I hate to say I told you so... but if you had been investing in vinyl (or heck, even CDs) instead of the stoopid stock market, you'd be a much happier camper today. Newspapers keep telling us that vinyl is surging, but in our mind its never halted. Time to merge into traffic and join the mass of us already in "the know" - you can't wrap your arms around a download, you can't pawn it for lunch money and nobody is impressed with your mp3 collection, dude. Join the kool klub! ................................................................... NEW ARRIVALS for the Week of 9/30/2008 (Exact arrival dependent on shipping delays and mishaps, sorry) ................................................................... Joseph Arthur & The Lonely Astronauts - Temporary People (Lonely Astronaut) ................................................................... Singer/songwriter Joseph Arthur was discovered by Peter Gabriel in the mid-90s and soon signed to the artist's Real World label. His eclectic brooding is similar to the likes of Leonard Cohen, Joe Henry, and the late Jeff Buckley, and his time spent with Gabriel exposed his musical styles to a global palette. He has toured with Ben Harper, Gomez, The The and was guest vocalist on the Twilight Singers' "Sublime". Boduf Songs - How Shadows Chase the Balance (Kranky) ................................................................... A further step away from the "folk" label, which never seemed all that appropriate to Mathew's work in any case. If you record solo w/ an acoustic guitar the description is somewhat inevitable. But the results might more rightly be construed as "acoustic death metal" considering the themes of death, alienation, fear, hatred & isolation that are his forte, as well as his affinity for gothic imagery. Gorgeous stuff, and coming live to Bloomington this winter - look for that! Dear and the Headlights - Drunk Like the Bible Times (Equal Vision) ................................................................... Who exactly are Dear and the Headlights? Sure, we know they're an indie rock band from Arizona. They released their debut album Small Steps, Heavy Hooves to much critical praise in February 2007. Fresh off the road opening for emo powerhouses Jimmy Eat World and Paramore, the band has had the opportunity to open up a whole legion of fans to their introspective, catchy, piano-laced, country-tinged rock. But really, Dear and the Headlights are just five guys who love creating music and that's evident on their new album Drunk Like Bible Times. Ani DiFranco - Red Letter Year (Righteous Babe) ................................................................... "I've got myself a new mantra," Ani DiFranco shares on her new studio album. "It says 'Don't forget to have a good time.'" This attitude has clearly influenced the dozen tunes on Red Letter Year, which celebrate existence, profess love and tackle thorny political issues with an infectious sense of glee. It's one of Ani's most joyous records to date. And it has been a long time coming. Red Letter Year was sculpted over the course of two years, a period in which Ani continued to hone her songwriting, performing and recording skills, all the while balancing her new role as a mom. "I think I sorely needed to be slowed down, and finally a little person came along powerful enough to do it," Ani reflects. The end result is an album of focused, layered, panoramic music. Dungen - 4 (Kemado) ................................................................... Dungen's most concentrated effort to date, with beats surging forth and the atmosphere changing as their sound continues to evolve. Every song here runs under 5 minutes, pushing the group to introduce confident melodies and arresting ambiance in tighter frameworks. Gauging from the results, this challenge has done them well. Included in this set are live favorite "Mina Damer och Fasaner," excerpts from a wild psychedelic jam session entitled "Samtidigt," and a storming, Northern Soul-influenced instrumental entitled "Fredag". These stand tall with some of the most fully-realized moments of Dungen's career; percolating prog-pop groover "Det Tar Tid" and eloquent opener "Satt At Se." Ben Folds - Way to Normal (Epic) ................................................................... Ben Folds is celebrated for a sound that bridges the worlds of Jazz and Power Rock. Consistently touring, Ben has