Do not be disturbed - Landlocked Music is not closed, but there is some road work being done that might hinder your travels to and fro our lovely abode if you travel by automobile. Do not be discouraged, for once you are inside you will find only the most sumptuous delights awaiting your ears. Our soft auditory caresses will lick your inner ear until you moan with pleasure mmmmmm yea you know you want it... err valentine's day was last week you say? Doh. NEW ARRIVALS for the Week of 2/19/2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------ (Exact arrival dependent on shipping delays and mishaps, sorry) American Music Club - The Golden Age (Merge) ................................................................... AMC is a San Francisco-based band led by Mark Eitzel. In 2007, AMC announced a new lineup connected to the band's base of operations moving to Los Angeles. This album is an effort to experiment and extend the range of their expression - from the Mariachi horns to the breezy Beach Boys harmonies to the unfolding layers of feedback, it is full of varied, joyous, and generous pop music. Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel (Kranky) ................................................................... One of the latest "true queer art punks" to emerge from the cracked pavement of southern suburban sprawl, Atlas Sound is the solo moniker of Deerhunter frontman / provocateur Bradford Cox. Here on his debut album, Cox moves out of dank nightclubs filled with eternal existential drone punk, and relaxes at home in his bedroom. And this is, essentially, a bedroom album, a collage, mixing the garage rock and ambient electronic influences previously explored with Deerhunter in a new context, with newly explored recording techniques, mainly laptop-based, learned with guidance from kranky artist Nudge's Brian Foote. The result is 14 Songs of melancholy and mania. Highly recommended. Balmorhea - Rivers Arms (Western Vinyl) ................................................................... Mirroring the vast Texas skies, Balmorhea's music is imbued with a visceral weight and endless space. Recommended if you like Eluvium, Rachel's, Sigur Ros, Pullman, Max Richter, Goldmund. Catch their intimate live show in March. Belong - Colorloss Record [LP Only] (St Ives) ................................................................... While Belong considers these cover songs, what we are presented with are shells, the ghosts of what we think we know about such a fleeting medium as music in the first place. A wash of fuzz finds itself meandering thru a track holding hands with the vocals, the space between a breathe before the next submergence. The result is work of such staggering beauty and melodic thoughtfulness to stop Kevin Shields in his tracks at the wonder of it. And while the instrumentation and means might be different, this is a music that has as much in common with late 20th century composition in the vein of John Cale or Tony Conrad as it does with the soundscapes of William Basinski or My Bloody Valentine. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar) ................................................................... Justin Vernon moved to a remote cabin in the woods of Wisconsin at the onset of winter, alone for 3 months. This solitary time fed a bold, uninhibited new musical focus. All his personal trouble, lack of perspective, heartache, longing, love, loss, and guilt that had been stockpiled over the past 6 years was suddenly purged into song. His sold out show at Bears on friday was wonderful despite his sickness, now grab the album and live it all over again. RIYL Iron & Wine or TV on the Radio unplugged. Grand Archives - s/t (Sub Pop) ................................................................... Illumination and warmth suffuse the debut from this Emerald City quintet led by Band Of Horses / Carissa's Wierd singer/ guitarist Mat Brooke. While his previous ensembles often shied away from light, he's changed direction with this band. Like the timeless classics of The Mamas & The Papas or The Turtles, it responds to the turbulent times of its genesis with hope, high spirits, and a sense of camaraderie. Dark times do not necessarily call for dark music. Growing - Lateral EP (Social Registry) ................................................................... Lateral finds the band reflecting on their past two albums while gazing to the future with newfound rhythmic motifs and otherworldly heights to their sound sculptures. The textures are warm and inviting, tempting the listener to focus on stunning minimalist changes within Growing's dense aural fog. Like a Brooklyn response to the Kompakt ambient series, textural rhythm and washes of atmospheric sound merge for the perfect pre-bed cocktail. Nick Lowe - Jesus of Cool [reissue] (Yep Roc) ................................................................... The 30th anniversary of Nick Lowe's 1978 album marks the beginning of one of the most influential solo careers in pop music and marks the true emergence of a songwriting monolith. The album is a literal compendium of 25 years of pop music history. The sweet melodies of pre-Fab 4 pop, energy of the British Invasion, the excess of glam and elements of ska and new wave don't blend but stand side by side on the field of battle, each one willing to lay down his life for the other. The crossroads where pop music and pop culture collide, self-aware for the first time, fusing into a white hot chunk of rock n roll energy. Megafaun - Bury the Square (Table of the Elements) ................................................................... From the vibrant Southern quasi-capital of Durham emerge Megafaun. Clawhammer banjo and strummed acoustics lock and roll with electric guitars and electronic textures. They realize that folk implies deep, personal, intense expression, whether the