It was midweek in mid-February. Jason was preparing a small but worthwhile cadre of new releases and hanging posters for our Saturday in-store performance. Heath was writing the weekly update and putting the finishing details on the new listening station. Cyrus was placing our new phonograph pre-amps out for sale. That's when the ice storm hit. Trapped in their store with a handful of customers- the regular indie kid, the cute but quiet student, the bearded weirdo, the metalhead, and the lunatic from off the streets- chaos descends upon Landlocked. Misplaced CDs make the employees snap, snarky commentary makes the customers angry. There is no more coffee. What will happen next!? Stop by and see... Select New Arrivals for 02/13/07 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Field Music - Tones of Town (Memphis Industries) ................................................................... This trio from Sunderland, England toured Europe, playing with Belle & Sebastian, Architecture in Helsinki and UK compadres Maximo Park and The Futureheads, performed at both the Reading and Leeds Festivals, and traveled to the US where they were the surprise hit of SXSW. They also invented a dance craze (according to English tabloid The News of the World); etched one side of a 7-inch with a list of things you shouldn't do but probably already have; released a B-sides collection featuring a brief and inaccurate history of pre-Field Music experiments; and somehow found time to record their 2nd album proper. Their pop is huge, loaded with melody and harmony, and perfect for fans of Big Star, Modern Lovers, My Bloody Valentines, Neptunes, etc. Loney, Dear - Loney, Noir (Sub Pop) ................................................................... Emil Svanangen's music has been described as soulful indie folk with a powerful mini orchestra. Layer upon layer, adding instrumentation and vocals, these songs seem to bloom like time-lapse photography, depicting glimpsed scenes of modern disaffection and timeless yearning. Loney, Noir is at once effervescent and resigned, exhilarating and melancholy, joyous and confessional. Papercuts - Can't Go Back (Gnomonsong) ................................................................... Papercuts is Jason Quever's cathedral of sound, a place for the desperate worship of all things analog and devotion to the musicianship of the old world. His new album for Gnomonsong, Can't Go Back, is a marriage of timeless songs, richly textured studio sounds, classic rock/pop hookery, and focused narratives - all delivered with Quever's warm voice and wonderfully layered melodies. Raised in a commune in Humbolt County, Quever drifted up and down the West coast, eventually making a home in San Francisco. The seeds of Papercuts were sown in 2002 when he broke into a vacationing friend's apartment, 8-track in tow, to record piano tracks for Cass Mccombs' Not The Way. He's collaborated with Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Skygreen Leopards, and Vetiver. Terry Riley - Reed Streams [reissue] (Elision Fields) ................................................................... This CD represents the first album by Terry Riley, originally released in 1966, as well as the first recordings Riley made using his two personal Revox reel-to-reel tape machines (or "Time Lag Accumulators") later heard on his groundbreaking release Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band All Night Flight. Reed Streams has been remastered from the original tapes. In addition, this edition includes a psychedelic big-band version of "In C (Mantra)" recorded under the direction of renowned Canadian composer and conductor Walter Boudreau in 1970. Soft Lightes - Say No to Being Cool (Modular) ................................................................... Formerly of the The Incredible Moses Leroy (discover and toured by one Mr Cody Chestnut) the Softlightes are a real change of pace for the Modular label. Like a warm cup of musical valium the Softlightes sound inhabits a world where choruses rain down in buckets, synths and drum machines whir, guitars chime and pop is a beautiful thing. The Sugarcubes - Complete Studio Albums 3CD (One Little Indian) ................................................................... It's some 20 years since The Sugarcubes released their first single, 'Birthday' and a certain Bjork Gudmundsdottir was introduced to the pop world. This package collects the albums, Life's Too Good, Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week and Stick Around For Joy. Hearing Bjork singing as part of an indie guitar