We have a new record needle distributor - and with that, a whole new world open to us of different types of needles, cartridges, pre-amps, turntable belts parts and more! We are hoping to better fulfill all your needs for parts in 2011. Stop in or email with any questions you might have. We will do our best. Landlocked's 5 year anniversary is rapidly approaching (hint: the perfect gift for 5 years is VINYL nyuk nyuk). We are throwing ourselves a party - and you are invited! Full details very soon. A new year, a new thing! A semi-monthly spotlight on labels and/or genres. Check out our mini-display in the store and dive into some great music. Beginning with, one of Jason's favorites... "Flying Nun Records, the legendary indie label from New Zealand, is one of the most consistent labels of all time, indie or otherwise, in any genre. In fact I'd be hard pressed to name a truly bad release in its 30+ year (albeit on-again/off again) history. Given the overall quality, a few bands stand clearly above the rest: The Clean, Tall Dwarfs, The Chills, The Bats. The jangly, sometimes noisy, VU-worshipping pop of these bands bled through American 90s bands like Pavement, GBV, and most of the Elephant 6 collective (most notably Neutral Milk Hotel) to become part of indie rock's DNA. It's hard to even parse out the influence anymore, but it can be heard clearly in current bands like Surfer Blood, Real Estate and the Captured Tracks roster." - Jason NEW ARRIVALS for January 18th .................................................. Gregg Allman - Low Country Blues (Rounder) .................................................. Gregg Allman's first solo album in 14 years was produced by T Bone Burnett and features 11 covers of songs from legendary bluesmen Muddy Waters, Otis Rush, B.B. King, Bobby Bland, Sleepy John Estes, and many more, PLUS an original song written by Gregg and the Allman Brothers' Warren Haynes called "Just Another Rider." Gregg's backing band on the album includes Dr. John on piano, Doyle Bramhall II on guitar, and the incomparable rhythm section of bassist Dennis Crouch and drummer Jay Bellerose (from Robert Plant & Alison Krauss's Raising Sand album). Aurelio - Laru Beya (Next Ambiance) .................................................. Born in the tiny coastal hamlet on Honduras' Caribbean coast, Aurelio Martinez, 39, may be one of the last generations to grow up steeped in Garifuna tradition. These traditions encompass the African and Caribbean Indian roots of his ancestors, a group of shipwrecked slaves who intermarried with local natives on the island of St. Vincent, only to be deported to the Central American coast in the late 18th century. Aurelio was able to explore the Garifuna connection to Africa when Senegalese Afropop legend Youssou N Dour selected him as his protege in 2008. N'Dour also contributed his unique vocal abilities to several songs on Laru Beya. The Decemberists - The King is Dead (Capitol) .................................................. A set of 10 concise, country-based songs--marks a deliberate turn towards simplicity after the band's wildly ambitious and widely acclaimed 2009 song-cycle The Hazards of Love. Produced once again by Tucker Martine, The King Is Dead features special guest appearances by Americana luminary Gillian Welch on 7 tracks and legendary R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck on 3 tracks. Available as CD, CD+DVD, CD+DVD+Book or LP! Also includes FREE litho poster with purchase. Don't forget to bring the coupon for $2 off any format if you bought the 7". Fergus & Geronimo - Unlearn (Hardly Art) .................................................. It seems like each day more and more bands are trying harder than ever to seem like they are not actually trying at all. The latest scuzzy, lo-fi garage rock band to hit the scene are the Denton, TX-based Fergus & Geronimo. The band, who sound like the Stooges playing poppy 1960's Motown though broken equipment, are gaining attention with their fuzzy melodies and blissfully simple arrangements. Alexis Gideon - Video Musics II: Sun Wu-Kong 2LP+DVD (Slowtrain) .................................................. Formerly of the Chicago duo Princess, Alexis Gideon has extensive experience as both a musician and producer. He has toured nationally with Dan Deacon and Shelley Short as well as played with Barr, Marnie Stern, Panther, Parts & Labor, Zs, People, Matt & Kim and many, many others. He has produced records for Shelley Short and White Hinterland (Dead Oceans). "Eccentrics like Animal Collective and Beck come to mind when spinning Gideon, who loops beats, warps guitars, and creates a carnival of schizophrenic sound morphing from dreamy folk to dancehall