DUDE! LITTLE 5! DEWD! If you wandered about downtown at all this past weekend... well nevermind. I don't need to tell you, our beloved readers about it. You're with us. But there WAS a triumvirate of great shows that made us leave our homes and grin - Dave Bazan @ Bears, Lightning Bolt @ Festers, and Brother Ali @ Bluebird. Yowza. Add into that mix Brightblack Morning Light this coming Thursday night @ Landlocked and its almost like you're livin' in the big city and have too many things to do. Be grateful that people are bringing such amazing artists to town and check them out. You'll be glad you did... Select New Arrivals for the Week of 04/24/2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------ (Exact arrival dependent on shipping delays and mishaps, sorry) Alex Delivery - Star Destroyer CD/LP (Jagjaguwar) ................................................................... Think Can or Faust all mashed up with the personal disco of Arthur Russell. Think of the electric organ of Terry Riley's Shri Camel, slowly morphing and perpetually in motion, but remaining in step with a guitar-less and Moroder-charged Sparks. And think of a more composed Dead C, where Michael Morley sings about Big Thunder Mountain while holding a beach ball in one hand and fending off the digital shards of musique concrète humming around his ears with the other. All Smiles - Ten Readings of a Warning CD (Dangerbird) ................................................................... This is Jim Fairchild's debut solo outing following his days in the band Grandaddy. Contributors include Janet Weiss (Sleater Kinney, Quasi), Joe Plummer (Modest Mouse, Black Heart Procession), Danny Seim (Menomena), and Solon Bixler (Great Northern). Mixed by Brian Deck (Iron & Wine, Modest Mouse) and held together by Jim's spare and decisive sounds and a resistance to over-embellish. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare CD/LP (Domino) ................................................................... While this sophomore release is unmistakably Arctic Monkeys, everything's a little more muscular and aggressive. Each song is embedded with revelatory moments, as if some sort of critical mass is achieved through skillful song craft and sharp arrangements until an explosive release of energy or emotion is inevitable. Arctic Monkeys have exceeded expectations with this record. Avey Tare & Kria Brekkan - Pullhair Rubeye CD (Paw Tracks) ................................................................... Avey Tare is from Animal Collective and Kria Brekkan is formerly of the band Mum. The two met a few years back and started playing music together in the summer of 05. Recently they married and now live together in NYC. They recorded their debut collaboration Pullhair Rubeye with guitars and piano on an 8-track in their practice space in Brooklyn. A motley collection of fun and somber songs. Some of the tracks are instrumental, textured, and trancelike. They sound like they could come from another world. Other songs are lyrically based, calmer, more introspective. These sound like direct transmissions from within. The Blow - Poor Aim: Love Songs 2CD (K) ................................................................... Resilient electro-pop music. The songs are catchy as hell and rise to meet all the duo's snobby music standards. With sing-along-when-you-think-you're-alone types of refrains, it's as if the oldies station on the car stereo is playing at the same time as the urban party music station, with the occasional interfering sonic sway of an '80s keyboard refrain. It's the sound of feeling fun and desperate and bravely romantically unsuccessful all at once. Easy listening for difficult feelings. Bill Callahan (Smog) - Woke on a Whaleheart CD/LP (Drag City) ................................................................... Twelve albums down the line and Smog's Bill Callahan remains an enigma. A consummate storyteller in tradition of Leonard Cohen, his songs are car-wreck compelling, unsettling, unsentimental narratives delivered in an irresistible rich brown baritone. Conforming to the loner mould of a long line of great American artists, Callahan radiates a peculiarly male energy: an unspecified kind of careworn rage, an acute sense of restlessness. As an autobiographer, Callahan is a rogue trader with an unreliable commodity, a conscientious objector to the confessors club that constitutes singer-songwriting. His every lyrical move is impossible to second guess, his songs full of sonic surprise. Cold Bleak Heat - Simitu CD (Family Vineyard) ................................................................... CBH is an avant-jazz dream-team of sax, drums, trumpet and bass. While as explosive as their 2005 debut, Simitu brings a melancholic, even sensitive feel to these improvisations. CBH wages between the melodic centers/ghostly solos and loose, downhill, free blow outs you'd expect, all while maintaining the grand swell of a hardcore jazz symphony. Even as complex and multi-paced beats sink into bowed-drones and vocal hollers, focused lyricism remains the returning leader. As members of some of the past decades' most innovative and visceral musical outlets, CBH continues as a pioneering force into jazz improvisation. Features liner notes & drawings by Christina Carter (Charalambides). Deerhunter - Flourescent Grey CDEP + Cryptograms 2LP (Kranky) ................................................................... This EP arrives on the heels of a well received