Yes, there has been construction on our street but yes, we are still open, even when the street was closed. And apparently the smidgen of spring weather caused all of you to forget Landlocked's birthday, which was yesterday. Jeez! We were expecting to be floating on a cloud of cookies but will have to settle for stale breadsticks that were found in the microwave - its okay. So here is our present to you - a mountain of new musical treats: NEW ARRIVALS for the Week of 3/4/2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------ (Exact arrival dependent on shipping delays and mishaps, sorry) Autechre - Quaristice (Warp) ................................................................... Autechre return with a vast, sprawling masterpiece that will galvanize their dedicated and sizable fanbase. With Design Republic back at the helm of art direction, Quaristice will be an album that impresses sonically but also visually. This warmer analog masterpiece recalls some of their classic material. Quaristice is an enveloping blanket of Autechre's skewed sound science. Bauhaus - Go Away White (Bauhaus) ................................................................... It is virtually impossible to imagine the last 30 years of rock music without the influence of Bauhaus. They have inspired countless bands and have mesmerized the masses with their ability to be simultaneously sparse, dark, anthemic, and glam. With their new album, Peter Murphy, Daniel Ash, David J and Kevin Haskins have created an album as exciting and relevant as their earlier work. Echoes of Bauhaus have been heard in the work of their heirs and imitators for the past few decades and 25 years after their last studio release the band have returned with yet another undiluted glimpse into their world. Born Ruffians - Red, Yellow, & Blue (Warp) ................................................................... Born Ruffians provide that combination of impeccable songs and drunken youthful swagger that make your favorite rock records sit themselves comfortably in your brain and refuse to get out. Produced by Rusty Santos, the mixer behind Animal Collective and Panda Bear's albums, Red, Yellow & Blue exemplifies the Ruffians' brand of 'hootin and hollarin'. From start to finish it's a good time, and the band knows it. With songs like the jangly "Hedonistic Me" and the sugary sweet "Foxes Mate for Life" to the foot stomping "Badonkadonkey", the band constantly pushes the boundaries of musical arrangements. Cadence Weapon - Afterparty Babies CD/LP (Anti) ................................................................... Rollie Pemberton's Anti debut is a dance rap party epic. Cadence discovered that he wanted to rap at the tender age of 13, and by 18, he had played shows with Spank Rock, Lady Sovereign, Jurassic 5, New Pornographers, Final Fantasy, and De La Soul and had made guest performances with The Klaxons, Hot Chip and Islands. Afterparty Babies delves into the friends and feelings, crews and club nights, hometowns and heroes, media and fashion, generated by Cadence's precocious career to date, all surrounded by punishing electronic dance jams. Chatham County Line - IV (Yep Roc) ................................................................... This North Carolina quartet's 4th album is a boozy blend of Americana and loose acoustic rockers that exhibits the band's ever-evolving style. CCL continues their dedication to traditional instruments by using their love for bluegrass as a base on which to layer an eclectic blend of roots music. Bluegrass workouts stand beside pop geared numbers and hard soul. The progression seen on IV is helped along by legendary indie pop musician and producer Chris Stamey (dB's, Yo La Tengo, Ryan Adams, Alex Chilton, Alejandro Escovedo), making for a starkly heartfelt testament to making the past new again. Chris Corsano - The Young Cricketer LP (Family Vineyard) ................................................................... Corsano's debut of Frankenstein/gamelan skin detail. It's a monster and a babe all wrapped under the guise of The Solo Drum Album. His flea-market kit of cast-iron pot lids, super-bouncy-balls on sticks, butter knives, and even a sax mouth-piece jammed-in-a-hose conjures a part rhythmic maelstrom and the sweet metallic ice drones of Tony Conrad and Keiji Haino rubbing sticks together until end days. Globally known for power sessions with Paul Flaherty, the Vampire Belt duo and a cadre of collaborators (Jandek, Bjork, Jim O'Rourke, Dream/Aktion Unit, Death Unit, Dredd Foole, etc.), Corsano's drumming has leapt from post-hardcore explorations into outrageous, primeval and outright futuristic during his past 10 years of recorded documentation. Everthus the Deadbeats - John Kill & the Microscopic Lullaby (Standard) ................................................................... Indy's own Everthus the Deadbeats play high-concept glam-pop that has been compared to the Electric Light Orchestra, Beatles, and even Man Man. This band has a big circus sound that is collectively whimsical and impressively imaginative. Oingo Boingo beware! This clan of wit-sensed troubadors and grizzled musicians are mean, sensical, and whimsical. Gutter Twins (Lanegan + Dulli) - Saturnalia (Sub Pop) ................................................................... The highly anticipated first album from the collaboration of Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, QotSA) and Greg Dulli (Afghan Whigs, Twilight Singers). Saturnalia finds the axis Dulli nicknamed "the Satanic Everly Brothers" going even deeper into the shadows than ever before. Mystical, unpredictable, ultimately masterful, the album both embodies and defies any expectations suggested by the principals' individual notoriety. Pointedly not resting on the sonic laurels of their previous successes, Saturnalia instead proves rootsy but Baroque, handmade yet modernist, teeming with siren melodies that don't resolve. Howlin' Rain - Magnificent Fiend (American) ................................................................... By turns pummeling and pastoral, Fiend oscillates between roaring Hammond organ-driven tracks and delicate electric piano passages, topped by harmonized, often dissonant guitar lines. Toss in counter-melodic bass, sometimes quirky breaks, and extended instrumental sequences that are either ascending to the heavens or cascading softly, softly from the skies in sparkling showers of gunpowder and smoke. All held together by Miller's distinctive, crushed-velvet roar - redolent of British R&B giants Steve Marriott or Terry Reid - which extends to a sweet, plaintive falsetto; and, as the album's oxymoronic title might imply, the lyrical content. Catch em April 7th at the Buskirk w/ Okkervil! Ladyhawk - Shots (Jagjaguwar) ................................................................... Ladyhawk's kiss-of-death evokes the devilish sounds of "Goats Head Soup" guitars, the honey-slides and howling of Neil Young in his darkest hours, and the phantoms that haunted Roky Erickson at the Holiday Inn. An album filled with the cold creaking and ghostly echoes of an old house in the dead of winter. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Real Emotional Trash (Matador) ................................................................... Much of Malkmus' 4th "solo" LP is decidedly low-down and heavy. It could hardly be otherwise with monster drummer Janet Weiss (Sleater-Kinney) now a full fledged Jick. Meanwhile, Malkmus the guitar hero is on full display here. "Dragonfly Pie," "Baltimore," and the title track are alchemic combinations of intricate composition and unfettered jam. Monkeywrench - Gabriel's Horn (Birdman) ................................................................... Celebrating 17 years of a great idea; putting together the progenitors of the modern underground featuring Mark Arm and Steve Turner of Mudhoney fame, together with Tim Kerr (Poison 13, King Sound Quartet, The Big Boys), Gas Huffer's Tom Price, and Martin Bland (Lubricated Goat), Monkeywrench is nothing less than a Punk/Grunge supergroup. Murder By Death - Red of Tooth and Claw (Vagrant) ................................................................... As longtime followers of their narrative grit— equal parts Old West drama and Old Testament justice— will be glad to know, MBD's subject matter also hasn't softened for album No. 4. Rife with lust, betrayal, and classical archetypes of good and evil. Bloomington's own, making it once again! Connie Price & the Keystones - Tell Me Something (Ubiquity) ................................................................... The follow-up to their Now-Again/Stones Throw album is a heavyweight dynamic soundtrack inspired hip-hop effort. While their debut was instrumental, this one is the opposite, featuring a marquee-filling list of quality MCs such as Big Daddy Kane, Percee P, Wildchild from the Lootpack, Ohmega Watts, Soup from Jurassic 5, Blood Of Abraham, Mykah 9 from the Freestyle Fellowship and Project Blowed, plus vocalist Aloe Blacc. Double CD contains vocal & instrumental disc. Ruby Suns - Sea Lion (Sub Pop) ................................................................... The melodic musings of Sea Lion found inspiration in the natural world and Ryan McPhun's travels with in it. He ventured into the wilds of Africa, the ancient monasteries of Thailand, and the haunting landscapes of New Zealand that surround his everyday. It was intended to be a world music album, but reverb and psychedelic pop crept in to create a unique mixture of exotic sounds, accomplished with an impressive array of instruments - from steel-string ukulele to djembe drums to pots and pans - all set upon a cozy cushion of synths and cassette samples. Catch them w/ Le Loup in a few weeks at the Waldron! The Sump Pumps - s/t (8 Bit Records) ................................................................... This anti-wave, post punk Bloomington quartet has been together around a decade and finally decided to grace us with a proper CD. Specializing in high-energy, ass-kicking anthems and frenzied pop, the Bloomington, Indiana group has been hypnotizing and pulverizing audiences across North America for the years. Adorned in matching uniforms and recommended for fans of Devo, Six Finger Satellite, Von LMO, Brainiac, Quintron. Tammar - s/t LP (St Ives) ................................................................... This reclusive Bloomington band just released their debut