Take a deep breath, the student flood has begun. Don't be angry, for indeed, it is the students that enables stores like ours and most of the other things you love about Bloomington to survive and thrive here. Once, we were all the lost soul driving the wrong way on a one way street. We love new faces. To commemorative this population growth, we present our spread of fabulous new releases and more... read 'em and weep: Select New Arrivals for the Week of 08/21/2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------ (Exact arrival dependent on shipping delays and mishaps, sorry) Architecture in Helsinki - Places Like This (Polyvinyl) ................................................................... This 6-piece outfit hit the ground running with their 3rd record - 10 songs of instantly lovable pop brilliance, fizzing with electrical currents, channeling calypso rhythms and tropical flavors with lashings of percussion a-go-go. Surrealist singalongs, psychedelic nursery rhymes, and angular rockers make for a healthy mix from beginning to end. Bodies of Water - Ears Will Pop and Eyes Will Blink (Thousand Tongues) ................................................................... Bodies of Water are a quartet from LA. They are made up of 2 men and 2 women. They play loud, intricate songs and sing very emphatically, usually all at once. They draw from a number of disparate traditions, combining the metaphysical intensity of gospel, the primitive gusto of punk rock, the earnest idiosyncracy of american folk, the sonic inclusiveness of tropicalia, the planned jamming of prog, and the sincere melodrama of musical theatre. Caribou - Andorra (Merge) ................................................................... Dan Snaith has been producing critically acclaimed albums for 6 years now, each an impressive development on the previous. For his Merge debut, he marries the kaleidoscopic grandeur he's known for with pop melodies and harmonies crammed densely together. It is so vividly 3-D, it's hard to believe it was performed and recorded entirely by Snaith at home, save for vocal and songwriting contributions by friend/tour mate Junior Boys' Jeremy Greenspan on one track. David Dondero - Simple Love (Team Love) ................................................................... Few songwriters have experienced and expressed the sinking depths and uplifting optimism of humanity like Dondero, and his ability to shine a light on the human condition is inspiring. Simple Love is a poignant collection of songs woven with sentimentality, contempt, humor, and lust. Veering away from the acoustic folk arrangements of previous albums this record broadens its instrumental library and tackles much darker subjects of loss, lost love, and death. A collection of literate, impressionistic, folk-blues mini-epics. Galactic - From the Corner to the Block (Anti) ................................................................... Over the course of 6 albums and countless live shows Galactic has built a rabid following, thrilled by their progressive marriage of New Orleans brass band grooves meet bounce style hip-hop. Their new album finds them continuing to test the waters of what funk can be, collaborating with tons of great MCs: the Coup's Boots Riley, Lyrics Born, Juvenile, Jurassic 5's Chali 2na, Digable Planets' Ladybug Mecca, Mr. Lif, Blackalicious' Gift of Gab, and more. The band asked them to imagine intersections of history, mythology and multiple ethnicities. Check out the results in our listening station. Jay Dee - Jay Deelicious: The Delicious Vinyl Years (Delicious) ................................................................... J Dilla emerged in 95 when his name was attached to the first single from Pharcyde's Labcabincalifornia. In addition to original productions and remixes for "Labcabin", Jay Dee skillfully worked with the label on incredible mixes for the Brand New Heavies. From the jazzed out Rhodes syncopation of "Sometimes" featuring Q-Tip, to the crazy cutting up of "Got To Give It Up" for "Saturday Night" featuring Mos Def, Jay Dee shows there's no tempo he can't freak on some otherworldly jazzed up funk tip. In respect to Dilla's legacy, proceeds from the sale of this release will go to Maureen (Ma Dukes) Yancy. Talib Kweli - Ear Drum (WB) ................................................................... Talib