Thanks to all the lovelies who braved sub-arctic temperatures and our equipment failure to enjoy our first ever New Music Happy Hour at The Bishop last tuesday. These are only going to get bigger and better, rest assured. Our Kurt Vile instore is on for Sunday February 14th @ 4pm! Its gunna be mad rad! Then you can catch him again that same night a few doors down at the Bluebird with his full band - don't miss either! We still have tickets for the Feb 11th show with Dr Dog at the Video Saloon but whoa they are going quick - get em now or be sorry listening from the cold outdoors. Also get your Pit Stop Music Marathon weeklong pass for only $50! .................................................. NEW ARRIVALS for the Week of 2/2/2009 .................................................. Album Leaf - Chorus of Storytellers (Sub Pop) .................................................. A Chorus of Storytellers was recorded by Ryan Hadlock in the frosty month of February 2009 at Bear Creek Studio just outside of Seattle. It was mixed in the decidedly warmer month of June in Reykjavik, Iceland by Birgir Jon Birgisson (of Sigur Ros). For the first time in five albums, The Album Leaf recorded as a whole band. In the past, almost every instrument was performed by principal songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jimmy LaValle. This time the whole band was invited to participate and the result is their best record yet. Robert Lester Folsom - Music and Dreams LP (Mexican Summer) .................................................. One of the first of many reissues on the Mexican Summer slate brings forth a 1976 private press affair from Georgia's Robert Lester Folsom, a high-quality and shimmering, unbuttoned-collar collection of marina rock and sunset ballads. Long out of print and worth a small fortune on eBay, this release is a perfect companion to your copies of "Something/Anything", "If Only I Could Remember My Name" and your Bobb Trimble reissues. Vaguely psychedelic and professionally rendered, this is a strong and consistent brace of rock, staid yet breezy. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - I Speak Fula (Next Ambiance) .................................................. Malian maestro Bassekou Kouyate is a virtuoso picker and visionary whose work blurs the lines between West African and American roots music. Bassekou's intrument, the ngoni, is a "spike lute" and an ancestor of the banjo. Kouyate leads his band Ngoni Ba, the first-ever group built around not one but 4 ngonis - all played by members of his family. Guests include several pan-Malian notables, Toumani Diabate, Kasse Mady Diabate, Zoumana Tereta and Vieux Farka Toure. Lil Wayne - Rebirth (Cash Money) .................................................. A crossover Rock album from the self-proclaimed 'greatest rapper of all time'. Lil Wayne's previous full-length, the Grammy Award-winning The Carter III has been certified triple platinum with over one million sold in it's first week of release! Rebirth, his long rumored Rock album, is still Rap heavy and features guest appearances from Eminem, Shanell (AKA SNL), Kevin Rudolf, Nicki Minaj and others. Includes the first single 'Prom Queen'. Malachai - Ugly Side of Love (Domino) .................................................. Malachai is Hebrew for angel. It's also the name of the red-haired kid from Children Of The Corn. From which the band's name is derived. Why we're not exactly sure. Malachai, strictly speaking, are a duo from Bristol, UK. They aren't part of a scene, but they reflect the Bristol vibe these days: groups with dubstep running through their bones, hip hop in the fingers, 60s psychedelia in the heart. At times, the album sounds like a Jamaican garage rock band. Other time it sounds like Merseybeat if the beats were supplied by RZA. Or like Dick Dale surfing the River Severn. Midlake - The Courage of Others (Bella Union) .................................................. The Courage of Others is the lusted after follow-up to Midlake's 2006 cult classic The Trials of Van Occupanther. Existing outside the plane of trends and even