Hello friends. Does springtime have you feeling randy for some great live music? Well, this coming weekend is chocked -full- of fantastic events. Saturday, all day, is WIUX's Culture Shock in the park behind the Alumni building on 17th Street, near the football stadium. The line-up is the best in recent memory and its FREE! 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. ( http://wiuxcultureshock.org/ ) Sunday has the amazing Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra at the Bluebird (w/ Chin Chin) and monday has the lovely Casiotone for the Painfully Alone & Rivulets at our very own showspace at Landlocked HQ. Wow. If you prefer your notes pre-recorded, there are also these great new titles... Select New Arrivals for the Week of 04/10/2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------ (Exact arrival dependent on shipping delays and mishaps, sorry) Blonde Redhead - 23 CD/LP (4AD) ................................................................... Blonde Redhead have come a long way since their days of mimicking Sonic Youth's brittle art-rock. Clanging guitars have been replaced by warm synthesizers and soft strings, while Japanese singer Kazu Makino's thin voice has become a ghostly moan on the grandiose opener and title track of the New York trio's seventh full-length release, 23. Their last one, 2004's Misery Is a Butterfly, was a lovely throwback to the dream-pop heyday of the Cocteau Twins and Lush. This one presses further down that road, only with a more experimental streak, as cascading guitars, military rhythms, and wobbly melodies shape opulent, otherworldly songs. Bonus 7" with purchase while they last! The Book of Knots - Traineater CD (Anti) ................................................................... The Book of Knots is a NY studio collective, consisting of Matthias Bossi (Skeleton Key,), Joel Hamilton (Sparklehorse), Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu) and Carla Kihlstedt (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum).  With able-bodied assistance from guests Carla Bozulich, Megan Reilly, Jon Langford, David Thomas, Mike Watt, and Tom Waits, Traineater bills itself as a tribute to the American Rust Belt, a haunting modern-day portrait of cities like Cleveland, Toledo, and Detroit, places that once were the definition of American motivation, progress, and industry, but now are home to ruined monuments of an era gone by.  Bright Eyes - Cassadaga CD/LP (Saddle Creek) ................................................................... A swirling, euphonious record, at times bursting with bombastic confidence and country swagger, and at others loose-limbed and mesmeric. If I'm Wide Awake... was the "New York City album", then Cassadaga is "the America album", in which Conor Oberst chronicles his travels around the country and articulates his sense of history in the landscape. Oberst's impassioned prose is still recognizable in every track, but the songs are rich with elaborate production, cinema-sized orchestration, and at times, sprawling, almost psychedelic atmospherics. Brother Ali - The Undisputed Truth CD/LP (Rhymesayers) ................................................................... Like deja vu, here we are 3 years later and Ali is ready to take the world by storm again with his latest creation. After struggling through a series of personal roadblocks, from parting ways with his wife of 10 years, becoming homeless and trying to secure custody of his only son - Brother Ali along with Atmosphere producer and Shadows & Champion collaborator Ant, present the long awaited sophomore LP "The Undisputed Truth". Personal, political and more powerful than ever, simply put, the truth is here. Catch him live at the Bluebird on April 22nd. Cloud Cult - The Meaning of 8 CD (Rebel Group) ................................................................... Cloud Cult ooze whimsical indie rock like Modest Mouse on lithium. Along with Grizzly Bear, Of Montreal, The Decemberists... Cloud Cult steps into the misty realm of indie chamber folk-pop. It is a true feat to make music that gives hints about the meaning of life without ever sounding preachy, saccharine, or cloying. For fans of The Flaming Lips, Sufjan Stevens and Bright Eyes. CocoRosie - Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn CD/LP (Touch & Go) ................................................................... From their beginnings in 2003 as an acoustic folk vocal duo, to their latest live revue featuring break dancing and French MCs, CocoRosie have consistently evolved and delighted in pushing boundaries and defying expectations. Their new album represents a collaboration with producer Valgeir Sigurdsson, most widely known as Bjork's main studio conspirator - and the girls continue to experiment with their disparate voices and clashing personalities. A lush, orchestral array of sounds and beauty - a vaudevillian opera, if you will. Grinderman (Nick Cave) - s/t CD (Anti) ................................................................... This band consists of Nick Cave and a small team of Bad Seeds members: violinist Warren Ellis, bassist Martyn Casey, and drummer Jim Sclavunos. Born of babbling lyrics hatched from Bosch eggshells in the Hyde-bound apocalyptic margins of the Cave brain, the Grinderman sound is an instinctual yawlp that also resurrects