remains that exemplary liminal artist, one foot in the artistic purity of his underground roots and the other planted firmly in business of pop culture. Wisely chosen collaborators include Kanye West, Roy Ayers, Jean Grae, Pete Rock, KRS-1, even Justin Timberlake and Norah Jones. As Kweli himself makes clear in his first line on Ear Drum, "They say you can't please everybody," and plenty of sleepers lurk among Ear Drum's 20 cuts, but the standout tracks suggest that Kweli has bounced back from declining relevance with all cylinders firing. Nathaniel Mayer - Why Don't You Give It To Me (Alive) ................................................................... 40 years on from his chart-topping hit "Village of Love", Detroit soul legend Nathaniel Mayer's new LP sounds like the record he should have made in 1970. Following his critically acclaimed 2004 comeback album, Nathaniel accepted an invitation to tour as the opening act for the Black Keys. Soul music with a psychedelic rock n' roll heart that has as much in common with the Stooges and MC5 as it does with his contemporaries like Jackie Wilson, Marvin Gaye, and the Miracles. It is also the sound of the streets of modern-day Detroit, the sound of good vibrations amid the rampant chaos. The Mekons - Natural (Quarterstick) ................................................................... After touring on the back of their twisted non-retrospective "Punk Rock" in 2004, The Mekons picked up their instruments and lost themselves far beyond the beaten path in the wilds of the English countryside. Removed from the restraints of conventional studio technology, they navigate an undulating sonic landscape of lavish melodies, mantric chants, and shimmering acoustic experimentation. This is their first new material in 5 years. M.I.A. - Kala (Interscope) ................................................................... M.I.A. is hailed as one of the most freshly creative artists to hit the scene, paving the way for fierce and adventurous females to break the mold. With Kala, she pulls even more globe-trekking, and genre bending into her musical mix. Recorded in India, Trinidad, Australia, London, New York and Baltimore, M.I.A. has crafted an international sound that is as excitingly undefineable as it is infectious. Dance music from the global future. Mojo Magazine - August 2007 (Keith Richards & Rolling Stones) ................................................................... Whoops, this arrived late this month, but its still great. Astonishing, brand new interview with Keith Richards. Bullying Brian, snorting his Dad, crying on stage and the new drug in his life. Plus: The Stones' 50 Greatest Songs. Brian Wilson, Johnny Marr, Jimmy Page and a galaxy of stars on their favourite songs of danger, drugs and devilry. The engineering of Exile. Also: The Def Leppard story, Prince's resurrection, Stevie Nicks' fist fights and coke binges with Fleetwood Mac's diaphanous spirit of the 70s, and a free CD with 15 exciting Stones covers + tons and tons more. New Pornographers - Challengers (Matador) ................................................................... If you throw darts at the songs on Challengers you'll hit one flawless song after another. Many songs venture back to the infectiousness of the band's earlier records, with leader and chief songwriter AC Newman penning some of the most thought-provoking lyrics this side of Billy Bragg. There are departures, including a string section, flute and harp, and Dan Bejar's foray into indie-pop hip-hop. But there's also Neko Case dominating the divine title track and Kathryn Calder making her lead-vocal debut. Deluxe edition also available. Rilo Kiley - Under the Blacklight (WB) ................................................................... With the blood of Fleetwood Mac, early Heart and Stones' 1978 dancefloor masterpiece "Miss You" pumping through its veins, Blacklight is a gloriously decadent-sounding album, smooth dance beats balanced by the underlying lyrical motifs of the seedier side of L.A. life; the characters in the songs embroiled in everything from drunken one night stands to the sex industry. Jenny Lewis' tangle of indie pop, torch song and too-cool-for-school cynicism is at its most sharp and refined yet. Includes bonus 7" while they last? Josh