This Saturday evening we present our first live performance for the new year - from Washington, D.C., Domino Records' Benjy Ferree. Local lovelies EP Hall and Uno Moss fill out the night of fantastic, feel-good, warm me up during the cold winter line-up. You should be here. More info and mp3s on our website and myspace... Its the top of the year and there aren't many new releases - but that won't last long, scroll down to 1/23 and behold the flood of wonderful music for you. Better get warmed up with something though, so check out this week first: Select New Arrivals for 01/09/07 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Neko Case - Austin City Limits Live CD (New West) ................................................................... Her 2003 debut performance on the Austin City Limits series (also on DVD) showcases Case's artistry in a stripped-down setting, with stand-up bassist Tom Ray serving as a one-man rhythm section, Jon Rauhouse providing multi-instrumental virtuosity on banjo and a variety of guitars, and Kelly Hogan supplying impeccable harmony support. Case was touring at the time behind her Blacklisted album, though the setlist strays farther. On "Hex," written by Freakwater's Catherine Irwin, Case and Hogan could pass as the Louvin Sisters, while Bob Dylan's "Buckets of Rain" receives a languid reading punctuated by Rauhouse's Hawaiian lap-steel guitar. "Deep Red Bells" emphasizes the western side of country & western, with the more experimental "Maybe Sparrow" combining banjo and edgy atmospherics. Throughout, the bare-bones arrangements let the songs breathe and Case's voice soar. Fennesz - Endless Summer [reissue] CD (Editions Mego) ................................................................... Originally released in 2001 by Mego, Endless Summer brought Christain's name and music towards the first steps of mainstream recognition with its micro sounds and warm guitar, harkening the dreamy serenity and quick-fading sentimentality of a California sunset. Following on from the more experimental Hotel Paral.lell and the Beach Boys homaged Plays single, Endless Summer brought the guitars more to the front, the electronics shimmered more, and the melodies shined more brightly. It went on to be a classic of its time, topping many end of year polls. This new definitive edition is newly mixed by Fennesz, resulting in a more open-sounding version of the tracks. It is also re-mastered and has beautifully photographed artwork by Jon Wozencroft. In addition to the original 8 tracks, it contains 2 extra titles. MOJO - February 2007 - Joy Division cover ................................................................... Yes, in case you missed it, we now carry the remarkable MOJO magazine from the UK. Each issue comes with a free CD and is packed full of quality content. In this month's issue we have articles on Joy Division (With two new films and a raft of reissues, 2007 will be the Manchester moodists' year), John Cale (The Velvet Underground's viola-brandishing Welsh wizard on nasty Lou, pasty Nico, destroying himself, shopping for clothes and finding the funk), Arctic Monkeys (The Sheffield snoots' singular songwriter Alex Turner meets his hero, Manchester motormouth punk poet John Cooper Clarke), Ker-Rang! (They were on a mission to repel punk pretenders and recapture the spirit of rock), Pete Seeger (Springsteen blew his cover. Friend of Woody Guthrie, folk trailblazer and the most blacklisted entertainer ever in the US), as well as predictions for 2007. Ron Sexsmith - Time Being CD (Ironworks) ................................................................... Canadian Ron Sexsmith, though never able to crack the pop-star ceiling in America, has managed to linger as a critics' darling and stay beloved among his peers since his 1995 debut. The boyish quiver so prominent in his voice during the middle '90s has matured on his 8th CD. Never lacking for candid, hook-driven life observances, the Toronto native punches out melodies that could chill the spines of Ray Davies, Brian Wilson, and Paul McCartney, the latter juxtaposing an infectious chorus with pigs heading to the slaughterhouse. Like a balladeering novelist reading over complementary guitars and piano, Sexsmith carves out vignettes that can be as topically witty as they are hit-in-the-gut poignant. It's an unabashed flair that makes his lacking listenership a mystery as Ron Sexsmith remains a pop music