earned a reputation for his wit, musicality, and energetic live shows. With songs like 'Hiroshima' (which recounts his falling of the stage and hitting his head in Japan), Folds has proven to be a story-teller for the piano-rock generation. Way To Normal is the first full length release since Songs for Silverman, a very honest look at the last few years of Folds' life. Folds collaborated with Dennis Herring and the track 'You Don't Know Me' features a duet with indie songstress, Regina Spektor. Free bonus CD with purchase! Mitch Hedberg - Do You Believe in Gosh? (Comedy Central) ................................................................... Recorded two months prior to his death, this album contains nearly forty minutes of previously unreleased stand-up material. It pulses with Mitch's inimitable wit and spirit, it's a document of a comedy master, and it's a treat for all those who were afraid they'd never get to hear another great Hedberg joke. Jack's Mannequin - The Glass Passenger (Sire) ................................................................... If Andrew McMahon is the Ben Folds of Something Corporate, then his side project Jack's Mannequin is his Fear of Pop, his opportunity to step out of the group and try something different. Except in his case, it isn't so much fear of pop as much as an embrace of pop, since he sheds the loud guitars and punky overtones of his main band for a sunny, unabashedly tuneful Californian pop with Jack's Mannequin. More than ever, McMahon sounds like the heir to Ben Folds' wise-ass interpretation of Joe Jackson, but McMahon isn't as cynical or goofy as Folds. His humor is sardonic and low-key, plus he's more concerned with affairs of the heart. Koushik - Out My Window (Stones Throw) ................................................................... Koushik specializes in making that hazy, hip-hop-based downbeat music that you could easily compare to contemporaries such as Four Tet, RJD2, and DJ Shadow. What sets Koushik apart from the others is a beautiful 60s psych-pop element that tends to pervade throughout. It shows itself in the spacious panned strings, acoustic guitars, and harpsichords that fall in and out of each other; and the beats have a harder regimented classic true school hip-hop sound, that Fourtet and Prefuse tend to stray away from. What truly sets the record apart is Koushik's voice. His singing is soft and mixed way down in the center of the track, sounding like the voice choirs you'd hear on one of those old Percy Faith or 101 Guitars from the late-60s. Madlib - WLIB AM: King of the Wigflip (Rapster) ................................................................... WLIB AM: King of the Wigflip plays like the days when AM radio ruled the airwaves, transmitting a crackling, low-fi melange of endless sample fodder, vocal snippets, and sonic intuition, turning singles into stars and flipping wigs with each twist of the dial. Starting with the ominous, tribal overtones of "The New Resident," its spiritual spank followed by the customarily aggressive Guilty Simpson on the brassy, stabbing "Blow the Horns On Em," WLIB AM: King of the Wigflip finds Madlib venturing away from the deconstruction of world rhythms on recent projects and returning to his Western hemisphere roots in hip-hop and R&B. This final edition of the Beat Generation series includes guest appearances from Talib Kweli, Murs, Oh No, Guilty Simpson, Defari, Georgia Anne Muldrow, and many others. Mercury Rev - Snowflake Midnight (Yep Roc) ................................................................... Swirling atmospherics and mantra-like lyrics abound on Mercury Rev's newest work "Snowflake Midnight." Recorded almost exclusively in the band's Catskills, N.Y. laboratory, "Snowflake Midnight" sees MR continue experiments with laser harps, ad-hoc computer programs and random note generators resulting in a record that moves with grace between avant garde and traditional pop sensibilities. Standout tracks "Butterfly's Wing" and "Senses on Fire" exhibit the emphasis on letting the music define itself, as free as possible from human interference. Zooming in at nearly any magnification, "Snowflake Midnight" appears to be a resplendent fractal folding in upon itself, into something continually new, unpredictable and spontaneous, and yet so subtly self-aware, that it never fails to resemble itself as a whole. Murs - Murs For President (Reprise) ................................................................... Murs, one of rap's biggest independent success stories and a pioneering L.A. underground hip-hop start for a decade, finally makes his major label debut with Murs For President. A vote for Murs is a vote for eclectic, genre-bending, politically charged, musically adventurous, and genuinely entertaining rap. A vote for Murs is a vote for the future! Special Edition includes an outrageous 26-minute spy flick, The Murs Administration, starring Murs. Lou Reed - Berlin DVD (Miriam) ................................................................... Lou Reed, co-founder of The Velvet Underground and the man behind such iconic rock songs as Sweet Jane and Walk on the Wild Side, stars in one of the most satisfying concert films in decades. Oscar-nominated director Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) captures this historic moment in time, as Reed performed his legendary 1973 album, Berlin, live for the first time. Rocking horns, soulful guitar and the angelic voices of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus bring Reed's devastatingly honest lyrics to full life in this exceptionally strong performance. Restiform Bodies - TV Loves You Back (Anticon) ................................................................... The 3-headed post-mod monster called Restiform Bodies is whole once again, dropping their debut like a sack of analog televisions onto the fractured landscape of modern urban forms. A dark and dense, art-twisted, New Wave-inflected hip-pop marvel. Strains of ghettotech, crunk, and hyphy twirp and twirl with Eno-like atmospherics and buoyant bass swells, while rapper/songbird Passage warps his vocals over blistering synth. Likewise, the lyrics gallop at a ferocious clip. Like electron shots from a cathode-ray tube, they form a deliciously sardonic image of modern living, and break down into constituents that are metaphysically hopeful, socially relevant, poetic, and playful. Roots Manuva - Slime & Reason (Big Dada) ................................................................... Roots (AKA Rodney Smith) has built a solid reputation as one of the best Hip Hop artists in the UK, mainly through his ability to embrace many different styles while maintaining a high standard of lyrical content and delivery. With more focus on Electronics and Dub than his previous effort, which employed a live band feel, this is another example of the artist's diversity. The Wire - October 2008 ................................................................... On The Cover: Richie Hawtin - he has the technology. Stuck To The Cover: The Wire Tapper 20 - a free 19-track CD featuring music by Grails, Mike Osborne, Paavoharju, Pantaleimon, MoHa!, Zavoloka and more. Plus, Makoto Kawabata's Invisible Jukebox, Benge, The Primer: The alternative Neil Young, Ingrid Laubrock, Runhild Gammelsaeter, Lucky Dragons, David Grubbs on brief encounters and more. VA - Nightmare Revisited (Disney) ................................................................... With The Nightmare Before Christmas franchise growing each year, Disney is releasing a new cover album. The album features unique, new recordings of the eccentric cult classic soundtrack, covered by a diverse group of artists across different music genres. Artists such as DeVotchka, Amiina, Polyphonic Spree, Sparklehorse, Rise Against, Amy Lee, RJD2, Album Leaf, Datarock, Marilyn Manson and much more! Take a spin with these great songs and show us there is still plenty of nightmare to revisit. VA - Of Great and Mortal Men: 43 Songs for 43 US Presidencies (Standard) ................................................................... Musical pals Christian Kiefer, Matthew Gerken, and Jefferson Pitcher began writing songs about US presidents as part of a musical contest. They soon decided to be completists about it and write a song for every one of our 43 presidents. And they pulled together a slew of other notable musicians to help them out. Singing about the likes of Martin Van Buren, James Garfield, Richard Nixon and the rest are big names including Bill Callahan (Smog), Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu, Marla Hansen, Mark Kozelek (Red House Painters), Alan Sparhawk of Low, CAlifone, Radar Bros, James Jackson Toth, Tom Carter from Charalambides and Rosie Thomas. Comes packaged in a hardcover full-color book featuring