Didja make it out to Culture Shock on saturday? If you did, you didn't see our booth there (sorry). It was a little too wet and windy and cold. However we did check out some of the music (awesome) and want to congratulate WIUX (we are alumni) on another great annual event, regardless of the weather. The turnout was great and the tents kept us dry. Kudos! Now we can clean off our muddy shoes, take a deep breath and enjoy spring for real. The new releases are thin, but still quality over quantity. Stop in and see us.... Select New Arrivals for the Week of 04/17/2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------ (Exact arrival dependent on shipping delays and mishaps, sorry) Joseph Arthur - Let's Just Be (Lonely Astronaut) ................................................................... Singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur & The Lonely Astronauts present his sixth studio album, Let's Just Be. Their idea was to go directly into the studio like how the Stones or Neil Young used to record to maintain the vibe and capture the spirit of our live shows. The new material came so fast and furious for the band (rumors are that over 80 songs were recorded during the sessions) that Arthur has decided to release two albums from these sessions this year. Featuring Kraig Jarret Johnson (Golden Smog, Jayhawks), Jennifer Turner (Natalie Merchant), Greg Wieczorek (Twilight Singers) and Sibyl Buck. Comas - Spells (Vagrant) ................................................................... Spells leaves behind the heaviness and moodiness of their previous album, Conductor, for a major-key playfulness that's endearingly goofy in its mock-epic scope. A bouncy fuzz guitar churns pop momentum, crash cymbal choruses, and synth bloops and bleeps pepper the verses. As recording began, stories of magic, enchantment, and spirits started to surface about the somewhat spooky mansion nestled atop the Catskill Mountains where they were creating their 4th album. The studio included a 360-degree panoramic view of the snow just beginning to blanket the terrain of the hilly and heavily forested Upstate New York. The Cowboy Junkies - At the End of Paths Taken (Zoe) ................................................................... The Cowboy Junkies' gothic Americana takes a psychedelic hue on At the End of Paths Taken, replete with Beatlesque string sections and snarling, distorted guitar leads. Atop it all sits singer Margo Timmins. She's the lover everyone wants, a voice that is at once world-weary and inviting, domineering and seductive. There are moments of light and hope on At the End of Paths Taken, but overall it is a deliriously dark and brooding album. Danielson - A Family Movie DVD (Homevision) ................................................................... Documentary that sheds light on the story of this enigmatic band. When The Danielson Famile released their first album in the 90s, listeners wondered if their Christian message was sincere. Portrayed in the media as an outsider band on par with the Shaggs, the Famile played a new type of homespun rock, seemingly based on The Pixies with bandleader Daniel Smith's screechy vocals and quirky compositional contributions by his siblings. Dressing in nurse uniforms to spread the message of Jesus' healing, the Famile toured nightclub and festival circuits despite their strict adherence to Christian morality. Questions about the relevance of their religion to their sound have polarized fans and haters. Dead Meadow - Howls from the Hills [reissue] (Xemu) ................................................................... Dead Meadow cannily melds a passion for the '60s psychedelia a la Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix and the molten 70s rock of Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Blue Cheer with the literary influence of such fantasists as J.R.R. Tolkien and H.P. Lovecraft: Call it heavy mental. This is the reissue of their 2nd album. Elk City - New Believers (Friendly Fire) ................................................................... When recording began for New Believers back in '04, neither member of the NYC based Elk City knew what would become of it. Singer Renee LoBue had penned a notebook full of confessional, imaginative songs following the tumultuous departure of guitarist Peter Langland-Hassan. Upon hearing LoBue's newly inspired voice, drummer Ray Ketchem's mission was clear: the band would merge the soul of Dusty Springfield, the power of Patti Smith, the big sound of Phil Spector and the warped-pop sensibilities of The Breeders on an album that brought LoBue to the front. Also features ex-Luna guitarist Sean Eden and ex-Lovelies bassist Barbara Endes. The Hold Steady - Live at Fingerprints ................................................................... This EP contains five tracks performed acoustically by The Hold Steady and was recorded live at Fingerprints, an independent record store in Long Beach, CA this past October. This is a very limited pressing so get it while you can! Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero (Interscope) ................................................................... This record began as an experiment with noise on a laptop in a bus on tour somewhere. That sound led to a daydream about the end of the world. That daydream stuck with me and over time revealed itself to be much more. I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't. This record is the latter. - Trent Reznor The Noisettes - What's the Time Mr Wolf? (Universal) ................................................................... Noisettes are fronted by the supremely talented and beautiful Shingai Shoniwa, a vocalist and instrumentalist who sings like Billie Holiday on PCP while patrolling the stage like an Amazonian Warrior with an eye for fashion. Shingai howls and soothes, giving you goosebumps and shoots soul into your main arteries. The second line of defense wields his axe around the stage