fodder." - SPIN Daniel Martin Moore - In the Cool of Day (Sub Pop) .................................................. Daniel's new album all started with an old piano, situated in the heart of Cincinnati's WVXU studios. What had been scheduled to be a routine interview and in-studio performance turned into otherworldly inspiration when Moore sat down and plunked away at the old 9-foot Steinway, once used as the main instrument by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. With the help of longtime friend and drummer Daniel Joseph Dorff, Moore has given us a "spiritual" album of time-tested, family gospel favorites remembered from growing up and reinterpreted here, with a few new tunes of his own in the same vein. And, it's a sincerely revelatory album, evoking Daniel's personal history, sense of place, love, faith (in music/art/ whatever) that speaks plainly to the heart of any soul. Smith Westerns - Dye it Blonde (Fat Possum) .................................................. Since forming in 2007, Smith Westerns have managed to tour both the US and Europe while supporting the likes of MGMT, Florence and the Machine, Belle and Sebastian, Girls, and Passion Pit. In 2010, Smith Westerns teamed up with Chris Coady (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TVotR, Beach House) and current record label Fat Possum to record their sophomore effort in a proper studio. The result was a cleaner/higher quality recording of lush, layered timeless pop songs with emphasis on the guitar virtuosity of Led Zeppelin and the arena rock anthem's of Oasis. Best New Music on Pitchfork today eh? Social Distortion - Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes (Epitaph) .................................................. Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes builds on Mike Ness's twin footings, one in the haunted American landscapes of Hank Williams and the other in the raw swagger of Exile era Rolling Stones. While these twin pillars have always been behind Social D's anthemic songs, on Hard Times they come roaring to the fore, in one of the hardest rocking, most soulful albums of Ness's career. From opener "California (Hustle and Flow)," a song with enough attitude to redline a 40 Merc, to the dark rockin cover of Hank William's "Alone and Forsaken," longtime fans will find the trademark punk roar they love. It's not hard to imagine fans of Springsteen or Petty rocking out to these timeless songs. Tennis - Cape Dory (Fat Possum) .................................................. While Tennis could bring to mind Camera Obscura in the pairing of sugary vocals and melodies that ruled another era, the tracks on Cape Dory lack the cynicism that color lead singer Tracyanne Campbell's lyrics. Cape Dory could have easily been rife with ballads, but it becomes clear that Tennis knows how to pick its moments. Saving "Water Birds" for last, the album seems to reward listeners with slower songs when they least expect it. White Fence - Is Growing Faith (Woodsist) .................................................. Those who expect Tim Presley's White Fence project to be an extension of Darker My Love are in for a lysergic surprise. You'll hear the same 60s love that's in Presley's day-job band. But replace the boogie bass with Velvet Underground and Nico guitars, ramp up the weirdness- you'll start to feel all the brown acid in your brain melting into your pineal gland just in time for the bad trip lyrics to kick in. That and the laughter, and the reverb, and the echo, and the feeling that this is a nightmare Presley's welcoming you to enjoy. Few albums in the recent past have had such a bleeding, in-the-red mystery (Ween's The Pod comes to mind, as does Alex Chilton's Like Flies on Sherbet, or most of the Ariel Pink catalog). White Lies - Ritual (Fiction) .................................................. Produced by Alan Moulder, Ritual is the perfect epic and roaring follow up taking us on a sonic journey through dancefloor beats meets raging guitars and everything in between, fused together perfectly, and all at an incredibly melodic breakneck speed. Ritual teems with dark distorted anthems for the modern age. British critics have given White Lies accolades as successors to the likes of Echo & The Bunnymen, Teardrop Explodes, Depeche Mode, Psychedelic Furs and Magazine and have called lyricist Charles Cave a "classic doom-rock dreamweaver; Nick Cave meeting Edgar Allen Poe." Wire - Red Barked Tree (Pink Flag) .................................................. At a time when back catalog outsells fresh creativity and newcomers achieve fame by adding a lick of paint to their parents' record collections, it's unusual to find a band who, despite plying