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August 1, 2012 - The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

This week’s Alive After Five headliner: The Infamous Stringdusters
Go Listen Boise local opener: Willison Roos

ABOUT THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS

The Infamous Stringdusters are at the forefront of a new movement in bluegrass music. Their unmatched virtuosity has enabled them to take acoustic music to a completely new level. They wield an expansive repertoire touching on masters from Jimmy Martin to John Hartford, but their strength lies in their original compositions.

Dedication to arrangements sets them apart, and extended improvisation makes every performance completely unique. The live Stringdusters experience is anti-formulaic, groove friendly, and mind‐expanding ‐ not your granddaddy’s bluegrass. Unless your granddaddy was Jerry Garcia.

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NEW RELEASE TUESDAY 7/31: LISTENING PARTY WITH TOADIES, NICKI BLUHM IN-STORE, FREE PIE HOLE PIZZA & MORE!

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July 31, 2012 - DVD and Blu Ray , Live Shows , Live@RX - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

The Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series continues on July 31 with Toadies‘ new album Play.Rock.Music! The album will be featured during our weekly listening party following a special New Release Tuesday in-store with Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers at 6 p.m. Enjoy free Pie Hole pizza while you listen to Nicki Bluhm and Play.Rock.Music 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 new Radio Boise Tuesdays series at Neurolux is quickly becoming a new favorite on the music scene. The weekly series 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

Joshua Radin – Underwater

Joss Stone – Soul Sessions Vol. 2 (deluxe edition also available)

Toadies – Play.Rock.Music

Bjork – Biophilia Remix Series (multiple CDs available individually)

Frank Zappa – Various Reissues

Blur – Various Reissues (with bonus discs of extra material)

Bob Marley and the Wailers – In Dub Vol. 1

Phish – Chicago ’94

Testament – Dark Roots of Earth (deluxe edition also available)

Nachtmystium – Silencing Machine

Gloriana – Thousand Miles Left Behind

Locust – Molecular Genetics from the Gold Standard Labs

Joey and Rory – His and Hers

Gaelic Storm – Chicken Boxer

Grateful Dead – Dick’s Picks Vol. 29 (5/19/77 Atlanta, Georgia, and 5/21/77 Lakeland, Florida)

Neil Diamond – Hot August Night 40th Anniversary Edition

Polar Bear Club – Live from the Montage Music Hall

High on Fire – Art of Self Defense

Rick Ross – God Forgives, I Don’t (deluxe edition also available)

Shovels and Rope – O’ Be Joyful

Reel Big Fish – Candy Coated Fury

Necro – Murder Murder Kill Kill

Old 97’s – Drag It Up Deluxe Edition

Jesse Harris – Sub Rosa

Cradle of Filth – The Principle of Evil Made Flesh

Cradle of Filth – V Empire (Or Dark Faerytales on Phallustein)

Germs – Media Blitz

Charles Mingus – The Complete Album Collection

Thelonious Monk – The Complete Thelonious Monk Quartet Studio Recordings

Christian Scott – Christian Atunde Adjuah

Various Artists – Johnny Cash Music Festival

Jackyl – Best in Show

Heptones – Good Vibes

Allen Stone – Allen Stone

Various Artists – Sparkle Soundtrack

Pitbull – I Am Armando

Randy Crawford and Joe Sample – Live

Mike Jones – Greatest Hits and Dirty Dubstep Remixes

Company Band – Pros and Cons

Glen Campbell – Live Anthology 1972-2011

Beth Hart – 37 Days

Beth Hart – My California

John Abercrombie Quartet – Within a Song

Marillion – This Strange Engine

Nona Hendryx – Mutatis Mutandis

Charm City Devils – Sins

River City Tanlines – Coast to Coast

Ponderosa – Pool Party

Elvis Presley – I Am an Elvis Fan

VINYL

Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan

Regina Spektor – What We Saw from the Cheap Seats

Bjork – Biophilia Remix Series (multiple 12-inches available individually)

