BONUS CLUB SALE MONDAY, DEC. 5: 20% OFF STOREWIDE 9AM-5PM AND 25% OFF DURING THE PARTY (5-9PM)! FREE BEER, BLACK KEYS LISTENING PARTY, TIM J. FROM THE RIVER BROADCASTING LIVE!

The Record Exchange annual Bonus Club Sale will be held on Monday, Dec. 5, and we’re gearing up to party like never before.

This year, we’re upping the savings to 25% OFF STOREWIDE DURING THE PARTY (5 TO 9 P.M.) AND 20% OFF STOREWIDE DURING THE DAY (9 A.M. TO 5 P.M.).

And that’s just the start. To enhance your holiday shopping experience, the evening festivities also will include:

• BLACK KEYS LISTENING PARTY. The Black Keys’ highly-anticipated new album El Camino hits the shelves on Tuesday, Dec. 6, and we’ll preview the entire album on the store hi-fi at 8 p.m. Pre-order El Camino on CD or vinyl and take home a Black Keys gift, then pick up the album the next day! Eager beavers can hear a couple of full-song streams (plus a righteous one-man-dancing video) HERE.

• FREE CRAFT BEER FROM PAYETTE BREWING CO. We’ll have a keg of delicious, Boise-brewed craft beer from our new partner Payette Brewing Co., and you’ll get to drink some for free (provided you’re 21 or older and show us a valid I.D.).

• LIVE RADIO REMOTE WITH THE RIVER’S TIM JOHNSTONE. Our friend Tim Johnstone from 94.9 FM The River will be on the air live from The Record Exchange from 6 to 8 p.m.!

• BAD CHRISTMAS SWEATER CONTEST. Start combing the thrift stores and your mother’s closet, because we’re decking our bad selves in bad Christmas sweaters and hope you do, too. Enter the contest and you just might be crowned king or queen of bad Christmas sweaters! Everyone (staff and customers) will cast votes, and the first-, second- and third-place winners will take home bad-ass prizes!

• FOOD TRUCK (TBD)

• GIVEAWAYS

• RAFFLE PRIZES

In addition to housing Boise’s Biggest and Best Gift Shop, this season The Record Exchange has dozens of new indie store exclusives, plus hundreds of new CDs under 10 bucks, including tons of $6.99 and $7.99 titles!

If you’re not already a member of the RX Bonus Club, you can sign up at the Bonus Club Party and start saving! As a Bonus Club member, you get $10 in store credit every time you accrue $120 in store purchases.

If you want to sign up for the RX Bonus Club prior to the sale, visit The Record Exchange and ask a clerk for a free membership form!

NEW DVD/BLU-RAY: ‘WEIRD AL’ YANKOVIC ‘ALPOCALYPSE HD’

BUY THE BLU-RAY HERE

Alpocalypse HD is a Blu-ray only release that features ALL of the music videos from the album Alpocalypse – including “Perform This Way” and “Polka Face” – PLUS as a bonus, the 3 videos from Straight Outta Lynwood that haven’t made it to disc yet (“Trapped in the Drive-Thru,” “Do I Creep You Out,” and yes, for the first time ever, “White & Nerdy” in beautiful high definition).

OTHER NEW DVD/BLU-RAY RELEASES:

Rush Time Machine 2011: Live In Cleveland
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble Pride & Joy
Gordon Lightfoot Live In Reno
Celine Dion Live In Las Vegas – A New Day
Deep Purple Live At Montreux 2011
Leonard Cohen Live In London
Black Sabbath Last Super

THE VINYL WORD: ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER ‘REPLICA’

Oneohtrix Point Never‘s Replica must be some sort of masterpiece, an assessment quantifiable in terms of the outlandish metaphors and sci-fi jargon that bloggers and critics have already repurposed in order to describe it.

Whether you end up interpreting Replica in terms of Blade Runner or that music theory course you took back in college, it makes for a fascinating addition to the already-extensive OPN catalogue. Replica is of a piece with the synth-based drone of Rifts and Returnal, and like both of those albums, it owes much of its musicality to recurring arpeggio motifs. One of the odd paradoxes of ambient music is that a musician’s decision to incorporate more song-like elements into their work will almost always be welcomed by critics as evidence of maturation; if anything, OPN mastermind Daniel Lopatin seems to be resisting that trajectory, since nothing here matches the relatively overt pop gambit of Returnal’s title track. If Lopatin has made any concessions to accessibility this time out, they figure mostly into Replica‘s abstractly rhythmic qualities. With only one or two tracks employing anything like a beat, Lopatin’s fondness for cyclical phrasing nonetheless imbues his newest compositions with more body and direction than his previous work. And where actual percussion is employed, as on the coda to “Andro” or the title track’s recurring piano chords, the effect can be tremendous, as though the random functions of a few very noisy machines had spontaneously created something human.Slant Magazine

OTHER NEW VINYL RELEASES:

DJ Shadow Less You Know The Better
Rush Rush Moving Pictures: Live 2011
Yuck Yuck
Owen Ghost Town
Craft Void
Animals As Leaders Weightless
Deep Purple Made In Europe
Noothgrush Live For Nothing

RUSH ‘TIME MACHINE 2011: LIVE IN CLEVELAND’ AND OTHER NEW CD RECOMMENDATIONS!

