I'm mmmmmeltingggggg!!!!!! Glory be, the ice and snow are peeling away, leaving a black silty underbelly of beauty. Hurrah! In celebration of this pre-spring, we have a wonderful cast of new releases for you. By the way, if you left your hat and/or shirt behind after saturday's Delicious show, we have it for you. And now... the good stuff: Select New Arrivals for 02/20/07 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Amnesty - Free Your Mind CD/LP (Now Again) ................................................................... Compilations of 70s funk are so common now, it's no longer sufficient to simply dig up a couple of 7-inch tracks that Tobias Kirmayer hasn't yet posted to his website. You've got to deliver stuff like "the only known acetate, on loan from Cut Chemist, who won it from Dante Carfagna in a Texas hold 'em showdown." Or better yet, how about an entire unreleased album like Amnesty's Free Your Mind: The 700 West Sessions, which Stones Throw ace Egon just dug up for his Now Again imprint. It's a stone-cold prog-soul thriller that comes packed with a powerful political punch recalling the early work Funkadelic. The funkiest lesson in black history you'll hear this month. Straight outta Indianapolis!!! Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse (Jagjaguwar) ................................................................... 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. 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. The band also 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. Black Lips - Los Valentes Del Mundo Nuevo (Vice) ................................................................... Now 22 years old, The Black Lips are grizzled veterans and kings of the psychedelic garage rock underground and legends in the scene. Playing the self-coined "flower punk" in the vein of Nuggets-faves The Seeds and The 13th Floor Elevators, live or on record it's hard to hide the fun these boys have and impossible to describe their unpredictable live show and how uninhibited the audiences are. This record is an amazing primer of Black Lips greatest hits. Contains new versions of tracks taken from their three previous albums and multiple singles. The music is every bit as deceptively sweet and dangerous as the city they recorded in - Tijuana. Bob & Gene - If This World Were Mine CD/LP (Daptone) ................................................................... In Soul's prime, Darrell Banks, Donnie Elbert, Dyke and the Blazers, and Jimmie Raye all left their home town of Buffalo, NY. Resident William Nunn stayed behind with good faith in the ground under his feet. Though both only 15 at the time, William's son Bobby Nunn and friend Eugene Coplin from down the street, would give Mo Do Records its first vinyl outing with their stirring single "You Gave Me Love". Shortly before his death last year, William entrusted his dusty library of tapes to David Griffiths, a passionate young record collector and Buffalo Soul fanatic, who in turn brought the tapes to Daptone. Now, after endless hours of exploration and restoration, they are proud to present in its entirety for the first time, some of the deepest and sweetest Soul sides ever carved into wax, Bob & Gene's full length album. Coldcut - Sound Mirrors (Ninja Tune) ................................................................... Their first proper LP in 8 years, Jon More and Matt Black aka Coldcut aka founders of Ninja Tune. Featuring an all-star cast of vocalists including Jon Spencer, Mike Ladd, Saul Williams, Roots Manuva, Andrew Broder (aka Fog) and more, this album shows off the variety of production styles Coldcut are capable of, and create a work of astounding achievement. Bobby Conn - King for a Day (Thrill Jockey) ................................................................... The definitive Bobby Conn record. Conceived as the soundtrack for a rock and roll Don Quixote, the album is an ode to self-delusion and investigation into how the desire for fantasy and drama plays out in our culture. KFAD has it all, raging psychedelic guitar solos, epic string interludes, a Latin choir, piano ballads, and of course, the smart, conventional pop songs for which Bobby is world reknowned. Love him or hate him, you cannot deny him. Dolorean - You Can't Win (Yep Roc) ................................................................... With You Can't Win, their third Yep Roc release, Dolorean delivers another collection of melancholy and stunningly beautiful folk pop songs. Cinematic and haunting in their imagery - from the spooky opening percussion on the title track to the closing notes of "My Still Life" - confirm the critical accolades. