Welcome to 2007! Its been a long week+ for us. Obviously, cuz this is a day late - the whole monday off thing really confused me, eh? Have you missed us? We sure missed you. We had grown accustomed to providing the bestest new and used music and more for you, day in and day out, over the past 9 months. We were a little stir crazy to say the least. But now, everything is okay, our doors are back open and the warm walls of the store are here to welcome and comfort you in your time of need. Breathe easy. We are sure you have all kinds of holiday loot and Landlocked gift certificates to redeem, eh? Here are a few ideas from the very paltry top of the year new release list... Select New Arrivals for 01/02/07 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Kevin Ayers - [CD reissue series] - Joy of a Toy / Shooting At the Moon / Whatevershebringswesing (Water) ................................................................... Robert Wyatt is usually regarded as the prime mover behind the Soft Machine, but Ayers' contributions carried equal weight in the early days. Besides playing bass, he wrote and sang much of their material. His solo work reflected a folkier, lazier, and gentler bent. In some respects he was comparable to Syd Barrett, without the madness and ferocious heights of Barrett's most innovative work. Ayers was never less than enjoyable and original, though his albums were erratic right from the start, veering from singalong ditties and pleasant, frothy folk ballads to dissonant improvisation. The more ambitious progressive rock elements came to the forefront when he fronted the Whole World in the early '70s. The backing band included a teenage Mike Oldfield on guitar, Lol Coxhill on sax, and David Bedford on piano. Gang Starr - Mass Appeal: The Best of Gang Starr CD+DVD (Virgin) ................................................................... The fact that Mass Appeal: The Best of Gang Starr is the second greatest-hits compilation released by Virgin simply attests to the importance of the duo, one of the first great MC/DJ-producer teams in hip-hop (and both of who, incidentally, have gone on to do well as solo artists, Guru with his whole Jazzmatazz series and DJ Premier with his massive production credits (Nas, Mos Def, Jay-Z, Notorious BIG, Snoop Dogg, Common and on and on). Mass Appeal is a perfect pickup for fans who've heard about the glory and genius of the group but don't own all the albums. Noah Georgeson - Find Shelter CD (Plain) ................................................................... These have finally arrived (hopefully) after many unforeseen delays! Noah Georgeson, the leader of The Pleased, is perhaps best known as the producer of Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, and the new album by Bert Jansch. He is also a member of Devendra's touring band. Check out the video of Noah singing this album's title track 'Find Shelter' with Devendra and band live at Bonnaroo on YouTube. His first solo album, Find Shelter finds Noah playing guitar, organ, piano, and Mellotron in addition to arranging and producing. The Kite Hill Chamber Orchestra conducted by Mr. Georgeson provides the backing for these 12 songs written in a San Francisco Victorian and recorded in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains. The Hollows - Darlings of Naught CD (self) ................................................................... 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. These local darlings finally have their songs recorded and on CD. Glory be! Its never sounded better, sublte dynamics help populate each song and somehow make them better than the live versions we've all come to know, love, and weep over. In a great handmade package, too. Mos Def - Tru3 Magic CD/LP (Geffen) ................................................................... Ok, we don't actually have this in store yet, but it will be arriving soon, probably before the next update. The release date changed on it so much that it kind of got lost in the shuffle, sorry. The hotly anticipated third album from Grammy-nominated artist Mos Def, True Magic features production from Pharrell Williams of the Neptunes, Minnesota and Preservation. N.W.A. - Best of NWA: The Strength of Street Knowledge CD/DVD (Priority) ................................................................... Deluxe 20th anniversary edition from the unapologetically violent and sexist pioneers of gangsta rap. Emerging in the late '80s, when Public Enemy had rewritten the rules of hardcore rap by proving that it could be intelligent, revolutionary, and socially aware, N.W.A capitalized on PE's sonic breakthroughs while ignoring their message. Instead, the five-piece crew celebrated the violence and hedonism of the criminal life, capturing it all in blunt, harsh language. The group's relentless attack and vital commentary even provoked the FBI to caution N.W.A's record company. Includes 17 tracks and a DVD with 5 videos plus bonus material including interviews with Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, DJ Yella, MC Ren, and Easy-E. Silkworm - Chokes CD-EP (12XU) ................................................................... Chokes is the final studio recordings from Silkworm. Five new tracks recorded during 2005 by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago. Founding member Michael Dahlquist was killed in the summer of 2005, solidifying the end to a very special band. The