Dunno about you... but we are starting to no longer trust the gender neutral weather person. Sure, its relatively gross out there - but the sky didn't fall, there is no Escape from NY scenario. Just a normal mid-February day in our Bloomingtopia. We at Landlocked are more worried about getting enough valentines and candy to feed our ferocious appetites and egos. People, don't let us down with those year old conversation hearts, neither! NEW ARRIVALS for the Week of 2/12/2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------ (Exact arrival dependent on shipping delays and mishaps, sorry) Bonnie Prince Billy - Wilding in the West [live] ................................................................... This CD is only released on P-Vine (Japan) and Spunk (Australia) for the world - so we only have them now, for one-time-only. Once they are gone, they are gone for good. Wilding is a companion piece to Summer In The Southeast - a live record from the recent west coast tour, complete with remixes by Neil Hagerty! British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music? (Rough Trade) ................................................................... Recorded around the world - with Howard Bilerman (Arcade Fire), Efrim Menuck (God Speed You! Black Emperor) and Graham Sutton (Jarvis Cocker, Bark Psychosis). It's also an album that looks the world squarely in the eye. "It's our version of Doctor Jekyll And Mr Hyde," says BSP guitarist Martin Noble. Freeze Etch - Vessels (Force of Nature) ................................................................... *Local Talent* Vessels, the first proper full-length Freeze Etch album, is a dynamic excursion into a world of thick organic rhythms, striking melodic textures, and surging ambient momentum. By turns sparkling and pristine and by others ugly and smoldering, Vessels explores the brooding tensions between dynamically opposed auras, employing textures which are at once terrestrial and alien, as well as melodic structures which merge skilled composition with the ambiguous flood of drone. Clutchy Hopkins - Walking Backwards CD/LP (Ubiquity) ................................................................... Don't ask us who Clutchy Hopkins is - we don't know. We can tell you that this album might as well be the crackly soundtrack to a vintage spaghetti western crossed with a 70s porno. Rickety breaks n beats and busted keyboard sounds pop out against lush strings, while a collection of guitars and mandolins strum alongside old-school synthesizers. Some tunes are hypnotic and build around a droning rumble or relentless chords while others are driving or change up to reveal new intentions. Its an eerie blend of dusty-bar blues, mariachi soul and hard times funk that sounds like it was recorded in a backyard shack somewhere remote, in a small town where kids throw stones at each other for fun. Michael Jackson - Thriller 25th Anniversary Edition CD+DVD (Sony) ................................................................... The Biggest Album Ever just got bigger. The Annversary Edition celebrates this ground-breaking album with 7 bonus tracks, 6 of which are previously unreleased. The new tracks include exclusive remixes from Kanye West, Fergie, will.i.am and Akon along with a previously unreleased track from the Thriller sessions, "For All Time," newly mixed and mastered by Michael Jackson. Also included is a bonus DVD with new, digitally restored versions of the 3 videos from the album as well as the Michael Jackson's groundbreaking performance of "Billie Jean" on the "Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever" television special from 1983. Carrie Newcomer - The Geography of Light (Philo) ................................................................... A resonant soundtrack for a world that is both sacred and ordinary. Local lady Carrie Newcomer sings about serious subjects with clarity and elegance, and a healthy measure of good humor and self-awareness, with a voice the Austin Statesman has called "as rich as Godiva chocolate." Her music resonates with Appalachian and classical influences, and The Geography of Light combines piano, violin, mandolin, cello, bass, percussion, and harmony vocal textures with Newcomer's adept guitar work and powerful but intimate vocals. The result is an exceptional album that captures the light and shadow in all of our lives. Robert Pollard - Superman Was a Rocker (Happy Jack) ................................................................... This mini-album (13 songs, 30 minutes) finds Pollard using recording methods he hasn't engaged in since his time in GbV. Pollard recently poured through a bunch of old cassettes and found some great, never-used instrumentals and he decided to go into the studio and put vocals (and melodies!) over