their trade for decades, are willing and able to make new work that's as vital and relevant as their own illustrious past recordings. Wire are such a band, and with Red Barked Tree they have succeeded in making a statement that will sound as strong in 30 years as their celebrated historical oeuvre does today. The Vinyl Zone (get into the groove!) .................................................. Dungen - Oga Nasa Mum 7" (Third Man) La Sera - Devils Hearts Grow Old 7" (Hardly Art) Mogwai - Rano Pano 7" (Sub Pop) Ty Segall / Thee Oh Sees - Bruise Cruise Vol. 1 7" (453) Also Released This Week .................................................. Audio Bullys - Higher Than the Eiffel (The End) Boris - Live in Japan DVD (Southern Lord) Disappears - Guider (Kranky) Dolorean - The Unfazed (Partisan) Jayhawks - [deluxe CD/LP reissues] (Sony Legacy) Klaxons - Surfing the Void (Red) Fela Kuti - reissues (Knitting Factory) Robert Pollard - Space City Kicks (GBV) NEXT WEEK - Reserve one and guarantee you'll have it when its released! .................................................. John Adams - Nixon in China (1/25) Mike Adams At His Honest Weight - Oscillate Wisely (1/25) Apex Manor - The Year of Magical Drinking (1/25) Cloud Nothings - s/t (1/25) Cold War Kids - Mine Is Yours (1/25) Death - Spiritual, Mental, Physical (1/25) Deerhoof - Vs Evil (1/25) Delicate Steve - Wondervisions (1/25) Destroyer - Kaputt (1/25) Fujiya & Miyagi - Ventriloquizzing (1/25) Gang of Four - Content (1/25) Get Up Kids - These Are the Rules (1/25) Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean (1/25) Wanda Jackson - The Party Ain't Over (1/25) LCD Soundsystem - London Sessions (1/25) Amos Lee - Mission Bell (1/25) Lia Ices - Grown Unknown (1/25) Phil Manley - Life Coach (1/25) Monotonix - Not Yet (1/25) Popol Vuh - Werner Herzog Soundtracks 5CD (1/25) Say Hi - Um, Uh Oh (1/25) Sic Alps - Napa Asylum (1/25) Thank You - Golden Worry (1/25) John Vanderslice - White Wilderness (1/25) Willie Wright - Telling the Truth (1/25) Young the Giant - s/t (1/25) COMING SOON (dates often subject to change, sorry) .................................................. Dirtbombs - Party Store (2/1) Ducktails - Arcade Dynamics (2/1) Faust - Something Dirty (2/1) Go Team - Rolling Blackouts (2/1) Bobby Long - A Winter Tale (2/1) David Lowery - The Palace Guards (2/1) Bob Marley - Live Forever: Final Concert (2/1) Matisyahu - Live at Stubbs Vol 2 (2/1) North Mississippi All Stars - Keys to the Kingdom (2/1) Papercuts - Do What You Will 7" (2/1) Seefeel - s/t (2/1) Todd Snider - Live: The Storyteller (2/1) Akron/Family - The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT (2/8) And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Tao of the Dead (2/8) The Babies - s/t (2/8) Cut Copy - Zonoscope (2/8) Diplo - Riddimentary: Diplo Selects Greensleeves (2/8) Esben and the Witch - Violet Cries (2/8) Jessica Lea Mayfield - Tell Me (2/8) Okkervil River - Mermaid 12" (2/8) Over the Rhine - The Long Surrender (2/8) Ty Segall - Live in Aisle 5 LP (2/8) Thin Lizzy - [deluxe CD reissues] (2/8) Arbouretum - The Gathering (2/22) Asobi Seksu - Flourescence (2/15) Beans - End it All (2/15) Bright Eyes - The People's Key (2/15) Cowboy Junkies - Demons (2/15) Dom - Sun Bronzed Greek Gods EP (2/15) Drive By Truckers - Go-Go Boots (2/15) East River Pipe - We Live In Rented Rooms (2/15) Eddie Spaghetti - Sundowner (2/15) Kyle Fischer - Open Ground (2/15) PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (2/15) Hawk and a Hacksaw - Cervantine (2/15) Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972 (2/15) La Sera - s/t (2/15) Shawn Lee - World of Funk (2/15) Lifeguards - Waving at the Astronauts (2/15) Dan Melchior - Assemblage Blues (2/15) Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will (2/15) Skull Defekts - Peer Amic (2/15) Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising (2/15) Telekenisis - 12 Desperate Straight Lines (2/15) Shugo Tokumaru - Port Entropy (2/15) Twilight Singers - Dynamite Sleeps (2/15) Win Win - s/t (2/15) Young Galaxy - Shapeshifting (2/15) Yuck - s/t (2/15) Top 5 sellers at Landlocked for the week of 1/10 to 1/16 .................................................. 