Alright class, we have a lot of ground to cover today so let's get straight to it, shall we? Thanks to all who came out on a monday night last night to see a wonderful performance from Indian Jewelry and Tammar. You warm our hearts. If you missed it, you can make it up tonight by checking out Tussle at the Bluebird. Also we have a TON of tickets for upcoming shows - check em out and save your milk money! ................................................................... NEW ARRIVALS for the Week of 9/9/2008 (Exact arrival dependent on shipping delays and mishaps, sorry) ................................................................... The Broken West - Now or Heaven (Merge) ................................................................... Their sophomore full-length originates from home - the longing to get there and all that comes from being there. Each song is a maturation from the band's debut. The familiar catchy melodies are still there, as are the sublime harmonies and wry guitars, but "Now Or Heaven" is infused with a deeper, more serious perspective of the world. Calexico - Carried to Dust (Quarterstick) ................................................................... There's always been intrigue and adventure at the heart of Calexico. Joey Burns and John Convertino have constantly imbued their music with an unparalleled sense of drama, calling upon the myths and iconography of the American West and its Spanish speaking neighbor Mexico. "Carried To Dust" represents the pinnacle of their achievement, a thrilling and moving journey through a landscape that draws upon the modern world as much as it does the decayed reminders of times past, stumbling upon unexpected delights whilst always moving forward with a pioneering sense of purpose. Kimya Dawson - Alphabutt (K) ................................................................... "Alphabutt" follows up the highly successful soundtrack for "Juno", which featured many of Dawson's songs. A collection of children's songs written by Dawson along with her musical friends and their children. Hailed by the likes of Rolling Stone, NPR, Blender, and Pitchfork as a seriously talented wordsmith, Dawson successfully leads a group of children in this sunny and energetic batch of tunes with plenty of fun in the form of snapping fingers, clapping hands, and stamping feet. Tender and vulnerable; silly and raw. The Donkeys - Living on the Other Side (Dead Oceans) ................................................................... The Donkeys are more than simply four California beach bums who love to surf, drink beer, and jam as the sun sets over the Pacific. If their back story contains those top-down cars and suntanned utopian surf tableaus, it also contains the malaise and the escape fantasies familiar to all suburban kids of the 80s and 90s. Miraculously, the music manages to communicate both moods at once. Any expression of existential ennui - "is this all there is?" - is soothed by an unrushed guitar lick and a harmonized twang that becomes almost meditative. This record is about rolling down the windows, cranking up the stereo, and hitting the open road. Coming to the Cinemat on 9/15. Liz Durrett - Outside our Gates (Warm Electric) ................................................................... Produced and arranged by Eric Bachmann (Archers Of Loaf, Crooked Fingers), A sonic leap forward for Liz - her spare, acoustic downbeats have been supplanted by a textured and diverse orchestra of sounds. A virtual cacophony of instruments are here (strings, wurlitzers, accordions, pianos, marching drums) and Bachmann's score somehow harmonizes them seamlessly to provide the perfect setting for Liz's near stream of consciousness writings and soft, pitch-perfect voice. Guests include Vic Chesnutt and Brian Causey (Man Or Astro-Man?). Michael Franti & Spearhead - All Rebel Rockers (Anti) ................................................................... The follow-up to the critically acclaimed "Yell Fire". "All Rebel Rockers" is Franti's fiery protest music and thought-provoking lyrics backed by seductive elements of dub, infectious dance music, and irresistible hook-infused soul. He has toured and performed with everyone from U2, Dave Matthews, Ziggy Marley, REM, Digable Planets, Cypress Hill, Fugees, and A Tribe Called Quest. Fujiya & Miyagi - Lightbulbs (Deaf, Dumb & Blind) ................................................................... Deeply indebted both to vintage 70s Krautrock and the 90s bands that were themselves influenced by the likes of Neu! and Kraftwerk, from Stereolab and Broadcast to Aphex Twin and the Orb. Their sophomore release follows the successful debut "Transparent