian harbingers of breezy folk melodies and brilliant pop theatrics, My Latest Novel are rapidly winning fans on both sides of the border with their effervescent, magical music. Starting like a humble Belle and Sebastian, then trundles through singalong jangly pop territory before turning into the Delgados thrashing it out with My Bloody Valentine and the Arcade Fire in a massive, clattering build of guitars, drums and violins that is bloody magic. Willie Nelson - Songbird CD/LP (Lost Highway) ................................................................... This trans-generational pairing of Willie Nelson and producer Ryan Adams takes the veteran into musical territory where he wouldn't have likely ventured on his own. On Songbird, Adams substitutes the more aggressively electric backing of his own band, the Cardinals, and plainly had a large say in selecting and arranging the material. Includes Willie's versions of the Grateful Dead's 'Stella Blue', Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah', Gram Parsons' '$1000 Wedding', Christine McVie's 'Songbird' as well as new songs and new arrangements of Nelson classics. Peter and the Wolf - Lightness CD (Worker's Institute) ................................................................... Peter and the Wolf's first official release, Lightness, is a collection of songs written and recorded by Brian Redding Hunter in bedrooms, living rooms, and hotels around the country. Heard as a whole, they paint the picture of a person constantly traveling with the hope of getting free, trying to pay back whatever he's borrowed, and burdened by some lost love. He explores the dreamy mindstate of a traveler looking for something; its a record for mornings or long, eerie drives. Playing at the Art Hospital on November 7th! The Who - Endless Wire CD (Republic) ................................................................... Nearly 25 years passed between what had been considered the Who's career-capping album, It's Hard, and this 19-song epic, which at its best has the band of two pining for the days of Who's Next. Launching with a Baba O'Riley-like synth break, Daltrey asks "Are we breathing out or breathing in?" and Townshend answers with a thrashing, crashing Gibson. When the volume is turned up, there are echoes of three decades ago. "It's Not Enough" and "Mike Post Theme" conjure images of Entwistle and Keith Moon - the latter song, with its quiet verse and thunderous chorus, recalls "Going Mobile" and longs for Moon to whack it into shape. The Who live on. VA - New York Noise 3 CD/LP (Soul Jazz) ................................................................... Third installment in SJR's journey into the underground music of NYC in the 80s, this time focusing on the Electronic Dance/Post-Punk mutations and Proto-Electro music that originally came out on mainly small DIY labels. Today, the new wave of NY Art/Rock groups such as DFA, Strokes, Rapture, Juan McLean, James Murphy, Liars and Yeah Yeah Yeahs all have their roots in this early 80s New York Noise music scene. This album features text, original photos and interviews documenting this amazing period and features music from Implog, Suicide, Snatch, James Blood Ulmer, Dominatrix and many more. Also Released On This Day: ................................................................... Battle of Mice - Day of Nights The Knife - Deep Cuts & S/T [reissues] Malajube - Tromp-L'Oeil Secret Machines - Morning Becomes Eclectic: Live at KCRW Siouxsie & the Banshees - Voices on the Air: The Peel Sessions To Live and Shave in LA - Noon and Eternity VA - The Voices and Faces Project Vol. 1 ................................................................... Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... David Bazan - Away In A Manger 7" (11/7) Isobel Campbell - Milk White Sheets (11/7) Evens - The Evens Get Even (11/7) Benjy Ferree - Leaving The Nest (11/7) Foo Fighters - Skin & Bones (11/7) PJ Harvey - Peel Sessions 1991-2004 (11/7) Talib Kweli - Ear Drum (11/7) Lithops - Mound Magnet (11/7) ODB - A Son Unique (11/7) Owen - At Home With Owen (11/7) Pavement - Wowee Zowee [Reissue] (11/7) The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash LP [reissue] (11/7) 31 Knots - Polemics EP (11/7) Voxtrot - Your Biggest Fan EP (11/7) ................................................................... Coming Soonish (dates subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... 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) Incredible Bongo Band - Bongo Rock [Reissue] (11/14) Mum - Peel Sessions (11/14) Joanna Newsom - Ys (11/14) Damien Rice - 9 (11/14) White Magic - Dat Rosa Mel Apibus (11/14) Tenacious D - Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny OST (11/14) Neil Young - Live at the Fillmore East (11/14) Ben + Vesper - More Questions (11/21) Dirty Faces - Get Right With God (11/21) John Fahey - Sea Changes & Coelacanths (11/21) Dave Fischoff - The Crawl (11/21) Jay-Z - Kingdom Come (11/21) Simon Joyner - Skeleton Blues (11/21) Loreena McKennitt - An Ancient Muse (11/21) Mirah - Joyride: Remixes (11/21) Mission of Burma - Not A Photograph DVD (11/21) Oasis - Stop the Clocks (11/21) Snoop Dogg - Blue Carpet Treatment (11/21) Spock's Beard - Spock's Beard (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) TK Webb - Phantom Parade (11/21) VA - Plague Songs (11/21) VA - Thankful (11/21) Double Leopards - Halve Maen (11/28) Max Richter - Songs from Before (11/28) Rivulets - You Are My Home (11/28) Sunburned Hand of the Man - Trickle Down Theory of Lord Knows What (11/28) Trey Anastasio - 18 Steps (12/5) I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - S/T EP [Reissue] (12/5) Mos Def - Tru3 Magic (12/5) Okkervil River - The President's Dead 12" (12/5) Psychic Ills - Early Violence (12/5) Sinoia Caves - The Enchanter Persuaded (12/5) John Mayer - The Village Sessions (12/12) Sonic Youth - The Destroyed Room: B-Sides and Rarities (12/12) Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank (12/19) Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity (1/23) Julie Doiron - Woke Myself Up (1/23) Menomena - Friend and Foe (1/23) MV & EE With the Bummer Road - Green Blues (1/23) Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer (1/23) Shins - Wincing The Night Away (1/23) David Vandervelde - The Moonstation House Band (1/23) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 10/24 - 10/30: 1. Bright Eyes, Noise Floor CD/LP 2. Animal Collective, Hollinndagain CD 3. The Blow, Paper Television CD/LP 4. The Walkmen, Pussycats CD 5. Robert Pollard, Normal Happiness CD/LP Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from The Blow, Bright Eyes, Curtains, Damsel, De La Soul, Aimee Mann, Frida Hyvonen, Josef K, Skygreen Leopards, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Jeff Tweedy, Walkmen, Wee Hairy Beasties, Tony Conrad, Converge, Drones, Everything Now, Ben Folds, Miho Hatori, Hawk and a Hacksaw, Keenan Lawler, MXPX, My Chemical Romance, Norfolk & Western, Sparta, Lucinda Williams, 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, 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 and much much more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ We have real live music in our store, too! Check out our upcoming performances: 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 ** THIS SHOW HAS MOVED FROM THE IMU GALLERY TO LANDLOCKED ** Saturday, November 18th @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music - $5 ------------------------------------------------------------------ MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND - http://www.mybrightestdiamond.com/ PEDESTRIAN - http://www.pedestrianmusic.org/ My Brightest Diamond is Shara Worden, granddaughter of a traveling evangelist, fathered by a National Accordion Champion, and mothered by a church organist. Spanish tango, Sunday morning gospel, classical and jazz were the accompaniment to her home life. Her songs distil stories to their most distressing points of contact: a phone call, an injured horse, a dragonfly caught in a spider's web. Shara's songs reconcile all the complex emotions found in each of us: she can grieve as comfortably as she can laugh, sometimes in the same breath. MP3s: http://asthmatickitty.com/mp3/my_brightest_diamond_-_workhorse_-_something_of_an_end.mp3 Monday, November 20th @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music - $5 ------------------------------------------------------------------ KEENAN LAWLER - http://www.myspace.com/keenanlawler MIKE TAMBURO - http://www.miketamburo.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. MP3s: http://www.musicfellowship.com/mp3s/aplaneofair.mp3 http://musicfellowship.bloodteam.com/tamburo/mp3s/01%20Adam's%20Fruit%20Temptation.mp3 Friday, December 1st @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music - $5 ------------------------------------------------------------------ JORMA WHITTAKER - http://www.myspace.com/jormawhittaker99 ODAWAS - http://www.myspace.com/odawastheband Jorma Whittaker fronted Indianapolis' Marmoset- a bedroom masterpiece of mood music for folks who like to burrow themselves in their room with whatever may be lurking in their medicine cabinet. And while some people want to call him a Midwestern Syd Barrett, that comparison requires a total lack of regard for oneself that is not Jorma, he's really more like the Midwestern John Lennon. Completely in love with the power and love and eccentricities inherent to rock and roll. Jorma's music is incredibly personal, almost bare admissions of guilt and inward-loooking apologies. Everything is a contradiction within Jorma, he's a liar, but yet honest because he admits he's a liar. Jorma's live performances are rare, memorable, and not to be missed. Odawas are nicking all over the place: from Randy Newman's plain-spoken grandeur or Beach Boy story-telling or Angelo Badalamanti's cheesy romanticism or Charles Ives' avant-garde ear or Art Garfunkel's "presence-of-a-blue-whale" harmonies. MP3s: http://www.scjag.com/mp3/sc/molly.mp3 http://www.scjag.com/mp3/jag/benjamin.mp3 Sunday, December 10th @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music - $5 ------------------------------------------------------------------ PSYCHIC ILLS - http://www.myspace.com/psychicills INDIAN JEWELRY - http://www.swarmofangels.com/indianjewelry.html TAMAR 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 Robert Pollard 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! As well as fancy new lightweight tote-bags. We are an exclusive Stanton dealer! We have 3 models of turntables on display and we also stock cartridges for your decks. Many more varities or carts, turntables and more 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