the demons of each musician's past: the trashcan proselytizing of Birthday Party-era Nick, Sclavunos' late 70's NY no-wave noise wisdom, Casey's ominous Triffids bass reverb, and Ellis' avant-garde soundtrack work and his teenage love of Black Sabbath. Love of Diagrams - Mosaic CD/LP (Matador) ................................................................... This Melbourne band has been making their mark on the Australian music scene since 2003. The band's sound reflects the experimentation of No Wave and the immediacy and off-kilter tunefulness of classic UK post-punk. Their stripped down guitar-bass-drums racket and call-andresponse vocals emit a wonderfully controlled urgency. Produced by Bob Weston (Shellac, Mission Of Burma). Menomena - Wet and Rusting CD (Film Guerrero) ................................................................... This EP contains the title track Wet And Rusting from their Barsuk debut full-length Friend And Foe, with five additional tracks, including a remix and a live version of Wet And Rusting and three rare outtakes from Friend And Foe. Panthers - The Trick CD (Vice) ................................................................... Brooklyn's Panthers have returned from the sprawling highs of their 2004 LP "Things Are Strange" with a follow-up record so concisely intense it demands attention from all areas; from jaded riff-rock devotees to the most indifferent pop listener and everyone in between. Recorded by renowned producer and engineer Steve Revitte (Liars, Beastie Boys, Black Dice). 10 tracks of calculated abandon. Ten tracks of calculated abandon. Rosebuds - Night of the Furies CD/LP (Merge) ................................................................... Stylistically, Night Of The Furies follows a logical progression from their earlier work, 2003's The Rosebuds Make Out and 2005's Birds Make Good Neighbors. The danceable beats meld with catchy melodies built on themes both dark and seductive. Thematically, the songs are presented as individual and random parts of a larger story. The mood is ominous yet enticing; dangerous yet enchanting. Lyrics explore revolution and struggle, actions and consequences, but also love and redemption. One could easily bounce along on the infectious pop hooks. Shearwater - Palo Santo CD/LP (Matador) ................................................................... Completely refurbished edition of this Austin, TX band's critically acclaimed 2006 album. They re-recorded 5 of the 11 tracks and added new cover art, deluxe packaging in the form of a gatefold digipak, plus a bonus CD containing eight additional tracks, all for the price of one CD. The music is a soaring, vast, multi-instrumental song-cycle. The vocals and songwriting recall bands as diverse as Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry and late Talk Talk, but this is unabashedly rock music, anchored by Thor Harris's mighty Bonhamesque drums. Laura Veirs - Saltbreakers CD (Nonesuch) ................................................................... Listening to Veirs is like looking up into the night sky and suddenly witnessing a meteor shower: there's something startling and magical, both intimate and awesome, about her songs. The nature-obsessed images she conjures up and the mesmerizing sound she creates are as indelible as the blaze of shooting stars. Her new album is her most beautifully realized, band-oriented yet. It is by turns haunting, playful, tender, and fierce, embracing everything from machine-driven beats to angelic choirs, fuzzed guitars, and driving rhythms. Wax Poetics - Issue #22 ................................................................... Time to be blessed once again by the record afficianados at Wax Po. This issue features an entrancing article on Betty Davis, ex-wife and muse of Miles Davis, and a new interview with the west coast's OG hustler, Too Short. Also includes pieces on Brazil's Jao Donato, Ornette Coleman, Pharoah Monch, Marva Whitney, Kon & Amir, portraits of the people of Sao Paolo by B+ and more. The info is so densely packed, it's pretty much a must-have issue for any music fanatic. XBXRX - Wars CD/LP (Polyvinyl) ................................................................... XBXRX's joyous, high-energy musical outpourings have been championed by major figures in underground rock such as Sonic Youth, Peaches, Unwound, Quintron, Deerhoof, and Q And Not U. The band continues to progress and expand their musical horizons with this release, incorporating a wider palette of textures, rhythm, and structure, as well as gaining a newfound clarity in an effort to move beyond the non-stop blastbeat/screaming assault of previous releases while retaining the exhilaration that people expect from them. Xiu Xiu - Remixed and Covered 2CD (5RC) ................................................................... Xiu Xiu crafts sickeningly intimate art that is equally sensual and icy. With damaged, wraithlike dance beats and grim electro minimalism, it cuts you like nails across bare thighs, but just the same, it'll brush your hair from your face, look deep into your eyes, and say, "I feel the same as you sometimes. We're not too different, are we?" Xiu Xiu and friends do this and more on this new double CD set of covers and remixes. Disc 1 features covers by Sunset Rubdown, Devendra Banhart, Kid 