Is it really October already? Zang. If you're like me, you probably managed to get some Lotus on you this past weekend (like it or not) and are just now recovering. If not, you missed quite the street scene. Regardless of your affinity for "world music", it helps make Bloomington a lovely place and you surely don't see anything like it happening in a hamlet of our size anywhere else! Support what you love, go see some great music, buy their tunes, and keep your ears peeled for the crisp whispers of autumnal leaves. NEW ARRIVALS for the Week of 10/02/2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------ (Exact arrival dependent on shipping delays and mishaps, sorry) Aceyalone - Lightning Strikes (Decon) ................................................................... Lightning Strikes explores dancehall, dub, and reggae riddims. The resulting amalgamation of hip hop and dancehall, produced by LA's Bionik, is brilliant and intoxicating. Features Chali 2na from Jurassic 5. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Sacred Famous (Human Ear Music) ................................................................... Compiling selections from Ariel Pink's massive bank of half forgotten cassettes can seem like an effort in vain, or a pyrrhic victory at best, as what is left out is equally deserving of a listen as what's included. The tracks selected for Scared Famous were all recorded at a key moment in Ariel's recording adventure, dating back to, or immediately following the recordings on House Arrest. David Bowie - The Buddha of Suburbia OST [reissue] (Virgin) ................................................................... Bowie's 19th studio album, from 1993. The TV adaptation of a 1990 book written by Hanif Kureishi, its a semi-autobiographical tale featuring a South London teenager desperate to escape the suburbs which confine him. Only the title track on the album was actually featured in the program itself. J.J. Cale - Rewind: The Unreleased Recordings (Time) ................................................................... A trove of unreleased songs recorded by Cale during his most influential years. Featuring vintage tracks from his legendary tenures at Shelter and Mercury, Rewind is a remarkable collection that exemplifies his distinctive, legendary style: laid-back guitar and almost whispered vocals. Cale also personally selected several covers - Clapton's Golden Ring, Leon Russell's My Cricket, Waylon Jennings' Waymore's Blues and Randy Newman's Rollin'. PJ Harvey - White Chalk (Island) ................................................................... PJ's 8th studio album. It includes musical contributions from Harvey's long time associate Eric Drew Feldman and Jim White from The Dirty Three. The album highlights her incredible ability to consistently create a unique, yet always impactful experience with each new album. Her talents as a songwriter, musician, and producer have never been as powerful, or profound. The songs are wonderfully mesmerizing, leaving a hypnotic effect on the listener. A lovely departure, these piano based songs might make for her most gripping release in years. Richard Hawley - Lady's Bridge (Mute) ................................................................... Before he began his solo career, Hawley was a member of Longpigs and Pulp, amongst others. The album, his fifth solo set, is an elegiac ode to Hawley's native Sheffield, follows up 2005's stately Mercury Prize nominee Coles Corner. Fiercely proud of his working class upbringing, Hawley once described himself as "jurassic labour" in response to a question about the New Labour project. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - 100 Days 100 Nights (Daptone) ................................................................... Although singer Sharon Jones first began attracting attention during the late 90s, her smoky, soulful voice and blistering grooves harked back three decades earlier to the heyday of funk, evoking the music of James Brown proteges like Marva Whitney and Lynn Collins with uncanny precision; not surprising, given that the veteran Jones was well into her 40s by the time she began earning wide recognition. The Dap-Kings have been highly sought after, working with artist such as Amy Winehouse, Kanye West, Mark Ronson, The Bomb Squad, Kenny Dope, Lilly Allen, and Rhymefest. God bless Daptone. KTL - 3 LP (Or) ................................................................... This is the third full-length release by KTL, the formidable collaboration between Stephen O'Malley (SunnO)))) and Peter Rehberg (Pita). Perhaps the broadest bulletin from the duo thus far, featuring two