Blur – Various Reissues

Old 97’s – Various Reissues

The Beach Boys – That’s Why God Made the Radio

The Smiths – Hatful of Hollow

Bob Marley and the Wailers – In Dub Vol. 1

Devo – Total Devo

Jimmy Cliff – Rebirth

Nachtmystium – Silencing Machine

Major Lazer – Get Free

Smile – Flash in the Night

3 Inches of Blood – Love Live Heavy Metal

Tangerine Dream – Live Miles

The Bamboos – Medicine Man

Darkest Hour – Eternal Return

DVD/BLU-RAY

Gojira – Flesh Alive DVD

Johnny Cash Music Festival DVD

King Crimson – Live in Argentina 1994 DVD

Marillion – Somewhere in London DVD

Date Night Blu-ray

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ASCETIC JUNKIES IN-STORE JULY 25; TREEFORT FAVS RETURN TO THE RX!

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July 25, 2012 - Live Shows , Live@RX - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

Treefort Music Fest favorites The Ascetic Junkies will perform live at The Record Exchange (1105 W. Idaho St., Downtown Boise) at 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 25. As always, this Record Exchange in-store performance is free and all ages. The band is performing a full set at Flying M Coffeegarage in Nampa later that evening!

Back in March, The Ascetic Junkies performed a memorable Secret Treefort In-store at the RX, and we’re excited to welcome them back to the store!

ABOUT THE ASCETIC JUNKIES

The Ascetic Junkies are a pop band with more than a passing interest in Americana, noise and psychedelic song structure quirks. Hailing from Portland, Oregon, they’ve been inciting audiences to dance and sweat all over the West Coast and beyond since 2008. The band has its roots in a merging of rock and bluegrass, but after self-releasing an album in 2008, they started indulging in the pop/Americana/indie realm. Since then, they’ve constantly evolved their sonic palette without losing the core focus of their sound, which has been made easier by the distinct sound of their dual-lead-vocal center. Kali and Matt write the songs, and Cole and Stephen help take them and twist them into something unique, fun, and shape-shifting. They have gathered fond comparisons within the pop world as diverse as The Avett Brothers, The New Pornographers and The Dirty Projectors.

Through the last four years, the Ascetic Junkies have self-released two albums and seen a third released on Portland indie label Timber Carnival Records, toured often all over the Northwest, West Coast and Northeast and had the pleasure of sharing the stage with such national acts as Nicole Atkins, Warpaint, Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside and Asobi Seksu. In 2011, their received several honors on their home turf, including having tracks featured on the prestigious PDX Pop Now! compilation and Tender Loving Empire’s “Friends and Friends of Friends Vol. 4,” and having a self-produced music video highlighted and screened at NW Film Fest.

2012 finds the band planning to tour more than ever, recording a lot of new electrified material that intentionally sits on the border between “really catchy” and “pretty weird” and taking in the sights while driving back and forth across the country to bring their tunes to fans in towns big and small.

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ALIVE AFTER FIVE: FUNK IT UP WITH BILLY FRANKLIN'S NOLA LIVE!

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July 25, 2012 - The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

This week’s Alive After Five headliner: Billy Franklin’s NOLA Live
Go Listen Boise local opener: Nino Lobos

ABOUT BILLY FRANKLIN’S NOLA LIVE

Billy Franklin (leader of New Orleans’ based band E.O.E) has begun to play more and more under his own name over the last few of years. “It is just a way to branch out,” says Franklin, “to take every opportunity that comes my way and explore different styles and play with more people.” Billy Franklin’s NOLA Live is collection of his favorite musicians from New Orleans, and audience members can expect a heavy dose of New Orleans influenced funk, reggae, and world music in addition to some of the material Franklin has become know for with E.O.E. Franklin brings with him a wealth of talent from the Big Easy, including Doug Dietrich on bass (Karl Denson, Big Sam’s Funky Nation), Michael Jenner on saxophone (Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes) and Gabriel Velasco on drums and percussion (E.O.E).

