NEW RELEASE TUESDAY: MERGE RECORDS LISTENING PARTY (THE LOVE LANGUAGE, THE MOUNTAIN GOATS) AND FREE PIE HOLE PIZZA/RAFFLE JULY 23!

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July 23, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

The Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series continues on July 23 with a special Merge Records showcase featuring The Love Language‘s Ruby Red and The Mountain Goats‘ All Hail West Texas reissue! The albums will be featured during our weekly listening party at 6 p.m.! Enjoy free pizza from our New Release Tuesday partners Pie Hole and enter to win our New Release Tuesday raffle prize!

Are you a proud owner of a Radio Boise KRBX Card? Bring it in every Tuesday from 6 to 9 p.m. and receive 20% off gift shop items and used CDs, vinyl, DVD/Blu-ray and cassettes (excluding collectibles – individual items $100 and over).

Speaking of our beloved community radio station, their Radio Boise Tuesdays series at Neurolux features local and touring bands as well as a Radio Boise DJ after each show. Radio Boise receives 20% of drink sales from every Radio Boise Tuesday show. You receive the benefit of DRINK SPECIALS at each one. The music kicks off at 7 p.m. — right after you’ve filled your belly with pizza and heard some new music at the RX!

Check out the Radio Boise Tuesdays performance schedule HERE.

Here’s a quick look at the bright and shiny new releases this week at The Record Exchange:

CD

Gogol Bordello – Pura Vida Conspiracy

Guy Clark – My Favorite Picture of You

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Half Moon Run – Dark Eyes

Selena Gomez – Stars Dance

Ghostface Killah – Twelve Reasons to Die: The Brown Tape

The Smashing Pumpkins – The Aeroplane Flies High Deluxe Edition

Rich Gang – Rich Gang (deluxe edition also available)

The Weekend – Jinx

Fuck Buttons – Slow Focus

True Widow – Circumambulation

We Came As Romans – Tracing Back Roots

The Love Language – Ruby Red

The Mountain Goats – All Hail West Texas

Truth and Salvage Co. – Pick Me Up

Winery Dogs – Winery Dogs

Van Dyke Parks – Songs Cycled

Secrets – Fragile Figures

James Maddock – Another Life

Grant Hart – Argument

U-God – Keynote Speaker

Ulver – Live at Roadburn 2012

Star and Dagger – Tomorrowland Blues

Pyramids – Brightest Darkest Day

Otis Redding – The Complete Stax/Volt Singles

Sombear – Love You in the Dark

Fur Trade – Don’t Get Heavy

Mona – Torches and Pitchforks

Hands Like Houses – Unimagine

Grits and Glamour – Dos Divas

Hey! Hello! – Hey! Hello!

Fight or Flight – Life By Design

All Pigs Must Die – Nothing Violates This Nature

Hunx and His Punx – Street Punk

Various Artists – History of Soul: Let’s Soul Dance (Black Dance Crazes 1957-1962)

Various Artists – History of Soul: Lonely Avenue (Soul From New York 1955-1962)

Black Tusk – Tend No Wounds

Craig Ferguson – I’m Here to Help

Marc Anthony – 3.0

Julian Cope – Revolutionary Suicide

Jim Jones Revue – Savage Heart

Chet Baker – Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe

George Jones and Friends – God’s Country

Ella Fitzgerald – Best of the BBC Vaults

Cannonball Adderley and Milt Jackson – Things Are Getting Better

Thelonious Monk and Gerry Mulligan – Mulligan Meets Monk

Bill Evans Trio – How My Heart Sings!

Wes Montgomery – So Much Guitar!

Chixdiggit! – Double Diggits!

VINYL

Baroness – Live at Maida Vale-BBC

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Editors – The Weight of Your Love

Fuck Buttons – Slow Focus

The Weekend – Jinx

Gogol Bordello – Pura Vida Conspiracy (indie store exclusive version)

Guy Clark – My Favorite Picture of You

Streetlight Manifesto – Hands That Thieve

Half Moon Run – Dark Eyes

Black Tusk – Tend No Wounds

Blockhead – Music By Cavelight

Bonobo – Days to Come

John Doe – Year in the Wilderness

Truth and Salvage Co. – Pick Me Up

Johnny Cash – Rockabilly Blues

Elvis Presley – Elvis’ Golden Records

The Smashing Pumpkins – The Aeroplane Flies High Deluxe Edition

The Mountain Goats – All Hail West Texas

Le Super Biton National de Segou – Le Super Biton National de Segou

Divine Fits – Chained to Love

Superchunk – Me & You & Jackie Mittoo

Cold Cave – Oceans With No End

Alpine – A is For Alpine

Cathedral – Garden of Unearthly Delights

Cathedral – Guessing Game

Dengue Fever – Venus On Earth

Chixdiggit! – Born on the First of July

DVD/BLU-RAY

Aerosmith – Rock for the Rising DVD and Blu-ray

Babette’s Feast (Criterion Collection) DVD and Blu-ray

Craig Ferguson – I’m Here to Help DVD

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RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 20 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING JULY 21, 2013)