contrasting tracks. The layered dementia bliss of "Loud Game" counterbalances the fried dub of "Sunday." One-sided heavyweight vinyl and etching by Savage Pencil, packaged in a tip-on style outer sleeve, heavyweight inner sleeve and sticker. Super limited. Life on Earth! - Look There Is... (Subliminal Sounds) ................................................................... The solo-work of Mattias Gustavsson, from the Swedish band, Dungen. Together with some fellow travelling kindred musical spirits, he has created a deep and timeless album filled with shimmering vibrant psychedelic folk-rock-pop. Absolutely joyful, wondrous, swirling Swedish psych-folk loveliness. Sparkling acoustic singer-songwriter sing-a-longs, acid-drenched guitar burners, spacey vocals, Moog whines, sitar-drone, psych-flute trill, bongos, echoes, dreamy backwards-masking, and songs in English! Om - Pilgrimage (Southern Lord) ................................................................... The 3rd sacred voyage of drone mantra purity helmed by the master rhythm section from the legendary Sleep. Pilgrimage's songs feature the groups unique use of riff, cadence and chant along with lyrical themes addressing the processes of mind, psychic reality, astral and causal planes of being, and the nature of the soul. Recorded and engineered by Steve Albini and mastered by Bob Weston. Chuck Prophet (ex-Green on Red) - Soap and Water (Yep Roc) ................................................................... Soap and Water moves deftly from Americana and rock to R&B, molding styles at will. Prophet is a writer, producer and musician who helped define LA's Paisley Underground scene and open the door for alt-country's rise to prominence. His dark undercurrents and mythic persona have coupled with his seat-of-the-pants creative philosophy to make him one of the most sought-after songwriters in music today. He's laid down sessions with Warren Zevon, had his songs recorded by Solomon Burke and produced/written for Kelly Willis, yet Prophet is at his most potently distilled when writing and recording for his solo projects. The Sadies - New Seasons (Yep Roc) ................................................................... Featuring the brotherly harmonies and dazzling guitar interplay of Dallas and Travis Good, New Seasons is the band's 5th studio album. The Sadies' inspired amalgam of psychedelic country rock, surf, bluegrass and Morricone-inspired instrumentals has made them the preeminent torchbearers of cosmic American music. Produced by Jayhawk Gary Louris. Siouxsie - Mantaray (Decca) ................................................................... The debut solo album from renowned British artist Siouxsie without The Banshees or The Creatures. Mantaray is fresh and contemporary, while remaining immediately recognizable. Incorporating industrial rhythms, modern glam and other orgainic elements, her iconic vocals are showcased in a newly expansive sound across the whole album. Bruce Springsteen - Magic (Sony) ................................................................... When Bruce Springsteen finally broke through to national recognition in the fall of 1975 after a decade of trying, critics hailed him as the savior of rock & roll, the single artist who brought together all the exuberance of 50s rock and the thoughtfulness of 60s rock, molded into a 70s style. He rocked as hard as Jerry Lee Lewis, his lyrics were as complicated as Dylan's, and his concerts were near-religious celebrations of all that was best in music. His 15th studio album is not only a return to rock, but also a reunion w/ the E Street Band. VA - Heavy Metal [4CD Box Set] (Rhino) ................................................................... The most comprehensive anthology of the genre ever. Arranged chronologically, it collects 70 classic tracks tracing the evolution of metal through its first golden age, 1968-1991. Encompassing proto-metalists, hard rock icons, thrashers, progressive acts, speedsters, pop-metal MTV favorites, and more, a who's who of masters get their due. The box also boasts essays from Ronnie James Dio and Lita Ford, plus and a detailed history of metal by Mick Wall. Comes in deluxe Marshall-Head style box, complete with a volume knob that goes up to 11! VA - Peanut Butter Wolf presents B-Ball Zombie War (Stones Throw) ................................................................... This collection, compiled by Stones Throw's founder and president, features new collaborations by Talib Kweli, Q-Tip and MF DOOM rapping over beats by the late J Dilla, as well as new tracks by Madlib, Guilty Simpson, Percee P, Koushik, and J.Rocc, amongst others. It