band might seem bizarre nowadays when she's making decidedly experimental pop records, but regardless of how loaded with hooks and chart-friendly sounds The Sugarcubes' back-catalogue is, there's very little about their music that's run of the mill - the idiosyncrasies of Bjork's still-astonishing vocal talents are brilliantly counterbalanced by the glorious lunacy of Einar's surreal rapping and hollering. Times New Viking - The Paisley Reich (Siltbreeze) ................................................................... The Paisley Reich ably avoids D.S.A. syndrome ("difficult second album"). Having developed even more vim and vigor, TNV's blur of high-concept pop, crud, and crunch is staggering. Scribes who languor within the compnoscenti of glossy print continue to peep about parallels to Guided By Voices and Pavement; those of us paying our own way recall the glorious lo-fi shimmer of nascent Flying Nun via The Clean, Great Unwashed, and Max Block. Vieux Farka Toure - Vieux Farka Toure (World Village) ................................................................... Vieux Farka Toure's debut represents an historic passing of the torch from father to son. A highly talented guitarist, singer, songwriter, and percussionist, Vieux has crafted a globalminded style all his own. With flourishes of rock and reggae amidst Saharan Blues and traditional Malian melodies, Vieux Farka Toure ushers in the next generation of Mali blues. Lucinda Williams - West (Lost Highway) ................................................................... Though the arrangements stray from Lucinda Williams's motherlode blend of blues, country, and folk, West may well be her best album. It is easily her most musically adventurous, and often her most lyrically inspired. NY producer Hal Willner, who has worked with artists such as Marianne Faithful and Lou Reed, enlists the support of eclectic progressives like guitarist Bill Frisell, keyboardist Bob Burger, and violinist Jenny Scheinman, along with harmonies from the Jayhawks' Gary Louris, to weave a subtly rich sonic tapestry. Much of the material was inspired by the death of Williams's beloved mother and the bitter breakup of a relationship. Where Williams's music has long cut close to the bone, the best of West slices right through it. ................................................................... Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... Ataris - Welcome the Night (2/20) Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse (2/20) Black Lips - Los Valentes Del Mundo Nuevo (2/20) Boredoms - Super Roots 7 [reissue] (2/20) Call Me Lightning - Soft Skeletons (2/20) Calla - Strength in Numbers (2/20) Coldcut - Sound Mirrors CD+DVD (2/20) Bobby Conn - King for a Day (2/20) Dolorean - You Can't Win (2/20) Erasure - On the Road to Nashville (Live) (2/20) Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone (2/20) Frames - The Cost (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) Elvis Perkins - Ash Wednesday (2/20) PG Six - Slightly Sorry (2/20) Rio en Medio - The Bride of Dynamite (2/20) Sapat - Mortise and Tenon (2/20) Shining - Grindstone (2/20) The Silos - Come on Like the Fast Lane (2/20) Southern Culture on the Skids - Countrypolitan Favorites (2/20) Richard Swift - Dressed Up For The Letdown (2/20) Time Flys - Rebels of Babylon (2/20) Trans Am - Sex Change (2/20) M Ward - To Go Home EP (2/20) ................................................................... Coming Soonish (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... Gene Clark - With the Gosdin Brothers (2/27) Dean & Britta - Back Numbers (2/27) Do Make Say Think - You, You're a History in Rust (2/27) Money Mark - Brand New By Tomorrow (2/27) Sneaky Pete - Anthology (2/27) Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position (2/27) !!! - Myth Takes (3/6) Air - Pocket Symphony (3/6) Antibalas - Security (3/6) Apostles of Hustle - National Anthem of Nowhere (3/6) Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (3/6) Bright Eyes - Four Winds EP (3/6) Ry Cooder - My Name is Buddy (3/6) J Dilla - Ruff Draft [reissue] (3/6) Wynton Marsalis - From The Plantation To The Penitentiary (3/6) My Brightest Diamond - Tear it Down (3/6) Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy: Definitive Edition 2CD (3/6) Papercuts - Can't Go Back (3/6) RJD2 - The Third Hand (3/6) Son Volt - the Search (3/6) Amon Tobin - Foley Room (3/6) Electric Prunes - Release of an Oath [reissue] (3/13) The Fall - Reformation Post TLC (3/13) Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank (3/13) James Morrison - Undiscovered (3/13) Pentangle - Time Has Come 1967-73 Box (3/13) Polyrock - Polyrock [reissue] (3/13) Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall (3/13) Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha (3/20) The Decemberists - Practical Handbook DVD (3/20) Kronos Quartet - Henryk Gorecki: String Quartet No 3 (3/20) Land of Talk - Applause Cheer Boo Hiss (3/20) LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (3/20) Ted Leo + Pharmacists - Living With the Living (3/20) Low - Drums and Guns (3/20) Panda Bear - Person Pitch (3/20) Ponys - Turn The Lights Out (3/20) the Stooges - the Weirdness (3/20) Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly, Angry Mob (3/27) VA - Atlantic R&B Box Set 1947-1974 8CD (3/27) Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis (4/3) Bryan Ferry - Dylanesque (4/3) Stars of the Lid - and Their Refinement of the Decline (4/3) Blonde Redhead - 23 (4/10) Bright Eyes - Cassadaga (4/10) Grinderman (Nick Cave) (4/10) Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero (4/17) Dungen - Infinity on High (5/1) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 2/6 - 2/13: 1. Menomena, Friend and Foe 2. Bloc Party - Weekend in the City 3. Clap your Hands Say Yeah, Some Loud Thunder 4. Deerhunter, Cryptograms 5. Peter, Bjorn and John - Writer's Block Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Aereogramme, Apples in Stereo, Bloc Party, Dead Child, Mick Harvey, Yoko Ono, Peter, Bjorn and John, Soft Circle, Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter, Wu-Tang Clan, Paul Weller, Clouds, Fall Out Boy, Sondre Lerche, Enrico Rava Quintet, Beirut, Bracken, Busdriver, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Deerhunter, Early Years, Catherine Howe, Xavier Rudd, Skinny Puppy, Zozobra, Alkaline Trio, Hella, Norah Jones, Madonna, Josh Ritter, RZA, Youth Group, Lily Allen, Arboretum, Glenn Branca, Clinic, Rob Crow, Deerhoof, Exploding Star Orchestra, The Good, the Bad & the Queen, Dredd Foole, The Earlies, Madeline, MV & EE with the Bummer Road, Menomena, Of Montreal, The Shins, David Vandervelde, VietNam and much much more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ We have real live music in our store, too! Check out our upcoming performances: 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. MP3s: http://www.brainwashed.com/common/sounds/mp3/charalambides-spring.mp3 http://www.latinobuggerveil.com/ejmp3s/Akaknow.mp3 Sunday, March 11th @ 7pm @ Landlocked Music - $4 ------------------------------------------------------------------ THE BESNARD LAKES (Montreal, Jagjaguwar) - http://www.thebesnardlakes.com/ LAND OF TALK (Montreal) - http://www.landoftalk.com/ 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. When you think Land of Talk, think early Cat Power, with an extra dose of Rock. In other circles you may hear them described as a place yielding destructive Edie Brickell/Blonde Redhead mutants, PJ Harvey meets Sonic Youth, Blondie meets Crazy Horse creatures. Either as a land or a band, they will soon consume all with their warm yet fierce embrace. 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. MP3s: http://cftpa.org/Young%20Shields.mp3 Thursday, April 26th @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music - $5 ------------------------------------------------------------------ BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT (Matador) - http://www.thebrightblackmorninglight.com/ + TBA Brightblack Morning Light is a color of the day when the truth of the universe is faded into a veil of blue sky. It's a time when spirits are allowed access. It's a humble time that affects all life. It's a time to recognize and accept change, without the limitations of your own surroundings. That time offers a free ritual that needs no shrine. These collections of songs were written by two homeless friends from Alabama while living in tents in rural Northern California. The majority of this recording was completed without a permanent shelter. Their mixed blood holds some American Indian somewhere, but they have no reservation to live. Yet they make a deliberate attempt to be indigenous to the Earth nearby, away from city babylons. MP3s: http://www.matadorrecords.com/mpeg/brightblack/brightblack_everybody_new.mp3 More information about 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 a couple of exciting upcoming Bloomington shows! Kulture Entertainment is hosting on Sunday February 25th, America's Funnyman - Neil Hamburger! Also performing will be The Coke Dares and Indianapolis' Thin Fevers for $8 in advance. Check em out. 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