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone CD/2LP (Temporary Residence) ................................................................... Known for bringing an emotional heft and sense of hope to a usually placid genre, EITS have experienced the kind of meteoric rise in popularity that flies in the face of music industry convention. They're also the very rare band that fans of Sigur Ros, Sufjan Stevens and My Chemical Romance can all agree on. EITS are not just an anomaly, they're a gateway. 30 seconds is all you'll need to believe in the tragedy-turned-majesty of All of a Sudden, Explosions' very eagerly anticipated 4th album. It's within an arm's length of matching the overwhelming glory of their legendary live shows, trading in the crystalline production of The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place for a paint-peeling intensity that blurs the lines between studio and live performance. Ben Folds - Live at My Space DVD (Epic) ................................................................... This intimate performance was filmed live at Ben's studio in Nashville, TN on October 24, 2006 for myspace.com's first ever live-by-request webcast ("hey play this"), where a select number of lucky fans made up the limited audience. During the show, and captured on this DVD, Ben performed fan favorites such as "Bitches Ain't Shit," "Rockin' The Suburbs," "Kate," and his cover of Postal Service's "Such Great Heights," among others. The Frames - The Cost (Anti) ................................................................... One of Ireland's most successful bands, known for their sell-out performances to 20,000 fans in their homeland, as well as their relentless touring schedule across the globe. With their 6th studio album, they've returned to an earlier, simpler mode of recording to finally capture the intensity and ecstasy of their live performances. Retaining the signature Frames feel and texture but with more space and warmth, The Cost is, in leader Glen Hansard's words, "our 70's folk record - Gordon Lightfoot, early Elton John, that kind of feel." Jesu - Conqueror (Hydra Head) ................................................................... Justin Broadrick's (ex-Napalm Death, Godflesh, Techno Animal) second full-length under his new Jesu moniker is packed with eight gorgeously hypnotic tracks. Conqueror exhales a dreamlike mist of weighty celestial ambience, underwater phantasms, and slow-rolling nebulae, fomenting the kind of kaleidoscopic rapture - brimming with lush electronics, dulcet guitar textures, massive riffs, and lavish atmospheric hues - that makes us swear we're on drugs. Charlie Louvin - s/t (Tompkins Square) ................................................................... Charlie's newest LP, his first in 10 years, produced by Mark Nevers (Lambchop, Calexico, Candi Staton) and Charlie Louvin, was recorded in Nashville. It features guest performances by Elvis Costello, Jeff Tweedy, Will Oldham, Tom T. Hall, George Jones, Bobby Bare Sr., Tift Merritt, Marty Stuart, David Kilgour, and members of Bright Eyes, Lambchop, Superchunk, Blanche and Clem Snide, among others. The album features several Louvin Brothers classics as well as country favorites first popularized by Jimmie Rodgers, the Delmore Brothers, the Carter Family, and the Monroe Brothers. Charlie also has included a moving tribute to his late brother Ira, with whom he formed the Louvin Brothers in 1940. Manchester Orchestra - I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child (Favorite Gentlemen) ................................................................... They've been selling out shows and have landed the opening spot on the upcoming Brand New tour. The Atlanta-based Manchester Orchestra has emerged as one of the most mesmerizing and dynamic young bands in the region, embracing the sweeping, melodic, emotional territory mined by such seminal artists as Dismemberment Plan, Grandaddy and The Weakerthans. Fans of Pedro the Lion and early Radiohead will enjoy their debut LP. Normanoak - A Double Gift Of Tongues LP (Secretly Canadian) ................................................................... Chris Barth re-emerges with A Double Gift Of Tongues to share once again Normanoak's mysterious fibrillation of heart and lung. Unbound from his share of duties with The Impossible Shapes, Barth chronicles a world "of acorns, blood, and sacrifice; of the holy hexagram of intertwined triangles; of the holy books writ in the sands of madness; of the Prince of Cups charioting across the steady sea, eagle drawn; of the planets Jupiter, Mars, Mercury and Luna spiraling through the darkness of Nuit; Of the language behind language and the seeds of the unspeakable." Elvis Perkins - Ash Wednesday (XL) ................................................................... On his debut, Elvis Perkins combines emotional intimacy with a warm-hearted studio sound that recalls Nick Drake and "Astral Weeks"-era Van