them. The music spans a 20+ year period, so in essence, this is an album 20 years in the making. Due to the span of time and body of work from which the clips were accessed, many of the classic GbV alumni appear on this album: Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, Kevin Fennell, Doug Gillard, Nate Farley. VA - Carolina Funk: First In Funk (Now Again) ................................................................... The 4th in the UK-based Jazzman series that produced the landmark Midwest, Texas, and most recently, Florida Funk compilations. For this installment, they've moved up the Atlantic coast to look at the vibrant and original scene in the two rural states of North and South Carolina. Curated largely by resident North Carolina researcher and collector Jason Perlmutter, Carolina Funk presents 22 of the best, rarest and most sought-after heavy funk songs ever recorded, with breakbeats to spare. Without any large urban centers, much of the musical output of the Carolinas has been limited to single towns, with bands and their records seldom venturing further than the state line. From inspired percussive instrumentals to heartfelt slabs of soul; from rediscoverd tapes in the garages of retired musicians to funk 45s so raw that they were blessed by James Brown himself this is Carolina Funk! Also Released This Week (but not necc in stock, ask us!) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ethiopiques, Vol. 23 (Buda Musique) Aidan Moffat (Arab Strap) - I Can Hear Your Heart (Chemikal Underground) Nada Surf - Lucky (Barsuk) Widespread Panic - Free Somehow (Widespread) VA - Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Blues 1970-76 (Soundway) ................................................................... NEXT WEEK - Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! - info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... 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 LP (2/19) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (2/19) Kurt Cobain: About a Son DVD (2/19) The Dirtbombs - We Have You Surrounded (2/19) Mike Doughty - Golden Delicious (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) The 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) Omar Rodriguez-Lopez - Calibration (2/19) Arlen Roth - Toolin' Around Woodstock (2/19) Roxy Music - Thrill of It All: Visual History DVD (2/19) Time Again - Darker Days (2/19) Throw Me the Statue - Moonbeams (2/19) VA - Burn To Shine 05: Seattle DVD (2/19) ................................................................... COMING SOON (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... Beach House - Devotion (2/26) Boris - Statement 7" (2/26) Del The Funky Homosapien - Eleventh Hour (2/26) Earth - The Bee Made Honey in the Lion's Skull (2/26) Hot Chip - Made in the Dark LP (2/26) Old Crow Medicine Show - Eutaw (2/26) Punch Brothers - Punch (2/26) A Weather - Cove (3/4) Autechre - Quaristice (3/4) Bauhaus - Go Away White (3/4) Born Ruffians - Red, Yellow, & Blue (3/4) Cadence Weapon - Afterparty Babies (3/4) Captain Beefheart - Dustsucker (3/4) Carlene Carter - Stronger (3/4) Chatham County Line - IV (3/4) Chris Corsano - The Young Cricketeer LP (3/4) The Felice Brothers - s/t (3/4) Gutter Twins (Lanegan + Dulli) - Saturnalia (3/4) Howlin' Rain - Magnificent Fiend (3/4) Ladyhawk - Shots (3/4) Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Real Emotional Trash (3/4) Eric Matthews - The Imagination Stage (3/4) Our Last Night - The Ghosts Among Us (3/4) Connie Price and The Keystones - Tell Me Something (3/4) Ruby Suns - Sea Lion (3/4) Screaming Trees - Clairvoyance [reissue] (3/4) Tammar - s/t LP (3/4) Tractor - s/t / The Way We Live / Candle for Judith (3/4) Jim White - Transnormal Skiperoo (3/4) VA - Numero 019 - Don't Stop: Recording Tap (3/4) Sharron Kraus - The Fox's Wedding (3/11) Destroyer - Trouble in Dreams (3/18) Devotchka - A Mad and Faithful Telling (3/18) Adam Green - Sixes and Sevens (3/18) The Matches - A Band In Hope (3/18) The Teenagers - Reality Check (3/18) Unwed Sailor - Little Wars (3/18) Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig (4/8) Foals - Antidotes (4/8) Man Man - Rabbit Habits (4/8) Microphones - Glow Pt. 2 [reissue] (4/8) Richard Swift - as Onasis (4/8) Portishead - Third (4/15) Billy Bragg - Mr. Love & Justice (4/22) Earles & Jensen Present: Just Farr A Laugh Vol 1 & 2 (4/22) Lyrics Born - Everywhere At Once (4/22) Boris - Smile (4/29) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 2/5 - 2/12 1. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark (Astralwerks) 2. Vampire Weekend - s/t (XL) 3. Dead Meadow - Old Growth (Matador) 4. Say Hi (to Your Mom) - The Wishes and the Glitch (Rebel Group) 5. Future of the Left - Curses (Too Pure) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Jason Collett, Dead Meadow, Devastations, Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra, Girl Talk / Trey Told 'em, Hot Chip, Lightspeed Champion, Bob Mould, Say Hi (to Your Mom), School of Language, Sons & Daughters, Kelley Stoltz, Beck, Future of the Left, Helio Sequence, Hello Blue Roses, Human Bell, Joe Jackson, Shelby Lynne, The Mars Volta, Radar Brothers, Radiohead, Vampire Weekend, Vandermark 5, Vetiver, Quinn Walker, Chris Walla, Xiu Xiu, Baby Dee, Black Mountain, Blood on the Wall, Cat Power, Dengue Fever, Drive-By Truckers, Evangelicals, Liam Finn, Mahjongg, MGMT, Richard Swift, Times New Viking, 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 and much much more! STAFF PICKS! These are all available at Landlocked right now! Hurry! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Felt - Discography (Cherry Red / Creation, 1981-89) ................................................................... The easiest way to describe Felt to someone who has never heard them is to say that they sound like Television if they were from Manchester instead of NYC, and recorded for 4AD or Creation. Led by the mysterious Lawrence, Felt's music was much more cool and detached than their mentors. Their very British ennui reminds me of Spaceman 3 or Jesus & Mary Chain, although they are far more pop than those bands. Their UK underground popularity culminated in the 1985 album, Ignite the Seven Cannons, which included the surprise hit "Primitive Painters". The album was produced by the Cocteau Twin's Robin Guthrie, and the single features the voice of his bandmate Elizabeth Fraser. Later LPs centered around the sound of the organ, moving away from the angular, serpentine guitar pop of earlier albums. Felt set out to record 10 LPs and 10 singles in 10 years, which is exactly what they did, disbanding in 1990. - Jason Goldmund - Two Point Discrimination (Western Vinyl, 2007) ................................................................... Berklee College of Music trained Keith Kenniff follows his beautiful 2005 Type release, Corduroy Road, with an EP as part of Western Vinyl's Portrait Series. While technically an EP, there are 11 short tracks of modern minimalist solo piano greatness. Great attention is paid to space and texture. Close mic-ing of the strings, pedals and hammers makes an intruiging listen that allows for inherent beauty in what is often unheard. If you were curious about the piano pieces on Aphex Twin's 2001 album Drukqs, composers like Morton Feldman or Keith Jarrett or modern musicians such as Max Richter, you will dig this. Some people liken this music to auditory wallpaper while others find it highly introspective for deep listening. Its actually great for both and need not be for beard-strokers only. - Heath Sic Alps - Pleasures and Treasures (Animal Disguise, 2006) ................................................................... Sounding like Marmoset after a couple hits of the brown acid and with a newly found disregard for fidelity, this album was right up my alley. A guitar/drums duo with a bit of a fuzz fixation and an obvious love for Syd and the Jesus and Mary Chain, Sic Alps has made one of the most intriguing, enjoyable and confusing lo-fi odysseys I have come across in a long time. From the moment you drop the needle, you're hit with a continuously and completely disorienting blast of weird found sounds, unintelligible echoey voices, and hissy wall of sound guitar noise. Beneath the madness and fuzz, however, is a series of righteously catchy and rhythmically off-kilter rock songs which upon repeat listening expose themself as being truly great in their own right, the perfect balance of 'real songs' and 'noise.' Basically, if you think that running "The Madcap Laughs" through a couple fuzz pedals and an echoplex would sound cool, you will surely love 'Pleasures and Treasures.' - Cyrus ------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming Bloomington shows that Landlocked Music is excited about: TONIGHT! - 2/12 - Nina Nastasia @ Art Hospital 2/15 - Bon Iver @ Bears 2/16 - Haste the Day + more @ Rhino's 2/22 - A-Sides @ Bear'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 3/6 - Punch Brothers @ Buskirk-Chumley 3/11 - Samara Lubelski @ Waldron 3/13 - David Allan Coe @ Bluebird 3/18 - Old Time Relijun @ Bluebird 3/19 - Man Man @ Waldron 3/20 - Islands @ Rhino's 3/21 - The Dirtbombs / Kelley Stoltz @ Jake's 3/27 - Le Loup / Ruby Suns @ Waldron 3/29 - Throw Me the Statue @ Art Hospital 4/2 - Why? @ Bears 4/7 - Okkervil River / Howlin Rain @ Buskirk-Chumley 4/8 - Cursive @ Rhino's 4/9 - Minus Story @ Bears 4/11 - Feist @ IU Auditorium 4/19 - WIUX Culture Shock @ Dunn Meadow 4/26 - Nomo @ Bluebird 4/29 - Dead Meadow @ Bluebird 5/2 - Caribou @ 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