We made it. Spring might officially be upon us (crossing fingers, toes & eyes). Bulbs are popping through the soil, birds are singing, and the spring fever is setting in, for sure. Our brand of spring fever is a cornucopia of new music. As well as a kick butt show this coming monday evening from Ladyhawk and Morrow. Stop in and tell us your tales from spring break and maybe you'll catch a rare public appearance from baby Oscar... Select New Arrivals for the Week of 03/20/2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------ (Exact arrival dependent on shipping delays and mishaps, sorry) Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha CD (Fat Possum) ................................................................... Strip away the music of an Andrew Bird song, and you're left with brilliant prose, vignettes about mentally fending off plane crashes and infiltrating characters like the kings of Macedonia and Lou Dobbs. When Bird adds understated acoustic guitars, Wurlitzer and Rhodes, and his own mesmerizing pizzicato violin, his songs take on a progressive mood all their own. His 10th album is perhaps his most diverse, expansive, and resourceful yet, catering to a half-dozen genres of music while exploring storylines that are naive, candid, and blatantly comical. Making no palpable effort to crack the conventional with overflowing melodies and love songs, Bird instead latches up the intellect to create tiny packages of literature that always leave you thinking and snapping your fingers at the same time. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues Tour 2CD+2DVD (Mute) ................................................................... The Abattoir Blues Tour features songs from critically acclaimed 2004 double album Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus, plus an array of classic material from the band's repertoire. The 2 DVDs contain footage from two live concerts: first disc taken from one of the bands' 3 sold out concerts at London's Brixton Academy, while the second disc offers excerpts from London's Hammersmith Apollo show filmed during 2003 Nocturama tour. The DVDs also include all the promotional videos from the last two albums, plus special bonus behind the scenes footage of the Bring It On video. The Decemberists - Practical Handbook DVD (Kill Rock Stars) ................................................................... Led by a group dynamic that embraces experimentation even as it celebrates classic pop and folk forms, The Decemberists are firmly established as a completely original happening in the world of contemporary indie rock. This DVD captures the band in the midst of their rise to prominence with a live recording of a performance at the Roseland Theater in Portland, Oregon in November 2005. Includes 5 videos for songs off Picaresque and Her Majesty, a documentary shot during the recording of Crane Wife, a series of short films shot during the photo session for the album cover photos, and outtakes. The Tain, a fully animated, 4-part music video, is previously unreleased and unseen. Earth - Hibernaculum CD+DVD (Southern Lord) ................................................................... Hibernaculum is a very special CD plus DVD package release from avant-experimental drone innovators Earth. The CD consists of 3 old Earth classics redone in a different, stark, clean tone plus the track "A Plague of Angels" - previously only available on a rare tour-only split 12" with Sunn0))). The DVD contains an Earth documentary with interviews and live footage. El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead CD/LP (Definitive Jux) ................................................................... A magnum opus 4 years in the making - a culmination of profound musical, personal, and political experiences reaching their tumultuous climax and embodies everything that is El-P - a groundbreaking artist, virtuosic producer, profound lyricist, label founder, A&R maverick and underground icon reacting to the malignant social changes occurring today. This record is an urgent document, a collective representation of a critical individual crossing their personal Rubicon, assessing the dismal reality inherent, and deciding to forge on despite the cost. Appearances by Trent Reznor, Mars Volta, Cat Power, Aesop Rock, Cage, Matt Sweeney, Tame One and others. I'm From Barcelona - Let Me Introduce My Friends CD (Mute) ................................................................... Swedish pop collective (29 of em!) I'm From Barcelona are