Didja hear the news? Landlocked Music turns 1 year old on saturday (awww). To celebrate, we are hosting an awesome third eye opening performance in our space saturday evening w/ Charalambides (Kranky spectres), Primordial Undermind (ex-Crystallized Movements from Vienna), and local Ten Thousand Things. We encourage you to stop by soon and celebrate in the same manner that you've been celebrating for the past year, by checking out some wonderful new releases: Select New Arrivals for 2/27/2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------ C-Rayz Walz - The Dropping CD (Urchin) ................................................................... C-Rayz Walz has been a fixture in the NYC hip-hop scene for years. He hosts tons of shows and events, and has more charisma and energy than most rappers can dream of. Aside from two classic LPs and an EP on El-P's Definitive Jux, C-Rayz has released over 25 singles & 7 full-length albums on his own label, Sun Cycle. His new album features Matisyahu, Rahzel and much more. If you missed him on this past saturday night on campus, here is your chance to redeem yourself. Dalek - Abandoned Language (Ipecac) ................................................................... After a 2 long year wait, Ipecac presents Dalek's masterpiece Abandoned Language. Self described as their Dark Side Of The Moon / Pet Sounds A la Dalek the band have once again reinvented themselves with their fourth and most accomplished full-length, exploding all common preconceived notions of hip-hop and showing how truly dark and original the form can be. Dean & Britta - Back Numbers (Rounder) ................................................................... Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips are best known for being one-half of Luna, one of the most critically acclaimed rock bands of the past two decades. As Dean & Britta, they have scored for films (the Academy Award-nominated The Squid and the Whale among them) and worked with producer Tony Visconti (David Bowie, T. Rex) on their lauded debut album, L'Avventura. Back Numbers, also produced by Visconti, picks up where L'Avventura left off, with the spotlight on Dean & Britta's vocal interplay on originals like "Words You Used to Say" and "Wait for Me," along with covers of '60s gems such as The Troggs' "Our Love Will Still Be There" and Lee Hazlewood's "You Turned My Head Around". Do Make Say Think - You, You're a History in Rust (Constellation) ................................................................... Since Constellation issued their self-released debut record in 1998, Do Make Say Think have made one critically acclaimed album after Another. They are one of the most consistently inventive instrumental rock bands of the past decade, and one of the most self-realised: DMST members themselves have recorded, mixed and mastered all the band's work, developing a highly original and finely detailed approach to audio production. You, You're A History In Rust is the fifth record by Do Make Say Think and a brilliant extension of the band's unique sonic narrative. RIYL: Godspeed, Explosions, etc. Group Doueh - Guitar Music From The Western Sahara LP (Sublime Freq) ................................................................... If you think you've heard all the great electric guitar styles in the world, think again. This Saharan sand-blizzard of fine-crushed glass will grind your face to a bloody pulp. Group Doueh play raw and unfiltered Saharawi music from the former colonial Spanish outpost of the Western Sahara. Doueh (pronounced "Doo-way") is their leader and a master of the electric guitar. He's been performing since he was a child playing in many groups before finally creating his own in the 1980's. Doueh says he's Influenced by western pop and rock music especially Jimi Hendrix and James Brown. His sound is distorted, loud and unhinged with an impressive display of virtuosity and style only known in this part of the world. His wife Halima and friend Bashiri are the two vocalists in the group. Saharawi songs are from the sung poetry of the Hassania language. Dr. Dog - We All Belong (Park the Van) ................................................................... Although Dr. Dog has as many as 20 honorary "members" who have assisted in various capacities throughout the years, the core of the collective consists of five musicians all from various musical backgrounds. Their names are Taxi, Tables, Text, Trouble and Thanks. They really picked up steam after an opening slot on My Morning Jacket tour in 2004. Imagine the Beach Boys, Beatles, Tom Waits, David Bowie, and Neil Young as acknowledged influences that have been interpreted through the eyes of Pavement, Palace Brothers, R. Stevie Moore, or Roy Wood. Loaded with three-part harmonies, orchestral strings, heavy reverb, and fuzzy guitars. Money Mark - Brand New By Tomorrow (Brushfire) ................................................................... Money Mark is the alias of Mark Ramos-Nishita, a