Ahhhh short weeks are the best weeks. Especially when combined with copious amounts of grub. Most of y'all out there probably have at least a day off this week to be thankful, and so do we, thankfully. Landlocked will be closed wednesday and thursday for the holiday, but worry not- for we shall be open on friday for all of your gift buying pleasures. As a matter of fact, we are so stoked to be open on "black friday" that we are going to have some treats for shoppers as well as live DJs playing tunes for the merriment of all. Stop in and check it out. Release of the Week 11/21/06 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards 3CD (Anti) ................................................................... This collection goes far beyond a simple career retrospective, with over 30 new songs, from his own versions of songs he gave to other artists to things recorded in the garage with his kids. Also includes unique interpretations of songs by such diverse talents as the Ramones, Daniel Johnston, Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht, and Leadbelly. Each of the three CDs is separately grouped and sub-titled "Brawlers", "Bawlers" and "Bastards" to capture the full spectrum of Waits' ranging and roving musical styles. "Brawlers" is chock full of raucous blues and full-throated juke-joint stomp, "Bawlers" contains Celtic and country ballads, waltzes, lullabies, piano, and classic lyrical Waits' songs, while "Bastards" is filled with experimental music, stories, and jokes. The beautifully designed booklet reproduces Tom's lyrics in the style of a book of old poetry, with twenty pages of never before seen photos. The limited edition deluxe package contains a hardcover-bound 94-page booklet. Select New Releases for 11/21/06 ------------------------------------------------------------------ John Fahey - Sea Changes & Coelacanths (Table of the Elements) ................................................................... Playing with versatility and a fierce imagination, Fahey expanded the boundaries of the guitar, and his contribution to American music is immense. Here is his trademark American Primitive sound at its most harrowing and resolute. Featuring Skip James-influenced vignettes, deep-sea string bendings, sonic collages, oaken reverberations, and lengthy, impressionistic suites, these recordings, made between 1996 and 1998, comprise a major portion of Fahey's canon. The set includes over two hours of music, a 64-page book (CD), 12-page libretto (LP), new essays by Byron Coley, David Fricke, and David Grubbs, an interview with and original text by Fahey, plus previously unreleased photos (CD only). Dave Fischoff - The Crawl (Secretly Canadian) ................................................................... Armed with a large arsenal of obscure samples culled from his life as well as the Chicago Public Library sound collection, Bloomington ex-pat Fischoff delved into the under-explored territory where electronic music, hip-hop, and orchestral pop meet. Taking cues from The Beach Boys and Burt Bacharach to The Postal Service and Public Enemy, Dave has conceived, collected, cut and pasted, orchestrated, and created a piece of work that's large and complex, yet utterly personal and easily accessible. 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. This is the 3rd release in a series of Domino re-issues. Past releases include: Orange Juice's "The Glasgow School" and Fire Enginess "Codex Teenage Premonition". Sufjan Stevens - Songs for Christmas (Asthmatic Kitty) ................................................................... In December 2001, Sufjan set out to create a Christmas gift for his friends and family. The result was a seven-song recording that he called "Noel Vol. 1". Over the next several years, he created new EPs to add to the collection. This 5-CD box set includes all five volumes, plus a 42-page booklet with an original Christmas essay by acclaimed American novelist Ricky Moody, two essays, a short story by Stevens, a holiday sticker, chord charts, lyrics, comic strip, family portrait poster, photos, and an animated video. 42 tracks for one low price. Summer Hymns - Backward Masks (Misra) ................................................................... Imagine J Mascis jamming with Galaxie 500. Envision My Morning Jacket produced by Phil Elverum. Jason Lyttle getting the Lambchop treatment. Now sit back and listen to "Backward Masks", twelve sugary sweet lullabies from Athens, GA's finest southern songsmiths, Summer Hymns. It's the last vestiges of sunlight as the sun fades away. It's a mint julep on a humid summer afternoon. Delicate lunar lullabies somewhere between Mercury Rev and Yo La Tengo. - Uncut Swan Lake - Beast Moans (Jagjaguwar) ................................................................... This new band features Daniel Bejar (Destroyer, New Pornographers), Spencer Krug (Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown), and Carey Mercer (Frog Eyes). The songs here are great weaves, showcasing the famous and distinctive songwriting styles of Bejar, Krug, and Mercer. The sum is definitely greater than the parts, sounding like nothing else. TK Webb - Phantom Parade (Social Registry) ................................................................... At 