CONTRIBUTE TO SFM-STEVE FULTON MUSIC’S ‘EPONYM’ ALBUM CAMPAIGN!

fultonOur friend SFM-Steve Fulton Music will release “Eponym,” the first new album in 11 years from the veteran Idaho musician and producer, on Oct. 6. We encourage you to join us in contributing to his Indiegogo campaign to support the album’s completion!

Though more than a decade has passed since Fulton’s last release “Said & Heard,” he’s hardly been dormant; rather, Fulton has spent that time working on hundreds of records for other artists, helping build Visual Arts Collective and expand his Audio Lab recording studio, and producing live music events around the state. In his “spare time,” he amassed nearly 35 original songs that he’s ready to release as a double album – one half full-band electric rocker, one half stripped-down acoustic affair.

The packed schedule, Fulton says, “made me put my own recordings on hold.” With the help of the month long Indiegogo crowd funding campaign, he plans to complete work on the album and end the long wait with a double CD and vinyl release in October. Details on the campaign, including donation perks, may be found here.

ABOUT SFM-STEVE FULTON MUSIC

Steve Fulton is a singer-songwriter, producer and recording engineer who performs as SFM-Steve Fulton Music. Fulton is a household name in his hometown of Boise, where he also owns and operates one of the state’s finest recording studios, Audio Lab recording studios. For 13 years, Fulton was founding member and served as lead singer/guitarist in House of Hoi Polloi, which has recorded five albums and toured extensively throughout the Northwest.

Fulton has performed all over the country, touring with his band and as a solo artist. Fulton first performed his solo material live when he opened for Tori Amos in front of 3,000 people at the Idaho Center. Since then, he has released two solo albums on his Uncommon Records label, “Shock Remission” and “Said & Heard.”

Fulton is also passionate about making his community a better place. In addition to performing for a variety of benefit concerts over the years, he serves as mentor to a wide array of local musicians and engineers, provides job-shadowing opportunities and internships, and gets involved in many projects with youths, including Boise Rock School and Community Youth Connection.

RECORD EXCHANGE 2015 STAFF PICKS: SEVERED ARM

Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2015 Staff Picks!

severed armHere’s Severed Arm’s list:

AIMEE MANN
The Forgotten Arm
DIRE STRAITS
Brothers in Arms
ARM
Universal Standard Time
ISLANDS
Arm’s Way
STRONG ARM STEADY
Arms and Hammers
GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS
A Forest of Arms
THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES
Easter
BAND OF HORSES
Infinite Arms
THE LAWRENCE ARMS
Metropole
MUDHONEY
Piece of Cake

RECORD EXCHANGE 2015 STAFF PICKS: MICHAEL

Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2015 Staff Picks!

CIMS Convention 2007 (173)CIMS20_1Here’s Michael’s list:

CASSANDRA WILSON
Coming Forth by Day
CALEXICO
Edge of the Sun
RICHARD THOMPSON
Still
KING CRIMSON
Live at the Orpheum
BOB DYLAN
The Cutting Edge 1965-1966
LOW
Ones and Sixes
STEVE EARLE AND THE DUKES
Terraplane
KAMASI WASHINGTON
The Epic
MATTHEW SHIPP TRIO
The Conduct of Jazz
BELINDA BOWLER
Trumpet Vine

RECORD EXCHANGE 2015 STAFF PICKS: JIL

Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2015 Staff Picks!

jilHere’s Jil’s list:

JULIA HOLTER
Have You in My Wilderness
JOANNA NEWSOM
Divers
BELINDA BOWLER
Trumpet Vine
JOSH RITTER
Sermon on the Rocks
BEIRUT
No No No
HILLFOLK NOIR
Pop Songs for Elk
EILEN JEWELL
Sundown Over Ghost Town
YOUTH LAGOON
Savage Hills Ballroom
FATHER JOHN MISTY
I Love You, Honeybear
YO LA TENGO
Stuff Like That There
JEFF CROSBY
Waking Days

RECORD EXCHANGE 2015 STAFF PICKS: JOHN O.

Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2015 Staff Picks!

john oHere’s John O’s list, with an honest-to-blog addendum, which also can be read HERE along with other unpretentiously poignant mental musings:

U.S. GIRLS
Half Free
FATHER JOHN MISTY
I Love You, Honeybear
VIET CONG
Viet Cong
THOMAS PAUL
Interference EP
TAMARYN
Cranekiss
SUN BLOOD STORIES
Twilight Midnight Morning
MARTIN COURTNEY
Many Moons
DUCKTAILS
St. Catherine
RATATAT
Magnifique
MARSHALL POOLE
Totems

List Regret

It’s an occupational hazard, list regret. My occupation is Record Store Clerk, which is a calling as well as an occupation. And a livelihood. Every year we are called upon by the company to distill a year of music into a Top 10 list of the things we listened to since the last time we made the list. We all take it pretty seriously and invest enormous amounts of thought and energy into our selections. And, invariably, upon submission and publication, the gnawing begins. The second guessing. The regret. It’s insidious. So, I am going to list them here, the ones I left off the 1-10 list. They all could easily be on there. But I had to make decisions. And I decided …

11. Youth LagoonSavage Hills Ballroom
12. Chelsea WolfeAbyss
13. Hillfolk NoirPop Songs for Elk
14. Jeff CrosbyWaking Days
15. Corb LundThings That Can’t Be Undone
16. Sleaford ModsKey Markets
17. Built To Spill Untethered Moon
18. Brett Netson and Snakes Scavenger Cult
19. Foul WeatherSoft Opening
20. Mint MileIn Season and Ripe

And so on. There is so much great music out there. Some stuff I didn’t have any time to listen to, much less absorb. And that doesn’t even take into account things from the past that demand re-listening. And then you see the things your compatriots put on their list that you listened to a lot all year, then forgot about. You still liked it though. Like, Julia Holter and Posse.

21. GoatsnakeBlack Age Blues

I could go on. But I will end it here. I stand by my original list. There is some really great stuff on there. Be open. I’m glad to have an avenue to share my love of music with people.

22. Moon DuoShadow of the Sun

See? And we didn’t even get into the live shows. Like Clarke and the Himselfs at Treefort. And, Treefort in general. So much music. It’s glorious.