Little 500 Weekend just got a little better with the return of the Flaming Lips to Bloomington! Thursday, April 22nd @ IU Auditorium. IUB Student Pre-sale tickets go on sale Weds Feb 24th at 10am for $36 at http://www.IUauditorium.com and the Auditorium Box Office. Ticket sales to the general public begin Thurs Feb 25th at 10am for $42.50 at the IU Auditorium box office, www.IUauditorium.com and through Ticketmaster. Bursar billing is available for all IUB Students online and at the Auditorium Box Office. This will undoubtedly sell out quickly so don't hesitate to buy your ticket ASAP! Other live concert news: Saturday's show w/ Balmorhea has been cancelled - Sorry! The Pit Stop Music Marathon Munchies are still in full effect! We are really stoked for tons of these shows, jam-packed into one week, and you should be too. Get your Pit Stop Music Marathon weeklong pass for only $50 or individual days for $10/day! In the not so distant future is Landlocked's Birthday - March 3rd! We are sure as heck gunna do something special, so stay tuned. Even further down the road.... RECORD STORE DAY - mark your calendar for that one, Saturday April 17th. You know you'll be hearing more about that. Now, new things, and plenty of em: .................................................. NEW ARRIVALS for the Week of 2/23/2009 .................................................. Johnny Cash - American VI: Ain't No Grave (Lost Highway) .................................................. American VI: Ain't No Grave, produced by Rick Rubin, is deeply elegiac, spiritual and is an achingly personal and intimate statement, as, from the end of the line, Cash looks back on a most extraordinary life. The songs are drawn from all over the musical landscape and include Kris Kristofferson's "For The Good Times," Ed McCurdy's "Last Night I had the Strangest Dream" and the never before heard Cash original, "I Corinthians: 15:55," written over the last three years of his life. Deadstring Brothers - Sau Paulo (Bloodshot) .................................................. Sao Paulo understands the liberation borne of mourning, that an elegy cannot truly soar without jarring adversity to buoy it. Built on the ample shoulders of masterful forebears, Deadstring Brothers delve into the grit and sweat of dirty blues scooped from the fields of the Delta and polish it in the toxic waters of the Detroit River; the smell of their motor oil, strong coffee and whiskey-stained beards narcotic. Few bands channel the sonic groove generated at the headwaters of our rock and roll DNA like Deadstring Brothers. Efterklang - Magic Chairs (4AD) .................................................. Magic Chairs is the third full-length album by Copenhagen, Denmark's Efterklang. The album finds the band expanding on their already expansive sound, while diving into the core of their ever evolving music. After six years of ambitious releases and concerts around the world, Efterklang have arrived at their most immediate and focused album to date. Eluvium - Similies (Temporary Residence) .................................................. A courageous creative leap with Similes, an album featuring 3 key musical elements previously uncharted by Eluvium: percussion, a verse-chorus song structure, and singing. Similes marries Eluvium's trademark dream-like aura with mastermind Matthew Cooper's unique, laconic vocals, akin to an especially contemplative Ian Curtis with trace reflections of Magnetic Fields and Brian Eno. Fang Island - s/t (Sargent House) .................................................. Fang Island describes its sound as "everyone high-fiving everyone." Their finger-tap guitar lines, chanted vocals, triumphant harmonies and overall perky songs harken to the sort of "Total Music" of Daughters, Champs, Jay Reatard, Ponytail, Marnie Stern, Thin Lizzy. But, perhaps more so, its songs are like the music in your head at that moment when everything feels just right: that first kiss, that high score on the video game, buying your first small nation in cash... you know, good stuff. Human Skab - Thunder Hips and Saddle Bags (Family Vineyard) .................................................. Human Skab