Brrrr. Layers are back in fashion, right? Don't be afraid of Jack Frost though, Landlocked has good heating, and hot coffee - mmmm coffee. In a more serious note, please come to either the memorial at the Buskirk and/or the concert at the Bluebird this sunday, the 20th to commemorate the life of Evan Farrell, one of the great musicians and kindest hearts of Bloomington. There is an open donation at the door so give whatever you'd like and check out the silent auction, too. Every little bit will help his family. Thank you. NEW ARRIVALS for the Week of 1/15/2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------ (Exact arrival dependent on shipping delays and mishaps, sorry) Burning Witch - Crippled Lucifer (Southern Lord) ................................................................... After the breakup of the cult doom/death band Thorr's Hammer in 1995, Stephen O'Malley, Greg Anderson and Jamie Sykes formed Burning Witch. These recordings are the roots of much of what has grown into the current existence of Southern Lord alumni: Sunn O))), Khanate, Goatsnake, KTL, etc. Neko Case - Back Catalog (Bloodshot) ................................................................... Everyone loves Neko. Whether you came to her via No Depression or New Pornographers, there is no denying her voice and songs. That's why we have decided to offer you, the fan, her first 3 CDs for only $10 each. The Virginian (1997), Furnace Room Lullaby (2000) and Blacklisted (2002). Fill in your collection, turn on your friends and family, get em before they're gone! Cornelius - Gum EP (Everloving) ................................................................... Cornelius (aka Keigo Oyamada) has always marched to the beat of a different drum machine, even in his wildly eclectic habitat of Tokyo. Since exploding onto the scene in 1997 with Fantasma, his cut-and-paste opus, Cornelius has dazed and amused fans worldwide with his freeform pop aesthetic and playful sense of humor. Gum, the first single off his latest album, Sensuous, comes on 180g vinyl w/ inner sleeve and code for download. B-sides and remixes by Prefuse 73, Petra Haden (that dog.), The Books and Ryuichi Sakamoto (Yellow Magic Orchestra). Mike Ladd - Nostalgialator (Def Jux) ................................................................... Through the years, Mike Ladd has fused a combination of genres, from hip hop to spoken word to rock to electronic music, to form his own incredible incarnation of afro punk. Whether spitting searing freestyle polemics, rocking punked out jams or writing dissertations at Harvard, this is an artist who knows very few bounds. Ladd's music is equally fearless yet sensitive, raw yet sophisticated, just like the man himself. With Nostalgialator, co-produced and engineered by Brooklyn's own Scotty Hard (Wu-Tang Clan, De La Soul, Jungle Bros, Einstürzende Neubauten, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and more), Ladd's genre-smashing, thought provoking and irreverant musical stylings are on full display. The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Nonesuch) ................................................................... Stephin Merritt has said that his aim in making the new record was "to sound more like Jesus and Mary Chain than Jesus and Mary Chain." Beneath the racket, though, not that much has changed in The Magnetic Fields modus operandi. Again, Merritt's meticulous orchestration of his sonics is what really impresses. A sense of how random sound can be organized into something so attractive that you barely notice the cacophony from which it is constructed. VA - Wayfaring Strangers: Guitar Soli (Numero Group) ................................................................... Bridging the gap between American Primitive pioneers John Fahey, Robbie Basho, and Leo Kottke, and the California Modernists William Ackerman, Alex de Grassi, and Michael Hedges, Guitar Soli explores the private side of the solo guitar movement from 1966-1981. While Takoma and Will were laying the groundwork for the New Age marketing juggernaut of the mid 80s, these 14 loners were picking away in tiny cafes and selling records hand to hand. The single disc set comes housed in a chipboard slipcase with a 40 page booklet and digipack. Also Released This Week (but not necc in stock, ask us!) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dirty on Purpose - Like Bees EP (North Street) Eels - Meet the Eels: Essential Eels 1996-2006 CD+DVD (Geffen) Eels - Useless Trinkets: B-Sides, Rarities 2CD+DVD (Geffen) Grand Buffet - King Vision (Fighting) Nurse With Wound - Gyllenskold (Durtro/Jnana) Rings - Black Habit (Paw Tracks) ................................................................... NEXT WEEK - Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! - info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... Baby Dee - Safe Inside the Day (1/22) Black Mountain - In the Future (1/22) Blood on the Wall - Liferz (1/22) Bodies of Water - Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blank (1/22) Cat Power - Jukebox (1/22) Collections of Colonies of Bees - Birds (1/22) Matt Costa - Unfamiliar Faces (1/22) Dengue Fever - Venus On Earth (1/22) Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark (1/22) Envy - All the Footprints You've Ever Left / Abyssal (1/22) Evangelicals - The Evening Descends (1/22) The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms (1/22) Liam Finn - I'll Be Lightning (1/22) The Fleshtones - Take a Good Look (1/22) Hello Blue Roses - The Portrait Is Finished (1/22) Hey Willpower - PDA (1/22) Mahjongg - Kontpab (1/22) Eric Matthews - The Imagination Stage (1/22) MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (1/22) Mono - The Sky Remains the Same as Ever DVD (1/22) Jon Mueller - Metals (1/22) North Mississippi Allstars - Hernando (1/22) Buck Owens - Live in Scandinavia (1/22) Jack Penate - Matinee (1/22) Photon Band - Back Down to Earth (1/22) Rafter - Sex Death Cassette (1/22) Jason Ringenberg - Best Tracks and Side Tracks 1979-2007 (1/22) Sneaky Pete Kleinow - Anthology (1/22) Jed Speare - Sound Works 1982-87 2CD (1/22) Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus! (1/22) Richard Swift - Instruments of Science and Technology (1/22) Times New Viking - Rip It Off (1/22) Vetiver - You May Be Blue (1/22) The Whigs - Mission Control (1/22) ................................................................... COMING SOON (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... Beck - Odelay [deluxe] (1/29) The Ex - Building a Broken Mousetrap DVD (1/29) The Five Blind Boys of Alabama - Down in New Orleans (1/29) Future of the Left - Curses (1/29) Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead (1/29) Human Bell - s/t (1/29) Ida - Lovers Prayers (1/29) Joe Jackson - Rain (1/29) Jeffrey Lewis - 12 Crass Songs (1/29) Los Campesinos - The International Tweexcore Underground (1/29) Louis XIV - Slick Dogs and Ponies (1/29) The Mars Volta - The Bedlam is Goliath (1/29) Robert Pollard - Superman Was a Rocker (1/29) Radar Brothers - Auditorium (1/29) Sons & Daughters - The Gift (1/29) Vampire Weekend - s/t (1/29) Vandermark 5 - Beat Reader (1/29) Chris Walla - Field Manual (1/29) Xiu Xiu - Women as Loers (1/29) Basia Bulat - Oh, My Darling (2/5) Clutchy Hopkins - Walking Backwards (2/5) Jason Collett - Here's to Being Here (2/5) Dead Meadow - Old Growth (2/5) Hot Chip - Made in the Dark (2/5) Lenny Kravitz - It Is Time For A Love Revolution (2/5) Kronos Quartet - Terry Riley: The Cusp of Magic (2/5) Lightspeed Champion - Falling off the Lavender Bridge (2/5) Bob Mould - District Line (2/5) Nada Surf - Lucky (2/5) Psychic TV - Hell is Invisible [LP version] (2/5) Josh Ritter - In the Dark (2/5) Roxy Music - Thrill of It All: Visual History DVD (2/5) Sons And Daughters - This Gift (2/5) Kelley Stoltz - Circular Sounds (2/5) Paul Weller - Wild Wood [deluxe] (2/5) The Whip - Trash / Frustration (2/5) Yip-Yip - Two Kings of the Same Kingdom (2/5) VA - Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Nigerian Blues (2/5) British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music? (2/12) Ethiopiques, Vol. 23 (2/12) Widespread Panic - Free Somehow (2/12) American Music Club - The Golden Age (2/19) Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel (2/19) Belong - Colorloss Record (2/19) Blood on the Wall - Liferz (2/19) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (2/19) The Dirtbombs - We Have You Surrounded (2/19) Growing - Lateral EP (2/19) The Lions - Jungle Struttin' (2/19) Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride (2/19) Neptune - Gong Lake (2/19) No Kids - Come Into My House (2/19) Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust (2/19) Throw Me the Statue - Moonbeams (2/19) VA - Burn To Shine 05: Seattle DVD (2/19) Beach House - Devotion (2/26) Del The Funky Homosapien - Eleventh Hour (2/26) Earth - The Bee Made Honey in the Lion's Skull (2/26) Old Crow Medicine Show - Eutaw (2/26) Autechre - Quaristice (3/4) Chris Corsano - The Young Cricketeer LP (3/4) Gutter Twins - Saturnalia (3/4) Ladyhawk - Shots (3/4) Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Real Emotional Trash (3/4) Earles & Jensen Present: Just Farr A Laugh Vol 1 & 2 (4/22) STAFF PICKS! These are all available at Landlocked right now! Hurry! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Black Lips - Let it Bloom (In the Red, 2005) ................................................................... Easily one of the best & most exciting rock & roll albums I have heard in a long time, the Black Lips' 3rd full-length 'Let it Bloom' is a note-perfect combination of raw, energetic performances, scuzzily-perfect garage production, and totally infectious tunes. It's got everything you need. There's nothing spectacular about the musicianship, nothing groundbreaking about the production or songwriting. There aren't even intelligible lyrics half the time. However, it does have that certain unnameble quality that, somehow, just makes it timeless. The songs are so instantly hummable and catchy, it's like you've always known them. Not to make this sound like just a pop record, as the buzzsaw guitars, snotty vocals, juvenile lyrics and general air of garagey-slime would say otherwise. It's simply a great, fun, dirty, unpretentious rock record, something that's becoming harder & harder to find these days. - Cyrus Dntel - Life is Full of Possibilities (Plug Research, 2001) ................................................................... The year was 2001 and the Postal Service was still a few years down the road with its gold record sales of over 650,000. Jimmy Tamborello recruits a few friends to lay down vocals and other instruments for his underground electronic album, including Chris Gunst (Beachwood Sparks), Mia Doi Todd, Meredith Figurine, Rachel Haden (that dog), Brian McMahan (Slint) and Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie). The result is a rather beautiful and moody "glitch" pop record. Warm electronics mix with organic instruments to create a bubblebath headphone album, highly recommended for fans of Postal Service, Junior Boys, Album Leaf, Caribou, Mum, Notwist, Royksopp, etc. A perfect melding of the late 90s IDM scene with the indie world of the naughts. - Heath Johnny Lunchbreak - Appetizer/ Soup's On (Asterisk 2007, rec. 1975) ................................................................... Collecting 70s private press records is an occupation fraught with letdowns. It's a world of records that more often than not just don't live up to their rep, records that are only really interesting due to their scarcity. There are of course exceptions. Albums that stand up on their own musical legs so to speak. Johnny Lunchbreak's Appetizer / Soups On is one recent, notable example. Recorded in 1975 and saved from oblivion by Asterisk Records (a side label of the mighty Numero Group), JL were barely a blip on the Connecticut rock scene of the mid 70s. But this, their lone recorded document, reveals a band with a keen pop ear. It's like they grew up loving the early San Fran scene- I hear a lot of Jefferson Airplane & the Dead- plus some Love-esque proto-punk stomp, and some charming attempts at Badfinger-like sensitivity. Add it all up and it equals the wrong band at the wrong time. The Holy Grail it ain't. But a damn fine pop record all the same. - Jason ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 1/8 - 1/15 1. VA - Juno - Original Sountrack (Rhino) 2. Radiohead - In Rainbows (TBD) 3. M.I.A. - Arular (XL) 4. VA - I'm Not There - Original Soundtrack (Sony) 5. Marah - Angels of Destruction (Yep Roc) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Marah, Reverend Organdrum, Sia, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Radiohead, Bonnie Prince Billy, Rivers Cuomo, Jonny Greenwood, Tool, Hi-Tek, Wu-Tang Clan, Aloha, Blood Meridian, Bodies of Water, Daft Punk, Nick Drake, 4 Bonjours Parties, Ghostface Killah, Interpol, Kentucky Nightmare, Joe Lally, One Be Lo, Rufus Wainwright, Boris w/ Merzbow, British Sea Power, Cloudland Canyon / Lichens, Electric Wizard, Gorillaz, LoVid, Major Stars, James Murphy and Pat Mahoney, Nine Inch Nails, Push-Pull, Six Organs of Admittance, The Valerie Project, Cursive, Opeth, Residents, Boscoe, Vashti Bunyan, Burial, Eskiboy, Robyn Hitchcock, Os Mutantes, Pantaleimon, Wire and much much more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming Bloomington shows that Landlocked Music is excited about: 1/17 - Toubab Krewe @ Bluebird 1/20 - Evan Farrell Memorial Show @ Bluebird 1/24 - Chicago Afrobeat Project @ Fester's 1/27 - Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin @ Cinemat 2/1 - Peter and the Wolf @ Bear's 2/2 - Capillary Action @ Art Hospital 2/3 - Six Organs of Admittance / Mick Turner @ Waldron 2/8 - Phantom Family Halo / La Otracina @ Bears 2/9 - Carrie Newcomer @ Buskirk-Chumley 2/12 - Nina Nastasia @ Art Hospital 2/15 - Bon Iver @ Bears 2/16 - Haste the Day + more @ Rhino's 2/24 - Say Hi (To Your Mom) @ Waldron 2/28 - They Might Be Giants @ Bluebird 2/29 - Avett Brothers @ Bluebird 3/1 - Pelican / Black Cobra / Unearthly Trance @ Rhino's 3/3 - Bowerbirds / Phosphorescent @ Waldron 3/4 - Evangelicals / Headlights @ Waldron 3/11 - Samara Lubelski @ Waldron 3/13 - David Allan Coe @ Bluebird 3/18 - Old Time Relijun @ Bluebird 3/20 - Islands @ Rhino's 3/21 - The Dirtbombs / Kelley Stoltz @ Jake's 3/27 - Le Loup @ Waldron 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