606, Larsen, Oxbow, Marissa Nadler, and more, while disc 2 features Gold Chains, Cherry Point, Warbucks, Xiu Xiu, and more. Catch them live at WIUX's Culture Shock this Saturday, April 14th! Also Released On This Day ------------------------------------------------------------------ Guster - Satellite EP (Reprise) Jana Hunter - There's No Home (Gnomonsong) Sneaky Pete Kleinow - Anthology (Sundazed) Madlib - The Other Side: Los Angeles (Deaf Dumb and Blind) Billy Martin & John Medenski - Mago (Amulet) Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank 2LP (Sony) Mystery Jets - Diamonds in the Dark EP (Dim Mak) Nekromantix - Life Is A Grave and I Dig It (Hellcat) Nine Inch Nails - Survivalism EPs (Interscope) William Parker & Hamid Drake - Volume 2: Summer Snow (Aum Fidelity) Quintus - The Shape We're In EP (Downtown) Ratatat - Loud Pipes 12" (XL) Henry Rollins - Talk is Cheap Vol 4 (2.13.61) The Terrible Twos - If You Ever See an Owl (Vagrant) David S. Ware Quartet - Renunciation (Aum Fidelity) Witch's Hat - Mystery of the Steel (Emergency Umbrella) Wreckless Eric - Big Smash (Stiff) Wumpscut - Body Census (Metropolis) ................................................................... Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... Bill Callahan - Woke on a Whaleheart (4/17) Comas - Spells (4/17) The Cowboy Junkies - At the End of Paths Taken (4/17) Dead Meadow - Howls from the Hills [reissue] (4/17) Deerhunter - Flourescent Grey EP (4/17) Deerhunter - Cryptograms / Flourescent Grey 2LP (4/17) Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero (4/17) The Noisettes - What's the Time Mr Wolf? (4/17) Christopher O'Riley - Second Grace: Music of Nick Drake (4/17) Pere Ubu - [reissues] (4/17) Rock Plaze Central - Are We Not Horses (4/17) The Soft Machine - Volume Two [reissue] (4/17) Superdrag - Changin' Tires on the Road to Ruin (4/17) David Torn - Prezens (4/17) Valet - Blood is Clean (4/17) ................................................................... Coming Soonish (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... 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) Asbestosdeath - Dejection, Unclean (4/24) Avey Tare & Kria Brekkan - Pullhair Rubeye (4/24) Burning Brides - Hang Love (4/24) Bill Callahan (Smog) - Woke on a Whaleheart (4/24) Cold Bleak Heat - Simitu (4/24) Dntel - Dumb Luck (4/24) The Fucking Champs - VI (4/24) Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55 (4/24) Growing - Vision Swim (4/24) Gus Gus - Forever (4/24) Magazine - [reissue series] (4/24) Mando Diao - Ode to Ochrasy (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) Spank Rock - Fabriclive 23 [mix] (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) Vanna - Curses (4/24) Alan Vega - Station (4/24) The Veils - Nux Vomica (4/24) Young Galaxy - s/t (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) Sage Francis - Human the Death Dance (5/8) The Knife - Silent Shout [deluxe] (5/8) Lavender Diamond - Imagine Our Love (5/8) Lichens - Omns (5/8) Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures (5/8) Mystery Jets - Zoo Time (5/8) The Sea and Cake - Everybody (5/8) Elliott Smith - New Moon (5/8) Shannon Wright - Let in the Light (5/8) VA - Cult Cargo: Grand Bahama Goombay (5/8) Alias - Collected Remixes (5/15) Battles - Mirrored (5/15) Fennesz / Sakamoto - Cendre (5/15) Seefeel - Quique 2CD [reissue] (5/15) Rufus Wainwright - Release the Stars (5/15) Wilco - Sky Blue North (5/15) Wooden Wand - James and the Quiet (5/15) The Bravery - The Sun and the Moon (5/22) 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) The Aggrolites - Reggae Hit LA (6/5) Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur (6/5) Panic Strikes A Chord - Cautionary Verses For Children (6/5) Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound (6/5) Tiger Army - Music from Regions Beyond (6/5) Porter Wagoner - Wagonmaster (6/5) Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris (6/12) Bryan Ferry - Dylanesque (6/19) Fridge - The Sun (6/19) The Mooney Suzuki - Have Mercy (6/19) Xavier Rudd - White Moth (6/19) Savath & Savalas - Golden Pollen (6/19) The Unseen - Internal Salvation (6/19) Art Brut - It's a Bit Complicated (6/26) M.I.A. - Kala (6/26) Pharoahe Monch - Desire (6/26) Bad Religion - New Maps of Hell (7/10) Ulrich Schnauss - Goodbye (7/10) Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (7/10) Motion City Soundtrack - Even If It Kills Me (7/17) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 4/3 - 4/10: 1. Blonde Redhead, 23 CD/LP (4AD) 2. Panda Bear, Person Pitch CD (Paw Tracks) 3. Kings of Leon, Because of the Times CD (RCA) 4. Shearwater, Palo Santo CD/LP (Matador) 5. Rosebuds, Night of the Furies CD/LP (Merge) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Jarvis Cocker, The Field, Kings of Leon, Pole, DJ Shadow, Stars of the Lid, Los Straitjackets, Throbbing Gristle, Fountains of Wayne, Idlewild, Yoko Ono, Poison the Well, Redman, Martin Sexton, Sia, Todd Snider, Timbaland, Umphrey's McGee, DJ Vadim, 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 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... http://landlockedmusic.com/shockmap.jpg 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 Red House Painters were an apt comparison, as were the acute, windswept soundscapes of Iceland's Sigur Ros. 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