was a 10-year old singer from Elma, Washington. Thunder Hips and Saddle Bags is a 1986 cassette recorded by Skab, neighborhood pals, and siblings. It was injected into the underground network of tape traders, zine scribes, college DJs, and freak seekers, who were universally bowled over by its bewildering and utterly poignant snapshot of the mid-80s. Skab's music- a battery including empty buckets, a garden rake, a $10 Martin guitar with three strings, a poorly-tuned upright piano, broken bottles, and a "Snake Mountain" microphone- is a response to He-Man cartoons, Twisted Sister, Ronald Reagan, the coolness of dinosaurs, the uncoolness of John Wayne, and commie-phobia. K'OS - YES (Last Gang) .................................................. K-os is a genuine neo-crossover rap n' roller who's music might speak to hipster club kidz, pop chart gazers, Canadian indie rockers, dirty south electronic rap renegades, or reggae rude boys simultaneously. The opening track is an electro-revivalist dance floor number where MIA meets Justice and The Cool Kidz in Amsterdam to dance and get musically high - craftily using his keyboard as a drum machine, aided by haunting, ethereal vocals, strings and tabla, and spits some of the tightest rapid-fire verses of his celebrated career. Daniel Merriweather - Love and War (J) .................................................. Though Daniel Merriweather may be best known in the US as the remarkably soulful voice behind "Stop Me" (a standout track from Mark Ronson's eclectic album Version), the Melbourne native firmly establishes himself as a solo artist in his own right on Love & War which pulses with 60s soul keyboards and horns, warm textures of acoustic and electric guitar, and cinematic string arrangements, all anchored by his combustible vocals. He wrote nearly every song on the album with various musician friends and then presented his compositions to Ronson (who produced the album) and his backing band, The Dap Kings, who also played on Amy Winehouse's Back To Black and Ronson's Version. Holly Miranda - The Magician's Private Library (XL) .................................................. This 10-track album was produced by Dave Sitek at Staygold Studio in Brooklyn, NY, and includes contributions from Sitek, Kyp Malone and Jaleel Bunton (TV On The Radio), Eric Biondo and Stuart Bogie (Antibalas), and Holly's long-time violinist, Marques Toliver. Miranda's smooth vocal delivery recalls Cat Power during her You Are Free glory days, while the gliding guitar line that murkily emerges mid-song resembles Chan Marshall's spiky six-stringed anger sanded down to a tense ellipsis of ambiguity. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (Drag City) .................................................. Don't look now, but Joanna's about to let her hair down - and that's a considerable task these days. Of course, to the demure Mme. Newsom, this 125 minutes worth of songs is nothing more than a new album. Through the course of 18 songs, Joanna visits upon us ditties, weepies, court dances, rump-bumpers, epics and moments of wraparound fantasia. Have One On Me - ah, have three, they're small! Playing at the Buskirk March 31st! Get tickets while you still can! Overnight Lows - City of Rotten Eyes (Goner) .................................................. Marsh and Daphne Nabors have been playing out as Overnight Lows ever since their previous band, The Comas, imploded in 1995. Playing everything "in the key of Hep C," the Overnight Lows mix a sick and sickened attitude with a classic Angry Samoans/Queers aesthetic: establish a blazing guitar riff, yell some memorable antisocial blather over it, hit a chorus, and get out. Melodies? Sure, kinda, but more like rhythmic chants to accompany you on your third trip back to the liquor store. Jack Rose - Luck in the Valley (Thrill Jockey) .................................................. Jack's 10th LP continues the exploration of pre-war American music with a set of material featuring Black Twig Pickers, Glenn Jones, Harmonica Dan & Hans Chew along with a handful of solo pieces. This recording set out to capture the energy and feel of the classic 3-track shack recordings by the Wray Bros & Mordicai Jones. Luck in the Valley was written and recorded over a period of 9 months and finds Rose employing new themes and techniques. Rest in Peace, dear friend. Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago (Matador) .................................................. The 3rd album in a triptych of beautiful, dense and ambitious excursions about man's impact on the natural world from Austin's Shearwater. This time Jonathan Meiburg turns his attention to life on islands - a world of lushness and austerity, silence and sudden cataclysms. From rising sea levels to displaced populations, Meiburg travels from the Falklands to Madgascar, from the Bikini Atoll to the Tierra Del Fuego. The music matches the grandeur and melancholy of its subject matter. The first pressing comes packaged with a 50-page dossier of records, photos, regulations, and images on islands, displaced peoples, immigration records and more. Shout Out Louds - Work (Merge) .................................................. Work is the third full-length from Sweden's Shout Out Louds. Produced by Phil Ek (Fleet Foxes, The Shins), Work strips away all of the bells and whistles of previous efforts to showcase the band doing what they do best, writing and playing pop music that is "nostalgic and angst-ridden, but ultimately life-affirming. Shout Out Louds have found a winning formula. Rocky Votolato - True Devotion (Barsuk) .................................................. Seattle musician Rocky Votolato is a soft-spoken, very kind, hard-working father of two, born in rural Texas and raised in the Pacific Northwest indie scene. Votolato writes graceful, understated, human, unpretentious songs, demonstrating that simplicity is still a viable option for accomplished songwriters. His last two releases found him exploring and paying homage to the folk and country music that shaped his early life in Texas (Alternative Press described the former as "the disc Ryan Adams keeps threatening to make but never quite delivers," and Harp praised his "harmonies that would make Gram and Emmylou proud" on the latter). Xiu Xiu - Dear God I Hate Myself (Kill Rock Stars) .................................................. Dear God, I Hate Myself delivers a look at responsibility, fear, healing, and societal roles wrapped in rich gothic pop music. The sound is still distinctly Xiu Xiu, but Jamie Stewart's vocals are finally effortless paired with vibrant melodies full of subtlety and the distinct sonic accents expected of this anticipated Xiu Xiu release. The result is a record that proves that art can be pop and pop can challenge you to look inside yourself. Stewart is joined by new full-time band member Angela Seo on piano, synth, and drum programming; with production handled by Jamie and Deerhoof's Greg Saunier. VA - Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox (Merge) .................................................. Chris was instrumental in bringing New Zealand punk and alternative music to international audiences with Tall Dwarfs, Toy Love and his solo work. In 2009, he suffered a life-altering stroke. This album is a celebration of Chris and his music. Artists from the US (Jeff Mangum, Yo La Tengo, Mountain Goats, Will Oldham, Stephin Merritt, Bill Callahan, Lou Barlow, Jay Reatard, Lambchop, AC Newman), New Zealand (The Bats, Verlaines, Chills) and the world over have donated their talents so that all proceeds can go toward assisting his recovery. The collection features the first new music from Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel) in over 10 years. The Vinyl Zone (get into the groove!) .................................................. Blue Giant - Target Heart EP (Jealous Butcher) Cromagnon - Cave Rock LP (Jackpot) DVA - Natty 12" (Hyperdub) Four Tet - There is Love in You LP (Domino) Hoquiam (Damien & Drake Jurado) - s/t LP (St Ives) Hot Chip - One Life Stand LP (Astralwerks) Brent Lewis Ensemble - Three Christs of Ypsilanti LP (Siltbreeze) Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II LP (Ryko) Sade - Soldier of Love LP (Sony) She & Him - In the Sun 7" (Merge) Terror Danjah - Acid 12" (Hyperdub) US Girls - Go Grey LP (Siltbreeze) VA - Hyperdub 5.5 EP (Hyperdub) Also Released This Week .................................................. Alkaline Trio - This Addiction (Epitaph) Andrew WK - Close Calls With Brick Walls / Mother of Mankind (Steev Mike) Art Museums - Rough Frame (Woodsist) Balmorhea - Constellations (Western Vinyl) Brian Jonestown Massacre - Who Killed Sgt Pepper (A.) David Broza - Night Dawn: Unpublished Poetry of Townes Van Zandt (S Curve) Clem Snide - The Meat of Life (429) Cute Lepers - Smart Accessories (1234 Go) Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation DVD (Cult) High on Fire - Snakes for the Divine (Koch) Jaga Jazzist - One Armed Bandit (Ninja Tune) Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz Ensemble - Miles Away (Stones Throw) Alan Licht & Loren Connors - Into the Night Sky (Family Vineyard) LoneLady - Nerve Up (Warp) Madlib - Medicine Show No. 2: Flight To Brazil (MMS) Moon Duo - Escape (Woodsist) Georgia Anne Muldrow & Declaime - SomeOthaShip (Groove Attack) Carrie Newcomer - Before & After (Rounder) Past Lives - Tapestry of Webs (Suicide Squeeze) Plimsouls - Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal (Alive) Robert Pollard - We All Got Out of the Army (GBV) Quasi - American Gong (Kill Rock Stars) The Rocket Summer - Of Men and Angels (Island) Son Lux - Weapons EP (Anticon) Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate - Ali & Toumani (Nonesuch) White Hills - s/t (Thrill Jockey) Wolf People - Tidings LP (Jagjaguwar) Zeus - Say Us (Arts & Crafts) VA - Brasilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas (World Psychedelic) VA - Death Metal: Are We Watching You Die? DVD (Grimoire) .................................................. NEXT WEEK - Pre-Order/Reserve one of next week's releases and guarantee you'll have it when its released!!! - info@landlockedmusic.com .................................................. The Clean - Mister Pop LP (3/2) Clogs - The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton (3/2) The Cure - Disintegration LP reissue (3/2) Dust From 1000 Years - Marble Memo (3/2) The Ex & Tom Cora - Scrabbling at the Lock LP (3/2) Fauna - The Hunt (3/2) Fenn O'Berg - In Stereo (3/2) Flogging Molly - Live at the Greek Theater (3/2) Peter Gabriel - Scratch My Back (3/2) Golden Triangle - Double Jointer (3/2) Grieves - 88 Keys and Counting (3/2) John Hiatt - The Open Road (3/2) Jaguar Love - Hologram Jams (3/2) Al Jarnow - Celestial Navigations DVD (3/2) Shooter Jennings & Hierophant - Black Ribbons (3/2) Little Boots - Hands (3/2) Emma Pollock - The Law of Large Numbers (3/2) Rogue Wave - Permalight (3/2) Ruby Suns - Fight Softly (3/2) Sarah Silverman - Songs Of The Sarah Silverman Program (3/2) These New Puritans - Hidden (3/2) Stevie Ray Vaughan - LP Reissues (3/2) A Weather - Everyday Balloons (3/2) VA - Almost Alice OST (3/2) VA - Rounder Records 40th Annv Concert (3/2) .................................................. COMING SOON (dates often subject to change, sorry) .................................................. Alberta Cross - Broken Side of Time (3/9) Aloha - Home Acres (3/9) The Besnard Lakes - Are the Roaring Night (3/9) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Beat the Devil's Tattoo (3/9) Broken Bells - s/t (3/9) The Bundles (Kimya Dawson & Jeffrey Lewis) - s/t (3/9) Burning Star Core - Papercuts Theater (3/9) Johnny Cash - American VI: Ain't No Grave LP (3/9) Coconuts - s/t (3/9) Jason Collett - Rat a Tat Tat (3/9) Ry Cooder & The Chieftans - San Patricio (3/9) Dark Dark Dark - Bright Bright Bright (3/9) Daughters - s/t (3/9) Free Energy - Stuck on Nothing (3/9) Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks (3/9) Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer (3/9) Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (3/9) Jimi Hendrix - Valleys of Neptune (3/9) Japanther - Rock N Roll Ice Cream (3/9) jj - no3 (3/9) The Knife - Tomorrow, In A Year (3/9) Lawrence Arabia - Chanting Darling (3/9) Lemonade - Pure Moods EP (3/9) Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Brutalist Bricks (3/9) Liars - Sisterworld (3/9) Meth, Ghost and Rae - Wu Massacre (3/9) Mimicking Birds - s/t (3/9) Morning Benders - Big