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Landlocked Music
BLOOMINGTON, IN • 115 S. Walnut St., Bloomington, IN 47404
One of Bloomington's longest-running independent record shops, anchoring a small cluster of stores that's grown up around Indiana University over many years. It's a meticulously stocked space, and it's clear pretty quickly that the people running it have taste that goes well beyond what you'd expect walking into just any college-town record shop.
They carry local and regional releases you won't find cataloged anywhere else, host in-stores with bands and keep a used section that benefits enormously from Bloomington being a disproportionately music-literate town for its size.
We especially love their Landlocked Pick of the Week, a partnership with WFHB Community Radio, highlighting new music and upcoming shows in the Bloomington area.
We've never walked out of Landlocked with just the one record we came in looking for. Something else always ends up in the stack, usually something we didn't know we needed until it was already in our hands. That's the sign of a record store doing its job right.
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