28 years old, having been an in-demand guitar and harmonica player, touring all over the country both as solo player and side man, and averaging a show a week in NYC over the last 3 years, TK came to this record as a man determined and you can hear it in the music. The resulting work is an almost instant classic; versed in the American musical tradition with perfectly structured songs littered with imagery woven out of everyday experience. His voice is riddled with the kind of gruff character that speaks volumes and contradicts the passive androgyny that permeates so much indie-rock today. VA - Plague Songs (4AD) ................................................................... A collection of songs based on the ten biblical plagues that take place in the book of Exodus. These songs were commissioned by a British arts organization called Artangel to form part of a large-scale public art event. The Margate Exodus takes place in September 2006, transforming a dilapidated seaside town on the North Kent Coast into the setting for a vibrant modern recreation of the Israelites' flight from Egypt. During the event, the plague songs will be performed by local singers and musicians. Contributions on this CD come from Scott Walker, Rufus Wainright, Brian Eno, Robert Wyatt, Stephin Merritt, Laurie Anderson, and Imogen Heap. Other New Releases On This Day: ................................................................... Ben + Vesper - More Questions (Sounds Familyre) Dark Meat - Universal Indians (Cloud) Dirty Faces - Get Right With God (Brah) Jay-Z - Kingdom Come (Def Jam) Simon Joyner - Skeleton Blues (Jagjaguwar) Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Ends (Roadrunner) Kronos Quartet and Mogwai - The Fountain OST (Nonesuch) Loreena McKennitt - An Ancient Muse (Verve) Mirah - Joyride: Remixes (K) Mission of Burma - Not A Photograph DVD (MVD) Oasis - Stop the Clocks (Sony) Sisters of Mercy - [reissues] Snoop Dogg - Tha Blue Carpet Treatment (Geffen) Julie Sokolow - Something About Violins (Western Vinyl) Spock's Beard - Spock's Beard (Inside Out) State Champs - State Champs (Chairkickers) U2 - 18 Singles (Island) David Vandervelde - Jacket 7" (Secretly Canadian) Vollmar - Okay (Bluesanct) VA - Thankful (Temporary Residence) ................................................................... Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... Double Leopards - Halve Maen (11/28) Noah Georgeson - Find Shelter (11/28) Mark Kozelek - Little Drummer Boy (11/28) Midlake - Milkmaid Grand Army EP (11/28) Max Richter - Songs from Before (11/28) Rivulets - You Are My Home (11/28) ................................................................... Coming Soonish (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... Trey Anastasio - 18 Steps (12/5) David Daniell - Coastal (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) Nas - Hip-Hop is Dead (12/19) Lily Allen - Alright Still (1/23) Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity (1/23) Julie Doiron - Woke Myself Up (1/23) Menomena - Friend and Foe (1/23) Mum - Peel Sessions (1/23) MV & EE With the Bummer Road - Green Blues (1/23) Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer (1/23) Panda Bear / Excepter - split 12" (1/23) Shins - Wincing The Night Away (1/23) David Vandervelde - The Moonstation House Band (1/23) Bracken - We Know About the Need (1/30) the Fall - Reformation (1/30) Apples in Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder (2/6) Bloc Party - Weekend in the City (2/6) Sondre Lerche - Phantom Punch (2/6) Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone (2/20) Charlie Louvin - (2/20) Trans Am - Sex Change (2/20) Dean & Britta - Back Numbers (2/27) !!! - Myth Takes (3/6) Air - Pocket Symphony (3/6) LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (3/20) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 11/14 - 11/21: 1. Joanna Newsom, Ys CD/LP (Drag City) 2. Pavement, Wowee Zowee (2CD reissue) (Matador) 3. Neil Young, Live at the Filmore East CD (Reprise) 4. ...And you will know us by the Trail of Dead, So Divided CD (Interscope) 5. ESG, Come Away [reissue] CD/LP (Soul Jazz) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Johnny Cash, Incredible Bongo Band, Joanna Newsom, White Magic, Neil Young, Yusuf (Cat Stevens), Bonnie Prince Billy, Les Georges Leningrad, Nickel Creek, Red Krayola, Damien Rice, Tenacious D, Voxtrot, David Bazan, Isobel Campbell, The Evens, Benjy Ferree, PJ Harvey, Lithops, Owen, Pavement, 31 Knots, Animal Collective, Boduf Songs, Boris/SunnO))), Karen Dalton, Isis, Lady Sovereign, My Latest Novel, Willie Nelson, Peter and the Wolf, The Who, Battle of Mice, Malajube, Secret Machines and much much more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ We have real live music in our store, too! Check out our upcoming performances: Satuday, December 2nd @ 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 (B-ton's Spacemen Suicide Pact) 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 sell certain tickets, like Jandek in Indianapolis... 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 to carry your records, groceries, or what have you about town. 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