LP at an after hours show at Plan 9 Film Emporium, which is fitting with their cinematic vision. Minimal keyboards and drums bring to mind early Suicide while tripping guitars and theatrical accented vocals bring to mind the more paisley moments of Felt and U2, respectively. Tammar tastes the psychedelic aether, visiting the realms above as well as below, transmitting those good vibrations. Turn down the lights, turn up your stereo and rock these five hits of ecstasy. Jim White - Transnormal Skiperoo (Lauka Bop) ................................................................... Raised in Pensacola, FL, a town crushed between the church and heroin, Jim's songs reach deep into the underbelly of the South. One time Pentecostal, fashion model, NY taxi driver, drifter, pro-surfer, photographer, filmmaker, his music is the conduit for all the stories he collected along the way. His previous albums were acclaimed as masterpieces of "outer space alt.country" and established Jim as a phenomenal maverick talent. Jim also starred in the BBC film Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, an award-winning road-movie exploring Southern culture through its music and stories. White Hinterland - Phylactery Factory (Dead Oceans) ................................................................... Twenty-two year old Casey Dienel's voice is more hidden; crouching amid swish, drone, and the wildflower jazz of her friends. There are echoes of Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, John Cage, Alice Coltrane, and M. Ward. There are songs from private and uncertain places, vulnerable places. "Phylactery Factory" falls between freeze and frozen, between green and grey, just as the hinterland becomes white and we feel our first, happy shivers. VA - Encyclopedia Asthmatica DVD (Asthmatic Kitty) ................................................................... Nearly all of the Asthmatic Kitty Records' roster make an appearance somewhere on this DVD: from the playful choreography of the Think Dance Collective frolicing in shoes made of bread to the music of Half-handed Cloud, to the lovely abstraction of Sufjan Stevens' projectionist, Deborah Johnson; from the haunting and raw post-apocalypse video fuzz of live Castanets, to the crisp color footage of My Brightest Diamond, there are visual pieces that hopscotch the chasm between the professionalism of a music-visual DVD to the rabid eccentricity of a five-copy, underground video-zine. VA - Numero 019 - Don't Stop: Recording Tap (Numero Group) ................................................................... Tap was the brainchild of Jeremiah Yisrael - an ambitious producer, and legendary perfectionist. Most material here dates from the years 1981 and 1982, and the music is a mix of club, modern soul, boogie, and a bit of hip hop -- nearly all of which hardly got any exposure at the time. The 24 page booklet not only tells the tale of the label and Yisrael's career, but also Numero's efforts in resurrecting these lost tapes from a very moldy near-death experience. Amazing stuff throughout - well worthy of another deep bow for the Numero team. Also Released This Week (but not necc in stock, ask us!) ------------------------------------------------------------------ A Weather - Cove (Team Love) The Black Crowes - Warpaint (Silver Arrow) Captain Beefheart - Dustsucker [reissue] Carlene Carter - Stronger (Yep Roc) Rhys Chatham - Guitar Trio Is My Life (Table of the Elements) Elvis Costello - This Year's Model [2CD deluxe] (Hip-O) Kathleen Edwards - Asking for Flowers (Zoe) Emeralds/Tusco Terror - Vaporizer / Feral Cousins (Ecstatic Peace) Envy - A Dead Sinking Story (Temporary Residence) The Felice Brothers - s/t (Team Love) Flogging Molly - Float (Side One Dummy) Islaja - Blaze Mountain Recordings (Ecstatic Peace) Lynyrd Skynyrd - Street Survivors [2CD deluxe] (Geffen) Gary Numan - Replicas Redux [2CD deluxe) (Beggars Banquet) Numbers - Alphabet Series W (Tomlab) Our Last Night - The Ghosts Among Us (Epitaph) Poor School - The Holy Master (Ecstatic Peace) Screaming Trees - Clairvoyance [reissue] Tractor - s/t / The Way We Live / Candle for Judith [reissues] Vverevvolf Grehv - Zombie Aesthetics (Relapse) Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac [2CD deluxe] (Geffen) ................................................................... NEXT WEEK - Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! - info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... 