friends who gathered together and, fueled with the energy that only a sunny summer holiday can bring, created an album of explosively happy pop songs. Leadman Emanuel's flat transformed into a factory where band members embraced a do-it-yourself ethic, coming and going loaded with banjos, accordions and kazoos. On the album is a true pop spirit; melodies are essayed by an infectious playfulness and on songs like "Treehouse" and "Chicken Pox", Emanuel has given tribute to the energy of children, looking for the kinds of magical juxtapositions we normally only have time for in childhood. Comes w/ free bonus EP while quantities last. J Dilla - Ruff Draft [reissue] 2CD/2LP (Stones Throw) ................................................................... Released on LP in 2003, this sought-after release remains elusive and virtually unknown to the casual fan. Dilla spent the 90s making a name for himself as a top-notch hip-hop producer. Establishing himself throughout the decade on classic tracks for A Tribe Called Quest, Common, Pharcyde and De La Soul, and branching out to work with Busta Rhymes, The Roots, D'Angelo and Erykah Badu. In contrast to the often understated, mellow vibes and minimal, crisp drumbeats he brought to the boards for those groups, Ruff Draft revealed a whole new side. Freewheeling, in-your-face synths, blend perfectly with an uncharacteristically sample-heavy approach that is as bangin as it is experimental. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver CD/LP (DFA/Capitol) ................................................................... Sound of Silver, the follow-up to the massively acclaimed and eponymous 2005 debut, was recorded over the summer of 2006 in a farm in upstate NY by Murphy and visitors from the big city including live band members Nancy Whang, Pat Mahoney and Tyler Pope. There, between silver foil-covered walls, 9 tracks were crafted into one of the pinnacle albums of 2007. Sound of Silver finds LCD Soundsystem further expanding its sonic palette, taking its experimental impulses to wild new places but also firmly establishing itself as a singularly great pop group. Here, pulsing beats, abstract funk, crystal melodies and towering walls of sound combine to create a sound genuinely like no other. Ted Leo + Pharmacists - Living With the Living CD (Touch & Go) ................................................................... For their 5th full-length release, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists met up with Brendan Canty (Fugazi) to iron out a new set of anthems that arrive with a confident and outspoken immediacy. With Living with the Living, Ted and Co. wipe clean the slate that once held names like Weller, Strummer and Bragg and indulge some of their farthest-reaching musical ambitions. Along with the punk sound and energy found in Ted Leo's previous works, Living with the Living finds soul, funk and R&B injected into the trajectory of Chris Wilson's dexterous percussion, Dave Lerner's bedrock bass and an onslaught of combustibles from Ted's possessed fingertips. Free bonus EP w/ purchase! The Locust - New Erections CD (Anti) ................................................................... The Locust has been throwing up in the face of conventional music since 1995, when the band formed from the pieces of San Diego hardcore stalwarts, Swing Kids and Struggle. Since then, it has hosted a veritable "Who's Who" of punk royalty. Everyone from Tristeza/Album Leaf/GoGoGo Airheart/Crimson Curse's Jimmy LaValle, to Tarantula Hawk's Dave Warshaw and Dylan Scharf, and Cattle Decapitation's David Astor have gone in and out of the band's turnstile. The songs are fast -- usually under a minute -- atrociously ultraviolent and drenched in sci-fi-noise, gruesome keyboards and herky jerky, bestial scream/sing vocals -- described by one journalist as "a car-wreck with vocals." Low - Drums and Guns CD/LP (Sub Pop) ................................................................... Producer Dave Fridmann helped out in '05 and is back for Drums and Guns, Low's 2007 follow up, a return to pre- Great Destroyer form. Slowing down again and training the musical lamps on Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk's austere voices, the trio sets a decidedly somber tone. Parker and Sparhawk's voices enchant eerily, a whiff of electonica here and a haunted handclap there melding with Matt Livingston's bass to give the music some dark, gorgeous machine undertones- stark, martial, and noise-brushed at once. Fridmann finds all kinds of places to add tone, color and sound, keeping the tempos slow and the mood hypnotic. This is the art that wartime breeds. Comes w/ free bonus 7 inch! Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank CD (Sony) ................................................................... Hailing from Issaquah, WA, Modest Mouse formed in 1994. Although the band lineup has undergone several transformations, the band now consists of lead singer/guitarist and songwriter Isaac Brock, longtime bassist Eric Judy, drummer Jeremiah Green, ex-Smiths guitar god Johnny Marr, and relative newcomers Joe Plummer and Tom Peloso. Produced by Good News... helmer Dennis Herring, the new album features several songs that the band played live during their 2-week-long sold-out runs in LA and NY, including the instant radio hit "Dashboard". Panda Bear - Person Pitch CD (Paw Tracks) ................................................................... Animal Collective member Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox) boldly returns with his long-awaited third solo record Person Pitch. Years in the making, Person Pitch marks a dramatic departure from Panda Bear's previous solo record Young Prayer. The acoustic instruments of Young Prayer have been replaced with samplers and electronics. Fusing Panda's dramatic life changes over the past few years (marriage, moving to Lisbon, becoming a father) with his ever-increasing sonic palette (standouts include Caetano Veloso, Berlin Techno, Scott Walker, and Kylie Minogue), Person Pitch is suffused with the kind of feel good modern toe-tapping pop that seems harder and harder to find these days. The Ponys - Turn The Lights Out CD/LP (Matador) ................................................................... Chicago's Ponys follow their two critically acclaimed albums with their Matador debut. A classic twin-guitar rock band fronted by impassioned vocals, with songwriting ranging from psych jams to pounding rockers to twisted singer/songwriter material, evoking influences from Television and Dream Syndicate to The Only Ones and The Jesus And Mary Chain. Turn The Lights Out is denser, noisier, and more f-ed up than its predecessors, and sounds bigger to boot. The complex interplay between the guitars and the reverb-drenched vox and keys emerges more effectively than ever before. "A dirty-sounding mess of post-punk choppiness and timeless teenage snarling" VA - Live from Bloomington 2007 CD (LFB) ................................................................... For over 20 years IU's Union Board has issued a compilation of some of the best local talent to benefit the Hoosier Hills Food Bank. In tandem w/ the CD release, LFB hosts a club night the first week of April. This years disc includes music from Alexander The Great, BIGBIGcar, Husband & Wife, Prizzy Prizzy Please, Totally Michael, Trio In Stereo, The Delicious, Kentucky Nightmare, Butterfly Toungz, (x) tet, The Alarmists, Alex M. Clark, Ali One, e.p. hall, Push-Pull, Muzaic, Sprickets, 2 Mics & A Kit and The Giggles. All this for one ridiculously low price with their best artwork in years. Also Released On This Day ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Book Of Knots - Traineater (Anti) SJ Esau - Wrong Faced Cat Feed Collapse (Anticon) Innocence Mission - We Walked in Song (Badman) Kronos Quartet - Henryk Gorecki: String Quartet No. 3 (Nonesuch) Land of Talk - Applause Cheer Boo Hiss (MMR) Stephen Marley - Mind Control (Republic) Rosie Thomas - These Friends of Mine (Nettwerk) Tracey Thorn - Out of the Woods (Astralwerks) Willowz - Chautauqua (Dim Mak) ................................................................... Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... Antelope - Reflector (3/27) Gui Boratto - Chromophobia (3/27) The Doors - [reissues] (3/27) The Fall - Reformation Post TLC (3/27) Glos - Harmonium (3/27) Macy Gray - Big (3/27) Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly, Angry Mob (3/27) Klaxons - Myth of the Near Future (3/27) Merzbow - Merzbear (3/27) Grant Lee Phillips - Strangelet (3/27) Redman - Red Gone Wild (3/27) Sneaky Pete - Anthology (3/27) Warren Zevon - [reissues] (3/27) ................................................................... Coming Soonish (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... 