Morrison. Compelling, dreamlike songs with lyrics that teeter between the specific and the surreal. Did we mention that he is Anthony "Psycho" Perkins son??? The Silos - Come on Like the Fast Lane (Bloodshot) ................................................................... On Come On Like The Fast Lane, the Silos put their power-trio to the test. The band employs layered guitars to add depth and transcendence to the album's introspective tracks, switching to ferocious, hook-laden rock to part the clouds and land back on terra firma. It's this ability to draw on an inexhaustible well of emotions with turn-on-a-dime transitions that sets The Silos apart; naked honesty and joyous melodies never sounded so good together. Come On Like The Fast Lane buzzes with rock energy reminiscent of the proto-punk lower East Side legends like The Velvet Underground and Television, punched up with pop melodies that resuscitates a sound that never went out of style. Southern Culture on the Skids - Countrypolitan Favorites (Yep Roc) ................................................................... At the heart of this labor of love are crossover country favorites from an era when the music was a staple on Top 40 AM radio. Yet the release shows an equal affinity for the rock of that era, as the band gives the Kinks' "Muswell Hillbillies" an arrangement that recalls the Sir Douglas Quintet, injects a guitar surge from "Gloria" into the (pre-CCR) Golliwogs' "Fight Fire," savors the fuzztone dreaminess of T Rex's "Life's a Gas," and transforms the Who's "Happy Jack" into a banjo-driven hoedown. In other highlights, the band puts pedal-to-the-metal overdrive into the psychedelic shimmer of the Byrds' "Have You Seen Her Face" and adds some pop bounce to the swamp blues of Slim Harpo's "Te Ni Ne Ni Nu." An irresistible party platter. Free CD EP w/ purchase while they last! Marnie Stern - In Advance of the Broken Arm (Kill Rock Stars) ................................................................... Marnie's songs contain a staggering number of layers, each one winding its way around the others, then counterpointed by her feminine, echoing, powerful vocals. Despite the artful pretensions of some of her influences (Sleater-Kinney, Hella, Boredoms, Melt Banana), her lyrics are her secret weapon. Every line has an understated elegance floating above the mind-numbingly complex guitar work. What makes Stern better than any other tech guitar wizards is her uncanny ability to transform the most complicated guitar acrobatics into beautiful and concise three-minute pop songs. Richard Swift - Dressed Up For The Letdown CD/LP (Secretly Canadian) ................................................................... Employing an archaic attitude of tempered restraint on a fresh collection of ten songs, without appearing shamelessly retro or kitschy. Swift leads the faithful further into a melancholic world draped with colorful sonic landscapes. This is his first new material recorded since 2001 and is the follow-up to the re-release of his double CD The Novelist / Walking Without Effort in 2005. He's toured with My Morning Jacket, The Walkmen, Elbow, Josh Ritter, Jens Lekman, and Earlimart, earning a reputation for a live rock revivalist, conjuring up images of classic period Dylan and The Band from the late '60s and early '70s. Trans Am - Sex Change CD/LP (Thrill Jockey) ................................................................... Trans Am has always been a predominantly instrumental band that plays ironic sounds unironically. Recorded in New Zealand with equipment on loan by the brilliant Chris Knox (Tall Dwarfs), then later in Brooklyn at Oneida's headquarters. Sex Change, their 9th album, is typically eclectic but pushes their sound further towards '70s stadium prog, keyboard-driven Krautrock, shredding '80s rock, John Carpenter soundtracks from the late 1970s, super clean and mellow funk-rock, and whatever you call the kind of music they play behind sports play-by-plays. M Ward - To Go Home EP (Merge) ................................................................... The first single from his recent masterpiece, Post-War, is an instant pop classic written by the inimitable Daniel Johnston. Features three non-album tracks, including the epic Jimmie Dale Gilmore penned "Headed For A Fall", and featuring special guests Neko Case, Nels Cline, Howe Gelb, Mike Mogis, and Jim James from My Morning Jacket. Wax Poetics - Issue #21 - James Brown Tribute ................................................................... A tribute to the King Of Soul, The Godfather, Mr Dynamite, Soul Brother #1, one of the greatest showmen of the 20th Century - the eternal James Brown. Industry veteran Alan Leeds waxes on James with a personal, close quality that was sorely lacking in the mainstream memorials of this most