original portraits of each president accompanying the lyrics. A download of a song about our 44th president will be made available once we know who that will be. Also Released This Week (but not necc in stock, ask us!) ................................................................... Absentee - Victory Shorts (Memphis Industries) Tori Amos - Live at Montreux 1991-1992 (Eagle) Bayside - Shudder (Victory) The Beach Boys and the Satan DVD (Zeit) Bomb the Bass - Future Chaos (K7) The Bye Bye Blackbirds - Houses & Homes (American Dust) Creenence Clearwater Revival - [remasters] (Fantasy) Dream Theater - Chaos in Motion DVD (Roadrunner) Grady - Y U So Shady (Alternative Tentacles) The Iguanas - If You Should Ever Fall On Hard Times (Belle) Innerpartysystem - s/t (Island) Jesus & Mary Chain - The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities (Rhino) Large Professor - Main Source (Gold Dust) Medeski Martin and Wood - Radiolarians 1 (Indirecto) Tom Morello the Nightwatchman - Fabled City (Red) Nashville Pussy - Live in Hollywood DVD (MVD) Quatrain - s/t (Sundazed) Eli "Paperboy" Reed - Roll With You LP (Q-Division) Jonas Reinhardt - s/t (Kranky) James Taylor - Covers (Hear) T.I. - Paper Trail (Atlantic) Taj Mahal - Maestro (Heads Up) U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky DVD (Island) Vivian Girls - s/t (In the Red) We the People - Too Much Noise (Sundazed) XX Teens - Welcome to Goon Island (Mute) ................................................................... NEXT WEEK - Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! - info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... Annuals - Such Fun (10/7) Antony and the Johnsons - Another World EP (10/7) Pierre Bastien - Visions of Doing (10/7) Harold Budd & Clive Wright - Song for Lost Blossoms (10/7) Castanets - City of Refuge (10/7) Catfish Haven - Devastator (10/7) Curumin - Japan Pop Show (10/7) Deerhoof - Offend Maggie (10/7) Department of Eagles - In Ear Park (10/7) Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs: Rare & Unreleased 1989-2006 (10/7) Eulogies - Tempted to do Nothing EP (10/7) F-cked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life (10/7) Morgan Geist - Double Night Time (10/7) Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday (10/7) Gregory & the Hawk - Moenie and Kitchi (10/7) Her Space Holiday - XOXO Panda: The New Kid Revival (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) Legendary Pink Dots - Plutonium Blonde (10/7) Margot & the Nuclear So & So's - Animal! / Not Animal (10/7) Agathe Max - This Silver String (10/7) Megapuss (Devendra) - Surfing (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) The Pretenders - Break Up the Concrete (10/7) Pretty & Nice - Get Young (10/7) Jay Reatard - Matador Singles '08 (10/7) The Rosebuds - Life Like (10/7) DJ/Rupture - Uproot (10/7) Spinto Band - Moonwink (10/7) The Streets - Everything is Borrowed (10/7) These Are Powers - Terrific Season / Taro Tarot (10/7) Women - s/t (10/7) Rachael Yamagata - Elephants Teeth Sinking Into Heart (10/7) ................................................................... COMING SOON (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... OCTOBER Julian Cope - Black Sheep (10/14) The Dead C - Secret Earth (10/14) The Decemberists - Always the Bridesmaid Vol.1 12" (10/14) Angele Dubeau & La Pieta - Philip Glass Portrait (10/14) The Fleshtones - Stocking Stuffer (10/14) Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs - Dirt Don't Hurt (10/14) Ray Lamontagne - Gossip in the Grain (10/14) Manchester Orchestra - Let My Pride Be What's Left Behind (10/14) Dave Mason - 26 Letters 12 Notes (10/14) Menahan Street Band - Make the Road by Walking (10/14) The Mighty Underdogs - Droppin Science Fiction (10/14) Larry Norman - Anthology (10/14) Secret Machines - s/t (10/14) Martin Sexton - Solo (10/14) Sloppy Seconds - Endless Bummer (10/14) Tobacco - F*cked Up Friends (10/14) Lucinda Williams - Little Honey (10/14) VA - Fania Remixed: I Like it Like That 2LP (10/14) Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress [LP reissue] (10/21) Blithe Sons - The Great Orthochromatic Wheel (10/21) Bonnie Prince Billy - Is it the Sea? (10/21) Simon Bookish - Everything (10/21) Loren Connors - The Moon Last Night LP (10/21) Danielson - Our Givest 7" (10/21) The Dears - Missiles (10/21) Brett Dennen _ Hope for the Hopeless (10/21) Doom - Born Into This (10/21) Herman