time, Midlake has once again conjured a novel world, but one that seems to have existed forever. Looms of intricately textured keyboards, flute, guitars and voice are woven into broad cloaks of sound, all riding the wave of songwriter Tim Smith's sweeping vocals. The Orkustra - Adventures In Experimental Electric Orchestra From The San Francisco Underground LP (Mexican Summer) .................................................. A mighty set of archival recordings from the legendary Bobby BeauSoleil's proto-psych collective. Incredible packaging including an 18 page booklet with hand-written liner notes and original paintings from BeauSoleli. A perfect production from an infamous, iconoclastic legend who worked with everyone from Arthur Lee to Kenneth Anger. Staggeringly re-mastered, pressed on high-quality vinyl. "A youthful improvising ensemble attempting something outside of the tie-dyed, standard-rock format of 60s San Francisco." - Signal To Noise Pierced Arrows - Descending Shadows (Vice) .................................................. Portland-based trio comprised of legendary members Fred and Toody Cole of the seminal punk band Dead Moon. Descending Shadows expands on their fervently rough signature sound, recorded at Portland's Buzz or Howl Studios and mastered to vinyl lacquer per tradition at Fred and Toody's home. Promising to herald a new generation of fans steeped in the progeny which Dead Moon influenced, Descending Shadows will provide longtime followers of the Cole's work with a new vital installment of what Fred once described as 'rock'n'roll that's rough, ragged, and honest', a sincere answer to the void of emotion lacking in today's era. Priestess - Prior to the Fire (Tee Pee) .................................................. Unlike most hard rock/metal bands that relied solely on ballast and blast to sear their message into gray matter Priestess had a special trick up their sleeve - they could actually write a song that could walk the rope between being infectious and just downright viscous. Their incessant touring included sharing the stage with such heavy hitters as Black Label Society, Converge, Mastodon, Motorhead, Gwar and others with their sound equally comfortable sharing a stage with Iron Maiden as it was with Dinosaur Jr. The Soft Pack - s/t (Kemado) .................................................. A brief synopsis of The Soft Pack's meteoric rise: a duo writing songs in California at the dawn of 2008 goes on to supporting The Breeders, Last Of The Shadow Puppets and Bloc Party as a quartet, and release two attention-grabbing singles, "Night Life" and "Extinction", that same year. They were the toast of CMJ in 2008 and South By Southwest in 2009, then toured alongside Franz Ferdinand, Phoenix, White Lies and Black Lips in 2009, and delivered the limited edition 12" Muslims EP to much chatter in March 2009. Toro y Moi - Causers of This (Carpark) .................................................. This multi-cultural juggernaut gathers up the best musical elements from around the globe R&B, Indie Rock, Electronic Dance and Psychedelica and creates something-freaking-else! Over the course of his first groundbreaking full length "Causers Of This", Toro Y Moi turns the aforementioned musics upside-down with his breathtakingly innovative approach. The incendiary power of Toro Y Moi's funky synth and guitar play, pumping digital rhythms and gorgeously bright vocal harmonies makes for a formidable combination. Wax Poetics - January/February 2010 .................................................. The Africa Issue - with Fela on the front cover and Tony Allen on the back - plus pieces on The Rail Band, Orchestra Baobob, Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo, Soundway's Ghana Special and so much more! You know Wax Poetics is going to go deep, and this issue doesn't disappoint - from the pivotal Afro funk & soul of the cover artists to the Cuban-influenced vibe of Senegal's Orchestra Baobob, the griot sounds of the Rail Band and well beyond - loaded with photographs we've never seen before - Re:Discovery items on Mams & Hart, Buari's Disco Soccer