BUY THE CD HERE
BUY THE DVD HERE

Time Machine 2011: Live In Cleveland is the ultimate Rush live album. Recorded during last year’s sold out Time Machine tour, the CD captures the band in great form in the city where their career really kicked off.

The 26 song 2-disc set includes the band’s performance of the classic Moving Pictures in its entirety. It features that album’s smashes “Tom Sawyer” and “Limelight” as well as other catalog greats like “Working Man,” “The Spirit Of Radio” and more.

OTHER NEW CD RECOMMENDATIONS:

As I Lay Dying Decas
Four Years Strong In Some Way Shape Or Form
Angels & Airwaves Love Part One & Part Two
Animals As Leaders Weightless
Disturbed Lost Children
Noel Gallagher High Flying Birds Noel Gallagher High Flying Birds
Il Divo Wicked Game
Randy Newman Live In London
Joe Nichols It’s All Good
Keith Jarrett Rio

NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: PINK FLOYD ‘FOOT IN THE DOOR: BEST OF PINK FLOYD’ & ‘WISH YOU WERE HERE’

BUY ‘FOOT IN THE DOOR’ HERE
BUY ‘WISH YOU WERE HERE’ HERE
BUY ‘WISH YOU WERE HERE – DELUXE EDITION’ HERE

As part of the extensive reissue of the Pink Floyd catalog, the band and their record label are releasing a greatest hits album featuring 16 of the most popular songs from 1973 to 1994. ‘A Foot in the Door — The Best of Pink Floyd’ will be available on Nov. 8.

As previously reported, the “Immersion” and “Experience” editions of ‘Wish You Were Here’ will also be available on Nov. 8. Previously Pink Floyd released “Immersion” and “Experience” editions of ‘The Dark Side of the Moon.’ Both feature unreleased material and live versions of tracks from each album.

A Foot in the Door — The Best of Pink Floyd’ is more straight forward. The collection includes four cuts from ‘The Wall,’ three from ‘Wish You Were Here’ and five from ‘The Dark Side of the Moon.’ The special collection also contains new artwork by Storm Thorgerson.

A Foot in the Door — The Best of Pink Floyd’ Track Listing:

1. ‘Hey You’ from ‘The Wall’ (1979)
2. ‘See Emily Play’ from ‘Relics’ (1971)
3. ‘The Happiest Days of Our Lives’ from ‘The Wall’ (1979)
4. ‘Another Brick in the Wall (part 2)’ from ‘The Wall’ (1979)
5. ‘Have a Cigar’ from ‘Wish You Were Here’ (1975)
6. ‘Wish You Were Here’ from ‘Wish You Were Here’ (1975)
7. ‘Time’ from ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ (1973)
8. ‘The Great Gig in the Sky’ from ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ (1973)
9. ‘Money’ from ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ (1973)
10. ‘Comfortably Numb’ from ‘The Wall’ (1979)
11. ‘High Hopes’ from ‘The Division Bell’ (1994)
12. ‘Learning to Fly’ from ‘A Momentary Lapse of Reason’ (1987)
13. ‘The Fletcher Memorial Home’ from ‘The Final Cut’ (1983)
14. ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ from ‘Wish You Were Here’ (1975)
15. ‘Brain Damage’ from ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ (1973)
16. ‘Eclipse’ from ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ (1973)

For Wish You Were Here releases:

Pink Floyd the five-disc “Immersion” edition of their 1975 classic ‘Wish You Were Here’ album, and much like their recent box set version of ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’, this collection is pretty darn awesome looking.

The first disc features a remastered version of the original album, which is largely dominated by the nine-part ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond,’ a tribute to the band’s departed frontman, Syd Barrett. The second CD features over an hour of unreleased music, largely drawn from a 1974 concert in London. As with ‘Dark Side,’ another track from the aborted ‘Household Objects’ album, ‘Wine Glasses,’ is included, in addition to alternate versions of ‘Have a Cigar’ and ‘Wish You Were Here.’

If listening to music through two speakers seems very 1974 to you, you’ll be glad to hear that there is a DVD filled with 5.1 and 4.0 quadrophonic mixes of the album, as well as an enhanced LPCM stereo mix.  A second DVD brings things into the visual realm, combining the music with the movies shown on concert screens during Pink Floyd concerts from that era. Finally, a Blu-ray disc combines all of the material from the two DVDs in one place.

In addition to all this audio and visual delight, the “Immersion” edition of ‘Wish You Were Here’ comes with two different books, collector’s cards, replica tour tickets and backstage passes, drink coasters, marbles and a printed scarf.