Thanks to any and all who helped by showing up, volunteering, donating money or simply giving some love over this past emotion filled weekend for Evan Farrell's memorial - it was beautiful to see so many people come together and so many faces from the past. If you didn't know him, know that he touched on thousands of lives substantially and will be terribly missed. Not much else to say, its cold, its grey, and we have all kinds of amazing new music for you to peruse: NEW ARRIVALS for the Week of 1/22/2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------ (Exact arrival dependent on shipping delays and mishaps, sorry) Black Mountain - In the Future CD/LP (Jagjaguwar) ................................................................... Your favorite psych-prog-spiritual pioneers are back with their 2nd album that resonates with the same epic ring, beloved deep rock touchstones and genuine folk fragility. The new album possesses immense breadth, seamlessly showcasing short and classic folk-pop gems along with driving modern rock, peaking with a 17-minute multi-dimensional opus that gives Pink Floyd's "Echoes" a run for its money. The deluxe limited edition CD includes a second disc with 3 additional songs not on the LP version. Blood on the Wall - Liferz (Social Registry) ................................................................... Having gone from hometown heroes to national fan favorites and critical darlings, the band has earned its reputation as top of the rock heap. Putting out raucously fun records. Liferz is a portrait of a band at the top of their game - they throw the Pixies, Pavement, Sebadoh, Sonic Youth, and all the rest of the 90s indie rawk brethern into one messy blender. Cat Power - Jukebox CD/LP (Matador) ................................................................... Her second album of covers; this one a tribute to the great vocalists who've influenced her over the years. Deluxe and limited silver-foil gatefold cover (LP and CD) comes with bonus disc of extra tracks. Backed by the Dirty Delta Blues (Judah Bauer, Gregg Foreman, Jim White, Erik Papparazzi) and featuring her versions of Frank Sinatra, Hank Williams, Highwaymen, George Jackson, James Brown, Bob Dylan, Billie Holiday, Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, Moby Grape, Nick Cave, Roberta Flack, Patsy Cline and more! Dengue Fever - Venus On Earth (M80) ................................................................... There is virtually no other band in the world playing "Khmer Rock," the style of 60s Cambodian rock derived from Armed Forces Radio in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. "A unique and surprisingly danceable group that combines a beautiful Khmer-language vocalist from Cambodia and a quintet of seasoned locals with a knack for mixing Southeast Asian pop, Vietnam-war-era lounge music, klezmer, ska, surf rock, and Ethiopian jazz." - Spin Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark (New West) ................................................................... The band continues its notorious 3-guitar attack with the promotion of longtime sidekick John Neff to full member. Patterson Hood contributes 9 songs to the album, 7 songs from Mike Cooley and 3 songs from Shonna Tucker (the first time Shonna has written the songs for a DBT album!) All this is enhanced with musical contributions from the legendary Spooner Oldham. Nuff said. Evangelicals - The Evening Descends CD/LP (Dead Oceans) ................................................................... First you hear the prodigious musical skills: deft guitar work, clever pop sensibility, wild arrangements. But then on other end of the spectrum there is the innocent and youthful charm of a trio of lost boys who seem to have no business making music with such maturity and sophistication. Taken together, you have a wholly demented ensemble from Norman, OK. Dabbling in glam, slipping in a little funk and soul, drinking the psychedelic Kool-aid, blasting the synths, cranking up the guitars, and wrapping it all up with a dose of pop smarts. Liam Finn - I'll Be Lightning (Yep Roc) ................................................................... Indie wunderkind Liam Finn (son of Crowded House / Split Enz frontman Neil Finn) has burst onto the musical landscape with the force and presence of an artist twice his age. The 23-yr-old New Zealander plays nearly every instrument on his first solo album. His sound ranges from foggy and intimate to fuzzed-out