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) ................................................................... COMING SOON (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... Clark - Turning Dragon (3/18) Destroyer - Trouble in Dreams (3/18) Devotchka - A Mad and Faithful Telling (3/18) Pete Francis - Iron Sea and the Calvary (3/18) Adam Green - Sixes and Sevens (3/18) Daniel Lanois - Here is What Is (3/18) The Matches - A Band In Hope (3/18) Connie Price and The Keystones - Tell Me Something (3/18) Retribution Gospel Choir - s/t (3/18) The Teenagers - Reality Check (3/18) Elf Power - In a Cave (3/25) Silver Mt Zion - 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons (3/25) The Apples in Stereo - Electronic Projects for Musicians (4/1) Black Keys - Attack & Release (4/1) Experimental Dental School - Jane Doe Loves Me (4/1) Robyn Hitchcock - Shadow Cat (4/1) Los Campesinos! - Hold on Now, Youngster (4/1) Sun Kil Moon - April (4/1) Unwed Sailor - Little Wars (4/1) 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) Colin Meloy - Sings Live (4/8) Microphones - Glow Pt. 2 [reissue] (4/8) Richard Swift - As Onasis (4/8) Tapes N Tapes - Walk It Off (4/8) VA - Imaginational Anthem Volume 3 (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) Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell (4/22) Boris - Smile (4/29) Portishead - Third (4/29) Animal Collective - Water Curses EP (5/6) Matmos - Supreme Balloon (5/6) Explorer's Club - Freedom Wind (5/20) Jeremy Jay - A Place Where We Could Go (5/20) Racebannon - Acid or Blood (5/20) Windsor for the Derby - How We Lost (5/20) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 2/26 - 3/4 1. Beach House - Devotion (Carpark) 2. Autechre - Quarstice (Warp) 3. Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights (Daptone) 4. Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel (Kranky) 5. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Beach House, Sir Richard Bishop, The Dirtbombs, Earth, Ghostland Observatory, Goldfrapp, Old Crow Medicine Show, American Music Club, Atlas Sound, Balmorhea, Belong, Bon Iver, Grand Archives, Growing, Nick Lowe, Megafaun, Mountain Goats, Neptune, Raveonettes, Arlen Roth, Sian Alice GroupBonnie 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 and much much more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Apples in Stereo - Her Wallpaper Reverie (1999, Spinart) ................................................................... I love the Apples in Stereo. They basically spearheaded the entire Elephant 6 collective, and while they were probably the poppiest of the core bands, they do it in a brilliantly creative and never dull-sounding '66-'67-era-Beatles kind of way. A lot of this comes down to wonderboy Robert Schneider, who also recorded both Neutral Milk Hotel records, among others. All of the Apples' records are sprawling works of pop-psych brilliance, with a sparkling analog sheen that sounds just right to my ears. Her Wallpaper Reverie is basically their 'SMiLE,' insanely catchy pop songs jam-packed with weird sounds, segued together by psychedelic interludes all revolving around and playing off of one recurring musical theme. A concept album about a girl who trips herself out while staring at the patterns in her wallpaper and listening to records. A good premise which is executed so perfectly, it makes you want to follow Ruby's lead, pop on the headphones, and have a little reverie of your own. - Cyrus Balmorhea - Rivers Arms (Western Vinyl, 2008) ................................................................... Pretty. That's the bottom line. These Texans create luscious modern compositions that cross into many sub-genres of contemporary classical, experimental folk, cinematic dreamscapes, etc. The songs are mostly built around acoustic guitar and piano but feature tasteful additions of strings on most songs. Someone years ago told me that Rachel's (a similar group) is classical music for people who don't know anything about classical music - and while that remark is harsh and short-sighted, it also applies here. Balmorhea might have sheet music but they still have heart aplenty in their music and are looking to play in front of more eyes and ears than the conservatory allows. See for yourself Thursday night at the Art Hospital. RIYL: Eluvium, Sigur Ros, Pullman, Max Richter. - Heath Marvin Gaye - Here My Dear (Tamla, 1978) ................................................................... "When did you stop loving me, when did I stop loving you?": Gaye sings directly to his soon-to-be ex-wife, Anna Gordy (daughter of the Motown label founder), on this, the most literal and unflinching of breakup albums. As part of his bizarre divorce settlement, Gaye was ordered to deliver an album with all the advance money and much of any profits that might result going to Gordy. A lesser artist might have dashed off a set of perfunctory tunes. But not Marvin. He lays down a double LP laying bare his unraveling relationship. The lyrics sometimes read like courtroom testimony, as Gaye vents his anger and disappointment. But it's also confessional and self-deprecating in places, with Gaye at least indirectly owning up to his drug dependence and infidelity. As he says himself on the introductory dedication, "there's a lot of truth in it." - Jason ------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming Bloomington shows that Landlocked Music is excited about: 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 / Bodies of Water @ Art Hospital 4/2 - Why? @ Bears 4/7 - Okkervil River / Howlin Rain @ Buskirk-Chumley 4/8 - Cursive @ Rhino's 4/9 - Minus Story @ Bears 4/9 - Flosstradamus @ Buskirk-Chumley 4/11 - Feist @ IU Auditorium 4/15 - Minus the Bear @ Bluebird 4/19 - WIUX Culture Shock @ Dunn Meadow 4/24 - Margot & the Nuclear So & Sos @ Buskirk-Chumley 4/26 - Nomo @ Bluebird 4/29 - Dead Meadow @ Bluebird 5/2 - Caribou @ Waldron 5/7 - Megafaun @ Bear's 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