vanguard. Sloan - Never Hear the End of It CD (Yep Roc) ................................................................... The band's 8th studio recording contains a whopping 30 songs on one disc, ranging from 50 seconds to just over five minutes in length. The bulk of those tracks average roughly two-and-a-half minutes and bleed into each other--at times rather abruptly. As a result, the disc feels like an eccentric art-project; even the strongest tracks prove to be more of an appetizer, leaving listeners longing for a main course. Stylistically, there are no surprises. The group's music tends to fall into Sloan's two traditional categories: Beatles-esque stylings or '70s-influenced rock tunes. VA - Belize City Boil Up LP (Numero Group) ................................................................... Its no secret that one of Landlocked's favorite new reissue labels is Chicago's Numero Group. Great packaging and information, killer obscure tracks, and now- they are releasing some of the hottest stuff on vinyl. Belizian's call it Boil Up, and it’s anything but leftovers. Mix equal parts R&B, calypso, disco, funk, reggae, bruckdown, soul, folk, and whatever else can be found back on the bottom shelf of the musical pantry. Get ready to feast on passport stamped rhythms, 2nd-deck cruise ship melodies, hotel pool calypso, soundtracks to movies not yet made, and anything else savory, or unsavory, enough to throw into the pot. Be sure to check out the very limited edition 12" and rest of their catalog on CD! ................................................................... Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... 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) ................................................................... Coming Soonish (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... Animal Collective - People EP (1/23) Arbouretum - Rites of Uncovering (1/23) Boredoms - Super Roots [reissues] (1/23) Glenn Branca - Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses (1/23) Camera Obscura - If Looks Could Kill EP (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) Field Music - Tones of Town (1/23) The Good, the Bad & the Queen - s/t (1/23) Grateful Dead - Live at the Cow Palace: New Years Eve 1976 (1/23) Lee Hazelwood - Cake or Death (1/23) Kristen Hersh - Learn to Sing Like a Star (1/23) David Kilgour - The Far Now (1/23) Lovers - Sleep with Heat (1/23) Madeline - the Slow Bang (1/23) Maher Shalal Hash Baz - L'Autre Cap (1/23) John Mellencamp - Freedom's Road (1/23) Menomena - Friend and Foe (1/23) Mew - Frengers (1/23) Moe - The Conch (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) Psapp - Hi EP (1/23) Rafter - Music for Total Chickens (1/23) Sonny Rollins - Sonny, Please (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) VA - Forever Changing: The Golden Age of Elektra 1963-1973 6CD (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) Busdriver - Roadkill Overcoat (1/30) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder (1/30) Deerhunter - Cryptograms (1/30) Early Years - The Early Years (1/30) Hella - There's No 666 in Outer Space (1/30) Catherine Howe - What A Beautiful Place (1/30) Norah Jones - Not Too Late (1/30) Madonna - The Confessions Tour - Live from London CD/DVD (1/30) Xavier Rudd - Food in the Belly (1/30) RZA - Afro Samurai (1/30) Skinny Puppy - Mythmaker (1/30) Youth Group - Casino Twilight Dogs (1/30) Zazobra - Harmonic Tremors (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) Apostles of Hustle - National Anthem of Nowhere (2/6) Apples in Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder (2/6) Bloc Party - Weekend in the City (2/6) Clouds - Legendary Demo (2/6) Fall Out Boy - Infinity on High (2/6) Sondre Lerche - Phantom Punch (2/6) Loney, Dear - Loney, Noir (2/6) Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank (2/6) Peter, Bjorn and John - Writer's Block (2/6) Enrico Rava Quintet - The Words and the Days (2/6) Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter - Like, Love, Lust... (2/6) VA - A Date With John Waters (2/6) Times New Viking - The Paisley Reich (2/13) Lucinda Williams - West (2/13) 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) Bobby Conn - King for a Day (2/20) Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone (2/20) High Llamas - Can Cladders (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) PG Six - Slightly Sorry (2/20) Richard Swift - Dressed Up For