and more, plus pieces on African vinyl collector Voodoo Frank, Shafiq of Sa-Ra, a Record Rundown of from African rhythms champion DJ Rich Medina. Weekend - All American 10" (Mexican Summer) .................................................. Ear-splitting fuzz and honey-sweet melodies are the trademark of Weekend's durable, energetic sound. Shoegazer acolytes filtered through a transistor radio, they are not to be confused with the Young Marble Giants spinoff of the same name. This is the new Weekend and they are their own thing, ready to flatten you deaf, grinning ear to ear. VA - Good God! Born Again Funk (Numero Group) .................................................. The Numero Group's 2006 release Good God! A Gospel Funk Hymnal examined what seemed to be a conundrum: gospel singers performing pious gospel songs, and devoutly, but doing so amid hot, sweaty, earthy sounds. Four years later, Numero returns with not quite a New Testament, rather a re-examination of a weighty tome. Born Again Funk lends new ears to a joyful strain of American composers and performers unafraid of expressing their devotion with both inspiration and invention. The Vinyl Zone (get into the groove!) .................................................. Eat Skull - Jerusalem Mall 7" *(Woodsist) Wanda Jackson - You Know I'm No Good 7" (Third Man) Medication - This Town LP (HoZac) Mess Folk - Something I Remember 7" (HoZac) Mickey - She's So Crazy 7" (HoZac) Myelin Sheaths - Do The Mental Twist 7" (HoZac) Nerve City - Red Tops 7" (HoZac) Thee Oh Sees - Quadrospazzed 12" (Castle Face) Spacemen 3 - LP Reissues (Fire) Also Released This Week .................................................. Tim Barry - 28th & Stonewall (Suburban Home) Brunettes - Paper Dolls (Lil Cheif) Ceephax Acid Crew - United Acid Emirates (Planet Mu) Monolake - Silence (Monolake) Vedera - Stages (Epic) Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe 2 (Roadrunner) VA - The Blank Generation: Blank Tapes NYC 1975-85 (Strut) VA - Pop Ambient 2010 (Kompakt) .................................................. NEXT WEEK - Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! - info@landlockedmusic.com .................................................. Ben + Vesper - LuvInIdleness (2/9) Besnard Lakes - Albatross EP (2/9) Kath Bloom - Thin Thin Line (2/9) A Broken Consort - Crow Autumn (2/9) Buzzcocks - reissues (2/9) Ceephax Acid Crew - United Acid Emirates (2/9) Galactic - Ya-Ka-May (2/9) HIM - Screamworks (2/9) Hoquiam - s/t LP (2/9) Hot Chip - One Life Stand (2/9) KD Lang - Recollection (2/9) Massive Attack - Heligoland (2/9) Georgia Anne Muldrow - Kings Ballad (2/9) Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise (2/9) Phantogram - Eyelid Movies (2/9) Reckless Kelly - Somewhere in Time (2/9) Sade - Soldier of Love (2/9) Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here (2/9) Screaming Females - Singles (2/9) Vibracathedral Orchestra - LP reissues (2/9) Watson Twins - Talking to You, Talking to Me (2/9) Yeasayer - Odd Blood (2/9) You Say Party We Say Die - The X Album (2/9) .................................................. COMING SOON (dates often subject to change, sorry) .................................................. Dan Black - ((un)) (2/16) Carolina Chocolate Drops - Genuine Negro Jig (2/16) Dum Dum Girls - Jail La La 7" (2/16) Field Music - Measure (2/16) Adam Green - Minor Love (2/16) Fela Kuti - CD reissues (2/16) Lightspeed Champion - Life Is Sweet (2/16) Local Natives - Gorilla Manor (2/16) Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More (2/16) Overnight Lows - City of Rotten Eyes (2/16) Preservation Hall Jazz Band - Benefit (2/16) Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Kollaps Tradixionales (2/16) Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore - Dear Companion (2/16) Tindersticks - Falling Down a Mountain (2/16) Wu-Tang Clan - Return of Wu and Friends (2/16) Alkaline Trio - This Addiction (2/23) Andrew WK - Close Calls With Brick Walls (2/23) Balmorhea - Constellations (2/23) David Byrne & Fatboy Slim - Here Lies Love (2/23) Johnny Cash - American VI: Ain't No Grave (2/23) Deadstring