Hello kiddies. What it is? This is Jason. For the next few weeks Heath -- aka White Light/White Heath, aka the man who usually writes these weekly missives from the Landlocked Bunker --will be traipsing across Europe a la Clark Griswold, as helper monkey for our bros the Early Day Miners. They're touring to promote their excellent new LP, /The Treatment, /out now on Secretly Canadian. This means at least a couple things. One, there will be far less Heath-rock played in the store for the next few weeks (you know what I mean), and far MORE Blue Oyster Cult! Also, I'll be handling the intro spiel to this (hopefully) useful little tip sheet we send out every week. And this is my pledge to YOU: I promise zero mention of the weather in the next few updates. Even if there's a blizzard, or it starts raining men, I'm not gonna talk about it. There are many righteous live shows coming up in Bloomington, but one to which I'd like to call special attention. Tuesday (tonight?) at the Bishop: the Woes and Other Girls, both worthy bands I'm curious to check out. But, also on the bill, the mighty HALF RATS from Lafayette. I'm a babbling idiot over this band. They're too good to be real. Seriously. If your into swaggering, early Stonesy rock & roll that sounds fresh and familiar at the same time, be there! ................................................................... NEW ARRIVALS for the Week of 11/17/2009 ................................................................... Tori Amos - Midwinter Graces (Universal) ................................................................... After nearly two decades writing and recording some of her generation's most emotionally powerful music, Tori Amos is releasing her first seasonal album, Midwinter Graces. Midwinter Graces will find Tori reworking and expanding on classic carols as well as developing some of her very own seasonal tracks. Tori grew up playing holiday carols at Sunday services and Christmas Day celebrations in her father's church. These were the songs that gave a young Tori her first taste of music, and now almost 40 years later Tori gets her own chance to reimagine classics like What Child, Nowell and Star of Wonder. Annie - Don't Stop (Smalltown Supersound) ................................................................... The long awaited sophomore release from the Scandinavian Pop princess. Both immediately listenable and utterly beguiling, this "pop with strange edges" is mainstream and underground, all at once. Sometimes expressive, sometimes funny, but always totally fresh and utterly human. Featuring guest appearances from Richard X and Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos. Beak> - s/t (Ipecac Recordings) ................................................................... 2009 debut album by this new project from Portishead producer and multi-instrumentalist Geoff Barrow. He formed Beak> earlier this year with two fellow Bristol musicians, Billy Fuller and Matt Williams. The band has some pretty rigorous guidelines in place. They record all their music in one room and they don't use overdubs. The band wrote their entire album over the course of one 12-day session. In a statement about Beak>, Barrow says, "It's really good to create music under different conditions than you're used to." Norah Jones - The Fall (Blue Note) ................................................................... Norah has taken a new direction on the The Fall, experimenting with different sounds and a new set of collaborators. Jones enlisted several songwriting collaborators, including Ryan Adams and Okkervil River's Will Sheff, as well as her frequent partners Jesse Harris & Richard Julian. Musicians include drummers Joey Waronker (Beck, R.E.M.) and James Gadson (Bill Withers), keyboardist James Poyser (Erykah Badu, Al Green), and guitarists Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello) and Smokey Hormel (Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer). Kid Sister - Ultraviolet (Downtown) ................................................................... Kid Sister's long-awaited debut is, first and foremost, an