The Letdown (2/20) Trans Am - Sex Change (2/20) M Ward - To Go Home EP (2/20) Dean & Britta - Back Numbers (2/27) Do Make Say Think - You, You're a History in Rust (2/27) Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position (2/27) !!! - Myth Takes (3/6) Air - Pocket Symphony (3/6) Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (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) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 1/2 - 1/8: 1. Sonic Youth, the Destroyed Room (Geffen) 2. Tom Waits, Orphans (Anti) 3. John Mayer, Village Sessions (Sony) 4. Grizzly Bear, Yellow House (Warp) 5. Noah Georgeson, Find Shelter (DiChristina) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Kevin Ayers, Gang Starr, Noah Georgeson, The Hollows, Mos Def, N.W.A, Silkworm, 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 3rd @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music - $4 ------------------------------------------------------------------ EVAN HYDZIK (Chicago) - http://myspace.com/evanhydzik VOLLMAR (Bloomingtopia) - http://www.vollmarmusic.com/ BRONZE FLOAT (Indy) - http://www.myspace.com/26313461 Local favorites Vollmar bring into town Static Films dude for eclectic evening of contemporary musics to make your heart sing! Also featuring David Brant's tasty new project. 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 ** HELP US CELEBRATE OUR ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY WITH THIS AWESOME SHOW ** Saturday, March 3rd @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music - $5 ------------------------------------------------------------------ CHARALAMBIDES (Kranky) - http://www.wholly-other.com/ PRIMORDIAL UNDERMIND (ex-Crystallized Movements, Vienna, Austria) - http://www.myspace.com/primordialundermind THE TEN THOUSAND THINGS (B'ton) - http://myspace.com/things10thousand To say that the words "unique" and "singular" are over-used in describing music is to state the obvious. To apply these words to the sounds created by the various duo/trio configurations of the Texas group Charalambides over the last decade plus would be understatement. To be sure there are numerous antecedents to their music; to deny this of any artist‘s work would be akin to saying that they are deaf. But they have surely broken new ground in the primitive / folk / mystic / improv / psych valley in which they toil. As Marcus Boon wrote in The Wire; "...here is a truly 21st century experimental ethnic music that explores quietness and stasis... in the same way that musicians in the second half of the 20th century discovered amplification, noise and speed." Primordial Undermind is led by ex-Crystalized Movements guitarist Eric Arn. Active for more than a decade in different forms and in different cities. Dark, spiritual, yin-and-yang paisley... These aren't just burnouts playing loud, distorted psych. They're paranoid burnouts playing loud, distorted psych. Behold the swirling madness and tranquility. From streams of molten electric guitar sputtering geysers of fluid ectoplasm into the air, to high desert country influenced elements left to blister and bleach in the sun... so utterly gorgeous in places it's like a long view of paradise. Sunday, March 11th @ 7pm @ Landlocked Music - $4 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/ MORROW (Bloomingtopia) - http://www.myspace.com/weatherprophets 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/ RIVULETS - http://www.rivulets.net/ 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. Nathan Amundson began Rivulets in 1999, when his debut was issued by Chair Kickers' Union, the Duluth label run by Low. Often driven only by voice or quiet guitar, Rivulets was frighteningly gentle, yet genuinely powerful. The brooding love songs of Mark Kozelek's Red House Painters were an apt comparison, as were the acute, windswept soundscapes of Iceland's Sigur Ros. Most often, the music suggested the isolation and odd beauty found at the center of an iced-over lake in the middle of winter. On You Are My Home, Amundson is joined by the none too shabby musical guests Codeine's Chris Brokaw, Jessica Bailiff, Christian Frederickson of Rachel's, Boxhead Ensemble's Fred Lonberg-Holm and Bob Weston of Shellac and Mission Of Burma. Their combined guitars, keyboards, strings and horns work together with Amundson's heartbroken voice magically to create a deep dark melancholia. 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