Echo (3/9) Janka Nabay - Bubu King EP (3/9) Ortolan - Time on a String (3/9) Pavement - Quarantine the Past: The Best of Pavement (3/9) Pavement - LP reissues (3/9) Redman - Reggie (3/9) Josh Rouse - El Turista (3/9) A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Nitetime Rainbows EP (3/9) Tanlines - Settings EP (3/9) Titus Andronicus - The Monitor (3/9) White Hinterland - Kairos (3/9) Josiah Wolf - Jet Lag (3/9) VA - The Heart Is a Drum Machine DVD (3/9) VA - Si, Para Usted: The Funky Beats Of Revolutionary Cuba LPs (3/9) Lou Bond - s/t (3/16) The Dirty Three - LP Reissues (3/16) The Doors - Live LP reissues (3/16) Drive-By Truckers - The Big To-Do (3/16) Dropkick Murphys - Live on Lansdowne, Boston MA (3/16) Freelance Whales - Weathervanes (3/16) Happy Birthday - s/t (3/16) King Khan & Pat Meteor - Fiery Tears of St. Laurent 7" (3/16) Brad Mehldau - Highway Rider (3/16) Neon Trees - Habits (3/16) Seasick Steve - Man from Another Time (3/16) The Whigs - In the Dark (3/16) White Stripes - Under Great White Northern Lights (3/16) Mose Allison - The Way of the World (3/23) Archie Bronson Outfit - Coconut (3/23) Autechre - Oversteps (3/23) Bonnie Prince Billy - The Wonder Show of the World (3/23) Bonobo - Black Sands (3/23) Bright Eyes & Neva Dinova - One Jug Of Wine, Two Vessels (3/23) Dead Meadow - Three Kings (3/23) The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis (3/23) Double Dagger - Masks EP (3/23) Drink Up Buttercup - Born And Thrown On A Hook (3/23) Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Rush To Relax (3/23) Goldfrapp - Head First (3/23) High Places - vs Mankind (3/23) Kleenex/LiLiPUT - Live Recordings (3/23) Let's Wrestle - In The Court Of The Wrestling Let's (3/23) Love is All - Two Thousand and Ten Injuries (3/23) Radar Brothers - The Illustrated Garden (3/23) Ulrich Schnauss - Missing Deadlines: Selected Remixes (3/23) Serena Maneesh - No 2: Abyss In B Minor (3/23) She & Him - Volume 2 (3/23) Strange Boys - Be Brave (3/23) Triclops! - Helpers on the Other Side (3/23) Vex'd - Cloud Seed (3/23) Weakerthans - Live at Burton Cummings Theatre (3/23) Woodhands - Remorsecapade (3/23) Young Jazz Rebels (Madlib) - Slave Riot (3/23) VA - TAMI Show DVD (3/23) -------------------------------------------------- Top 5 sellers at Landlocked Music for the week of 2/15 - 2/21 1. VA, Preservation: An Album to Benefit Preservation Hall (Preservation) 2. Local Natives, Gorilla Manor (French Kiss) 3. Hot Chip, One Life Stand (Astralwerks) 4. Hotrats, Turn ons (Fat Possum) 5. Vampire Weekend, Contra (XL) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Dan Black, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Fukced Up, Adam Green, Local Natives, Mumford & Sons, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Silver Mt. Zion, Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore, Tindersticks, Whitefield Brothers, Besnard Lakes, Buzzcocks, Galactic, Hot Chip, Massive Attack, Pantha Du Prince, Phantogram, Sade, Gil Scott-Heron, Watson Twins, Yeasayer, Album Leaf, Robert Lester Folsom, Bassekou Kouyate, Lil Wayne, Malachai, Midlake, The Orkustra, Pierced Arrows, Priestess, The Soft Pack, Toro y Moi, Weekend, 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, Old Crow Medicine Show, Old Flames, RJD2, Spoon, Surfer Blood, Blockhead, Final Fantasy, Vampire Weekend, Laura Veirs and much much more! -------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Bloomington shows that Landlocked Music is excited about: 2/25 - Carolina Chocolate Drops @ Royal Theater, Danville 3/1 - Cursive @ The Bishop 3/3 - Pattern is Movement @ The Bishop 3/4 - DJ Plastic Crimewave / Moonrises @ The Bishop 3/5 - Magnetic Fields @ Buskirk-Chumley Theater 3/6 - Carrie Newcomer @ Buskirk-Chumley Theater PIT STOP MUSIC MARATHON - $10/day - $50/wk 3/6 - Foreign Born / Free Energy / Clovers @ PSMM @ Video Saloon 3/7 - Fruit Bats / Blue Giant (Viva Voce) @ PSMM @ The Bishop 3/8 - Vetiver / Whippoorwill @ PSMM @ Video Saloon 3/8 - Savoir Adore / Mon Khmer / Holiday / The Delicious @ PSMM @ The Bishop 3/9 - Times New Viking / Half Rats @ PSMM @ The Bishop 3/9 - Left Lane Cruiser / Pomegranates / Jookabox @ PSMM @ Video Saloon 3/10 - Zero