No frills, just thrills - email update: Lets Go! NEW ARRIVALS for January 25th .................................................. Mike Adams At His Honest Weight - Oscillate Wisely (St Ives) .................................................. Mike Adams (Husband & Wife, Prayer Breakfast) plays every note on this LP! Not since Low's Secret Name has an album so easily lent itself to being the perfect accompaniment to either having a full-blown existential crisis or simply making out in the backseat at the local drive-in on a rainy night. The wit and candor of Roger Miller and Morrissey; the faint-inducing crooning of Roy Orbison and Chris Isaak; the ethereal transcendence of Talk Talk and Starflyer 59; the dash-pounding drive of Neu! and The Ramones; the pop ingenuity of Badfinger and Big Star - they all seem to be present in one way or another. Apex Manor - The Year of Magical Drinking (Merge) .................................................. The debut album from Apex Manor. Recorded at three different studios around and about LA, The Year of Magical Drinking was produced by Dan Long (Film School, Local Natives) and former Broken West band mate Brian Whelan. Ross Flournoy and Whelan handled most of the instrumental duties, while Merge labelmates Ivan Howard (The Rosebuds) and Annie Hayden (Spent, solo) chimed in with vocal tracks. Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming (Daptone) .................................................. Charles Bradley's voice has evolved from a lifetime of paying dues, having nomadically labored for decades at various day jobs from Maine to Alaska singing and performing in his spare time before re-settling in his hometown Brooklyn and eventually finding a musical home at Daptone. In his distinctively rough-hewn timbre one hears the unmistakable voice of experience each note and gruff infection a reflection of his extended, sometimes rocky, personal path. Recorded at Dunham Studios, and mixed at Daptone Records internationally revered House of Soul Studios, No Time For Dreaming is the inspired sound of an awakening. Charlie & the Skunks - Take an Ice Cream Scoop Out of my Brain 7" (Eradicator) .................................................. Bloomington's own fuzzed up, tripped out stinkers. Four rockin garage pop songs that draw heavily from the sixties West Coast sunshine and psych. Featuring members of Apache Dropout, Trip Tides and the Snot Rags. Great tunes full of pure pop energy that will flip your lid. Cold War Kids - Mine Is Yours (Downtown) .................................................. Since their modest beginnings as 4 guys who drove around So-Cal with their gear in their cars, CWK have always exhibited two qualities in their music, intense passion and emotional truth. Lithe and percussive, roaring and tuneful, the soul-punk on their two albums Robbers & Cowards and Loyalty To Loyalty emerged like miniature goth novels. Singer Nathan Willett channeled taut dramas of men on the edge, families in peril, and crises of faith. The musical literature of these four tight-knit friends was a sound that augured something bigger, something more universal. Deerhoof - Vs Evil (Polyvinyl) .................................................. Self-recorded, mixed, and mastered in rehearsal spaces and band members' basements with no engineers or outside input, Deerhoof vs. Evil dresses up Deerhoof's wellknown recklessness in a newfound elastic groove - one filled with big-hit choruses and exuberantly unfamiliar colors. The musical equivalent of hormones raging out of control, the record explodes out of the speakers with its gawky triumph and inflamed sentimentality. Deerhoof's ode to their own adolescence. Delicate Steve - Wondervisions (Luaka Bop) .................................................. NJ's Delicate Steve is the project of Steve Marion, guitarist, composer, and producer. Without words, Delicate Steve's songs are incredibly lyrical- each song a concise rock explosion driven by melody. Steve's guitar playing and tones have made a quiet revolution within NYC's independent scene with members of Yeasayer, Dirty Projectors, TV on the Radio, Javelin, frequently in the audience. Despite the bold-face names in the audience, there is no pretensions in Wondervisions, the record is unabashedly joyous and immediately enjoyable. Listen now and you'll see. Catch him opening for Akron/Family in Bton soon! Destroyer - Kaputt (Merge) .................................................. Dan Bejar started Destroyer as a solo home-recording project in the early to mid-90s. Destroyer's two recent limited edition 12"s, Bay of Pigs and Archer on the Beach, were lauded by critics and sold out in the first month of release. Upon hearing "Bay of Pigs," Pitchfork declared Bejar "a songwriter of the highest order," and The AV Club was one of many outlets to declare the song, "a real epic a meditation on life and love in times of crisis." Ensemble - Excerpts (Fat Cat) .................................................. The long-awaited follow-up to his 2005 self-titled effort, Excerpts the latest from Montreal-based Olivier Alary's Ensemble - gorgeously occupies the middle ground between lush orchestration, absorbing pop, guitar-indie, experimental sonics and beyond. Though Excerpts offers no obvious or straightforward reference points, it is an album full of maturity, sophistication and romance, intricately and timelessly constructed. Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean (Warner Bros) .................................................. The fourth album from Sam Beam AKA Iron & Wine. Kiss Each Other Clean is the follow-up to 2007's 'The Shepherd's Dog' and his first album for the cult 4AD label (UK) following his departure from Sub Pop. Described by Beam himself as a more Pop-oriented record inspired by '70s FM radio, this looks set to bring his melancholy, literate songwriting to a whole new audience. Wanda Jackson - The Party Ain't Over (Nonesuch/Third Man) .................................................. This collection of vintage and contemporary covers was produced by fan and new-found friend Jack White at his Nashville studio and recorded with a late-night honky-tonk feel by members of My Morning Jacket, Raconteurs, and Dead Weather, among others. The White-curated lineup of tunes, says Jackson, showcases "all the various types of music that I've done through the years- some country, gospel, rockabilly, rock n roll. It's got all of that, and a Bob Dylan song 'Thunder On the Mountain,' just to be safe." Amos Lee - Mission Bell (Blue Note) .................................................. Mission Bell, produced by Joey Burns of Calexico, displays both range and cohesion, an array of emotions unified by Lee's eclectic taste and distinctive vocals. With a remarkable set of guests- including Lucinda Williams, Willie Nelson, Sam Beam (Iron & Wine), Priscilla Ahn, Pieta Brown, and James Gadson- and the musical backing of Calexico, the album marks the arrival of Amos Lee as a mature artist who continues to explore his musical and thematic interests. Lia Ices - Grown Unknown (Jagjaguwar) .................................................. Lia Ices' emotionally driven and experimental pop music is both avant-garde and timeless. A natural yet refined grace permeates her work. Her voice floats and flutters around you, like the leaves from trees on a fleeting fall day, and the instrumentation matches that subtle dynamism. A walk in the park on a day of carnival, the most beautiful day so far this year. Featuring Justin Vernon of Bon Iver. Say Hi - Um, Uh Oh (Barsuk) .................................................. Um, Uh Oh is the result of the last ten years of Elbogen's experiences with failing relationships, both musical and otherwise. It's weary and blue-noted; revealing, personal and pained, and there's expressiveness in his performance absent from previous releases. In fact, it's difficult to fathom that the same songwriter that once wrote the sugary frivolity of the early Say Hi material could have written such a mature collection of songs. Sic Alps - Napa Asylum (Drag City) .................................................. Napa Asylum is overfull with Sic pleasures, echoing half-emptily like they do as the hooks slide into your flesh, animating you marionette-style to tip-tat your way across the dance-floor. Themes from Napa Asylum include re-incarnation, magic and schizophrenia. The process is the flavor- and 3 LPs in, you can still get in on the ground floor, cuz Sic Alps always record in the basement. Get down your steps while you can, the songs are as short as they are bitter-sweet. But the one that ends just makes way for the one coming next. Yup, this one has Ty Segall on it, too! John Vanderslice - White Wilderness (Dead Oceans) .................................................. The newest entry into John Vanderslice's deep and undeniably remarkable catalog. Nine new and wildly impressive JV songs captured live over 3 days in a unique collaboration with the Magik*Magik Orchestra, a collective of classically trained musicians in the Bay Area led by artistic director Minna Choi. They have a comprehensive mastery of classic performance and repertoire, but also have a full appreciation of the aesthetics of indie and underground music. Willie Wright - Telling the Truth (Numero) .................................................. Available for the first time since 1977, this expanded edition of northeast black troubadour Willie Wright's album gathers his lone 45 and only original composition from his first LP to tell the definitive Willie Wright story. The LP edition includes a 7" of his cover of Curtis Mayfield's "Right On For The Darkness" (with his original "Africa" on the flip), while the CD takes that same single and shrinks it to a portable 4.72" record that actually plays! The Vinyl Zone (get into the groove!) .................................................. Marisa