Brothers - Sau Paulo (2/23) Efterklang - Magic Chairs (2/23) Eluvium - Similies (2/23) Fang Island - s/t (2/23) Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation DVD (2/23) High on Fire - Snakes for the Divine (2/23) Human Skab - Thunder Hips and Saddle Bangs (2/23) Jaga Jazzist - One Armed Bandit (2/23) K'OS - YES (2/23) Alan Licht & Loren Connors - Into the Night Sky (2/23) LoneLady - Nerve Up (2/23) Holly Miranda - The Magician's Private Library (2/23) Moon Duo - Escape (2/23) Carrie Newcomer - Before & After (2/23) Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (2/23) Past Lives - Tapestry of Webs (2/23) Plimsouls - Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal (2/23) Robert Pollard - We All Got Out of the Army (2/23) Quasi - American Gong (2/23) The Rocket Summer - Of Men and Angels (2/23) Jack Rose - Luck in the Valley (2/23) Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago (2/23) Shout Out Louds - Work (2/23) Strange Boys - Be Brave (2/23) Rocky Votolato - True Devotion (2/23) White Hills - s/t (2/23) Wolf People - Tidings (2/23) Xiu Xiu - Dear God I Hate Myself (2/23) VA - Death Metal: Are We Watching You Die? DVD (2/23) VA - Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox (2/23) Clogs - The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton (3/2) The Cure - Disintegration LP reissue (3/2) Fenn O'Berg - In Stereo (3/2) Flogging Molly - Live at the Greek Theater (3/2) Golden Triangle - Double Jointer (3/2) Jaguar Love - Hologram Jams (3/2) Shooter Jennings & Hierophant - Black Ribbons (3/2) Emma Pollock - The Law of Large Numbers (3/2) Rogue Wave - Permalight (3/2) Ruby Suns - Fight Softly (3/2) These New Puritans - Hidden (3/2) Josiah Wolf - Jet Lag (3/2) VA - Almost Alice OST (3/2) VA - Rounder Records 40th Annv Concert (3/2) -------------------------------------------------- Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 1/25 - 1/31 1. Beach House, Teen Dream (Sub Pop) 2. Surfer Blood, Astro Coast (Kanine) 3. Spoon, Transference (Merge) 4. Los Campesinos, Romance is Boring (Arts & Crafts) 5. Magnetic Fields, Realism (Nonesuch) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Beach House, Basia Bulat, Citay, Four Tet, Fukced Up, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Los Campesinos, Magnetic Fields, Scout Niblett, Retribution Gospel Choir, Strong Arm Steady, Aziz Ansari, Danny Barnes, Cold War Kids, Editors, Eels, Bill Fay, Hot Rats, Fela Kuti, Motion City Soundtrack, Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro, Old Crow Medicine Show, Old Flames, RJD2, Spoon, Surfer Blood, The Amazing, Blockhead, Campfires, Final Fantasy, OK Go, Sam Lowry, Vampire Weekend, Laura Veirs, Woodsman, Bad Sports, Rev. Louis Overstreet, Clara Rockmore, Animal Collective, Apache Dropout, Bonnie Prince Billy, Midlake, Pearl Harbor, Bibio, Doom, Jookabox, King Khan & BBQ, Molina & Johnson, Nirvana, On Fillmore, Slayer, Swimmers, Themselves, Vitalic, Yeasayer, Devendra Banhart, Bassnectar, Lucky Luke, Shannon & the Clams, The Bravery, R Kelly, Ty Segall, Hudson Mohawke, Pelican, Swell Season, Tegan & Sara, Tom Waits and much much more! -------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Bloomington shows that Landlocked Music is excited about: 2/11 - Dr. Dog @ The Video Saloon 2/11 - Robert Earl Keen @ The Bluebird 2/14 - Fukced Up / Kurt Vile @ The Bluebird 2/16 - Drakkar Sauna @ Russian Recording 2/17 - Retribution Gospel Choir / Ha Ha Tonka @ The Bishop 2/21 - The Ataris @ The Bishop 2/27 - Balmorhea @ Russian Recording 3/3 - Pattern is Movement @ The Bishop 3/5 - Magnetic Fields @ Buskirk-Chumley Theater 3/6-13 - Pit Stop Music Marathon @ The Bishop & Video Saloon 3/23 - Woods / Read Estate @ The Bishop 3/25 - Cave Singers @ The Bishop 3/26 - Javelin @ The Bishop 3/27 - Citay @ The Bishop 3/29 - David Bazan / Headlights @ The Bishop 3/31 - Joanna Newsom @ Buskirk-Chumley Theater 4/2 - The Strange Boys @ The Bishop 4/5 - Henry Rollins @ Buskirk-Chumley Theater 4/6 - The XX / jj @ Buskirk-Chumley Theater 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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