keyboardist whose funky, retro-flavored riffs earned him the unofficial title of the fourth Beastie Boy. Born in Detroit to a Japanese-Hawaiian father and a Chicano mother, Nishita moved to the West Coast when he was six; some years later, he hooked up with the Dust Brothers production team, and began overdubbing keyboards for the Delicious Vinyl label. While working as a handyman, Nishita accepted a job repairing the Beastie Boys' Silverlake, CA, home; soon, he became a pivotal member of the group's Grand Royal posse, and performed on both 1992's Check Your Head and 1994's Ill Communication. Pagoda - s/t (Ecstatic Peace) ................................................................... Thurston Moore first met Michael Pitt while composing music for the Larry Clark movie Bully, but it was a reintroduction through researching a role for the movie, Last Days (Gus van Sant's Kurt Cobain flick) where the young songwriter and Moore connected musically. At Moore's apartment, van Sant prodded Pitt to play for Moore. From that meeting sparked the journey for Moore and Pitt, which culminates with the album, Pagoda. After the release of Last Days, Pitt brought Pagoda to Italy to spend a solid month in Luca Amendolara's studio to record most of what has become their premier CD. Omar Souleyman - Highway to Hassake - Folk & Pop Sounds of Syria (Sublime Freq) ................................................................... Omar Souleyman is a Syrian musical legend. Since 1994, he and his musicians have emerged as a staple of folk-pop throughout Syria, but until now they have remained little known outside of the country. To date, they have issued more than five-hundred studio and live- recorded cassette albums which are easily spotted in the shops of any Syrian city. Born in rural Northeastern Syria, he began his musical career in 1994 with a small group of local collaborators that remain with him today. The myriad musical traditions of the region are evident in their music. Here, classical Arabic mawal-style vocalization gives way to high-octane Syrian Dabke (the regional folkloric dance and party music), Iraqi Choubi and a host of Arabic, Kurdish and Turkish styles, among others. ................................................................... Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... !!! - 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) ................................................................... Coming Soonish (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... Gene Clark - With the Gosdin Brothers (3/13) 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) Sneaky Pete - Anthology (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) Idlewild - Make Another World (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) Love of Diagrams - Mosaic (4/10) Grinderman (Nick Cave) (4/10) Rosebuds - Night of the Furies (4/10) Bill Callahan - Woke on a Whaleheart (4/17) Deerhunter - Flourescent Grey EP (4/17) Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero (4/17) Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare (4/24) Afghan Whigs - Unbreakable (5/1) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81 (5/1) Dinosaur Jr - Beyond (5/1) Dungen - Infinity on High (5/1) Feist - The Reminder (5/1) Frog Eyes - Tears of the Valedictorian (5/1) Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position (5/1) Lavender Diamond - Imagine Our Love (5/8) The Sea and Cake - Everybody (5/8) Elliott Smith - New Moon (5/8) Battles - Mirrored (5/15) Wilco - Sky Blue North (5/15) Wooden Wand - James and the Quiet (5/15) The National - Boxer (5/22) Pelican - City of Echoes (5/22) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 2/20 - 2/27: 1. Explosions in the Sky, All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone (Temporary Residence) 2. Richard Swift, Dressed up for the Letdown (Secretly Canadian) 3. Besnard Lakes, Besnard Lakes are the Dark Horse (Jagjaguwar) 4. Do Make Say Think, You, You're a History in Rust (Constellation) 5. M. Ward, To Go Home EP (Merge) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Amnesty, Besnard Lakes, Black Lips, Bob & Gene, Coldcut, Bobby Conn, Dolorean, Explosions in the Sky, Ben Folds, The Frames, Jesu, Charlie Louvin, Manchester Orchestra, Normanoak, Elvis Perkins, The Silos, Southern Culture on the Skids, Marnie Stern, Richard Swift, Trans Am, M Ward, Ataris, Boredoms, Call Me Lightning, Calla, Erasure, Fu Manchu, Hidden Hand, High Llamas, Knife, Pop Levi, Minus the Bear, PG Six, Rio en Medio, RJD2, Sapat, Shining, The Subjects, Time Flys, Triffids, 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 & John, Soft Circle, Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter, Wu-Tang Clan, Paul Weller, Clouds, Fall Out Boy, Sondre Lerche, Enrico Rava Quintet 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 - $5 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 (of 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. 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