Ritter - Historical Conquests (Sony) ................................................................... Real murmurs, believable ones, came with Josh Ritter's 2006 album, Animal Year, suggesting that the Idahoan is today's Bruce Springsteen, today's Bob Dylan. Over the clatter of piano and strum of an electric guitar that opens his fourth studio album, Josh leaps into rapid-fire lyrics that reference Joan of Arc, Calamity Jane and Florence Nightingale, all of whom seem to be struck together in the belly of a whale. Recorded between stints on a never-ending tour, Historical reflects Ritter on the road, quick witted, a master of phraseology and of imagery. Free bonus EP with purchase. VA - We Just Call It Roulette V.1 (Russian) ................................................................... Compilation released by Russian Recording, a local recording studio that has been making records for bands for the past 4 years. The CD serves to promote the wide variety of music recorded at the studio, the artists that design and print the packaging, and the studio itself. They are a limited one-time only run of 500 numbered copies and are packaged in a letter pressed and silkscreened "matchbook" style booklet with magnetic snaps. The packaging was designed by Jarod Isenbarger and letter pressed and silk screened by Ryan Nole at Kangaroo Press. Featuring tracks from Morrow, Coke Dares, Nate Jackson, Gentleman Caller, Lucky Pineapple, Beltane, American Werewolves, Wasteland DC, STATE, Thousand Arrows, Abner Trio, Push Pull, Turn Pale and Racebannon! Also Released This Week (but not necc in stock, ask us!) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lindsay Anderson - If (Minty Fresh) Animal Collective - Peacebone 12" (Paw Tracks) Airiel - The Battle of Sealand (Highwheel) Austerity Program - Black Madonna (Hydrahead) Bald Eagle - Hot Shoulders (Emergency Umbrella) Paul Bley - Solo in Mondee (ECM) Eric Copeland (Black Dice) - Hermaphrodite (Paw Tracks) Miles Davis - Live at Monterey Jazz 1963 (Monterey) Earlimart - Mentor Tormentor (Shout Factory) Jeremy Enigk - The Missing Link (567) Ryan Ferguson (No Knife) - Only Trying To Help (Better Looking) Flaming Lips - UFOs at the Zoo (WB) Foreign Born - On The Wing Now (Dim Mak) Donovan Frankenreiter - Recycled Recipes EP (Lost Highway) Golden Dogs - Big Eye Little Eye (Yep Roc) The Good Life - Heartbroke 7" (Saddle Creek) Imperial Teen - The Hair The TV The Baby & The Band (Merge) R Kelly - Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 13-22 (Jive) Killah Priest - The Offering (Traffic) Kinski - Down Below It's Chaos (Sub Pop) Loreena McKennitt - Nights from the Alhambra (Verve) Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice (Suicide Squeeze) Thelonious Monk - Live at Monterey Jazz 1964 (Monterey) Nadja - Guilted By the Sun EP (Elevation) Numbers - Now You Are This (Kill Rock Stars) Dax Riggs - We Sing of Only Blood or Love (Fat Possum) Stereo Total - Paris-Berlin (Kill Rock Stars) Sun Ra - The Night of the Purple Moon (Atavistic) Cornel West - Never Forget: A Journey of Revelations (Hidden Beach) ................................................................... Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! (or we might not order it...) - info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass (8/28) Angels of Light - We Are Him (8/28) Blockhead - Uncle Tony's Coloring Book (8/28) Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals - Lifeline (8/28) Lee Hazelwood - CD reissues (8/28) Horse the Band - A Natural Death (8/28) Liars - Liars (8/28) Lyle Lovett - Its Not Big Its Large (8/28) Madlib - Beat Konducta Vol 3-4: In India (8/28) Michael McDermott - Noise from Words (8/28) Mum - They Made Frogs Smoke Til They Exploded [single] (8/28) New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom (8/28) No Age - Weirdo Rippers (8/28) Northern State - Can I Keep This Pen? (8/28) Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes (8/28) Rascals - CD Reissue Series (8/28) Sword Heaven - Entrance (8/28) VHS or Beta - Bring on the Comet (8/28) VA - Wattstax [3CD Reissue] (8/28) ................................................................... Coming Soonish (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... Aspera - Back When Love (9/4) Manu Chao - La Radiolina (9/4) Calvin Harris - I Created Disco (9/4) Heavy Trash - Going Way Out (9/4) Ferraby Lionheart - Catch the Brass Ring (9/4) Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn [3CD reissue] (9/4) Michelle Shocked - To Heaven U Ride (9/4) Townes Van Zandt - For the Sake of the Song [reissue] (9/4) VA - Guilt by Association (Devendra, Oldham, Luna, Mike Watt) (9/4) Adrian Orange & Her Band - s/t (9/11) Akron/Family - Love is Simple (9/11) Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam (9/11) Besnard Lakes - Casino Nanaimo 12" (9/11) Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil (9/11) Blues Control LP (9/11) COCO - Play Drums + Bass (9/11) Deerhoof - Matchbook Seeks Maniac 7" (9/11) Dirty Projectors - Rise Above (9/11) Figurines - When the Deer Wore Blue (9/11) Film School - Hideout (9/11) The Go Team - Proof of Youth (9/11) The Good Life - Help Wanted Nights (9/11) Joe Henry - Civilians (9/11) Hot Hot Heat - Happiness Ltd (9/11) Joy Division - LP Reissues (9/11) Mammatus - The Coast Explodes (9/11) Cass McCombs - Dropping the Writ (9/11) Mono - Gone (9/11) Oakley Hall - I'll Follow You (9/11) Orange - Escape from LA (9/11) June Panic - Songs from Purgatory 3CD (9/11) Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs (9/11) Emma Pollock - Watch the Fireworks (9/11) Qui - Love's Mirachel (9/11) Shout Out Louds - Our Ill Wills (9/11) Taken By Trees - Open Field (9/11) Kanye West - Graduation (9/11) Wooden Shjips - s/t (9/11) Michael Yonkers - Grimwood (9/11) Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth [3CD reissue] (9/11) Crescent - Little Waves (9/18) Miles Davis - Complete On the Corner Sessions 6CD (9/18) Donnas - Bitchin' (9/18) Health - s/t (9/18) His Name is Alive - Xmmer (9/18) Ministry - The Last Sucker (9/18) Motion City Soundtrack - Even If It Kills Me (9/18) Rogue Wave - Asleep at Heaven's Gate (9/18) Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release (9/18) Songs of the Grean Pheasant - Gyllyng Street (9/18) VA - Best of the Johnny Cash Show CD/2xDVD (9/18) Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon (9/25) The Decemberists - Perfect Crime #2 12" (9/25) Farewell - Isn't This Supposed to Be Fun? (9/25) Georgie James - Places (9/25) Jose Gonzalez - In Our Nature (9/25) PJ Harvey - White Chalk (9/25) Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog (9/25) Georgie James - Places (9/25) Bettye LaVette - The Scene of the Crime (9/25) Magik Markers - BOSS (9/25) Mum - Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy (9/25) Matt Pond PA - Last Light (9/25) Prinzhorn Dance School - s/t (9/25) Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War (9/25) Two Gallants - s/t (9/25) Weakerthans - Reunion Tour (9/25) Working for a Nuclear Free City - Businessmen & Ghosts (9/25) VA - People Take Warning: Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 3CD (9/25) Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - 100 Days 100 Nights (10/2) Siouxsie - Mantaray (10/2) Band of Horses - Cease to Begin (10/9) Beirut - The Flying Club Cup (10/9) Celebration - The Modern Tribe (10/9) Enon - Grass Geysers Carbon Clouds (10/9) Future of the Left - Curses (10/9) Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala (10/9) Melvins - Making Love Demons (10/9) Scout Niblett - This Fool Can Die Now (10/9) Old Time Relijun - Catharsis In Crisis (10/9) Parkway Drive - Horizons (10/9) Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (10/9) Besnard Lakes - Volume 1 (10/23) Black Dice - Load Blown (10/23) Carla Bruni - No Promises (10/23) Prefuse 73 - Preparations (10/23) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 8/14 - 8/21: 1. The Budos Band - II CD/LP (Daptone) 2. Okkervil River - The Stage Names CD/LP (Jagjaguwar) 3. Flight of the Conchords - The Distant Future EP (Sub Pop) 4. Mirah And Spectratone International - Share This Place (K) 5. Oh No - Dr. No's Oxperiment CD/LP (Stones Throw) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Art in Manila, Bang Lime, Flight of the Conchords, Junior Senior, Mendoza Line, Mylla, Nina Nastasia & Jim White, Oh No, Spektrum, Sunn 0))), Linda Thompson, Clark, D'arcangelo, Over the Rhine, Chuck Ragan, White Rainbow, Turbonegro, Brunettes, Budos Band, Loren Connors, Jesu / Eluvium, Little Wings, Magnolia Electric Co, Mirah And Spectratone International, Marissa Nadler, Okkervil River, Tarentel, Sublime Frequencies, Anemones, Peter