Anderson - The Golden Hour LP (MIssissippi) Braids - Native Speaker (Kanine) Chain & the Gang - Cry Over You 7" (K) Epstein - Sealess See LP (Asthmatic Kitty) Follakzoid - s/t 12" (Sacred Bones) The Holydrug Couple - Ancient Land 12" (Sacred Bones) Abner Jay - Last Ole Ministrel Man 10" (Mississippi) Lake - You Are Alone 7" (K) Zs - New Slaves Pt 2 LP (Social Registry) Also Released This Week .................................................. John Adams - Nixon in China (Nonesuch) Andre Afram Asmar - Harmonic Emergency (Mush) Ben + Vesper - Honors (Sounds Familyre) The Books - Thought for Food [reissues] (Temporary Residence) Vinicius Cantuaria & Bill Frisell - Lagrimas Mexicanas (eOne) Carolina Chocolate Drops / Luminescent Orchestrii (Nonesuch) Caroline - Verdugo Hills (Temporary Residence) Cloud Nothings - s/t (Carpark) Death - Spiritual, Mental, Physical (Drag City) Fujiya & Miyagi - Ventriloquizzing (Yep Roc) Gang of Four - Content (Yep Roc) Get Up Kids - These Are the Rules (+1) I Was A King - Old Friends (Sounds Familyre) Talib Kweli - Gutter Rainbows [LP on 2/22] (3D) LCD Soundsystem - London Sessions (EMI) Phil Manley - Life Coach (Thrill Jockey) Margot & the Nuclear So and Sos - Happy Hour at Spriggs (MRC) Monotonix - Not Yet (Drag City) My Disco - Little Joy (Temporary Residence) Pearl Jam - Live on Ten Legs (Monkeywrench) Radio Dept - Passive Aggressive: Singles 2002-2010 (Labrador) Popol Vuh - Werner Herzog Soundtracks 5CD (SPV) Thank You - Golden Worry (Thrill Jockey) Vagrants - I Can't Make a Friend 1965-1968 (LITA) Witches - A Haunted Person's Guide to The Witches (Alive) Young the Giant - s/t (Roadrunner) NEXT WEEK - Reserve one and guarantee you'll have it when its released! .................................................. 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) COMING SOON (dates often subject to change, sorry) .................................................. 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) 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) 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) Drive By Truckers - The Secret to a Happy Ending DVD (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) Adele - 21 (2/22) Arbouretum - The Gathering (2/22) Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place (2/22) Builders and the Butchers - Dead Reckoning (2/22) The Caribbean - Discontinued Perfume (2/22) Cave Singers - No Witch (2/22) Chain & the Gang - Music's Not For Everyone (2/22) Harry Connick Jr - In Concert on Broadway (2/22) Cult of Youth - s/t (2/22) The Cure - Entreat Plus LP (2/22) Danielson Famile - Best of Gloucester County (2/22) Diplo - Riddimentary: Diplo Selects Greensleeves (2/22) Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1 (2/22) Floating Action - Desert Etiquette (2/22) Marcellus Hall - The First Line (2/22) Gil Scott-Heron / XX - We're New Here (2/22) Low Anthem - Smart Flesh (2/22) The Luyas - Too Beautiful to Work (2/22) Malachai - Return to the Ugly Side (2/22) Nirvana - Incesticide LP (2/22) Psychic Paramount - II (2/22) Puro Instinct - Headbangers in Ecstacy (2/22) Slug Guts - Howlin Gang (2/22) Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol 2 (2/22) Tahiti 80 - The Past, the Present & the Possible (2/22) Toro y Moi - Underneath the Pine (2/22) Top 5 sellers at Landlocked for the week of 1/17 to 1/23 .................................................. 1. The Decemberists, The King is Dead (Capitol) 2. Smith Westerns, Dye It Blonde (Fat Possum) 3. Social Distortion, Hard Times & Nursery Rhymes (Epitaph) 4. Margot & the Nuclear So and Sos, Happy Hour at Spriggs (MRC) 5. Abner Jay, Last Ole Minstrel Man (Mississippi) Don't miss the boat! We have still fresh CDs, LPs and DVDs from Gregg Allman, Aurelio, Decemberists, Fergus & Geronimo, Alexis Gideon, Daniel Martin Moore, Smith Westerns, Social Distortion, Tennis, White Fence, White Lies, Wire, 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 and much much more! .................................................. Upcoming Bloomington shows that we're excited about: 1/28 - Royal Bangs @ The Bishop 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 3/3 - GLC @ The Bishop 3/5 - C-Rayz Walz @ Rhino's 3/27 - Margot & the Nuclear So and Sos @ The Bishop 3/27 - Toubab Krewe @ The Bluebird 4/6 - Toro y Moi / Braids @ The Bishop 4/8 - Cave Singers / Lia Ices @ Russian Recording 4/8 - Cold Cave @ The Bishop 4/9 - Davila 666 @ 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. Tell us what you think, what you desire. -------------------------------------------------- BFF, Jason & Heath and the whole LL crew info@landlockedmusic.com Landlocked Music 202 N. Walnut St. Bloomington, IN, 47404 http://www.landlockedmusic.com/ http://myspace.com/landlockedbton http://indiana.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2385198570 http://twitter.com/landlockedmusic (812) 339 - 2574 Hours of Operation: Monday - Saturday : 11:30am - 7:30pm Sunday : Noon - 5pm