instrument is a parlor piano with the lid thrown back or a distortion pedal with the case cracked loose. They were previously in a band w/ Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon. RIYL Akron/Family and Califone. Coming live to Bloomington this spring! Mojo Magazine - March 2008 - Smiths Cover ................................................................... Featuring a 24-page spectacular of inspirational, oppositional pop thrills of the Smiths. Featuring a revealing delve inside the tortured mind of Morrissey, Mike Joyce's bittersweet Smiths memoir, and the deathless genius of This Charming Man. Plus Ike Turner, Gary Numan, Kris Kristofferson, Wu-Tang Clan, and a free CD of classic British indie. The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride (4AD) ................................................................... The Mountain Goats have recorded 10+ albums that have established them as a genuine cult phenomenon and confirmed John Darnielle's status as one of the finest lyricists of his generation. "Heretic Pride" is a suite of songs about mythical creatures, imaginary cults, slasher films, and pulp fiction novelists. Here, Darnielle has also come up with some of the most anthemic, impassioned, and downright catchy songs of his career. Neptune - Gong Lake (Table of the Elements) ................................................................... The 3 members of Neptune are musicians, sculptors, scientists, blacksmiths, electricians, and industrial machinists; relentlessly inventive, possibly sane. They construct all of their instruments, forging guitars and drums out of saw blades, gas tanks, oil drums, bike parts, VCR casings, and miscellany from the trash. The combined effect is a bizarre, post-apocalyptic melange of steel, iron, wire, rust, rivet, knob, and cable; it's lunacy, arc-welded for maximum destruction. Their sound Recalls the slapdash angularity of The Fall, the rhythmic ack-ack blasts of This Heat, and the sheer proto-clangor of Neubauten. Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust (Vice) ................................................................... This Danish duo have re-emerged with an album that distills the band's 60s noir-pop songcraft and fuzz-guitar clamor into a melodic, sensuous voyage through the layers of desire. Showcasing a broader stylistic pallete and a newly cinematic sense of drama, the band retains the unique, compelling combination of sexy pop songs and rock urgency that have made them critics' darlings. Arlen Roth feat. Levon Helm - Toolin' Around Woodstock (Aquinnah) ................................................................... "Master of the Telecaster" Arlen Roth teams up with music legend Levon Helm on this instant roots/rock classic recorded at Helm's studio in Woodstock, NY. Helm's drumming and singing give a "down home" feel to this joyride through the songbooks of Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, Bob Dylan, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Buck Owens and other greats. Joining the proceedings are slide wizard Sonny Landreth, King of Dieselbilly Bill Kirchen, along with Arlen's daughter Lexie and Levon's daughter Amy who add their distinctive voices to several songs. Sian Alice Group - 59'59 (Social Registry) ................................................................... The debut album from London-based Sian Alice Group is already on the rise in its native England having opened a string of shows for Spiritualized and received a flurry of attention in the press. A fully realized album that moves through traditional pop songwriting and instrumental composition while tempering it with studio improvisation. At a time when the musical landscape seems inundated with derivative retrogressive guitar bands, or acts reliant on sequenced beats and oscillator knobs, Sian Alice Group's more classical inclinations show their willingness to tread their own path. Check it in our listening station! VA - Burn To Shine 05: Seattle DVD (Trixie) ................................................................... Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie brought together 14 of his favorite bands on one day to create a portrait of one of the world's most thriving music scenes. Each band plays one song and it's delivered here as it happened, in order, in a jam-packed 55 minutes. Includes Gibbard, Dave Bazan, Eddie Vedder, Minus the Bear, Cave Singers, Long Winters, Kinski, Jesse Sykes and more. Also Released This Week (but not necc in stock, ask us!) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Blood on the Wall - Liferz LP (Social Registry) Kurt Cobain: About a Son DVD (Shout Factory) Company - Old Baby (Brah) Cryptacize - Dig That Treasure (Asthmatic Kitty) Dead Science - Alphabet Series V (Tomlab) Mike Doughty - Golden Delicious (ATO) Envy - Compiled Fragments (Temporary Residence) Marianne Faithfull - No Regrets (Great American) Flowers Forever - s/t (Team Love) Jim Lauderdale & the Dream Players - Honey Songs (Yep Roc) The Lions - Jungle Struttin' (Ubiquity) No Kids - Come Into My House (Tomlab) Photon Band - Back Down to Earth (Empyrean) Throw Me the Statue - Moonbeams (Secretly Canadian) ................................................................... NEXT WEEK - Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! - info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Pt One (2/26) Beach House - Devotion (2/26) Sir Richard Bishop - God Damn Religion DVD (2/26) Boris - Statement 7" (2/26) Del The Funky Homosapien - Eleventh Hour (2/26) The Dirtbombs - We Have You Surrounded (2/26) Earth - The Bee Made Honey in the Lion's Skull (2/26) Ghostland Observatory - Robotique Majestique (2/26) Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree (2/26) Hot Chip - Made in the Dark LP (2/26) Janet Jackson - Discipline (2/26) Tift Merritt - Another Country (2/26) Old Crow