upbeat and futuristic club record. Influenced by the fast beats and electronic soul of Chicago house music, "Ultraviolet" owns a roll-up-your-sleeves form of empowerment, where respect is earned rather than awarded on sex appeal. With Southern soul rapper Cee-Lo at her side on "Daydreaming," she escapes into a psychedelic, synthesized orchestra. Rakim - The 7th Sea (SMC Recordings) ................................................................... Highly anticipated release from the artist voted 'Greatest Rapper Of All Time' by the Hip Hop elite. The Seventh Seal is Rakim's first studio album in over eight years. Rakim says ''The Seventh Seal is my own revelation... my way of taking the best of what Hip Hop has to offer, what we as a culture and a community have to offer, putting my stamp on it and leading us forward while constantly respecting what we've already accomplished.'' Dave Rawlings Machine - A Friend of a Friend (Acony) ................................................................... The much anticipated debut album from Gillian Welch's secret weapon, Dave Rawlings, includes appearances by Ketch Secor, Willie Watson, Kevin Hayes, Morgan Jahnig (Old Crow Medicine Show), Benmont Tench (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers), Nate Walcott (Bright Eyes) and Karl Himmel (Neil Young), and of course, Gillian Welch. It's a coming out party for an unsung hero of American roots music. Real Estate - s/t (Woodsist) ................................................................... Real Estate waft in on vibes of hazy summers past. The New Jersey quartet cut the sleeves short and the pop smooth to shade you from the midday heat. Every song works its way to that part of your consciousness that reveled in the fleeting waves of freedom that eked in once classes broke and the sun lingered a little longer over suburban roofs. Them Crooked Vultures - s/t (DGC/Interscope) ................................................................... Them Crooked Vultures are DAVE GROHL (Foo Fighters, Nirvana), JOSHUA HOMME (Queens of the Stone Age) and JOHN PAUL JONES (Led Zeppelin). Nuff said. VA - Forge Your Own Chains:Psychedelic Ballads & Dirges 1968-74(Now Again) ................................................................... This compilation introduces a new direction for Now-Again Records and its owner and producer EGON. With the same detailed, no-stone-unturned approach he used for Deep Funk (The Funky 16 Corners, Cold Heat), he tackles beat-heavy global psychedelia with Forge Your Own Chains. Forge Your Own Chains showcases music from all corners of the world: Colombia, Nigeria, Sweden, South Korea, Thailand and Iran. The Vinyl Zone (get into the groove!) ................................................................... Doronco Gumo - Old Punks LP (Holy Mountain) Goodnight Loving - Nothing Conquers Us 7" (Dirtnap) Javelin - s/t EP (Thrill Jockey) Juan Maclean - Happy House 12" (DFA) Lawrence Arms - Buttsweat and Tears 7" (Fat Wreck Chords) Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Higher Than the Stars Remix 12" (Slumberland) Fred McDowell - s/t LP (Mississippi) Yardbirds - Roger the Engineer LP (Great American) Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook 12" (11/17) Also Released This Week ................................................................... Fall Out Boy - Believers Never Die John Mayer - Battle Studies Paul McCartney - Good Evening New York City Robert Pollard - The Devil Went Home and Puked DVD Rush - Working Men (Live) Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook 12" Supersilent - 9 Topaz Rags - Capricorn Born Again Tune-Yards - Birdbrains VA - Alan Lomax in Haiti [box] VA - Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Ghanaian Blues VA - Panama! 