Its spring! There are tons of things going on around Bloomingtopia and everything is good. We don't care what happens the rest of the week with this supposed frost or whatever. Two such super special music events are happening this week (LFB) and the next (Culture Shock). Live From Bloomington has been around for years and years now, and this is the best in a long time. Thursday (21+) and Friday (all-ages) nights. Proceeds from sales of the 19 track CD and club night benefit Hoosier Hills Food Bank and details can be found here: http://myspace.com/livefrombloomington - buy the LFB CD here at Landlocked while you are getting some of these great new releases... Select New Arrivals for the Week of 03/27/2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------ (Exact arrival dependent on shipping delays and mishaps, sorry) Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis CD (Rough Trade) ................................................................... Jarvis is an immediate sonic relief after the hints of turgidity that marred the last two Pulp albums. Retaining only his long-standing collaborator Steve Mackey and adding the Mercury-nominated Richard Hawley, the Mescaleros' Martin Slattery and Ross Orton from the Fat Truckers, Cocker has opted for a light, limber, melodic approach. Widescreen rock mashes up against short piano pieces, indie jangle, punk thrash and intimate ballads, in a constant dialectic that lasts the length of the record. Jarvis's delight in 60s MOR, kitsch and outre electronica only serves to highlight his fugitive, mutable persona. He is at once alien and earthy, tender and harsh, empathetic yet accusatory, concerned about the world and the state of people within it yet fascinated by the mundanity of everyday life in the most unglamorous of districts. The Field - From Here We Go To Sublime CD (Kompakt) ................................................................... The blissful, addictive, transformative sounds on From Here We Go Sublime absolutely speak for themselves. Samples abound throughout, immediately giving you a feeling of warmth and familiarity on the first listen that you can't quite grasp... like a warm glove on a cold winter's day. The Field's music literally breathes: harmonious drones mingle with the dizzying swell and reversed motion of bass drums and euphony. There is a ceaseless, cyclical signature familiar to all his music, but that's the most exciting part of The Field -- the beautiful dynamic of beats and space that exists in endlessness. Ten perfect tracks of narcotic, propellant stuff -- an important and significant debut that promises Willner quite a few more laurels to come. Kings of Leon - Because of the Times CD (RCA) ................................................................... Third album from the rockin' American quartet whose previous albums (2003's Youth And Young Manhood and Aha Shake Heartbreak from '05) have earned them a large worldwide following. Consisting of three brothers and a cousin, the Kings Of Leon mix their own brand of Southern Rock with touches of garage, punk and rocknroll swagger. Pole - Steingarten CD (~scape) ................................................................... After minimalist experiments with elements of hip-hop and dub, Stefan Betke's latest album has hardly any concrete references. What has remained is the minimalism so characteristic of Pole. Built around little loops, his arrangements dispose with any kind of ornamentation. A stark contrast with the album's title and cover - which shows a picture of the famously ornate, gingerbread-style castle Schloss Neuschwanstein. Despite some funky grooves, this is no dancefloor record. And despite its simplicity, the music never comes across as meagre or repellently cool. This might be due to the fact that Pole has found a perfect middle point between avantgarde and pop. Pop in the sense of functional music, which wants to please and use familiar structures. And avantgarde, which, since early modernity has been characterised by a total lack of solicitousness, not seeking to be anything but an autonomous piece of art. DJ Shadow - Funky Skunk Mix CD (Obey) ................................................................... Funky Skunk is an hour long hip-hop mix, showcasing the finest tracks from over the last few decades. It was made as part of the Public Works Project with Obey (Shepard Fairey). The majority of the set focuses on the early stages of the genre, with Shadow selecting the best in 80s hip hop and early electro - where tracks were made the good old fashioned way; a tight loop of beats, sampled breaks, primitive scratching and an MC. A far away place from the overproduced and overpaid stars of of today's stale hip hop / R&B. There are also freakout pysch moments and absurd rapid breaks perfect for any budding samplers out there. Funky Skunk ranks highly as one of DJ Shadow's best mix albums, acting as a brilliant party album but also as an introduction to prehistoric hip hop. Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline 2CD (Kranky) ................................................................... Long awaited new album from Stars of the Lid is finally ready for your sonic immersion. Painstakingly recorded, processed and assembled over the last 5 years, SOTL once again deliver a massive work clocking in at over 2 hours. While most albums of this length would be considered tedious at best, SOTL are arguably the only contemporary composers who can seemingly alter the time-space continuum simply through the playback of their organized sound. They take time itself and stretch, compress and turn it inside out, altering what would otherwise be an arduous test of nerves into an interlude of half awake dreams that ends too soon. In this album, SOTL picks up where The Tired Sounds Of left off with an emphasis on melodic development, moving their epic soundscapes beyond mere drone and subsequently frustrating all the typical ambient cliches associated with their music. 