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Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2015 Staff Picks!
Here’s Catherine’s list:
JULIA HOLTER
Have You in My Wilderness
GIANT SAND
Heartbreak Pass
YO LA TENGO
Stuff Like That There
CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT
For One to Love
FRANCOIS HARDY
Tous Les Garcones et Les Filles
THELONIOUS MONK
The London Collection Vol. 2
HILLFOLK NOIR
Pop Songs for Elk
ROSE WINDOWS
Rose Windows
THOMAS PAUL
Interference EP
RYAN BAYNE
Beloved
Boise Hive is in danger of losing its building, and we’re looking to you to help The Record Exchange help #SavetheBoiseHive.
The non-profit musicians resource center has until Oct. 10 to raise $75,000 to match an offer on the building it’s currently leasing and occupying. Boise Hive has invested significant time and money into the space and hopes to avoid relocating. A GoFundMe page has been set up HERE; you also can donate in person at The Record Exchange (1105 W. Idaho St., Boise, ID 83702).
Boise Hive is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) founded to provide a safe, sober, all-ages, affordable rehearsal and recording place for local musicians and artists. This donor-funded, volunteer-run community space aims to provide a facility where artists come to practice and hone their craft. Boise Hive empowers musicians and artists to thrive, through access to rehearsal space, business tools, access to mental health services and other holistic health resources.
The building once housed Cedarstrom Custom Recording and then Custom Recording and Sound, one of Idaho’s oldest recording studios. As it fights to save its home, Boise Hive was just named “Best Local Recording Studio” by Boise Weekly.
The building owner notified Boise Hive that an offer for purchase had been made on the property located where such greats as Paul Revere and the Raiders and Curtis Stigers when he was a Commonaut recorded. 3907 Custer Drive behind Rockies Diner on Overland has been home to Boise Hive for over a year. The terms of Boise Hive’s lease state that they have first right of refusal, but the clock is ticking on the time left for Boise Hive to come up with the $75,000 for the deposit needed to secure a loan and match the offer.
“I came to the Boise Hive as a volunteer because I saw the opportunity to contribute in a positive and healthy way to an industry that had negatively fueled my history with addiction and depression,” says Juta Geurtsen, Executive Director. “Music and art have been an important part of my own recovery and the idea of a safe and sober space where artists can support each other and their work is essential. Since then I have been touched daily by the healing that happens in community. Isolation and stigma are the killers for creatives who struggle with issues of mental health and well being. We aim to break that down, one day at a time. With the community’s help we will save the Boise Hive, one day at a time.”
The Record Exchange is a proud sponsor of the fifth annual Treefort Music Fest, taking place March 23-27 throughout Downtown Boise.
With an amazing lineup of national, regional and local music, Treefort is one of the most anticipated events on the Treasure Valley music calendar. Treefort 2016 5-day passes go on sale Saturday, Sept. 12. If you don’t snag one of the 200 $50 early-bird deals (they’ll be gone in minutes), The Record Exchange will have a special “locals-only” pass price of $119 for one day only on Sept. 12. We’ll be open 9am-9pm. Excited? We’re excited.
ABOUT TREEFORT MUSIC FEST
IDAHO. With our vast wilderness areas and mountain ranges, clean rivers and lakes, open prairies and big skies, this big little state in the NW can often feel like living on the frontier of a young developing nation — and it’s exciting times on the frontier. Here in Boise, the capitol city, in the midst of a vibrant downtown scene of young professionals, mom-and-pop local businesses, bars and nightclubs, late night pizza joints, college town energy, and progressive-minded city planning — there’s a music, dance, theater and arts scene with a fresh, vibrant outlook producing ever-growing excitement here in Boise as well as from eyes and ears outside of the Treasure Valley.
Boise has for years received accolades for being a great place to live and raise a family, but in recent years it’s been getting increased attention as a hot spot for young up-and-coming artists. It’s in this spirit, that we introduce you to TREEFORT MUSIC FEST. Conceived as an extension of the current momentum in the Boise music scene and art scene at large, our vision is that Treefort will provide the opportunity for Boise to play host to the national and regional music scenes while showcasing the local up-and-coming talent. We see Treefort as another stepping stone for our young scene — to further introduce emerging national, regional and local artists to the music fans in the Treasure Valley so that future tour stops by those bands will be greeted with more and more familiar faces and encourage more artists to consider Boise a relevant stop on their tours.
Being a fan of Amy Winehouse since I was a wide-eyed 8 year old listening to my mother blasting ‘F*** Me Pumps,’ I will always have a deep regret in me for not being old enough to attend at least one of her concerts. The closest I’ve gotten is sitting in a theater watching the horrific life that was behind the pain in her voice.
“Amy” delves into every bright and dark aspect of Ms. Winehouse’s life with family, friends, music and love that ultimately lead to substance abuse. It doesn’t just touch on certain aspects of her life either; instead, it covers each part of her life with such detail that you feel as though she was telling you her story.
The documentary provides a visual for each painstakingly honest song that Amy produced. From her early boyfriend being her “Lady-Boy” to her pop hit rebellion of “Rehab” and every song in between, her lyrics were brought to life before my eyes. The film is personal, leaving almost no unknown in the singer’s life (Other than what Amy and Raphael Saadiq would’ve sound like for an album’s worth of material). Her descent into the deepest, darkest pits of depression is put on display, as is a father who was looking to exploit his daughter for his own fame (“Are you only interested in me for what you can get out of me?” she’s caught asking him after he brought his own camera crew to a family vacation). We see her late husband Blake-Fielder Civil introducing her to crack cocaine and heroin, an addiction she battled due to the love she had for her husband. It also doesn’t leave Amy blameless for her own addictions.
This movie is especially heartbreaking and gut wrenching as it comes to an end, as you see her body deteriorate and her passion disappear. I believe Amy summed up her final years of life perfectly when asked about fame: “I don’t think I could handle it. I would probably go mad.”
Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2014 Staff Picks!
Take a gander at Michael‘s list:
LEONARD COHEN
Popular Problems
THE WAR ON DRUGS
Lost in the Dream
MEDESKI, SCOFIELD, MARTIN & WOOD
Juice
STURGILL SIMPSON
Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
DAVE ALVIN AND PHIL ALVIN
Common Ground
MOGWAI
Rave Tapes
GOAT
Commune
FLYING LOTUS
You’re Dead!
BECK
Morning Phase
EARTH
Primitive and Deadly