EP's 6th track, a cover of "Spanish Harlem Incident", was performed by the Crust Brothers (Dahlquist, vocals, Cohen, drums, Midgett, guitar, Stephen Malkmus, guitar) on 12/31/00, at Seattle's Crocodile Cafe. Tim and Andy's new band, Bottomless Pit, have played a number of U.S. dates this Autumn, and we are happy to report the group more than maintains the standards of artistic excellent the duo have set with their prior efforts. The Wire Magazine (Jan 2007) - 2006 Rewind Issue ................................................................... The Wire is an independent, monthly music magazine dedicated to informed, intelligent coverage of a wide range of progressive, adventurous and non-mainstream musics. This month has a reflection on last year's music releases, articles on Matt Valentine & Erika Elder, Gary Smith (improviser and Bill Fay contributor), Carla Kihlstedt (violinist from Tin Hat Trio, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum), Peter Evans (microtonal trumpet), Invisible Jukebox w/ Faust and much more! ................................................................... Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... Neko Case - Austin City Limits Live (1/9) Fennesz - Endless Summer [reissue] (1/9) Sloan - Never Hear the End of It (1/9) ................................................................... Coming Soonish (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... The Autumn Defense - The Autumn Defense (1/16) David Gilmour - Arnold Layne 10" (1/16) Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America LP (1/16) Ponytail - Kamehameha (1/16) Wanda Sykes - Sick & Tired (1/16) Lily Allen - Alright Still (1/23) Animal Collective - People EP (1/23) Arboretum - Rites of Uncovering (1/23) Rhys Chatham - A Crimson Grail (1/23) Clinic - Visitations (1/23) Rob Crow - Living Well (1/23) Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity (1/23) Julie Doiron - Woke Myself Up (1/23) Dredd Foole - Daze on the Mounts (1/23) The Earlies - The Enemy Chorus (1/23) Exploding Star Orchestra - We Are All From Somewhere Else (1/23) The Good, the Bad & the Queen - s/t (1/23) Grateful Dead - Live at the Cow Palace: New Years Eve 1976 (1/9) Lee Hazelwood - Cake or Death (1/23) Kristen Hersh - Learn to Sing Like a Star (1/23) John Mellencamp - Freedom's Road (1/23) Menomena - Friend and Foe (1/23) Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank (1/23) Mum - Peel Sessions (1/23) MV & EE With the Bummer Road - Green Blues (1/23) Nurse & Soldier - Marginalia (1/23) Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer (1/23) Panda Bear / Excepter - split 12" (1/23) Pelican - After the Ceiling Cracked DVD (1/23) Shins - Wincing The Night Away (1/23) Six Parts Seven - Casually Smashed To Pieces (1/23) Snowglobe - Me and You (1/23) David Vandervelde - The Moonstation House Band (1/23) VietNam - VietNam (1/23) Paul Weller - Hit Parade (1/23) Alkaline Trio - Remains (1/30) Lily Allen - Alright Still (1/30) Beirut - Lon Gisland EP (1/30) Bracken - We Know About the Need (1/30) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder (1/30) Deerhunter - Cryptograms (1/30) The Fall - Reformation (1/30) Hella - There's No 666 in Outer Space (1/30) Norah Jones - Not Too Late (1/30) Skinny Puppy - Mythmaker (1/30) Youth Group - Casino Twilight Dogs (1/30) VA - Endless Highway - The Music Of The Band (1/30) Aereogramme - My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go (2/6) Apples in Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder (2/6) Bloc Party - Weekend in the City (2/6) Sondre Lerche - Phantom Punch (2/6) Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse (2/20) Black Lips - Los Valentes Del Mundo Nuevo (2/20) Calla - Strength in Numbers (2/20) Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone (2/20) Jesu - Conqueror (2/20) Charlie Louvin - s/t (2/20) Minus the Bear - Interpretaciones Del Oso (2/20) Normanoak - A Double Gift Of Tongues LP (2/20) Richard Swift - Dressed Up For The Letdown (2/20) Trans Am - Sex Change (2/20) M Ward - To Go Home (2/20) Dean & Britta - Back Numbers (2/27) Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position (2/27) !!! - Myth Takes (3/6) Air - Pocket Symphony (3/6) Bright Eyes - Four Winds EP (3/6) J Dilla - Ruff Draft [reissue] (3/6) RJD2 - The Third Hand (3/6) The Fall - Reformation Post TLC (3/13) Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha (3/20) The Decemberists - Practical Handbook DVD (3/20) LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (3/20) Ted Leo + Pharmacists - Living With the Living (3/20) Low - Drums and Guns (3/20) Ponys - Turn The Lights Out (3/20) the Stooges - the Weirdness (3/20) Stars of the Lid - and Their Refinement of the Decline (4/3) Bright Eyes - Cassadaga (4/10) Grinderman (Nick Cave) (4/10) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Nas, Everything, Now!, Everthus the Deadbeats, Ghostface Killah, Sonic Youth, Botch, David Daniell, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, Okkervil River, Psychic Ills, Sinoia Caves, Songs of Green Pheasant, To Rococo Rot, Desperate Man Blues DVD, Noah Georgeson, Mark Kozelek, Midlake, Max Richter, Rivulets, Mark Sandman, Tom Waits, John Fahey, Dave Fischoff, Josef K, Sufjan Stevens, Summer Hymns, Swan Lake, TK Webb, Ben + Vesper, Dark Meat, Dirty Faces, Jay-Z, Simon Joyner, Killswitch Engage, Loreena McKennitt, Mirah, Mission of Burma, Oasis, Sisters of Mercy, Snoop Dogg, Julie Sokolow, Spock's