Medicine Show - Eutaw (2/26) Punch Brothers - Punch (2/26) Roxy Music - Thrill of It All: Visual History DVD (2/26) ................................................................... COMING SOON (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... A Weather - Cove (3/4) Autechre - Quaristice (3/4) Bauhaus - Go Away White (3/4) The Black Crowes - Warpaint (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) Elvis Costello - This Year's Model [deluxe] (3/4) Kathleen Edwards - Asking for Flowers (3/4) The Felice Brothers - s/t (3/4) Flogging Molly - Float (3/4) Gutter Twins (Lanegan + Dulli) - Saturnalia (3/4) Howlin' Rain - Magnificent Fiend (3/4) Ladyhawk - Shots (3/4) Lynyrd Skynyrd - Street Survivors [deluxe] (3/4) Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Real Emotional Trash (3/4) Eric Matthews - The Imagination Stage (3/4) Murder By Death - Red of Tooth and Claw (3/4) Gary Numan - Replicas Redux (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) Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac [deluxe] (3/4) Jim White - Transnormal Skiperoo (3/4) VA - Numero 019 - Don't Stop: Recording Tap (3/4) Del the Funky Homosapien - Eleventh Hour (3/11) Jaymay - Autumn Fallin' (3/11) Sharron Kraus - The Fox's Wedding (3/11) Mike Patton - A Perfect Place OST (3/11) Presidents of the United States of America - These Are Good Times (3/11) Why? - Alopecia (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) Silver Mt Zion - 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons (3/25) Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig (4/8) Foals - Antidotes (4/8) Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple (4/8) Man Man - Rabbit Habits (4/8) Microphones - Glow Pt. 2 [reissue] (4/8) Richard Swift - as Onasis (4/8) Tapes N Tapes - Walk It Off (4/8) 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) Portishead - Third (4/29) Matmos - Supreme Balloon (5/6) Racebannon - Acid or Blood (5/20) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 2/12 - 2/19 1. British Sea Power - Do you Like Rock Music (Rough Trade) 2. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark (Astralwerks) 3. Vampire Weekend - s/t (XL) 4. Black Mountain - In the Future (Jagjaguwar) 5. Bonnie Prince Billy - Wilding in the West (Spunk) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Bonnie Prince Billy, British Sea Power, Freeze Etch, Clutchy Hopkins, Carrie Newcomer, Robert Pollard, 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 and much much more! STAFF PICKS! These are all available at Landlocked right now! Hurry! ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers (Columbia, 1968) ................................................................... Probably the most underrated album in the Byrds' catalog and definitely one of the most underrated albums ever, Notorious is one of the most amazing and definitive psych albums ever made, yet somehow it slipped through the cracks and never really got the reputation it deserves. Recorded in the latter half of '67 amidst much band turmoil, you would never know it by the gentle, peacefully spaced-out sounds within. These are some of the Byrds' best, most effective songs, with a Gary Usher-production that easily rivals any other Sgt. Pepper-influenced record of the time. Lush string and pedal steel sounds swim alongside phased-out drums, blown-out horns, raga-inflected Rickenbackers and even some very early Moog synthesizer work. This is the album that single-handedly gave Beachwood Sparks their sound. Right up there with Revolver, Pet Sounds and Odessey & Oracle in terms of 60s classics. - Cyrus Faust - IV (Virgin, 1973) ................................................................... Faust has always been mysterious - more can easily be said about them than this space permits - so let's focus. While some feel the opening track on IV is a jab at their contemporaries (Can, Neu!, Amon Duul, etc), it also recognizes their own part in their scene and ends up naming the entire canon - krautrock (much like Sebadoh's Gimme Indie Rock?). But Faust are the ugly ducklings of their peers - jumping from arty tape collage to groovy droning blues to electronic synth noodling to their take on experimental "pop", a little bit of everything! Its one of those releases that has influenced such a wide myriad of musicians that it becomes hard to pinpoint. Guaranteed to have at least one track that you will love and one track that you will skip. Which tracks depends on you. RIYL "record store rock", beards, Beefheart, Soft Machine, Gong, Hawkwind. - Heath Intelligence - Deuteronomy (In the Red, 2007) ................................................................... A friend whose music taste I trust turned me on to this LP from last year. I'd somehow overlooked it, despite being on In the Red, who are on a serious roll lately. The friend described it as having a "skinny tie" sort of sound to it, which is pretty much on the money. It's raw and loud and... well, very in the red. I dislike the term "garage", but I guess that fits to a certain extent. But there's also a strong New Wave / neo-Mod element to it. Every song seems to be a variation on the classic Knack beat. There's little (if any) keyboard on it, and the guitar sounds woozy, murky, and a little ghostly. It's a bit like if Jon Spencer started a new wave band. Another winner from In the Red. - Jason ------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming Bloomington shows that Landlocked Music is excited about: 2/22 - A-Sides @ Bear's 2/24 - Say Hi (To Your Mom) @ Waldron 2/24 - Mi Ami / Food for Animals @ Art Hospital 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 - Balmorhea @ Art Hospital 3/6 - Punch Brothers @ Buskirk-Chumley 3/11 - Samara Lubelski @ Waldron 3/13 - David Allan Coe @ Bluebird 3/17 - School of Language @ Waldron 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