sophomore full-length, Cryptograms. While exploring themes not especially dissimilar, the EP functions in many ways as an epilogue to both the full-length and the accompanying well-reported anxiety surrounding it's creation. The band now has a clean slate to explore something entirely new in the future. Also now available - Cryptograms LP version w/ the Gray EP tacked on to make it a 2LP. Dntel - Dumb Luck CD/LP (Sub Pop) ................................................................... Dumb Luck's fractured electronics always seem serendipitous, this close to collapsing completely, and held together by dental floss. But that feeling results from the meticulous and deliberate way Tamborello (Postal Service, Figurine) handles those bursts of splintered sound, and his ability to elevate just the right snippet or melodic string to provide a toehold for the listener. Thick with sampler finessing, warm electronic washes, and genius beat placement, its lyrically as much about human distance as connection. Includes vocals from Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley), Edward Droste (Grizzly Bear), Lali Puna, Mia Doi Todd, Arthur & Yu, Andrew Broder (Fog), Bright Eyes, and Mystic Chords Of Memory. The Fucking Champs - VI CD/LP (Drag City) ................................................................... The long-awaited VI sees the math-metal pioneers shredding their way into stratospheric heights. And when we say metal we're not talking about the hipster droning ambience of a guitar left in front of a speaker - this is Van Halen shredding with a few wonky time signatures thrown in to keep you on your toes. Champs' records are a group of guys having fun, playing with the formula, making each other laugh - and this is good for us. This might be hair metal influenced, but its by way of King Crimson, and that can only be a good thing. Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55 CD (Vice) ................................................................... International movie star, fashion icon, and music royalty (daughter of French pop icon Serge Gainsbourg and actress Jane Berkin) makes her US debut. Already platinum in France with worldwide sales of over 500,000. The US CD release includes two previously unavailable bonus tracks, two music videos, and a video interview with Charlotte. Music by Air, lyrics by Jarvis Cocker and The Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon, and produced by Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Beck). Stunning! Grails - Burning Off Impurities CD (2LP delayed) (Temporary Residence) ................................................................... Portland's Grails return with their first studio album since 2004's Redlight. An increased interest in psychedelic, ambient, and world music is most likely to blame for the group's exploration of the lesser-traveled paths of modern music. In addition, their eclectic range of collaborative endeavors - guitarist Zak Riles is also in M. Ward's band, drummer Emil Amos has moonlighted as Jandek's drummer - has introduced an element of improvisation and reinterpretation of ideas that's both brilliant and earnest. Brutal and beautiful. Growing - Vision Swim CD/LP (Troubleman) ................................................................... Their twin guitar attack is complimented by a wall of amps and deafening volume. Oddly enough, there are also moments of extreme quiet and delicacy. Growing have ventured into uncharted territory, where sheets of noise meld with metallic noodling and blissfully numbing drones and exploratory electronic manipulations. As one critic put it, "If you're planning a trip to space, it'd be smart to throw this in with your protein-pack." Calvin Johnson - & the Sons of the Soil CD/LP (K) ................................................................... The premise of this record was "What if Calvin Johnson played all his best songs from over the years, with a band of real music-making people?" From there K recording artists Khaela Maricich and Jason Anderson formed a band of other K music stalwarts, dubbed them The Sons Of The Soil, and a tour commenced, covering songs originally recorded by Halo Benders, Dub Narcotic Sound System, and the Go Team. This album was recorded shortly after the tour and it features a good cross section of tour material as well as some live snippets from the Sons Of The Soil performance in Spokane, WA. Joanna Newsom - Ys Street Band CD/12" EP (Drag City) ................................................................... Newsom has decided her image needs lightening a bit, and this EP is basically a mischievous smile. Taking one new song and two older refurbished tracks she is seen here accompanied by her touring band - we have banjo, percussion, accordion, musical saw and tambura making appearances next to Newsom's signature harp and squeaky vocals. The new song, Colleen, takes a break from the measured poetic orchestrations which made Ys so breathtaking as she engineers a foot-stomping slice of Celtic folk, with tribal squealing aplenty. Elsewhere we have renditions from her debut and an epic re-imagining of Ys track Cosmia. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet CD (Atlantic) ................................................................... Porcupine Tree is unquestionably one of the most difficult-to-categorize and innovative bands working today. The music is breathtaking, ranging from psychedelic trip-hop to progressive space metal, and a compendium of other sounds and genres in between. Embracing and exploring prog rock inspirations while always keeping an ear out for newer musical connections, thus sidestepping the pointless revivalism of many of the band's peers. Part Chimp - Cup CD (Monitor) ................................................................... If Lightning Bolt structured their songs like Mogwai, they might sound like these British noise-flayers. After their last album "I Am Come" and their raucous ride through US cities on their second US tour, the kids declared Part Chimp gods. To keep the devotees happy, Monitor has compiled Part Chimp's new single "New Cross" with rarities, previously unreleased tracks, and alternative versions of songs onto one album only available in North America! Pterodactyl - S/T CD/LP (Brah) ................................................................... Born in a cornfield in Ohio, Pterodactyl migrated to NY, where they spent long hours in a flooded basement writing songs that sounded "as if someone plugged them into the nearest available wall socket and flipped the on switch. These songs range from incessant and infectious to sparse and spacious to epic and redemptive. Combining a noisy post-punk palette with adventurous, arresting lead vocals and harmonies, Pterodactyl's first full-length offers up a compellingly catchy, scratchy sound that's not easily forgotten. Mavis Staples - We'll Never Turn Back CD (Anti) ................................................................... As musical activists in the 60s civil rights movement, the Staple Singers were powerful voices for equality and change. Produced by Ry Cooder and featuring backing from the original Freedom Singers and Ladysmith Black Mambazo throughout, the album proves both emotionally chilling and spiritually uplifting. Cooder makes fine use of pounding percussion and snaky electric guitar to capture the danger and fear inherent in the Deep South at the time, while others draw on gospel and the traditional framework of church hymns to promise positive solutions. Staples, who connects the injustice of yesterday to the continuing marginalization of blacks in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, remains a remarkable performer, employing a throaty sensuality that rises from a deep well of tremulous emotion. Young Galaxy - s/t CD (Arts & Crafts) ................................................................... This is an impressive entry point for a group at the beginning of their ascent. Call it a spark in the dry air of a sub-zero city (Montreal) or the child of a love of making music and of making music with the ones they love. Recorded with Jace Lasek (Besnard Lakes), Young Galaxy has borne something concrete of something abstract and ephemeral. Young Galaxy have landed on the rarest musical alchemy and made of it an instant pop classic, a kaleidoscopic sound with heavy tones and hypnotic male/female vocals. 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Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... 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) The Fall of Troy - Manipulator (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) Puppini Sisters - Betcha Bottom Dollar (5/1) Rush - Snakes & Arrows (5/1) Tub Ring - The Great Filter (5/1) Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position (5/1) ................................................................... Coming Soonish (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake - From The River To The Ocean (5/8) Be Your Own Pet - Not Rocket Science 12" (5/8) Bjork - Volta (5/8) Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Strength and Loyalty (5/8) the Clientele - God Save the Clientele (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) Great Lake Swimmers - Ongiara (5/8) Jaylib - Champion Sound [2CD reissue] (5/8) KMFDM - [CD reissues] (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) OOIOO - Eye Remix EP (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) 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 12" (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) Brett Dennen - More From So Much More (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) Bumps - s/t (6/19) Burning Brides - Hang Love (6/19) Nick Drake - Family Tree (6/19) Bryan Ferry - Dylanesque (6/19) Fridge - The Sun (6/19) Lightning Dust - s/t (6/19) Minus Story - My Ion Truss (6/19) The Mooney Suzuki - Have Mercy (6/19) Panda Bear - Person Pitch LP (6/19) Xavier Rudd - White Moth (6/19) Savath & Savalas - Golden Pollen (6/19) The Unseen - Internal Salvation (6/19) David Vandervelde - Nothin' No EP (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) Interpol - (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 4/17 - 4/24: 1. The Hold Steady - Live at Fingerprints CD-EP 2. CocoRosie - Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn CD/LP 3. Blonde Redhead - 23 CD/LP 4. Dead Meadow - Howls from the Hills CD 5. Superdrag - Changin' Tires on the Road to Ruin CD Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Joseph Arthur, Comas, Cowboy Junkies, Danielson, Dead Meadow, Elk City, Hold Steady, Nine Inch Nails, Noisettes, Rock Plaza Central, Superdrag, 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 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 http://www.midheaven.com/fi/audio2/ancestralsongs02.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. 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 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