Boys / Medusa / Slam Dunk @ PSMM @ The Bishop 3/11 - Surfer Blood / Turbo Fruits / Broderick @ PSMM @ The Bishop 3/11 - The Woes / Hollows / th'Empires @ PSMM @ Video Saloon 3/12 - John Wilkes Booze / Three Man Band / Waxeater @ PSMM @ Video Saloon 3/12 - Metavari / Rodeo Ruby Love / Husband & Wife @ PSMM @ The Bishop 3/13 - Murder by Death / The Coke Dares @ PSMM @ The Bishop 3/14 - Young Widows / Phantom Family Halo @ The Bishop 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 / White Antelope @ Buskirk-Chumley Theater 4/2 - The Strange Boys @ The Bishop 4/2 - Fanfarlo / Lawrence Arabia @ The Bluebird 4/5 - Henry Rollins @ Buskirk-Chumley Theater 4/6 - The XX / jj @ Buskirk-Chumley Theater 4/7 - Dark Dark Dark @ The Bishop 4/13 - Dr. Lonnie Smith @ The Bishop 4/18 - Rogue Wave @ The Bluebird 4/28 - Margot & the Nuclear So and So's @ Buskirk-Chumley Theater 5/26 - Tallest Man on Earth @ The Dome House 6/26 - Tortoise @ The Bishop We have tickets and additional information for many of these wonderful performances. Stop in and buy em beforehand! -------------------------------------------------- Each month we highlight five titles for a month in our "Full Tilt Boogie" listening station. Each album has a review and enables you to listen to the entire album before you buy it. Give 'er a spin! Spoon - Transference (Merge) .................................................. Transference, Spoon's seventh album and first full length offering of new material since 2007's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, is already inspiring the likes of NPR to declare that it "may be Spoon's best record yet." Preceded by the infectious single "Written In Reverse" and featuring instant classics "The Mystery Zone," "Who Makes Your Money," "Is Love Forever?" and more, Transference is yet another essential release from the most critically acclaimed band of the last decade. Strong Arm Steady - In Search of Stoney Jackson (Stones Throw) .................................................. In Search of Stoney Jackson was produced entirely by Madlib. The album's conception owes a great deal to World Famous Beat Junkie, J.Rocc, who provided the trio with close to 200 of the prolific beatsmith's tracks to choose from. It's a hip-hop jam session, with the group acting as the rhythm section for an all-star cast of guest vocalists such as Talib Kweli, Planet Asia, Guilty Simpson, Evidence, Chase Infinite, and Phonte of Little Brother. Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts) .................................................. Romance Is Boring is an ambitious record that's bigger, deeper, more complex and direct than anything Los Campesinos! have recorded. Produced by John Goodmanson (Sleater-Kinney, Bikini Kill, Wu-Tang Clan), it's filled - with added brass, strings, drum machines and electronics, plus guesting from Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu, Zac Pennington of Parenthetical Girls and Jherek Bischoff of the Dead Science. Romance Is Boring feels like a band that's not so much grown up, but "fully realized." Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement (Stones Throw) .................................................. Mayer Hawthorne's debut of retro-soul gems is earning him fans like Justin Timberlake, Mark Ronson and John Mayer, who tweeted, "Record of the Year goes to Mayer Hawthorne". Hawthorne's self-produced tunes are an eerily accurate homage to the Motown hit machine - think Funk Brothers-style grooves, luxuriant harmonies, Holland-Dozier-Holland song-writing chops and sweetly naive vocals that recall Smokey Robinson and the Chi-Lites. - Rolling Stone 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 time, Midlake has 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. They blend early Brit folk influences with thick-throated guitars propelling new sounds and emotions. The Courage of Others is positioned to be the latest installment in the important and ever-evolving discography of one of modern music's most unique torchbearers. -------------------------------------------------- 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. 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