Billy Franklin has a long history in New Orleans, including having been schooled at the nationally acclaimed New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts during high school (other graduates include Wynton Marsalis, Harry Connick Jr. and Terrence Blanchard) and then receiving his degree in Jazz Performance from the University of New Orleans under the direction of Ellis Marsalis. In 2010, he was named “Best Emerging Artist” at the Best of New Orleans Awards. He has also won six Best of New Orleans of Awards with his band E.O.E, which he started in 2004. If the name sounds familiar, it is probably because Franklin has toured over 150,000 miles since Hurricane Katrina, both with E.O.E and the Boulder, Colo., based group Holden Young Trio, for which he was a founding member. His prolific guitar work and subtle yet poignant vocals are a must see for anyone interested in seeing New Orleans musicianship and songwriting at its best.

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NEW RELEASE TUESDAY 7/24: LISTENING PARTY WITH PASSION PIT, FREE PIE HOLE PIZZA, KRBX CARD DEALS, RAFFLE!

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July 23, 2012 - The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - 1 Comment

The Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series continues on July 24 with Passion Pit‘s new album Gossamer! The album will be featured during our weekly listening party at 6 p.m. Enjoy free Pie Hole pizza while you listen to Gossamer and enter to win our New Release Tuesday raffle prize!

We also have a limited number of 7-inches to give away with purchase of Gossamer!

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 new Radio Boise Tuesdays series at Neurolux is quickly becoming a new favorite on the music scene. The weekly series 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

The Gaslight Anthem – Handwritten (deluxe edition also available)

Passion Pit – Gossamer

Rodriguez – Searching for Sugar Man soundtrack

Purity Ring – Shrines

Slipknot – Antennas to Hell (deluxe edition also available)

Sugar – Copper Blue/Beaster

Sugar – File Under: Easy Listening

The Alchemist – Russian Roulette

Love & Theft – Love & Theft

Of Mice and Men – Flood: Delux Reissue

Om – Advaitic Songs

Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Now Here’s My Plan

Fang Island – Major

Blood Red Shoes – In Time to Voices

Jennifer Lopez – Dance Again: The Hits (deluxe edition also available)

Etta James – Live at Montreaux 1975-93

Booker T. and the MG’s – Green Onions

Foals – Tapes

Various Artists – Keb Darge and Little Edith’s Legendary Wild Rockers, Vol. 2

Shawn Lee – Synthesizers in Space

Laetitia Sadier – Silencio

Three Mile Pilot – Maps

Dark Time Sunshine – Anx

VINYL

The Gaslight Anthem – Handwritten

Passion Pit – Gossamer

Purity Ring – Shrines

Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Americana

John Lee Hooker – That’s My Story

Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Now Here’s My Plan

Pantera – Various Reissues

Sugar – Copper Blue/Beaster

Sugar – File Under: Easy Listening

Blood Diamonds – Phone Sex

Om – Advaitic Songs

Sara Watkins – Sun Midnight Sun

Laetitia Sadier – Silencio

Micachu and the Shapes – Never

Wax Tailor – Heart Stop

Black Twig Pickers – Whompyjawed

Tnght – Tnght

DVD/BLU-RAY

Big Easy Express Blu-ray

Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Americana Blu-ray

Peter Gabriel – Secret World Live DVD and Blu-ray

The Beatles – Their Golden Age DVD

Marilyn Manson – Fear of a Satanic Planet Special Edition DVD

Keith Richards, Jack Bruce, Phil Manzanera – One Night in Spain DVD

Alice Donut – Freaks in Love DVD

Charlie Hunter – Solos: The Jazz Sessions DVD

The Mask Blu-ray

The Shining Blu-ray

Cool Hand Luke Blu-ray

Johnny Winter – Live from Japan DVD

Appaloosa Blu-ray

Children’s Hospital Season 3 DVD

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