Things". It is a journey littered with fragmented images, anecdotes from the sublime to the ridiculous, and blurry stories that you feel you shouldn't have overheard. Each track is an aural contamination set to itch your inner ear every waking moment. Truly contagious music that carves a niche all its own. RIYL Hot Chip, !!!, LCD Soundsystem. Growing - All the Way (Social Registry) ................................................................... A drone-fueled, almost entirely instrumental duo in the tradition started by the Velvet Underground and perfected by the likes of Spacemen 3 and Acid Mothers Temple, with just a hint of doom metal heaviness for spice. Their Social Registry debut LP is a perfect balance of noise and pop. RIYL: Explosions In The Sky, Excepter, Fennesz, Mogwai, and The Field. Damien Jurado - Caught in the Trees (Secretly Canadian) ................................................................... Best known for his dark yet fragile first person fictional tales, Jurado now unlocks the door and invites us into his own enigmatic world with an energy and intensity that is all consuming. Close friends and band mates Eric Fisher and Jenna Conrad collaborated on the compositions - some more rocking than Jurado fans are used to, but as intense as ever. Little Teeth - Child Bearing Man (Absolutely Kosher) ................................................................... A record of growls, squeaks, sing-along choruses, complex wordplay, and made-up words, tied together with bluegrass mandolin, banjo, accordion, rock drums, guitar, and the wildcat snarls of female vocalist Dannie Murrie. "Child Bearing Man" is commanding, emotionally and musically conflicted, and utterly moving. RIYL: Black Dice, Deerhoof, The Muppets, The Carter Family. The Low Lows - Shining Violence (Misra) ................................................................... The Low Lows (ex-Parker & Lily) follow-up their 2006 debut with this album of leaner, more hook-laden songs which combine slow, dreamlike balladry with melodically distorted guitar, smashing, trashy drums, pedal steel, three-part vocal harmony, and gospel-tinged, explosive climaxes. Maps & Atlases - You and Me and the Mountain EP (Sargent House) ................................................................... Maps and Atlases offer songs that wrestle themselves from flailing, algebraic fits of spazzy guitar notes and drum ruptures to lulling, voice-driven melodies that speak stories using lyrical images strung together like soup cans chasing a Cadillac. Mostly influenced by experimental and technically adept musicians such as Hella, Don Caballero, and Psych-Folkies Devendra Banhart and Six Organs of Admittance, Maps and Atlases create a distinctive blend of the intricate and organic. Mogwai - Batcat EP (Matador) ................................................................... A taster from the upcoming full-length, "The Hawk Is Howling", and Mogwai's first album in nearly 3 years. Limited edition, specially packaged EP containing the song "Batcat" from the album, plus 2 non-album B-sides: "Stupid Prick Gets Chased By The Police And Loses His Slut Girlfriend" and "Devil Rides". The latter features the vocals of legendary psychedelic Texan Roky Erickson. The New Year - s/t (Touch & Go) ................................................................... First new material in 4 years for the brothers Kadane (Bedhead). Lyrically, these ten songs address the interlocked themes of lost time, frustrated desire, and the need for others. Although musically these may be the group's most varied songs - for a band that made innovative use of three guitars, almost half the songs here are built around the piano - it's the sequence of these tracks that brings together the story the lyrics tell. Okkervil River - The Stand Ins (Jagjaguwar) ................................................................... The sequel to 2007's critically acclaimed "The Stage Names", which Pitchfork praised as "one of the year's best", is part two of a staggered double album, picking up where part one left off, but delving deeper into the story and theme of "The Stage Names". Includes Sheff and recently departed Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater sharing a duet on the joys and hardships of trying to keep the band together. Parenthetical Girls - Entanglements (Tomlab) ................................................................... Their third album and first for Tomlab is an eleven song linear narrative of moral ambiguities, set to an elaborately orchestrated olio of modern classical and timeworn, traditional American pop forms. They borrow from the string swept sentimentality of