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July 22, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

1. In Our Town-Songs For Boise, Various Artists
2. Take On the World, Fly2Void
3. Random Access Memories, Daft Punk
4. Electric, Pet Shop Boys
5. What’s That Hat For?, Hillfolk Noir
6. Blessed Unrest, Sara Bareilles
7. Magna Carta Holy Grail, Jay-Z
8. Southeastern, Jason Isbell
9. 13, Black Sabbath
10. Night Visions, Imagine Dragons
11. Babel, Mumford & Sons
12. My Head Is An Animal, Of Monsters & Men
13. Kveikur, Sigur Ros
14. Tomorrow’s Harvest, Boards of Canada
15. Walk Through Exits Only, Philip Anselmo
16. The Weatherman, Gregory Alan Isakov
17. Last of the Great Pretenders, Matt Nathanson
18. If You Leave, Daughter
19. Deceiver Of The Gods, Amon Amarth
20. Jump-Ups and Jollities, Travis Ward

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MOSES GUEST IN-STORE THURSDAY AT 5!

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July 18, 2013 - Live Shows , Live@RX - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

Moses Guest will perform live at The Record Exchange (1105 W. Idaho St., Downtown Boise) at 5 p.m. Thursday, July 18. The band is performing a pair of Boise shows this week – Wednesday at Neurolux and Thursday at Reef and we have tickets for sale here at the store! As always, this Record Exchange in-store event is free and all ages!

ABOUT MOSES GUEST

Started in 1995, and named after founder Graham Guest’s fifth generation grandfather, Moses Guest is a Texas-based Southern Rock band that has just enough Pop, Jazz, Funk, and Country in its veins to appeal to audiences of all ages and origins.

The current lineup formed in 1998, was voted “Best Rock/Pop Band” in the 2001 Houston Press Music Awards, and has won numerous Battle of the Bands contests.

The band has been selling out shows in Houston since 1999 and concentrating hard on winning over their region, with frequent tours through the South and West.

The band has self-produced five records and one EP on its own record label, Aufheben Records.

Moses Guest has shared the stage with many great acts in the past few years: Moe. (twice), Steve Miller Band, JGB Band, Willie Nelson, Los Lobos, Leftover Salmon, String Cheese Incident, Robert Bradley’s Blackwater Surprise, David Nelson Band, Rebirth Brass Band, The Jayhawks, Lisa Loeb and Colonel Bruce Hampton and the Fiji Mariners (on H.O.R.D.E. 1998 sidestage in Antioch, TN).

Moses Guest was recently voted into the Homegrown Music Networks “Hall Of Fame“. One of only a handful of bands that have been bestowed this coveted award.

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MOUNTAIN GOATS REISSUE OUT JULY 23!

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July 16, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

Merge Records is reissuing The Mountain Goats’ All Hail West Texas on July 23, and the RX will have it on CD and LP!

The last of the “all-home-recordings albums” by the Mountain Goats and the only one about which that claim is true, All Hail West Texas was originally released as a free-standing compact disc on the late, lamented Emperor Jones. That was about a decade ago. The songs were originally transferred from the cassettes onto which they were recorded to 1/4″ reels at Tiny Telephone by Alex Newport, who also played in Fudge Tunnel. John got really excited when he realized his tapes were being EQ’d by the guy from Fudge Tunnel.

Remastered from those reels, along with 7 unearthed songs from the two surviving contemporaneous cassettes, All Hail West Texas stands as the peak of the Mountain Goats’ home recording era, a time people like to refer to as “when John Darnielle had his four-track,” except John did not actually use a four-track. He used the condenser mic of a Panasonic boombox and there was no overdubbing. All songs recorded on the day they were written, usually within minutes of the actual composition. Highlights include “Jenny,” “Fall of the Star High School Running Back,” and “The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton,” a song which has compelled audiences around the globe to yell “Hail Satan,” and to mean it.

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NEW LOVE LANGUAGE OUT JULY 23!

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July 16, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

The Love Language has a new album Ruby Red out July 23 on Merge Records, and the RX will have it on CD and LP!

Completing a triumvirate of spiritual transmissions spent lost (2009’s The Love Language) and found (2010’s Libraries), Ruby Red exorcises the transient brilliance fostered by McLamb within the sheetrock walls of the album’s namesake artist space.

Featuring over twenty musicians and straddling several time zones, McLamb borrowed heavier equipment, and held on to it longer. Initiated in a windowless unit at the fabled Ruby Red, several failed attempts and false starts at a songwriting spree landed McLamb and his engineer/case worker/boxing coach BJ Burton in Black Mountain, North Carolina, consuming every square inch of a carpeted bungalow located a few acres too close to their skittish neighbors.