legendary of performers - plus Leeds contributes some incredible photographs! Wax Poetics #21 also features a 2004 interview of the Godfather by Markus Schmidt - and outside the JB beat are interviews, discography and photography-filled features on the origins and evolving story of "Planet Rock", Charles Stepney and Marshall Chess of Chess Records, Minnie Ripperton as remembered by her grown children, composer/producer Ed Bland, A-Trak, Bob & Gene, Terry Callier and so much more! VA - Gonerfest 2 CD+DVD (Goner) ................................................................... Amazing documentation of last year's fest. Yeah, it took a damn year to get out, and when you see it, you'll know why. 3 camera shoots, professional equipment, amazing sound... it's better than being there... you can see and the sound is perfect. 70+ minute dvd, 60+minute cd. CD has at least one song from every band in the order that they appeared over the Gonerfest, from King Louie through the Limes. Hot dog cookout, fish heads thrown in the street, it's all there. Other New Releases On This Day ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ataris - Welcome the Night (Sanctuary) Boredoms - Super Roots 7 [reissue] (Vice) Call Me Lightning - Soft Skeletons (French Kiss) Calla - Strength in Numbers (Beggars Banquet) Erasure - On the Road to Nashville (Live) (Mute) Fu Manchu - We Must Obey (Century Media) Hidden Hand - The Resurrection of Whiskey Foote (Southern Lord) High Llamas - Can Cladders (Drag City) The Knife - Marble House EP (Mute) Pop Levi - Return to Form Black Majick Party (Counter) Minus the Bear - Interpretaciones Del Oso [remixes] (Suicide Squeeze) PG Six - Slightly Sorry (Drag City) Rio en Medio - The Bride of Dynamite (Gnomonsong) RJD2 - You Never Had It So Good 12" (XL) Sapat - Mortise and Tenon (Siltbreeze) Shining - Grindstone (Rune Grammaphon) The Subjects - With the Ease Grace Precision & Cleverness (Pretty Activity) Time Flys - Rebels of Babylon (Birdman) Triffids - Calenture & In the Pines [reissues] (Domino) ................................................................... Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... 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) Sublime Frequencies 30 & 31 (2/27) Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position (2/27) ................................................................... Coming Soonish (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... !!! - 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) 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) Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank (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) Throbbing Gristle - The Endless Not (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) Wilco - Sky Blue North (5/15) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 2/13 - 2/20: 1. Lucinda Williams, West (Lost Highway) 2. Bloc Party, Weekend in the City (Vice) 3. Menomena, Friend and Foe (Barsuk) 4. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Some Loud Thunder (self-released) 5. Gandalf, 2 (Sundazed) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Field Music, Loney, Dear, Papercuts, Terry Riley, Soft Lightes, The Sugarcubes, Times New Viking, Vieux Farka Toure, Lucinda Williams, 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 and much much more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ We have real live music in our store, too! Check out our upcoming performances: ** 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/ THE IMPOSSIBLE SHAPES (Bloomingtopia) - http://www.theimpossibleshapes.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 http://www.scjag.com/mp3/sc/floridasilversprings.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/ DANIEL BELTESHAZZAR AIU HIGGS (ex-Lungfish) + 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. Daniel Higgs is the singer for the band Lungfish and is an absolute modern day shaman. His presence in person and on stage is absolutely mesmerizing. In another time he would have ruled the world, or been burned at the stake, or had his own cult. In Lungfish, his stream of consciousness vocals, add a distinctly spiritual quality to Lungfish's droning repetitive caveman krautrock jams. His newest solo LP, Ancestral Songs (Holy Mountain), is comprised of apocalyptic tunes, a banjo raag, mellifluous birdsong, and the sci-fi-sounding duet of a searing Jew's harp and toy piano. "Are You of the Body?" brings out the electric tamboura tone and an accompanying acoustic guitar to melt the spine. A distorted motorik guitar riff propels Ancestral Songs to a close by focusing on the consistent tone and vibration that flows throughout the album. 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! Oh HELL YEAH. 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