3 - Calypso Panameno, Guajira Jazz VA - Singapore A-Go-Go ................................................................... NEXT WEEK - Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! - info@landlockedmusic.com ................................................................... Black Crowes - Cabin Fever DVD (11/24) Flaming Lips - Embryonic 2LP (11/24) Papercuts - White are the Waves (11/24) Tom Petty - Live Anthology [4CD Box] (11/24) Jay Reatard - Blood Valentine (11/24) The Slew (Kid Koala) - 100% (11/24) Underworld vs The Misterons - Athens (11/24) Useless Eaters - Sucked in (11/24) Tom Waits - Glitter and Doom Live (11/24) VA - All Tomorrow's Parties DVD (11/24) VA - Daptone Gold (11/24) VA - Goner Fest 4 DVD (11/24) Blakroc - s/t (11/27) ................................................................... COMING SOON (dates often subject to change, sorry) ................................................................... The Bravery - Stir the Blood (12/1) R. Kelly - Untitled (12/1) Tycho - Coastal Brake (12/1) Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind EP (12/8) Arctic Monkeys - Cornerstone 12" (12/8) Camera Obscura - The Blizzard 7" (12/8) Clipse - Til the Casket Drops (12/8) Darkstar - Aidy's Girl Is A Computer 12" (12/8) Dinosaur Jr - Pieces 7" (12/8) Doom - Gazzillion Ear EP (12/8) Fourtet - Love Cry 12" (12/8) King Midas Sound - Waiting for You (12/8) Lil Jon - Crunk Rock (12/8) Joni Mitchell - [LP reissues] (12/8) Trans Am - What Day is Tonight [Live 2LP + DVD] (12/8) John Vanderslice - [LP reissues] (12/8) Tom Waits - Orphans (vinyl box) (12/8) Wesley Willis - Joy Rides DVD (12/8) Robert Wyatt - Box Set (12/8) Neil Young - Dreamin' Man Live '92 (12/8) VA - Glee Cast Vol 2 (12/8) Pixeltan - Yamerarena-i (12/15) Vampire Weekend - Cousins 7" (12/15) Vampire Weekend - Contra (1/12) Blockhead - The Music Scene (1/19) Eels - End Times (1/19) Beach House - Teen Dream (1/26) Four Tet - There Is Love in You (1/26) Los Campesinos - Romance is Boring (1/26) Retribution Gospel Choir - 2 (1/26) Spoon - Transference (1/26) Midlake - The Courage of Others (2/2) Pierced Arrows - Descending Shadows (2/2) Yeasayer - Odd Blood (2/9) Strange Boys - Be Brave (2/23) Further release dates available on our website: http://landlockedmusic.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 11/9 - 11/15 1. Swell Season, Strict Joy (Anti) 2. Flight of the Conchords, I Told You I Was Freaky (Sub Pop) 3. Avett Brothers, I and Love and You (American) 4. White Wires, S/T (Douchemaster) 5. Nirvana, Bleach (reissue) (Sub Pop) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Bibio, Doom, Jookabox, King Khan & BBQ, Molina & Johnson, Nirvana, On Fillmore, Slayer, Swimmers, Themselves, Vitalic, Weezer, Yeasayer, Devendra Banhart, Bassnectar, Bipolar Bear, Breakaways, Broadcast, Rosie Flores, Gov't Mule, Heavy Trash, Lover, Hudson Mohawke, Pelican, REM, Swell Season, Tegan & Sara, Young Prisms, Atlas Sound, Do Make Say Think, El Perro Del Mar, Espers, Flight of the Conchords, Fuck Buttons, Gibbard / Farrar, Kings of Convenience, Lightning Bolt, Lyle Lovett, Neon Indian, Nouvelle Vague, Old Canes, Alec Ounsworth, Elvis Perkins, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Slits, Spiral Stairs, Sufjan Stevens, White Denim, Baroness, Boston Spaceships, Boy Toys, Christmas Island, Bob Dylan, Flaming Lips, Holly Golightly, Har Mar Superstar, Horns of Happiness, Michael Hurley, Vijay Iyer, Los Lonely Boys, Thee Oh Sees and much much more! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming Bloomington shows that Landlocked Music is excited about: 11/17 - Capleton @ Bluebird 11/17 - The Woes @ The Bishop 11/18 - A Sunny Day in Glasgow @ The Bishop 11/19 - Elvis Perkins / AA Bondy @ the Video Saloon 11/20 - Harper Simon @ The Bishop 11/20 - Los Lobos @ Buskirk-Chumley Theater 11/21 - DJ/rupture @ The Video Saloon 11/22 - Haley Bonar @ The Bishop 11/23 - Evangelicals / Holiday Shores @ The Bishop 11/30 - Camera Obscura / Papercuts @ Bluebird 12/5 - Dave Rawlings Machine @ Bluebird 12/8 - Crystal Antlers @ The Bishop 12/8 - Raekwon @ Bluebird 12/9 - Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin @ The Bishop 12/11 - The Horribly Wrong (reunion!) @ The Bishop 1/14 - Bowerbirds / Julie Doiron @ The Bishop 2/7 - Molina & Johnson @ The Bishop 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 or http://twitter.com/landlockedmusic 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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