Dune - Next Year in Zion (10/21) El Guincho - Alegranza (10/21) Escape the Fate - s/t (10/21) Frightened Rabbit - Liver! Lung! FR! (10/21) Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna (10/21) Sebastien Grainger - and the Mountains (10/21) Hush Arbors - s/t (10/21) Lake - Oh, The Places We'll Go (10/21) Shawn Lee & Clutchy Hopkins - Clutch Of The Tiger (10/21) Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping (10/21) Parts & Labor - Receivers (10/21) Lou Reed - Berlin: Live at St Ann's Warehouse (10/21) Anni Rossi - Afton EP (10/21) +/- - Xs On Your Eyes (10/21) Serena Ryder - Sweeping the Ashes EP (10/21) Stereolab - [LP Reissues] (10/21) Times New Viking - Stay Awake EP (10/21) White Hinterland - Luniculaire EP (10/21) Hank Williams III - Damn Right, Rebel Proud (10/21) Eccentric Soul: The Young Disciples (10/21) Ryan Adams - Cardinology (10/28) The Cure - 4:13 Dream (10/28) Deerhunter - Microcastle (10/28) Eagles of Death Metal - Heart On (10/28) Jesse Malin - On Your Sleeve (10/28) O'Death - Broken Hymns, Limbs & Skins (10/28) Rodrigo y Gabriela - Live in Japan (10/28) Roxy Music - LP Reissues (10/28) Squarepusher - Just a Souvenir (10/28) The Tossers - On a Fine Spring Evening (10/28) BEYOND Black Moth Super Rainbow - Drippers (11/4) Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come Darkness, Come Light (11/4) Crosby Stills Nash and Young - Deja Vu DVD (11/4) CSS - Move (Remixes) 12" (11/4) The Decemberists - Always the Bridesmaid Vol.2 12" (11/4) Everything Now! - Spatially Severed (11/4) Jose Gonzalez - Live at Park Ave (11/4) Low - Santa's Coming 7" (11/4) No Age - Teen Creeps 7" (11/4) Mavis Staples - Live: Hope at the Hideout (11/4) Wilderness - (k)no(w)here (11/4) VA - Twilight OST (11/4) Burial - DJ Kicks (11/11) Alejandro Escovedo - Live Animal (11/11) New Order - [deluxe reissues] (11/11) Prizzy Prizzy Please / Push Pull - PPPPP EP (11/11) Push Pull - Hello Soldier! (11/11) Bring Me the Horizon - Suicide Season (11/18) Von Bondies - Pale Bride 7" (11/18) David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (11/25) The Killers - Day & Age (11/25) The Decemberists - Always the Bridesmaid Vol.3 12" (12/2) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 9/22 - 9/28 1. TV on the Radio, Dear Science (Interscope) 2. Jenny Lewis, Acid Tongue (Reprise) 3. Cold War Kids, Loyalty to Loyalty (Downtown) 4. Kings of Leon, Only by the Night (RCA) 5. Mogwai, The Hawk is Howling (Matador) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Blitzen Trapper, Brightblack Morning Light, Cold War Kids, Dr Dooom, Friendly Fires, David Gilmour, High Places, Howling Hex, I Heart Lung, Kings of Leon, Jenny Lewis, Mogwai, Monkey, Old Crow Medicine Show, Pica Beats, Pidgeon, Max Richter, Silver Jews, Sing it Loud, Thievery Corporation, TV on the Radio, Pete Best, Robert Pollard, Break and Repair Method, Brimstone Howl, Kasey Chambers, Dead Confederate, Dressy Bessy, Hacienda, James, Lady Dottie & the Diamonds, Charlie Louvin, Metallica, Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls), Pivot, Portugal. the Man, Talkdemonic, Benjamin Taylor, Tindersticks, Keller Williams, Broken West, Calexico, Kimya Dawson, The Donkeys, Liz Durrett, Michael Franti, Fujiya & Miyagi, Growing, Damien Jurado, Little Teeth, The Low Lows, Maps & Atlases, Mogwai, The New Year, Okkervil River, Parenthetical Girls, The Sound of Animals Fighting, Emiliana Torrini, Tricky, Chad VanGaalen, Wovenhand, 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, Brian Wilson, Alias, Delta Spirit, Diplo & Santogold, Dragonforce, Dreadful Yawns, Fantomas & The Melvins Big Band, Gentleman Jesse, Pop Levi, Matthew Sweet, The Verve and much much more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming Bloomington shows that Landlocked Music is excited about: 10/2 - Rodney Crowell @ Bluebird 10/5 - Chuck Ragan (Hot Water Music) / Tim Barry (Avail) / Ben Nichols (Lucero) / Austin Lucas @ Rhino's 10/9 - The Dodos @ Rhino's 10/10 - An Albatross @ Cinemat 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 11/4 - Ted Leo + Pharmacists + Titus Andronicus @ Buskirk-Chumley Theatre 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 @ Jake's 11/20-21 - The Avett Brothers @ Bluebird 11/23 - Kimya Dawson @ Buskirk-Chumley Theatre 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. Walnut Ave. Bloomington, IN, 47404 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