3LP version arrives soon. Los Straitjackets - Rock En Espanol Vol. 1 CD/LP (Yep Roc) ................................................................... Between their name, stage introductions spoken in a uniquely twisted form of Spanglish, bizarre lucha libre attire, and ongoing association with Latino rockabilly revivalist Big Sandy, Spanish has always been a major facet of Los Straitjackets' shtick. So its little surprise that the Nashville-based garage/surf/twang/trash rockers decided to head south of the border for an all-covers album. True to form, liberties are taken with the song titles: "Hang on Sloopy" is now "Hey Lupe," "Bony Maronie" comes out as "Popotitos," and "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" inexplicably appears as "El Microscopico Bikini." But that's all part of the fun as the masked men and singers swing through hot-tamale versions of hits from the Kinks, the Troggs, the Coasters, and others. Throbbing Gristle - The Endless Not CD (Mute) ................................................................... From the band's formation through to 1981 and with the release of a string of albums including 2nd Annual Report, 20 Jazz Funk Greats and the legendary 24 Hrs Cassette Box Set, Throbbing Gristle troubled eardrums, shattered preconceptions and changed lives. The repercussions of their sonic, ideological and industrial experiments are still being felt today. TG consistently deployed their music as a weapon attacking the apparatus of the music industry. TG set up their own imprint, Industrial Records, for the distribution of their noises and even incorporated the art gallery practice of making limited edition hand-assembled LPs, videos and live cassettes. Endless Not is the first new album since 1980's Heathen Earth. Initial pressings will include one of 4 different Totemic Gifts in either copper, bone, rubber or wood. Each one, an edition of 1000, was handmade in Thailand under Peter Christopherson's supervision. VA - New York Latin Hustle 2CD/2x2LP (Soul Jazz) ................................................................... New York's melting pot of Puerto Rican, Cuban and Afro-American musicians led to stunning culture clashes in the 1960s and 70s when Latin styles mixed with Funk, Disco, Soul and Jazz to produce new hybrids such as Boogaloo, Latin Jazz, Disco and Salsa. All these are featured in Soul Jazz Records latest journey into Latin music, New York Latin Hustle. The record features all the kings of Latin music - Tito Puente, Machito, Eddie Palmieri, Candido, Ray Barretto and many more, alongside rarer, lesser known names. Also Released On This Day ------------------------------------------------------------------ Fountains of Wayne - Traffic and Weather (Virgin) Holly Golightly - You Can't Buy a Gun When You're Crying (Damaged Goods) Idlewild - Make Another World (Sanctuary) Motian / Frisell / Lovano - Time & Time Again (ECM) Yoko Ono - Open Your Box [remixes] (Astralwerks) Poison the Well - Versions (Ferret) Redman - Red Gone Wild (Def Jam) Martin Sexton - Seeds (Kitchen Table) Sia - Lady Croissant (Astralwerks) Todd Snider - Live w/ The Devil You Know - Grimey's 10/20/06 (New Door) Todd Snider - Peace, Love and Anarchy (Oh Boy) Timbaland - Shock Value (Interscope) Umphrey's McGee - Bottom Half (Sci Fidelity) DJ Vadim - The Sound Catcher (Bbe) VA - Grindhouse: Death Proof OST [Tarantino] (Maverick) VA - Grindhouse: Planet Terror OST [Rodriguez] (Varese Sarabande) VA - Joe Meek's Freakbeat: 30 Freakbeat, Mod and R&B Nuggets (Castle) VA - Vampires, Cowboys, Spacemen and Spooks: Joe Meek's Instrumentals (Castle) ................................................................... Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... Blonde Redhead - 23 (4/10) The Book of Knots - Traineater (4/10) Bright Eyes - Cassadaga (4/10) Brother Ali - The Undisputed Truth (4/10) Cloud Cult - The Meaning of 8 (4/10) CocoRosie - The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn (4/10) Cold Bleak Heat - Simitu (4/10) Grinderman (Nick Cave) - s/t (4/10) Guster - Satellite EP (4/10) Jana Hunter - There's No Home (4/10) Limbeck - s/t (4/10) Love of Diagrams - Mosaic (4/10) Madlib - The Other Side: Los Angeles (4/10) Menomena - Wet and Rusting (4/10) Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank 2LP (4/10) Mystery Jets - Diamonds in the Dark (4/10) Nine Inch Nails - Survivalism EPs (4/10) Panthers - The Trick (4/10) William Parker & Hamid Drake - Volume 2: Summer Snow (4/10) Quintus - The Shape We're In (4/10) Henry Rollins - Talk is Cheap Vol 4 (4/10) Rosebuds - Night of the Furies (4/10) Shearwater - Palo Santo (4/10) Sneaky Pete - Anthology (4/10) The Terrible Twos - If You Ever See an Owl (4/10) Laura Veirs - Saltbreakers (4/10) David S. Ware Quartet - Renunciation (4/10) Witch's Hat - Mystery of the Steel (4/10) Wreckless Eric - Big Smash (4/10) XBXRX - Wars (4/10) Xiu Xiu - Remixed and Covered (4/10) You Say Party! We Say Die - Lose All Time (4/10) ................................................................... Coming Soonish (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... 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) Pere Ubu - [reissues] (4/17) Valet - Blood is Clean (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) Seefeel - Quique 2CD [reissue] (4/24) Mavis Staples - We'll Never Turn Back (4/24) Tarwater - Spider Smile (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) Electralane - No Shouts, No Calls (5/8) Lavender Diamond - Imagine Our Love (5/8) Lichens - Omns (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) Mont De Sundua - s/t (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) The Mooney Suzuki - Have Mercy (6/19) Savath & Savalas - Golden Pollen (6/19) Art Brut - It's a Bit Complicated (6/26) Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (7/10) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 3/27 - 4/3: 1. Ted Leo + Pharmacists, Living With the Living CD/LP (Touch & Go) 2. Panda Bear, Person Pitch CD (Paw Tracks) 3. El-P, I'll Sleep When You're Dead CD/LP (Def Jux) 4. Jarvis, The Jarvis Record CD (Rough Trade) 5. DJ Shadow, Funky Skunk CD (Obey) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Antelope, Denver Gentlemen, The Fall, Paula Frazer & Tarnation, Kaiser Chiefs, Klaxons, Talib Kweli & Madlib, Lesbian, Polyrock, Jessica Rylan, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Mary Weiss, Guy Clark, Clutch, The Doors, Gui Boratto, Glos, Merzbow, Grant Lee Phillips, The Sonics, Warren Zevon, 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 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, Mudkids, 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? This is the place to be... 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... G Love & Special Sauce (4/12), Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra (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