Van Dyke Parks, Scott Walker, Jack Nitzsche, and Burt Bacharach, then introduce the influence of more formidable strains of modern classical composers such as Krzysztof Penderecki, Philip Glass, and Gavin Bryars. The result is a confluence of cerebral and sentimental disparities; sensually unsettling. Orchestral pop, crooned and cooed in falsetto. The Sound of Animals Fighting - The Ocean and the Sun (Epitaph) ................................................................... TSOAF once again unleash their experimental blend of progressive-electronic-hardcore rock. Known only by their animal names - Nightingale, Walrus, Lynx, and Skunk - and wearing masks for their rare live appearances, TSOAF have released two albums. Their latest offers a more intense mix of genres, as delicate Brazilian-inflected melodies careen into shattering guitar and drum workouts. RIYL: Explosions In The Sky, Circa Survive, Mars Volta, Thursday. Emiliana Torrini - Me and Armini (Rough Trade) ................................................................... A hugely ambitious pop record with Emiliana's soaring voice center stage, bolstered by a rich gamut of musical styles. From the summery skank of the title track to the surging, breathless single "Jungle Drum" to the yearning, spine-tingling "Big Jumps", "Me And Armini" is a truly sublime album. Torrini sings the song at the end credits for "The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers", and she wrote two #1 hits for Kylie Minogue. Produced by Dan Carey (Franz Ferdinand, Hot Chip). Tricky - Knowle West Boy (Domino) ................................................................... Tricky is back with an album named after the Bristol neighborhood where he grew up. It details the travels and travails of his youth, resulting in an eclectic aural history of his diverse upbringing. He reaches into post-punk, Two-Tone, reggae, hip-hop, and pop, twisting them into surreal songscapes. Tricky uses his astonishingly eclectic band and a host of great undiscovered singers to create the most varied and accessible set of his career. Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane (Sub Pop) ................................................................... Recalling Neil Young at his most fragile and plaintive, and Thurston Moore at his most resolved and vital, Chad's emotive vocals anchor these songs while tackling the pervasive themes of death and dreams with an unexpected air of certainty and hope that is far from ominous - instead, it's luminous. Through a complex interplay of guitar, drum beats, loops, samples, found sounds, unorthodox percussion, xylophones, distortion, synthesizers, accordions, and more, Chad has made an album that sounds bigger than one man. Wovenhand - Ten Stones (Sounds Familyre) ................................................................... David Eugene Edwards (16 Horsepower) sings ten untamed and mercy-drenched songs for thirsty listeners. From the jarring folk of "White Knuckle Grip", to the eerie bossa nova of Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars", to the fiery foot-stomper "Not One Stone", the album forms a song-cycle that is singular in its breadth and eclecticism. Flanked by the haunting strains of the bandoneon and the drones of the double bass, Edwards' lyrical inversions stitch symbols into a tapestry of peaceable and hellish imagery - horsetails, honeybees, and bird wings meet flaming battles and barbed wire to proclaim sin's devastation and the sweetness of redemption. Also Released This Week (but not necc in stock, ask us!) ................................................................... Joan Baez - Day After Tomorrow (Razor & Tie) Big Bang - From Acid to Zen (Oglio) Callers - Fortune (Western Vinyl) Greg Camp - Defektor (Bar None) Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus Dig LP (Anti) Civet - Hell Hath No Fury (Hellcat) The Clientele - That Night, A Forest Grew (9/9) Cornelius - Sensurround CD/DVD (Everloving) Iced Earth - The Crucible of Man (Steamhammer) LL Cool J - Exit 13 (Def Jam) Locksley - Don't Make Me Wait (Feature) Maserati - Inventions Remixes 12" (Temporary Residence) Portastatic - Some Small History (Merge) Rafter - Sweaty Magic EP (Asthmatic Kitty) Jules Mark Shear - More (Funzalo) Static Thought - The Motive for Movement (Hellcat) Stereophonics - Pull the Pin (Universal) Mark Tucker - In the Sack (de Stijl) United Nations - s/t (Eyeball) Dar Williams - Promised Land (Razor & Tie) Young Widows - Old Wounds (Temporary Residence) ................................................................... NEXT WEEK - Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! - info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... Metallica - Death Magnetic (9/12) Jeff Ament - Tone (9/16) Arab on Radar - Sunshine for Shady People (9/16) Asteroid No. 4 - These Flowers of Ours (9/16) Boston Spaceships (Robert Pollard) - Brown Submarine (9/16) The Break and Repair Method - Milk the Bee (9/16) Brimstone Howl - We Came in Peace (9/16) Bronze Nazareth - Thought for Food Vols 1 & 2 (9/16) Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson - Rattlin' Bones (9/16) Dead Confederate - Wrecking Ball (9/16) Dressy Bessy - Holler and Stomp (9/16) The Ergs - Hindsight is 20/20 My Friend (9/16) The Girls - Yes, No, Yes, No, Yes, No (9/16) Hacienda - Loud is the Night (9/16) Laika & The Cosmonauts - Cosmopolis (9/16) James - Hey Ma (9/16) Lady Dottie & the Diamonds - s/t (9/16) Nelly - Brass Knuckles (9/16) Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls) - Who Killed Amanda Palmer (9/16) Pivot - O Soundtrack My Heart (9/16) Portugal the Man - Censored Colors (9/16) Simian Mobile Disco - Fabric Live 41 (9/16) Talkdemonic - Eyes at Half Mast (9/16) Ben Taylor - The Legend Of Kung Folk Part 1 (9/16) Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw (9/16) Keller Williams w/ Moseley, Droll & Sipe - Live (9/16) ................................................................... COMING SOON (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... SEPTEMBER Karl Blau - Nature's Got Away (9/23) Blitzen Trapper - Furr (9/23) Brightblack Morning Light - Motion to Rejoin (9/23) Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Town Topic EP (9/23) Cold War Kids - Loyalty to Loyalty (9/23) Danielson Famile - [LP reissues] (9/23) The Dirty Heads - Any Port in a Storm (9/23) Everlast - Love, War, and the Ghost of Whitey Ford (9/23) Friendly Fires - s/t (9/23) Genghis Tron - Board Up the House Remixes Vol. 1 (9/23) Girl Talk - Feed the Animals (9/23) Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up Til It Was Light (9/23) Kings of Leon - Only by the Night (9/23) Koufax - Strugglers (9/23) Lenka - s/t (9/23) Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue (9/23) Marmoset - Record in Red [LP version] (9/23) Mason Proper - Olly Oxen Free (9/23) Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling (9/23) Monkey (Gorillaz) - Journey to the West (9/23) Old Crow Medicine Show - Tennessee Pusher (9/23) Pica Beats - Beating Back the Claws of the Cold (9/23) Pidgeon - Might as Well Go Eat Worms (9/23) Ra - Black Sun (9/23) The Replacements - [deluxe reissues pt. 2] (9/23) Max Richter - 24 Postcards in Full Colour (9/23) Sing it Loud - Come Around (9/23) Thievery Corporation - Radio Retaliation (9/23) The Tough Alliance - A New Chance (9/23) TV on the Radio - Dear Science, (9/23) Laura Warshauer - s/t (9/23) VA - Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist OST (9/23) Joseph Arthur & The Lonely Astronauts - Temporary People (9/30) Bayside - Shudder (9/30) Black Gold - Tragedy and Legacy (9/30) Dear and the Headlights - Drunk Like the Bible Times (9/30) Ani DiFranco - Red Letter Year (9/30) Dungen - 4 (9/30) Ben Folds - Way to Normal (9/30) Mitch Hedberg - Do You Believe in Gosh? (9/30) The Iguana - If You Should Ever Fall On Hard Times (9/30) Innerpartysystem - s/t (9/30) Jack's Mannequin - The Glass Passenger (9/30) Madlib - WLIB AM: King of the Wigflip (9/30) Mercury Rev - Snowflake Midnight (9/30) Murs - Murs For President (9/30) Eli "Paperboy" Reed - Roll With You LP (9/30) James Taylor - Covers (9/30) T.I. - Paper Trail (9/30) U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky DVD (9/30) VA - Nightmare Revisited (9/30) VA - Of Great and Mortal Men: 43 Songs for 43 US Presidencies (9/30) BEYOND Antony and the Johnsons - Another World EP (10/7) Harold Budd & Clive Wright - Song for Lost Blossoms (10/7) Catfish Haven - Devastator (10/7) Curumin - Japan Pop Show (10/7) Deerhoof - Offend Maggie (10/7) Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs: Rare & Unreleased 1989-2006 (10/7) Morgan Geist - Double Night Time (10/7) Jolie Holland - The Living and the Dead (10/7) I Am Ghost - Those We Leave Behind (10/7) I Set My Friends On Fire - You Can't Spell Slaughter Without Laughter (10/7) Japanese Motors - s/t (10/7) Lambchop - OH (ohio) (10/7) Land of Talk - Some Are Lakes (10/7) Margot & the Nuclear So & So's - Animal! / Not Animal (10/7) Daniel Martin Moore - Stray Age (10/7) Music Tapes - The Singing Saw at Christmastime (10/7) Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul (10/7) Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping (10/7) The Pretenders - Break Up the Concrete (10/7) Jay Reatard - Matador Singles '08 (10/7) Spinto Band - Moonwink (10/7) The Dead C - Secret Earth (10/14) The Decemberists - Always the