Case, Spokane, Weedeater, Ace of Clubs, Bat For Lashes, Common, C Rayz Walz & Sharkey, Freeze Etch, Spencer Moore, 1990s, Josh Rouse, Sigur Ros, Studio, Trey Anastasio, Bishop Allen, Dalek, David Garland, Marmoset, MF Doom, Sebadoh, Tegan and Sara, UNKLE, John Vanderslice, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Prince, Saturday Looks Good to Me and much much more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming Bloomington shows that Landlocked Music is excited about: 8/21 - Fat Worm of Error @ Art Hospital 8/23 - Magnolia Electric Co @ Bluebird 8/24-25 - Dark Carnival Film Festival @ Buskirk-Chumley 8/30 - Dirty Projectors / Yacht @ Buskirk-Chumley 8/31 - Papercuts @ Bears Place 9/5 - Jennifer Gentle / Dodos @ Bears Place 9/6 - Heartless Bastards @ Bluebird 9/8 - Margot & the Nuclear So & Sos @ Bluebird 9/9 - Against Me! / Matt & Kim / David Dondero @ Rhinos 9/10 - David Bazan / Casiotone for the Painfully Alone @ Waldron 9/16 - Iris DeMent @ Bluebird 9/19 - Andrew Bird @ Buskirk-Chumley Theatre 9/19 - BIASfest @ Art Hospital 9/20 - Nomo @ Uncle Fester's 9/20 - Redman @ Bluebird 9/22 - Dark Meat @ Art Hospital 10/4 - Shooter Jennings @ Bluebird 10/5 - Old Time Relijun @ Bears Place 10/14 - Black Mountain @ Bluebird 10/16 - Ween @ Bluebird 10/18 - Nickel Creek @ Bluebird 10/23 - Jens Lekman @ Jake's 10/26 - Del The Funkee Homosapien @ Bluebird 12/3 - Jose Gonzalez @ Buskirk-Chumley We have tickets and further information for many of these wonderful performances. We can only accept cash for ticket purchases, please. ------------------------------------------------------------------ STAFF PICKS! These are all available at Landlocked right now! Hurry! Terry Allen - Lubbock (On Everything) (Fate/Sugar Hill, 1979/1995) ................................................................... I loved this record before I ever heard a note. The cover alone speaks volumes me: a sticky orange pleather chair with a half full ashtray and a half empty bottle of whiskey, some random junk strewn about. It's mysterious and confusing like the best Jandek cover images. Allen was a visual artist as well as a musician. David Byrne is a big fan (Allen is also briefly in Byrne's movie, True Stories). He grew up in Lubbock and palled around with Joe Ely and that scene. The music is a Texas sampler: blues, ballads, cajun, tex-mex rock. Doug Sahm is probably a fan. His characters are post-holers, ex-jocks, waitresses, dropouts, renagade art dealers, and so on. Each song tells a story, but the sum is much bigger than the parts. Recommended for fans of arty, weird roots music. - Jason The Soft Machine - S/T (Volume 1) (Probe/Water, 1968/2007) ................................................................... This, the first LP from UK psychedelic underground legends the Soft Machine was recorded sporadically whenever they had time off during a US tour with the Jimi Hendrix Experience, with whom they shared manager/producer Chas Chandler. Despite the erratic recording schedule, Volume 1 flows seemlessly (except for side break) and effortlessly from one classic track to another.  Waves of Mike Ratledge's gorgeous fuzz-organ and pummeling bass/guitar from Kevin Ayers provide the perfect foundation for Robert Wyatt's jaw-droppingly great "lead" drumming and ethereal, otherworldly vocals.  Absolutely essential. - Cyrus Stockholm Monsters - Alma Mater Plus (Factory Benelux/LTM, 1984/2003) ................................................................... Remastered and expanded reissue of the only full length album by Manchester UK's criminally overlooked Stockholm Monsters. This early 80s band has the region's fingerprints all over them and the production from New Order bassist Peter Hook just makes it all the more so. Some say they are the middle ground between A Certain Ratio and Happy Mondays, some say they tread the same water as The Wake, Joy Division and early New Order, some say they are an evil Smiths. Any way you slice it, you win. Also available: All At Once, a collection of their singles and b-sides which shows an earlier and darker side of their sound. - Heath 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 http://indiana.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2385198570 (812) 339 - 2574 Hours of Operation: Monday - Saturday : 11:30am - 7:30pm Sunday : Noon - 5pm