also introduces new artists, including Karriem Riggins and Madlib's group Supreme Team and Peanut Butter Wolf's latest signing to the label, James Pants. * (New Numero Group Sub-Label!) ................................................................... Asterisk is a new imprint from the wonderful folks at the fabulous reissue label, Numero Group. Serialized by number and design, * releases will follow the path blazed by Numero, with well researched and thoughtful liner notes, photographs, and memorabilia all housed in miniature gatefold LP jackets. The results will feel like a little library, its shelves stuffed with the under heard and seldom known. Here are the first three: Johnny Lunchbreak - Appetizer / Soups On (*) ................................................................... This non-album is a melange of post-Velvets New York mixed with the up turned collar of the Modern Lovers' New England. Oddly enough, the band was shooting for the Bee Gees, and their horrible miss is our gain. The Four Mints - Gently Down Your Stream (*) ................................................................... As heard on Numero's inaugural release, Columbus, OH's Capsoul label was going more for Meet The Supremes than What's Goin' On. Gently Down Your Stream was the only album by the Four Mints. This definitive version collects all their singles, unissued tracks, rehearsals and instrumentals. Propinquity - s/t (*) ................................................................... First heard on Numero's Ladies From The Canyon CD. Issued in 1973 on Colorado's Folkways-like Owl imprint, this is the only album the Boulder group ever recorded. Steeped in the CSNY tradition of strong solo pieces knotted together by friendship - a dreamy blend of folk & rock. We also have three new 45s from Numero, featuring unreleased tracks from Deep City, Bandit, as well as the great Twinight series of singles. PRINT RUN ------------------------------------------------------------------ Wax Poetics Anthology Vol.1 ................................................................... One of the premier magazines for music lovers and vinyl collectors, Wax Poetics presents their first anthology book. Compiled of their favorite articles from issues 1 - 5, all in one book. All of your favorites and appreciated artists from jazz, hip-hop to funk and soul shown in this book, a collectors must have. The Wire - Issue #284 - Robert Wyatt ................................................................... In a revealing interview, Robert Wyatt and his wife discuss the troubled backdrop to his upcoming album, Comicopera. Also: Shape Of Broad Minds (psychedelic hiphop from Philly); Ute Wassermann (extreme German improv vocalist); Walter & Sabrina (London nihilist rock duo); Camille Norment; Invisible Jukebox w/ Dutch percussionist Han Bennink; and Oxbow (the music world's answer to Fight Club). Also includes the latest Wire Tapper CD. Woofah #1 ................................................................... Woofah is an independently produced fanzine covering dancehall / grime / dubstep / dub / bashment / roots / and all points in between. The first issue features in-depth interviews with MCs, producers, soundsystem operators and DJs. Featuring Iration Steppas, Skepta, Lez Lyrix, Pinch, Young.Dog, Maniac & Chunky Bizzle, Heny G, plus reviews, Badman Commandments, fiction & more. Also Released This Week (but not necc in stock, ask us!) ------------------------------------------------------------------ David Byrne - Live From Austin,TX CD/DVD (New West) Cake - B-Sides and Rarities (Upbeat) The Cult - Born Into This (Roadrunner) Dashboard Confessional - The Shade of Poison Trees (Vagrant) Bob Dylan - Dylan [3CD retrospective] (Sony) Erasure - Storm Chaser EP (Mute) Fire Engines - Hungry Beat (Acute) John Fogerty - Revival (Fantasy) Frightened Rabbit - Sing The Greys (10/2) The Gasman - Audiogold (Planet Mu) Annie Lennox - Songs of Mass Destruction (Arista) Mahavishnu Orchestra - Live at Montreux 1974-1984 DVD (Eagle) Matchbox Twenty - Exile On Mainstream MVI (Atlantic) Mobius Band - Heaven (Misra) The Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes (Interscope) Toni Price - Talk Memphis (Texas) Prong - Power of the Damager (13th Planet) Ramones - It's Alive 1974-1996 2DVD (Rhino) Martin Sexton - Live at Newbury Comics (Kitchen) Slayer - Unholy Alliance Live DVD (Sony) VA - Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story DVD (Stax) VA - Stax/Volt Revue Live In Norway 1967 DVD (Stax) STAFF PICKS! These are all available at Landlocked right now! Hurry! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Entrance - Prayer of Death (TeePee, 2006) ................................................................... Prayer is a concept (or "theme") album about death and why we shouldn't be so afraid of it. Produced by Secretly Canadian heartthrob David Vandervelde at former Wilco member Jay Bennett's studio in Chicago, this record has an otherworldly, almost gospel-like quality to it, albeit filtered through Entrance's cosmic-psychedelic-blues style. The "heavy" ideals of the album are made concrete and totally effective by the layered and reverbed sound of the band. Thoroughly spaced-out guitar, wailing violin and tastefully employed electric sitar float over a truly thunderous rhythm section, giving the entire album the vibe of a middle-of-the-night thunderstorm in an ancient graveyard. The only ray of sunlight through the clouds being Blakeslee's voice, which has a slightly angelic, choir-boy feel as he sings his ruminations on death and existentialism from the highest echo-plexed mountaintop. - Cyrus Seefeel - Quique (Too Pure, 1993 reissued 2007) ................................................................... Seefeel embody the blur that started to occur in the early 90s between the British indie scene and the "IDM" or underground dance scene. Taking the heavily processed sounds of Loveless and applying a more minimalist / tape looping mentality, all the while maintaining a pop structure. Add in some heavy dub influence and distant angelic vocals and the sound can easily be seen as the predecessor to modern acts like Boards of Canada and the roster of Kompakt Records. Imagine Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume 2 as performed by a band? Reissue includes a second disc of never released before and remixed versions of tracks. - Heath Lewis Taylor - The Lost Album (Hacktone, reissue 2006) ................................................................... There's a lengthy back-story to this album, here's the condensed version: musically-gifted London kid gets into a car accident; woodsheds to proficiency on a Prince-like number of instruments while convalescing; gets hired as guitarist for recently reformed heavy psych-prog freaks, the Edgar Broughton Band, indulges in drugs; quits; cuts a demo of slick whiteboy neo-soul which immediately lands him a deal with Island (this is around 1994); UK music press freaks out over the album, but no one really buys it except Elton John and other celebrity fans; retreats to home studio where he records this, the intended follow-up; label says, "What's this sunny psychedelic soul rock? Sounds like Todd Rundgren meets Stevie Wonder? How are we supposed to market this, and to whom?" The rest is easy enough to guess. Thus, The Lost Album. - Jason ................................................................... NEXT WEEK - Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! - info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... Ed Askew - Little Eyes (10/9) 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) Extra Golden - Hera Ma Nono (10/9) Fiery Furnaces - Widow City (10/9) Future of the Left - Curses (10/9) The Hives - Black and White Album (10/9) Jesu - Lifeline (10/9) Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala (10/9) Samara Lubelski - Parallel Suns (10/9) Cass McCombs - Dropping the Writ (10/9) Melvins - Making Love Demons (10/9) Modeselektor - Happy Birthday (10/9) MV&EE with the Golden Road - Gettin' Gone (10/9) Scout Niblett - This Fool Can Die Now (10/9) Octopus Project - Hello Avalanche (10/9) Ohmega Watts - Watts Happening (10/9) Old Time Relijun - Catharsis In Crisis (10/9) Parkway Drive - Horizons (10/9) Robert Pollard - Coast to Coast Carpet of Love (10/9) Robert Pollard - Standard Gargoyle Decisions (10/9) Prints - s/t (10/9) Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust (10/9) Damien Rice - Live at Fingerprints (10/9) Rollins Band - Do It (10/9) She Wants Revenge - This is Forever (10/9) Six Twilights - s/t (10/9) Sleeping People - Growing (10/9) Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover (10/9) Times New Viking - 7" (10/9) Scott Walker - And Who Shall Go to the Ball? (10/9) Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (10/9) XBXRX - Sounds (10/9) ................................................................... COMING SOON (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... The Blakes - s/t (10/16) Vashti Bunyan - Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind (10/16) Jimmy Eat World - Chase the Light (10/16) Maritime - Heresy and the Hotel Choir (10/16) The Most Serene Republic - Population (10/16) Muscles - Guns, Babes and Lemonade (10/16) Nurse with Wound - Homotopy to Marie [reissue] (10/16) Pylon - Gyrate [reissue] (10/16) R.E.M. - Live (10/16) Umphrey's McGee - Live at the Murat (10/16) Underworld - Oblivion with Bells (10/16) Venetian Snares - My Downfall (10/16) Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II (10/16) Ryan Adams - Follow the Lights EP (10/23) Besnard Lakes - Volume 1 (10/23) Black Dice - Load Blown (10/23) Black Moth Super Rainbow - reissues (10/23) Tom Brosseau - Cavalier (10/23) Carla Bruni - No Promises (10/23) Castanets - In the Vines (10/23) Dave Gahan - Hourglass (10/23) Ghost - Overture [Live] (10/23) Hangar 18 - Sweep the Leg (10/23) Holy Fuck - LP (10/23) Lazarus - Hawk Medicine (10/23) Orgone - The Killion Floor (10/23) Owls - Daughters and Suns (10/23) Phosphorescent - Pride (10/23) Prefuse 73 - Preparations (10/23) Randall of Nazareth - s/t (10/23) Saturday Looks Good to Me - Fill Up the Room (10/23) Tullycraft - Every Scene Needs a Center (10/23) Tunng - Comments of the Inner Chorus (10/23) Vampire Weekend - Mansard Roof 7" (10/23) Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36 (10/23) Warlocks - Heavy Skull Lover (10/23) Ween - La Cucaracha (10/23) White Magic - Dark Stars (10/23) Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals (10/23) Beatles - Help! DVD (10/30) Duran Duran - Red Carpet Massacre (10/30) Levon Helm - Dirt Farmer (10/30) Charlie Louvin - Live at Shake It Records (10/30) VA - Control OST (10/30) Bright Eyes - Motion Sickness (Live) (11/6) Citay - Little Kingdom (11/6) Loren Connors - As Roses Bow: Collected Airs 1992-2002 (11/6) Hisato Higuchi - Butterfly Horse Street (11/6) Jeremy Jay - Airwalker (11/6) Push-Pull - 3 (11/6) Tokyo Police Club - Smith EP (11/6) Richard Youngs - Autumn Response (11/6) Sigur Ros - Hvarf/Heim (11/6) LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 (11/13) Wu-Tang Clan - The 8 Diagrams (11/13) Daft Punk - Daft Punk Alive 2007 (11/13) Grizzly Bear - Friend EP (11/20) Six Organs of Admittance - Shelter from the Ash (11/20) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 9/25 - 10/02: 1. Iron & Wine, The Shepard's Dog (Sub Pop) 2. Jose Gonzalez, In Our Nature (Mute) 3. Devendra Banhart, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon (XL) 4. Bettye LaVette w/ Drive-by Truckers - The Scene of the Crime (Anti) 5. Mum - Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy (Fat Cat) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Devendra Banhart, Richard Bishop, Cave Singers, Steve Earle, Jose Gonzalez, Heliocentrics, Iron & Wine, Bettye LaVette, Magik Markers, Mountain Home, Mum, Red Krayola, Stars, Supermayer, Tunng, Two Gallants, Working for a Nuclear Free City, Steven Wright, Damon & Naomi, Foo Fighters, Georgie James, Kites, Nellie McKay, Joni Mitchell, Matt Pond PA, Shocking Pinks, Rob Sonic, Weakerthans, Wolves in the Throne Room, Xasthur, Akron/Family, Black Francis, Crescent, Kevin Drew, Fog, His Name is Alive, Les Savy Fav, Thurston Moore, Rogue Wave, Songs of the Green Pheasant, Wooden Shjips, Mu-Ziq, Percee P, Wiley, Sixtoo, Dropkick Murphys, High on Fire, Michael Hurley, Adrian Orange, Animal Collective, Besnard Lakes, Black Lips, COCO, Dirty Projectors, Figurines, Film School, Go Team, Good Life, Joe Henry, Le Loup, Oakley Hall, Emma Pollock, Qui, Shout Out Louds, Simian Mobile Disco, Taken By Trees and much much more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming Bloomington shows that Landlocked Music is excited about: 10/3 - Tulsa / Butane Variations @ Bear's Place 10/4 - Shooter Jennings @ Bluebird 10/5 - Old Time Relijun @ Bear's Place 10/5 - John Vanderslice / Bishop Allen @ Waldron 10/10 - Yo La Tengo @ Buskirk-Chumley 10/12 - Sheds / Gentleman Caller / Normanoak @ Bears Place 10/14 - Black Mountain / Cave Singers @ Bluebird 10/16 - Ween @ Bluebird 10/18 - Nickel Creek @ Bluebird 10/19 - Bob Dylan / Elvis Costello @ IU Assembly Hall 10/23 - Jens Lekman @ Jake's 10/26 - Del The Funkee Homosapien / Devin the Dude @ Bluebird 10/30 - Melt Banana / Racebannon @ Rhino's 11/3 - Gore Gore Girls @ Rhino's 11/13 - Ghostface Killa / Rakim / Brother Ali @ Bluebird 11/24 - Celebration / Vampire Weekend @ Waldron 12/3 - Jose Gonzalez / Cass McCombs @ Buskirk-Chumley We have tickets and further information for many of these wonderful performances. Sorry, but we can only accept cash for ticket purchases. ------------------------------------------------------------------ More information about shows and more on the horizon is available for the technologically inclined at http://www.landlockedmusic.com/ or http://myspace.com/landlockedbton or http://indiana.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2385198570 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