Hello esteemed colleagues and peers, and welcome to allergy season! Don't get us wrong, we are pleased as punch that warmer days are here again, but yowza has my head ever been thick as a brick for the past week. Holla if ya hear me! Just in time for spring, you sure would look smashing sporting a Landlocked Music t-shirt around town, dontchathink? Now available in even more sizes for both men and women! And while we have your attention, check out http://www.wiuxcultureshock.org/ for the details on this year's amazing Culture Shock festival, hosted by our budds over at WIUX on April 14th. Now hows about some new music, you say? Select New Arrivals for the Week of 03/27/2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------ (Exact arrival dependent on shipping delays and mishaps, sorry) Antelope - Reflector (Dischord) ................................................................... Antelope plays meditative, stripped-down punk music which uses the melody vs. repetition equation to produce tightly crafted gems. The band was formed in Washington, DC in 2001 by ex-members of the Vertebrates, Bee Elvy and Mike Andre, and El Guapo's Justin Moyer. Antelope played their first regional shows in eastern and mid-western US cities and the band accompanied Q and not U and Black Eyes on an extensive tour of the United States in September of 2003. This is their first full length album following an EP and 7 inch. Denver Gentlemen - Introducing [reissue] (Smooch) ................................................................... The Denver Gentlemen formed in 1988 and ended in the mid 90s. In those years the band featured David Edwards of 16 Horsepower and Woven Hand and at different times also Slim Cessna and Frank Hauser Jr of Slim Cessna's Auto Club. Jeffery Paul, the man behind the Gents, also played in 16 Horsepower and many of the songs on Low Estate were once Denver Gentlemen songs. Jeffery Paul resurrected the Denver Gentlmen in the 21st century with a new line-up featuring folks from Devotchka at times and Sharon G on vocals. The Fall - Reformation Post TLC (Narnack) ................................................................... Featuring 12 brand-new tunes set comfortably in angst-soaked garage rock mortar, proof that it takes a lot more than some screwy controversy to stop the fate of Mark E. Smith. Emerging from working-class Manchester, The Fall formed in 1976 after vocalist and incomparably acid-tongued lyricist Mark E. Smith decided he wanted a more personal vessel for his words, ideas, and obsessions with literature. The group's first LP, Live at the Witch Trials, soon followed. Many albums and member changes later, Smith has lead The Fall into becoming what many critics consider to be the most prolific band of the British punk movement. With his philosophical wordplay, knowledge of appealing song structure, and bitterly controversial personality, Smith has managed to front a band with not only a cult following, but an impressive record of success on both shores. Paula Frazer & Tarnation - Now it's Time (Birdman) ................................................................... After nearly a decade, classic 4AD band Tarnation, led by the angelic Paula Frazer, has returned with a brand new studio album. Inspired by events that happened during one summer in San Francisco, Now It's Time is a heartbreakingly beautiful testament to love and to loss, with a touch of redemption at the end. Like classic Tarnation, Frazer blends her alternative country roots with dark, psychedelic tones and warm instrumental accompaniments that perfectly frame her ethereal voice. Now It's Time is a return to form for those who have missed Tarnation, and an incredible starter for those who are beginners. Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly, Angry Mob (Universal) ................................................................... Like their debut, Employment, Yours Truly... is full of hook-ridden tunes that mask cunningly subversive lyrics. The Kaiser Chiefs are very much a Britpop band, which is probably why "Highroyds" opening couplet - "I remember nights out when we were young/They weren't very good, they were rubbish" - sounds like something Jarvis Cocker would sing while being backed by the boys from Blur. And it's this lyrical sentiment that's carried throughout the album, much of which is satire wrapped up in potential singles. Best of all, and a perfect example of this, is "The Angry Mob," sure to be shouted along to by exactly the people it's targeting. It's the rare band that can mock and judge its audience and still be loved by them, but that's exactly what the Chiefs have done. Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future (Geffen) ................................................................... Tweaking on the frenetic energy of their self described 'nu-rave' sound, the UK trio of Klaxons have a lot riding on their debut release. Online fans quickly gravitated to their frothy, upbeat brand of dance-rock. But to call Myths of the Near Future a rave album, or to even discuss it in the context of teddy-bear backpack, lollypop sucking, glow-stick waving, raver throwback is doing it serious injustice. For as much as the group tries to wear their dance music allegiance on their fashionable sleeves, at their heart and at their best, they are unmistakably a frenetic rock band, lush with pianos, throbbing, harmonized vocals, thick bass lines and angular guitars. Talib Kweli & Madlib - Liberation (Blacksmith) ................................................................... One of hip-hop's most prolific wordsmiths teamed up with one of its most acclaimed beat scientists for an album that takes the "lib" connection in their respective monikers to the full hilt. The album finds Madlib bringing his A-game on the soul-drenched beats, and Kweli's surefire flow gets help from Consequence, Candice Anderson, and his crew Strong Arm Steady. Liberation is the most enjoyable product the MC has released in years. Its impulsive and appealingly imperfect, loose and playful. For fans of Kweli's early Rawkus boho rap, it's a relieving return to form. Lesbian - Power Hor (Holy Mountain) ................................................................... Lesbian have clearly got a passion for the good stuff, you can hear Maiden and Sabbath in here, but also there's a love of Sleep, Sunn O))) and surprisingly, black metal. Yeah somewhere, somehow the band manage to sound at one minute epic and baroque and then the next like Emperor or Mayhem. Long passages of psychey metallic sludge are punctuated by pure rock excess. Coming with amazing fold-out art from the hardest-working man in metal Stephen O'Malley. Polyrock - S/T & Changing Hearts [reissues] (Wounded Bird) ................................................................... First time on CD for this brilliant debut by the NY new wave band. Produced by Phillip Glass, this eclectic 1980 effort garnered the band excellent reviews and plenty of airplay on Alternative and College Radio as well as fledgling video shows (pre-MTV). The double A-side single 'Your Dragging Feet' and 'Romantic Me' reached #69 on the Billboard Club Play Singles charts. Again produced by Phillip Glass, their sophmore 1981 release continued in the same vein as the debut, although it contains more musical textures and a maturity in songwriting. Jessica Rylan - Interior Designs (Important) ................................................................... Rylan, (aka Can't) is finally releasing her first officially published instrumental work for synthesizer. Titled Interior Designs, these compositions are more "classic" in nature than her work as Can't. Inspired by Pauline Oliveros, Eliane Radigue, Iannis Xenakis, and especially Thomas Lehn, Rylan confidently takes her place among these monumental artists with a collection of strikingly original pieces recorded on a Serge Modular in addition to analog synthesizers that Rylan built. Jessica Rylan is a sound artist and electronic musician who lives and works in the Boston area. She builds unique synthesizers for installations and live performance. Her music incorporates the intuition of folk music with the techniques of the avant-garde. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Scribble Mural Comic Journal (Notenuf) ................................................................... Using mandolins, banjos, noise, samplers, lots of cuttin' n pastin', and all of the normal band instruments, Philadelphia's A Sunny Day in Glasgow adds lush female vocals and dance-y rhythms to make dreamy pop music. Distorted guitars alongside Robin and Lauren's vocals glisten for thirteen storied tracks on "Scribble Mural Comic Journal." The album succeeds in marrying Cocteau Twins' other-wordliness, JAMC white noise, the best aspects of early Aphex Twin, and the jangle of "Strawberry Wine" era MBV to create pop music that somehow makes sense despite making no sense. Mary Weiss - Dangerous Game (Norton) ................................................................... The leader of the pack is back! Mary Weiss, the lead singer of the Shangri-Las, returns with a bang on her first recordings in four decades! Mary tackles thirteen originals by today's top songwriters plus reclaims Heaven Only Knows, backed by Memphis fan faves the Reigning Sound. Produced by Billy Miller and Greg "Oblivian" Cartwright, this record started making noise as soon as session details began to filter out. Also Released On This Day ------------------------------------------------------------------ Guy Clark - Better Days & South Coast Texas of Texas [reissues] (DBK) Clutch - From Beale Street to Oblivion (Drt) The Doors - [CD reissue series] (Rhino) Gui Boratto - Chromophobia (Kompakt) Glos - Harmonium (Lovitt) Merzbow - Merzbear (Important) Grant Lee Phillips - Strangelet (Zoe) The Sonics - Busy Body! : Live in Tacoma 1964 (Norton) Warren Zevon - [CD reissue series] (Rhino) ................................................................... Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis (4/3) The Field - From Here We Go To Sublime (4/3) Fountains of Wayne - Traffic and Weather (4/3) Holly Golightly & Brokeoffs - You Can't Buy a Gun When You're Crying (4/3) Idlewild - Make Another World (4/3) Kings of Leon - Because of the Times (4/3) The Knife - Silent Shout [Deluxe Edition] (4/3) Motian / Frisell / Lovano - Time & Time Again (4/3) My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult - Filthiest Show in Town (4/3) Yoko Ono - Open Your Box [remixes] (4/3) Poison the Well - Versions (4/3) Pole - Steingarten (4/3) Redman - Red Gone Wild (4/3) Shakuhachi Music: A Bell Ringing in the Empty Sky (4/3) Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline 2CD/3LP (4/3) Throbbing Gristle - The Endless Not (4/3) Timbaland - Shock Value (4/3) Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns Fifteen Winters (4/3) Umphrey's McGee - Bottom Half (4/3) DJ Vadim - The Sound Catcher (4/3) Venetian Snares - Pink & Green (4/3) VA - Grindhouse: Death Proof OST (4/3) VA - Grindhouse: Planet Terror OST (4/3) VA - Joe Meek's Freakbeat: 30 Freakbeat, Mod and R&B Nuggets (4/3) VA - Vampires, Cowboys, Spacemen and Spooks: Joe Meek's Instrumentals (4/3) VA - On-U Sound Crash: Slash and Mix (4/3) ................................................................... Coming Soonish (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... 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) Sneaky Pete - Anthology (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) Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet (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) Tori Amos - American Doll Posse (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) Rush - Snakes & Arrows (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) Shannon Wright - Let in the Light (5/8) Alias - Collected Remixes (5/15) Battles - Mirrored (5/15) Fennesz / Sakamoto - Cendre (5/15) Rufus Wainwright - Release the Stars (5/15) Wilco - Sky Blue North (5/15) Wooden Wand - James and the Quiet (5/15) Jeff Buckley - Amazing Grace DVD (5/22) Hot Chip - DJ Kicks (5/22) 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) Bryan Ferry - Dylanesque (6/19) Savath & Savalas - Golden Pollen (6/19) Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga GA (7/10) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 3/13 - 3/20: 1. Andrew Bird, Armchair Apocrypha (Fat Possum) 2. LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver (Capitol) 3. Modest Mouse, We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank (Sony) 4. Ted Leo + Pharmacists, Living With the Living (Touch & Go) 5. Panda Bear, Person Pitch (Paw Tracks) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Andrew Bird, Nick Cave, The Decemberists, Earth, El-P, I'm From Barcelona, J Dilla, LCD Soundsystem, Ted Leo, The Locust, Low, Modest Mouse, Panda Bear, The Ponys, Rosie Thomas, Tracey Thorn, Willowz, 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 and much much more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ We have real live music in our store, too! Check out our upcoming performances: Saturday, April 14th - FREE! - DeVault Alumni Tailgating Park ------------------------------------------------------------------ WIUX CULTURE SHOCK - http://www.wiuxcultureshock.org/ WIUX presents their annual free music (and more) festival! This year the party has been moved to the area off 17th, near the football stadium. But don't despair, because the line-up is the best in recent memory! Xiu Xiu, Richard Swift, Sunset Rubdown, Racebannon, David Vandervelde, Make Believe, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Catfish Haven, Maps & Atlases, Nomo, Coke Dares, Husband & Wife, Arrah & the Ferns, and the Delicious. Wow! Landlocked will be there manning our little booth of goodies for sale and so should you! Did we mention its free? 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... 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 (and baby Oscar!) & 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