1. Tiny Tim, Lost & Found: 1963-74 (Secret Seven) 2. Ryan Adams & the Cardinals, III / IV (Pax Am) 3. Black Keys, Brothers (Nonesuch) 4. Lia Ices, Grown Unknown (Jagjaguwar) 5. Dungen, Oga Nasa Mun 7" (Third Man) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from British Sea Power, Broken Records, Cage the Elephant, Cake, Circle X, Louis CK, Off!, Tapes N Tapes, Tiny Tim, Abigail Washburn, Anika, Daft Punk, Feist, Liz Janes, No Joy, Davy Jay Sparrow, Sufjan Stevens, Can, The Heavy, Matt Nowlin, Psychedelic Aliens, Keith Richards, Spacemen 3, Wingless Angels, Chico Mann, Gangrene, Girls, Group Doueh, The National, Prizzy Prizzy Please, Southern Culture on the Skids, Regina Spektor, Kanye West, Jimi Hendrix, Jesu, Norah Jones, La Sera, Parting Gifts, Bruce Springsteen, Stereolab, Good Ones, Cee-Lo Green, Greenhornes, Jonathan Richman, Tyvek, Wild Orchid Children, Gary Wilson, Robert Wyatt, Autumn Defense, Elvis Costello, Destroyer, Brian Eno, Bryan Ferry, Syl Johnson, Matt & Kim, Avey Tare, Dark Dark Dark, Drakkar Sauna, Dylan Ettinger, Monster Magnet, Paleo, REM, Small Black, Sun Airway, Sun City Girls, The War on Drugs, Warpaint, Wolf & Cub and much much more! .................................................. Upcoming Bloomington shows that we're excited about: 1/21 - Murder By Death @ Buskirk-Chumley Theater 1/30 - 3 Inches of Blood / Medusa @ The Bluebird 2/4 - Keb' Mo @ Buskirk-Chumley Theater 2/7 - Orgone @ The Bishop 2/10 - The Wailers @ The Bluebird 2/13 - Against Me @ Rhino's 2/19 - Phil Vassar @ Buskirk-Chumley Theater 2/21 - Paul Collins / Half Rats @ The Bishop 2/23 - Akron/Family @ The Bishop 2/25 - Lucinda Williams @ Buskirk-Chumley Theater 2/26 - Say Hi @ Video Saloon 4/6 - Toro y Moi @ The Bishop 4/11 - O'Death @ The Bishop 4/22 - Budos Band / Charles Bradley @ The Bluebird 4/29 - Pains of Being Pure at Heart / Twin Shadow @ Rhino's 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 listening station. Each album has a review and enables you to listen to the entire album before you buy it. Give 'er a spin! The Black Angels - Phosphene Dream (Blue Horizon) .................................................. Phosphene Dream marks a giant leap forward for The Black Angels. Produced and mixed by Dave Sardy (Oasis, Wolfmother, Black Mountain) over a period of six months in Los Angeles, the album shows off both sonically and musically a bold new direction for the band, a fresh take on the neo-Psychedelic movement they've been at the forefront of for years. Cee Lo Green - The Lady Killer (Elektra) .................................................. Elektra recording artist Cee Lo Green's first solo work in more than six years sees the endlessly inventive singer/writer/rapper/producer continuing to push hip-hop and soul's creative envelope, this time working with a highly acclaimed and star-studded cast. Released recently via Green's official YouTube channel, the blockbuster first single "F**k You" caused an instant viral commotion, drawing more than 2 million plays in its first five days online. Along with its phenomenal popular success, the single has also received ecstatic critical acclamation from coast to coast. "One of the greatest songs in the history of humankind," declared The Dallas Observer's "DC9 At Night" music blog. The Greenhornes - 4 Stars (Warner Bros) .................................................. Third Man Records is excited to release The Greenhornes' first full length LP of new material since 2002's Dual Mono. This new album produced by The Greenhornes and John Curley may be their strongest collection of songs yet. It's diverse yet very concise, from the dark pop of lead single "Saying Goodbye," the bubble glam of "Song 13," to "Cave Drawings" moody psych; it's an eclectic and mature work and very much The Greenhornes own. Bruce Springsteen - The Promise (Columbia) .................................................. "Darkness was my 'samurai' record," Springsteen writes, "stripped to the frame and ready to rumble. But the music that got left behind was substantial." For the first time, fans will have access to The Promise - two discs containing a total of 21 previously-unreleased songs from the Darkness recording sessions - songs that, as Springsteen writes, "perhaps could have/should have been released after Born To Run and before the collection of songs that Darkness on the Edge of Town became." Daft Punk - TRON: Legacy Soundtrack (Walt Disney) .................................................. Grammy award-winning Daft Punk, who takes music as seriously as TRON fans take computer references, scored TRON: Legacy. It's no accident that the group's two visionary musicians are TRON fans, too. Having grown up with an admiration for the ground-breaking TRON film, the critically acclaimed French duo composed and produced the album. They assembled a symphony of 100 world class musicians in London and recorded the orchestra at Britain's premier scoring facility, AIR Lyndhurst Studios. -------------------------------------------------- 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://www.facebook.com/pages/Landlocked-Music/24299970219 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. 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