Bridesmaid Vol.1 12" (10/14) Manchester Orchestra - Let My Pride Be What's Left Behind (10/14) Menahan Street Band - Make the Road by Walking (10/14) Tobacco - F*cked Up Friends (10/14) Bonnie Prince Billy - Is it the Sea? (10/21) Escape the Fate - s/t (10/21) Hush Arbors - s/t (10/21) Parts & Labor - Receivers (10/21) Times New Viking - Stay Awake EP (10/21) Hank III - Damn Right, Rebel Proud (10/21) Eccentric Soul: The Young Disciples (10/21) Deerhunter - Microcastle (10/28) Roxy Music - LP Reissues (10/28) Black Moth Super Rainbow - Drippers (11/4) The Decemberists - Always the Bridesmaid Vol.2 12" (11/4) Wilderness - (k)no(w)here (11/4) Burial - DJ Kicks (11/11) David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (11/25) The Decemberists - Always the Bridesmaid Vol.3 12" (12/2) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 8/31 - 9/7 1. Brian Wilson, That Lucky Old Sun (Capitol) 2. Death Vessel, Nothing is Precious Enough For Us (Sub Pop) 3. The Walkmen, You & Me (Gigantic) 4. Nightmares on Wax, Thought So (Warp) 5. Mathew Sweet, Sunshine Lies (Shout Factory) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Bird Show, Rodney Crowell, Giant Sand, Willem Maker, Nightmares on Wax, The Residents, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Carrie Rodriguez, The Rumble Strips, Tussle, UNKLE, T.K. Webb, Wee, Brian Wilson, Alias, Davila 666, Delta Spirit, Diplo & Santogold, Dragonforce, Dreadful Yawns, Fantomas & The Melvins Big Band, Gentleman Jesse and His Men, Jerk Alert, Pop Levi, sBach, State, Matthew Sweet, The Verve, The Week That Was, Woodhands, Arabian Prince, David Byrne, Glen Campbell, Dandy Warhols, Death Vessel, Don Caballero, Duhks, Fiery Furnaces, Gaslight Anthem, GZA, Juliana Hatfield, Robyn Hitchcock, Human Highway, Jaguar Love, Jesu, Lykke Li, Laura Marling, Moondoggies, Music Tapes, Jennifer O'Connor, Lee Scratch Perry, Ra Ra Riot, Rodriguez, The Royal We, Xavier Rudd, Sonic's Rendezvous Band, Stereolab, The Stills, Toadies, Uglysuit, Loudon Wainwright III, The Walkmen and much much more! STAFF PICK! Available at Landlocked right now! Hurry! ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Everly Brothers, Roots (Warner Brothers, 1968) ................................................................... You might think the Bros were just jumping on the country-rock bandwagon with this one, and you'd be partially right. But let's not forget who invented the wagon- nay, the whole damn wheel itself! The Everly's were mixing country and country back when McGuinn was learning how to tune his 12-string banjo. However, hot on the heals of the Byrd's genre-defining /Sweetheart of the Rodeo/, the Everlys released this mock old-time radio show concept album that sought to connect the duo's country roots with the new hippy rock scene. And it works: they cover the Beau Brummels as effectively as Merle Haggard, with just a hint of timely psych-fx coloring the Everly's trademark close harmonies. As a cash-in LP, it probably didn't work as well as Warners wanted it to, and it didn't stop their mid-career slide onto the oldies circuit, but the album has grown in stature over the years and is now rightly recognized as a country rock classic. - Jason ------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming Bloomington shows that Landlocked Music is excited about: 9/9 - Tussle @ Bluebird 9/12 - These Are Powers @ Bear's 9/14 - Langhorne Slim @ Bluebird 9/15 - The Donkeys @ Cinemat 9/17 - Maps & Atlases @ Jake's 9/18 - Daedelus & Eliot Lipp @ Neal Marshall Center 9/21 - Sunset Rubdown & Evangelicals @ Bluebird 9/23 - Monotonix @ Bluebird 9/29 - Awesome Color @ Jake's 10/2 - Rodney Crowell @ Bluebird 10/5 - Chuck Ragan (Hot Water Music) / Tim Barry (Avail) / Ben Nichols (Lucero) @ Rhino's 10/9 - The Dodos @ Rhino's 10/10 - TV Ghost / Cro Magnon @ Bear's 10/13 - Talib Kweli @ Bluebird 10/15 - Black Joe Lewis @ Bear's 10/16 - Deerhoof @ Buskirk-Chumley Theatre 10/16 - Old Crow Medicine Show @ Bluebird 10/18 - Margot & the Nuclear So & So's @ Buskirk-Chumley Theatre 10/21 - Magnolia Electric Co. @ Buskirk-Chumley Theatre 10/21 - Method Man + Redman @ Bluebird 10/22 - Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour @ Cinemat 10/23 - Mt Eerie @ Cinemat 11/7 - Drakkar Sauna + O'Death @ Jake's 11/13 - Drive-By Truckers + The Hold Steady @ Bluebird 11/15 - John Prine @ IU Auditorium 11/18 - Bishop Allen @ Bear's 11/19 - Parts & Labor @ Bear's 11/20-21 - The Avett Brothers @ Bluebird We have tickets and additional information for many of these wonderful performances. Stop in and buy em beforehand! ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 202 N. 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