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The Record Exchange Gift Shop is Boise’s only retail outlet for Misty Benson’s Morbidly Adorable stickers, jewelry, magnets and figurines!
This Idaho artist has a devoted online following and shows her work at the San Diego Comic-Con. Most recently, her contribution to the 2010 Munny Silent Auction Fundraiser brought in the highest bid of the auction, drawing online bids from as far away as the Netherlands.
Learn more about Misty Benson HERE.
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is a finger-blistering time capsule of right now, yet in a hundred years it will still be so crammed with charm, wit, brio and exuberance it will still be irresistible.
Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera, Superbad) is an accidental heartbreaker, a Canadian slacker who obsesses over the girls who’ve dumped him but hardly realizes how he’s dumped other girls. But everything else in his life (including playing bass in a band) fades to insignificance when he lays eyes on Ramona (Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Live Free or Die Hard), his deadpan pixie dream girl.
Unfortunately, Ramona has some serious baggage: seven deadly exes, and Scott must battle them all if he wants to date Ramona. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is saturated in pop culture, particularly video games. Many events make almost no sense, but it doesn’t matter — sheer narrative ferocity and glee of invention sweep the viewer along. Cera pushes his geek/dork dreamboat persona to new heights of sweet twee-ness; if this movie doesn’t shoot him into the stratosphere, we live in a cold, unfeeling universe, bereft of justice.
The whole supporting cast (including Kieran Culkin, Jason Schwartzman, Anna Kendrick, Chris Evans, Brandon Routh, and a host of less familiar but excellent young actors) plays every moment for all it’s worth. This movie is supremely uncool and passionate, which makes it essential viewing.
OTHER NEW DVD/BLU-RAY RELEASES:
Metalocalypse Season 3 Blu-ray
Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010 DVD and Blu-ray
Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan In Session DVD
Grown-ups DVD and Blu-ray
Antichrist Criterion Collection DVD
Behemoth Evangelia Heretika DVD
Ramona and Beezus DVD
Ghetto Stories: The Movie DVD
The Record Exchange will once again be selling some choice wax at the Boise Record Show and Swap, which runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 14, at the Linen Building.
The RX vinyl buyers have been hard at work the last few weeks preparing for the swap, and they’re bringing what they’ve described as a “crate digger’s delight” — indie rock, 50s/60s rock (including lots of Beatles and Elvis wax), funk/soul/R&B and much more. Many of the records have never seen the RX floor and will be offered to customers for the first time at the swap!
Get the full scoop on the Boise Record Show and Swap HERE.
And now, for Tuesday’s new vinyl releases:
Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Damn the Torpedoes
Danzig Deth Red Sabaoth
The Tallest Man on Earth Sometimes the Blues is Just a Passing Bird
Greenhornes **** (Four Stars)
Radio Dept. Never Follow Suit
Zion I Atomic Clock
John Cale Live at Rockpalast
Behemoth Evangelion
Drudkh Handful of Stars
Viking Skull Chapter Two
Easy Star All Stars Dubber Side of the Moon
Smoke or Fire Speakeasy
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When Syd Barrett passed in 2006, there were two things mentioned in every obituary. He founded Pink Floyd in 1966, and left them in 1968 as rock’s first “acid casualty.” The stories surrounding Barrett’s breakdown are fascinating, but they threaten to overshadow the shear brilliance he often displayed as a musician. The new collection An Introduction To Syd Barrett is the first to incorporate his work with Pink Floyd with his later solo material.
An Introduction illustrates the differences vividly. The last Pink Floyd track included, “Bike” is an intense rant from a seemingly unhinged fellow. The solo “Terrapin” follows, with Barrett singing “I really love you, and I mean you,” as he lazily strums his acoustic guitar. Whatever demons that plagued him before no longer seem to trouble him. In fact, nothing seems to bother him anymore. From the tone of his voice, the subject matter, and the songs as a whole, we are hearing what remains of a man who has checked out.
An Introduction To Syd Barrett is exactly what it says it is. By including his early work with Pink Floyd with his later solo material, we get a well-rounded picture of what the man’s music was all about. Barrett will always be a footnote in the story of Pink Floyd, but his departure haunted them throughout their career. Many of the songs on both Dark Side Of The Moon and The Wall deal with it. On Wish You Were Here, they were explicit — nearly the entire album was about him.
For the curious, this is an excellent place to start in getting to know the music of Syd Barrett. — Greg Barbrick, Blogcritics.org
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Critics are praising Kaleidoscope Heart — the new release from Grammy-nominated Epic recording artist Sara Bareilles — across the board.
The Wall Street Journal raved, “Kaleidoscope Heart plants Sara in Billy Joel territory.” The New York Daily News wrote, “Bareilles holds the keys to a pop world gone gaga.” The New York Times praised Sara, quoting, “Deliberately or not, Ms. Bareilles has figured out a singer-songwriter’s response to the ascendance of Glee. Now she’s her own glee club,” while People Magazine applauds the album, saying, “In 2007 the singer-songwriter rocketed from obscurity with her album Little Voice and the Grammy-nominated pop-rock gem ‘Love Song.’ How does she follow up on that? Impeccably.”
Kaleidoscope Heart — which Sara wrote and the renowned Neal Avron produced — is the follow up to her massive Grammy nominated debut, Little Voice, which has sold over 1 million copies worldwide and garnered the singer/songwriter two Grammy nominations for the triple platinum hit single “Love Song.”