while bringing up the rear is a drummer so heavy you won't notice he is more hair than man. Their music is schizophrenically contradictive. One minute rough, raw and explosively dramatic, the next, detached, calm and serene. Rock Plaza Central - Are We Not Horses (Yep Roc) ................................................................... Toronto's 7 piece indie-folk ensemble Rock Plaza Central uses traditional instrumentation to sketch visions of an apocalyptic future where angels battle humans and a race of robotic horses falls into existential crisis. Guitar, violin, banjo, drums, bass and horns combine to bring to mind the psych-folk of Neutral Milk Hotel as well as the casual country-soul of The Band. Culled from the oral short stories of guitarist and novelist Chris Eaton, the album is surefooted in its unique, evocative approach, riding soundly on the back of Eaton's vocals and the band's spare-but-hummable melodies that leaves us all chanting the band's warm, comforting mantra, "We've Got a Lot to Be Glad For." Superdrag - Changin' Tires on the Road to Ruin (Arena Rock) ................................................................... When you play in a band for 10 years, you write a lot. You only get a record out every couple of years so you're going to end up with a fair number of songs that never see the light of day for one reason or another. Sometimes the version that's issued on record will be your 2nd or 3rd attempt to get it right so your demos are left behind like pieces of evidence. You'll wind up with hundreds of live recordings, mostly of dubious origin. A good percentage of these will be terrible, others might be great, and some will hold sentimental value because of the places and times they stand for: good or ill. These are just some of the things this record is concerned with. ................................................................... Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... 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) Badgerlore - We Are All Hopeful Farmers, We Are All Scared Rabbits (4/24) The Blow - Poor Aim: Love Songs (4/24) Bill Callahan (Smog) - Woke on a Whaleheart (4/24) Cold Bleak Heat - Simitu (4/24) Deerhunter - Flourescent Grey EP (4/24) Deerhunter - Cryptograms / Flourescent Grey 2LP (4/24) Dntel - Dumb Luck (4/24) The Fucking Champs - VI (4/24) Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55 (4/24) Grails - Burning Off Impurities (4/24) Growing - Vision Swim (4/24) Gus Gus - Forever (4/24) Calvin Johnson & the Sons of the Soil - S/T (4/24) Magazine - [reissue series] (4/24) Mando Diao - Ode to Ochrasy (4/24) Namelessnumberheadman - Wires Reply (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) Robert Pollard - Silverfish Trivia (4/24) Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet (4/24) Pterodactyl - S/T (4/24) Seefeel - Quique 2CD [reissue] (4/24) The Soft Machine - Volume Two [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) ................................................................... Coming Soonish (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... 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) Robbie Fulks - Revenge! (5/1) Mad Caddies - Keep It Going (5/1) Rush - Snakes & Arrows (5/1) Tub Ring - The Great Filter (5/1) Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position (5/1) Bjork - Volta (5/8) Electralane - No Shouts, No Calls (5/8) DJ Food & DK - Now, Listen Again (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) Christopher O'Riley - Second Grace: Music of Nick Drake (5/8) Pere Ubu - [reissues] (5/8) The Sea and Cake - Everybody (5/8) Elliott Smith - New Moon (5/8) Mary Timony - The Shapes We Make (5/8) Travis - The Boy With No Name (5/8) Valet - Blood is Clean (5/8) Shannon Wright - Let in the Light (5/8) VA - Cult Cargo: Grand Bahama Goombay (5/8) Alias - Collected Remixes (5/15) Au Revoir Simone - The Bird of Music (5/15) Avett Brothers - Emotionalism (5/15) Battles - Mirrored (5/15) Betty David - s/t / They Say I'm Different [reissues] (5/15) Efterklang - Under Giant Trees (5/15) Fennesz / Sakamoto - Cendre (5/15) The Horrors - Strange House (5/15) Ian Hunter - Shrunken Heads (5/15) Megadeth - United Abominations (5/15) Pink Martini - Hey Eugene (5/15) Seefeel - Quique 2CD [reissue] (5/15) Telefon Tel Aviv - Remixes Compiled (5/15) Rufus Wainwright - Release the Stars (5/15) Wilco - Sky Blue North (5/15) Wooden Wand - James and the Quiet (5/15) Amandine - Solace in Sore Hands (5/22) The Bravery - The Sun and the Moon (5/22) Jeff Buckley - Amazing Grace DVD (5/22) Grave Temple Trio - The Holy Down (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) Jesus Lizard - Live DVD (6/5) Long Blondes - Someone to Drive You Home (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) Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation [deluxe reissue] (6/12) Burning Brides - Hang Love (6/19) Nick Drake - Family Tree (6/19) 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) Nick Lowe - At My Age (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 4/10 - 4/17: 1. Bright Eyes, Cassadaga CD/LP + free fortune cookies! (Saddle Creek) 2. CocoRosie, Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn CD/LP (Touch & Go) 3. Blonde Redhead, 23 CD/LP (4AD) 4. Grinderman, s/t CD/LP (Anti) 5. Everything Now!, Bible Universe CD (self) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Blonde Redhead, Book of Knots, Bright Eyes, Brother Ali, Cloud Cult, CocoRosie, Grinderman, Love of Diagrams, Madlib, Menomena, Panthers, Rosebuds, Shearwater, Laura Veirs, XBXRX, Xiu Xiu, 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 and much much more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ We have real live music in our store, too! Check out our upcoming performances: 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... Brother Ali (4/22) @ the Bluebird. David Bazan (Pedro the Lion & Will Johnson (Centro-Matic) (4/20) @ Bears Place. 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