Beard, State Champs, U2, David Vandervelde, Vollmar and much much more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ We have real live music in our store, too! Check out our upcoming performances: Saturday, January 13th @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music - $5 ------------------------------------------------------------------ BENJY FERREE (DC, Domino Recs) - http://www.benjyferree.com/ EP HALL (Bloomingtopia) - http://www.ephall.com/ UNO MOSS (Bloomingtopia) - http://www.myspace.com/dreamachining Benjy Ferree's musical coming-out followed an aborted attempt at an acting career, which brought a surreal existence in Hollywood to a close. He returned home to the Mid-Atlantic, more enlightened, more skilled on guitar and found work tending bar at DC's Black Cat nightclub. There he heeded the encouragement of new friends, Brendan Canty (Fugazi) among them, and began to focus on the songs he had been writing for his own personal enjoyment. Leaving The Nest is the fruits of that encouragement and those life experiences, with a surefooted timelessness in an era of trends being cycled and recycled through at an exhausting speed. Musical and historical ghosts of The South haunt the corners of this album like a Faulknerian travelogue while bringing to mind the works of Terrence Malick, whose movies leave it to the viewer to find meaning in all the ambiguous beauty. MP3s: http://www.dominorecordco.us/downloads/Benjy_F_ITC.mp3 Saturday, February 17th @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music - $5 ------------------------------------------------------------------ THE SUBJECTS (NY) - http://www.thesubjects.net/ THE DELICIOUS (Bloomingtopia) - http://www.myspace.com/thedelicious PRIZZY PRIZZY PLEASE (Btown) - http://www.myspace.com/prizzyprizzyplease  Like many bands, The Subjects met in high school. And probably like many prog-rock bands, they met in video production class. They shared dreams of loud rooms, cracked amps, and raging, sweaty crowds. Who or what was to hold them back from grasping out, from "living the dream?" Most importantly was that, unlike many bands, two of the members were students and two were teachers. And that the four hanging out in rock bars together was not exactly approved after-school development. Teenage kicks delivered by actual teenagers: Two recent high school grads bash out joyously hormonal power pop behind a frontman who was recently their teacher. Like School of Rock with more Kinks albums on the syllabus. Their combination of poppy hooks and the slightly psychedelic sounding bridge sum up to be basically perfect. MP3s: http://www.prettyactivity.com/mp3s/thehoundsofwar.mp3s Sunday, March 11th @ 7pm @ Landlocked Music - $5 ------------------------------------------------------------------ THE BESNARD LAKES (Montreal, Jagjaguwar) - http://www.thebesnardlakes.com/ + TBA Rich with Beach Boys style harmonies, Roy Orbison reverbs and orchestra, Pink Floyd's pacing and Freddy Mercury's falsetto, The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse is a luxurious foray into sound and music. This is the second record by The Besnard Lakes, Montrealers by way of Western Canada. Their independently released previous record, Volume I, came out in 2004, and it was noticed by critics but was largely overlooked by the public at large. On both records, The Besnard Lakes have shown that they are masters of finely-honed experimental pop songs that invoke the eerie Lynchian setting as aided and abetted by the music of Julee Cruise. But, on The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse, the band throws into the mix a mad dash of Fleetwood Mac proportioned swagger and ambition. Not so incidentally, the Besnard Lakes have created a masterpiece that will resonate within all quarters, amongst critics, casual and not-so-casual rock listeners, garden variety pop fans and headphone junkies. MP3s: http://www.scjag.com/mp3/jag/andyouliedtome.mp3 Monday, March 26th @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music - $5 ------------------------------------------------------------------ LADYHAWK (Vancouver, Jagjaguwar) - http://www.ladyhawkladyhawk.com/ + TBA Ladyhawk's core is bracing rock. Neil Young's Tonight's The Night is the hailstorm on the hood of The Replacements Let It Be, while distorted guitars invoke the thread and swerve of Silkworm and Dinosaur Jr. Helped along the way by Amber Webber and Josh Wells of Black Mountain, it will be hard to find a more hauntingly beautiful set of rock music than this debut. It was recorded and mixed, with the help of Black Mountaineers Wells and Matthew Camirand, in the "Karachi Vice" clubhouse, in the back of a furniture factory, amongst chicken and fish processing plants. With some of the more "inexpensive" ladies of the night scattered about, it captures the bottlenecked frenzy of their much-loved live show. There, each night, these grown-up kids at heart fall over, get right back up, cry on shoulders and fold the day in halves, watching the sun come up over the dashboard. MP3s: http://www.scjag.com/mp3/jag/dugout.mp3 Monday, April 16th @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music - $5 ------------------------------------------------------------------ CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE (Chicago, Tomlab) - http://www.cftpa.org/ + TBA 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. 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