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) Cloud Cult - The Meaning of 8 (4/10) CocoRosie - The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn (4/10) Grinderman (Nick Cave) - s/t (4/10) Love of Diagrams - Mosaic (4/10) Menomena - Wet and Rusting (4/10) Mystery Jets - Diamonds in the Dark (4/10) Panthers - The Trick (4/10) Quintus - The Shape We're In (4/10) Rosebuds - Night of the Furies (4/10) Laura Veirs - Saltbreakers (4/10) Witch's Hat - Mystery of the Steel (4/10) XBXRX - Wars (4/10) Xiu Xiu - Remixed and Covered (4/10) You Say Party! We Say Die - Lose All Time (4/10) Bill Callahan - Woke on a Whaleheart (4/17) Deerhunter - Flourescent Grey EP (4/17) Deerhunter - Cryptograms / Flourescent Grey 2LP (4/17) Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero (4/17) Aa - gAane (4/24) Alex Delivery - Star Destroyer (4/24) Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake - From The River To The Ocean (4/24) Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare (4/24) Bill Callahan (Smog) - Woke on a Whaleheart (4/24) Dntel - Dumb Luck (4/24) The Fucking Champs - VI (4/24) Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55 (4/24) Growing - Vision Swim (4/24) Joanna Newsom - Ys Street Band EP (4/24) OOIOO - Eye Remix EP (4/24) Part Chimp - Cup (4/24) Pela - Anytown Graffiti (4/24) Mavis Staples - We'll Never Turn Back (4/24) Thee More Shallows - Book of Bad Breaks (4/24) Alan Vega - Station (4/24) VA - SC100 (4/24) Afghan Whigs - Unbreakable (5/1) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81 (5/1) Dinosaur Jr - Beyond (5/1) Dungen - Tio Bitar (5/1) Feist - The Reminder (5/1) Frog Eyes - Tears of the Valedictorian (5/1) Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position (5/1) Bjork - Volta (5/8) Lavender Diamond - Imagine Our Love (5/8) Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures (5/8) The Sea and Cake - Everybody (5/8) Elliott Smith - New Moon (5/8) Alias - Collected Remixes (5/15) Battles - Mirrored (5/15) Wilco - Sky Blue North (5/15) Wooden Wand - James and the Quiet (5/15) Ladyhawk - Fight For Anarchy (5/22) The National - Boxer (5/22) Parts & Labor - Mapmaker (5/22) Pelican - City of Echoes (5/22) Stars - Do You Trust Your Friends? (5/22) Sole - Mansbestfriend (5/29) Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger (6/5) Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur (6/5) Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound (6/5) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 3/13 - 3/20: 1. El-P, I'll Sleep When You're Dead CD/LP (Def Jux) 2. J Dilla, Ruff Draft CD/LP (Stones Throw) 3. Resting Rooster, Songs From a Window CD (Underwater Teaparty) 4. Amy Winehouse, Back to Black CD (Republic) 5. Odawas, Raven and the White Night LP+CD (Jagjaguwar) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Black Devil, Black Milk, Gene Clark, Lindstrom & Prins Thomas, Metheny Mehldau Quartet, James Morrison, Resting Rooster, Total Life, Type O Negative, Unsane, Amy Winehouse, Neil Young, Air, Antibalas, Arcade Fire, Ataxia, Bright Eyes, Chris Brokaw, !!!, Ry Cooder, Albert Hammond Jr, Horns of Happiness, Odawas, Gruff Rhys, RJD2, Son Volt, The Stooges, Amon Tobin, Wolf & Cub, Apostles of Hustle, Asobi Seksu, Best of Seth, Big Business, Flogging Molly, Gnarls Barkley, Jonny Greenwood, Wynton Marsalis, My Brightest Diamond, Okkervil River, Soft Machine, Maria Taylor, Totimoshi, White Flight, C-Rayz Walz, Dalek, Dean & Britta, Do Make Say Think, Group Doueh, Dr. Dog, Money Mark, Pagoda, Omar Souleyman and much much more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ We have real live music in our store, too! Check out our upcoming performances: 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 A.I.U. BELTESHAZZAR-HIGGS (of Lungfish) w/ CHIARA GIOVANDO (Baltimore) 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. Chiara Giovando's musical psyche (voice, violin, electronics) is an amalgamation of intuition and critical thought. This can be a tumultuous union, at times leading to rash judgments, at other times to the detailed expressions of sensed truths. The Baltimore City Paper named her work the Best Performance Art of 2005, calling her "excruciatingly tense". Thurston Moore says, "Chiara astounds with a fine balance of slow, unfolding sound-dadaistix and palpable energy-microphone-allure." 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 some upcoming performances... Toots and the Maytals (TONIGHT!), Old Crow Medicine Show (Tomorrow!), Stephen Marley & Jr Gong (3/29), G Love (4/12), Antibalas (4/15), and Brother Ali (4/22), all appearing at the Bluebird in the near future. Get em while they're hot! 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 (and baby Oscar!) 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