garage but melodies are always the order of the day. Melodies feel as if they were snatched from the ether, faintly familiar like the musical stowaways of a dream. Mahjongg - Kontpab CD/LP (K) ................................................................... Mahjongg's constructions seem to be founded on a kind of freehand styling incorporating quasi-tribal beatbox rhythms and bleats, cacaphonic retro arcade noises, garage industrial spit and polish and absurdist whimsy. There's even a vague whiff of 70s Detroit funk in the occasional vocals, but pushed back in the mix and heavily treated. The label sheet refers to the group, not unbecomingly, as "irritainment," but the wit with which Mahjongg approaches its project with makes the statement more amusing than irksome. Recommended! MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (Columbia) ................................................................... 40 years after the Summer of Love, MGMT is celebrating the grand re-opening of the third eye of the world with Oracular Spectacular, the duo's much-anticipated first full-length album, an enigmatic and prophetic collection of hallucinatory sounds and hook-riddled pop tones for the new millennium. RIYL Yeasayer. Richard Swift - Instruments of Science and Technology CD/LP (Secretly Canadian) ................................................................... This largely instrumental electronic project may seem out of character for Swift, who has turned heads over the past few years for his beautiful singing voice, melancholic lyrics and sophisticated songwriting. Taking into account all 3 releases, it appears that he considers the last 80 years of recorded music as his own personal spice rack of musical texture from which to draw and concoct new recipes. Swift has resurrected the early forms of electronic music, thrown in some dub, hip-hop, kraut-rock, and Motown to create a new hybrid dish. Times New Viking - Rip It Off CD/LP (Matador) ................................................................... Hot on the heels of 2 rabidly devoured releases on Siltbreeze, the Matador debut from this Columbus, OH band is the classic we were hoping for. These two guys and a girl make super lo-fi thrashy arty stuff with melodies buried under screeds of noise. There's a touch of early Pavement but with Midwest energy. Strong contender for loudest / sloppiest / awesomest album of the month! Also Released This Week (but not necc in stock, ask us!) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Baby Dee - Safe Inside the Day (Drag City) Castanets - Strong Animal 7" (Asthmatic Kitty) Collections of Colonies of Bees - Birds (Table of the Elements) Matt Costa - Unfamiliar Faces (Brushfire) Envy - All the Footprints / Abyssal CD/LP (Temporary Residence) Ex Reverie - The Door Into Summer (Language of Stone) The Fleshtones - Take a Good Look (Yep Roc) Hey Willpower - PDA (Tomlab) Metabolisms - Social Club #7 (Social Registry) Mono - The Sky Remains the Same as Ever DVD (Temporary Residence) Ilya Monosov - Seven Lucky Plays (Language of Stone) Jon Mueller - Metals (Table of the Elements) Munch Munch - Wedding 7" (Tomlab) North Mississippi Allstars - Hernando (Songs of the South) Jack Penate - Matinee (XL) Rafter - Sex Death Cassette (Asthmatic Kitty) Jason Ringenberg - Best Tracks and Side Tracks 1979-2007 (Yep Roc) Sam Shalabi - Eid (Alien8) Jed Speare - Sound Works 1982-87 2CD (Family Vineyard) Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus! (Rough Trade) Thuja - s/t (Important) The Whigs - Mission Control (ATO) ................................................................... NEXT WEEK - Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! - info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... Beck - Odelay [deluxe] (1/29) Buddy Emmons - Steel Guitar Jazz (Sundazed) The Ex - Building a Broken Mousetrap DVD (1/29) The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms (Water) 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) Hello Blue Roses - The Portrait Is Finished (Locust) Human Bell - s/t (1/29) Ida - Lovers Prayers (1/29) Joe Jackson - Rain (1/29) Wanda Jackson - Live at Town Hall Party 1958 (Sundazed) Sneaky Pete Kleinow - Anthology (Sundazed) 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) Buck Owens - Live in Scandinavia (Sundazed) 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) Vetiver - You May Be Blue [remix 12"] (Gnomonsong) Chris Walla - Field Manual (1/29) Xiu Xiu - Women as Loers (1/29) ................................................................... COMING SOON (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... Baby Walrus - s/t (2/5) 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) Marianne Faithfull - No Regrets (2/19) Flowers Forever - s/t (2/19) Grand Archives - s/t (2/19) Growing - Lateral EP (2/19) Jim Lauderdale - Honey Songs (2/19) The Lions - Jungle Struttin' (2/19) Nick Lowe - Jesus of Cool [reissue] (2/19) Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride (2/19) Neptune - Gong Lake (2/19) No Kids - Come Into My House (2/19) Photon Band - Back Down to Earth (2/19) Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust (2/19) Arlen Roth - Toolin' Around Woodstock (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) A Weather - Cove (3/4) Autechre - Quaristice (3/4) Chris Corsano - The Young Cricketeer LP (3/4) The Felice Brothers - s/t (3/4) Gutter Twins - Saturnalia (3/4) Ladyhawk - Shots (3/4) Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Real Emotional Trash (3/4) Eric Matthews - The Imagination Stage (3/4) Ruby Suns - Sea Lion (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! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic / Shattered (Dirtnap, 2003/2006) ................................................................... Sometimes a band's story gets in the way of the music. Such was the case for me with Exploding Hearts. Three of the four band members died in a auto accident while on tour shortly after the release of their lone album, Guitar Romantic. For some reason, I assumed their tragic ending was the reason for their acclaim, and not their music. What a fool I was. Guitar Romantic is like classic Stiff Records era Brit punk meets Cheap Trick. The kind of band that makes you wonder, what if? What if Nick Lowe had gotten a hold of these guys? What if they'd lived to see the current semi-revival of raw garage rock brought on by bands like the Black Lips and King Khan? Shattered is a posthumous comp of singles and demos, including their final recordings. It's equally excellent. - Jason M. Gira / D. Matz - What We Did (2001, Young God) ................................................................... What We Did is the collaboration made between Michael Gira (Swans, Angels of Light) and Dan Matz (Windsor for the Derby) over a couple years time at various residences around New York. Fans of either group should be pleased with the outcome, which is suprisingly poppy (for them) and melodic. Each would present the other with a basic concept with which they would build and expand upon. Trading off vocals per track, the mostly acoustic guitar based songs often build from repeating patterns not unlike the minimalists that WFTD often re-envisions and haunting drones of Gira's body of work. Hypnotic in nature while remaining fragile and song-based, it is equal parts meditation, porch music, love song, and introspection. - Heath The Pretty Things - Parachute (1970, EMI) ................................................................... Originally known in their mid-60s heyday as a wilder, more rock take on the R&B of the Stones, Britain's Pretty Things took a turn with their 1968 masterpiece S.F. Sorrow, arguably the first rock "concept album." This, their equally great 1970 follow-up, continued in the same vein but shed some of the more ornately psychedelic trappings of Sorrow to reveal one of the best and most underrated rock albums of the era. Named 1970's Album of the Year by Rolling Stone, it is one of those 'lost classics' that really deserve the title, a record that you listen to over and over again and wonder what happened. It should have been huge. Classic, slightly Floyd-esque songwriting, flawless 3-part harmonies, and continually great lyrics by Phil May. This album should be in the collection of anyone who likes late-60s/early-70s British prog/psych-rock such as Pink Floyd, The Beatles, The Who, Blossom Toes, etc. - Cyrus ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 1/15 - 1/22 1. The Magnetic Fields, Distortion (Nonesuch) 2. Cat Power, Jukebox (Matador) 3. Radiohead, In Rainbows (TBD/ATO) 4. Cornelius, Gum EP (Everloving) 5. Dengue Fever, Venus on Earth (M80) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Burning Witch, Cornelius, Mike Ladd, The Magnetic Fields, Eels, 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: 1/24 - 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 2/27 - Baby Dee @ 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