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NEW DVD/BLU-RAY: ROBERT PLANT AND BAND OF JOY FROM THE ARTISTS DEN!

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July 12, 2012 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

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A rare snowy day in Nashville, Tennessee, set the stage for an even rarer event – an intimate concert by rock icon Robert Plant at the War Memorial Auditorium. Performing with his new, Grammy-nominated group — aptly titled the Band of Joy – Plant played both Led Zeppelin classics and new songs that continue to have an impact on the music scene today.

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ALIVE AFTER FIVE: GET DOWN WITH BLACK JOE LEWIS & THE HONEYBEARS!

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July 11, 2012 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

This week’s Alive After Five headliner: Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears
Go Listen Boise local opener: Bruce Alkire – Frogs of the North

ABOUT BLACK JOE LEWIS AND THE HONEYBEARS

Joe Lewis is stuffed into a van with his six bandmates and one stranger, as they hurtle across Texas to a gig in Marfa. Most of the guys are sleeping now, content in the knowledge they’ve just made the record of their lives. All killer, no filler, the fittingly titled, take
-no-prisoners Scandalous (Lost Highway)—once again produced by Jim Eno, moonlighting from his main gig as Spoon’s drummer—is a churning slab of rock & roll, blues and funk, laced with a double shot of 100-proof punkitude.
This band has gotten tight as a gnat’s ass through nearly two years of barnstorming without a break. “We’ve grown a lot as a band, and so has our fan base,” the lanky, enigmatic Lewis acknowledges. “Hopefully it’s still going up, but it will ultimately be what we make of it. As the shows get bigger and we get bigger, we have to keep improving to meet the demand. If we can’t do that, it won’t go anywhere.” From the look in Joe’s eyes as he glances at the one-stoplight towns and endless open country of central Texas whizzing past, you can tell he knows whereof he speaks.
While on the road, they also eagerly soaked up the worldly knowledge of touring mates the New York Dolls and Cedric Burnside & Lightnin’ Malcolm. “The Dolls covered Bo Diddley and Sonny Boy Williamson, and so do we,” says guitarist Zach Ernst, riding shotgun in the van, as he does in the band. “That youthful, aggressive, unschooled thing is really appealing to us. That’s what we like to listen to and what we’re shooting for. We’ve had some lineup changes since the first record, but at its core, it’s still the same band, and everyone’s excited to move on to the next stage.”
Like his forebears, Lewis writes from direct, often bitter experience with unflinching veracity. The songs of Scandalous are littered with the debris of age-old issues: hard times and one-night stands, lying and cheating, redemption and revenge. Gritty, raunchy and real, his music is not for the squeamish, but experiencing it fully can be genuinely cathartic.
The album opens with the funky fantasia “Livin’ in the Jungle,” as Joe wails with tonsil-shredding abandon over a rhythm section erupting like a tropical storm and horns honking like hyenas in heat. “I’ve always said that if I ever got rich, I would go buy a bunch of land in the Congo or the Amazon, build a nice house and have an Amazon woman to hang out with,” he explains, straight-faced. On the following “I’m Gonna Leave You,” the band sends a jolt of electricity through a Mississippi hill country blues template. “It’s about leavin’ a girl, just gettin’ out while you can, before the shit gets too thick,” he says, punctuating the line with a wicked cackle.
From there, it’s all hands on deck, as one sonic assault after another rips into the eardrums and the pelvis all at once. The instant-classic highway boogie “Mustang Ranch” recounts, in sordid detail, an overnight drive between Salt Lake City and San Francisco, Joe spinning out the narrative as a revved-up talking blues. “It was a long, ridiculous drive, and we got the idea of stopping at the Mustang Ranch,” he recalls. “We were like, ‘Let’s go, man—we got nothin’ better to do.’ So we stopped in there, and it was a really odd experience.” Here, another quick laugh escapes Joe’s lips. “We figured out that we don’t fit brothels that well, and the girls are all fuckin’ busted. But nobody caught anything. Then we left, and we stopped in Reno at six in the morning. It was a freaky experience. We went into a casino and got a cheap breakfast, and all the burnt-out gamblers were walking the town like zombies out there in the early morning. There were even weird lights hovering in the sky. That song’s a true story, pretty much.”
Lewis seems to be channeling Robert Johnson on “Messin’,” which turns on his spooky, low-down vocal and acoustic guitar. “I’m just an old-style blues fan, and I’m tryin’ to do that kind of thing with it,” he says, reeling off the names of his favorite practitioners: Lightnin’ Hopkins, Junior Kimbrough, Elmore James, Howlin’ Wolf and Magic Sam.
The album’s biggest surprise is “You Been Lyin’,” a torrid, politically-themed workout in the tradition of Parliament-Funkadelic and late-’60s Temptations. Featured on this track are the group vocals of the Relatives, a Dallas gospel funk band that made some criminally under-exposed records three decades ago. “They’re like the greatest band ever,” says Joe, “and I’m glad we got them on there, ’cause they made the track really sweet.” Here and elsewhere, you can also pick up the influence of the Stooges, another of Lewis’ touchstones, in the confrontational physicality of the performances. “People call us a soul band, but we’re more of a rock & roll band,” he points out.
“We feel like what we’re doing is different from the soul bands with horn sections that are out there right now,” Ernst adds. “We always joke that we would do that kind of music, but we’re not good enough: our guitars are too loud, we’re too primitive on our instruments, and Joe is more of a shouter and a talking-blues guy than a smooth soul singer. So we’re carving out our own thing because it’s the only way that we can do it. We can’t play it any cleaner or smoother—and we don’t want to, either.”
Growing up in Austin and Round Rock, Joe took it all in—Delta and Chicago blues, Memphis soul, Detroit garage punk—and what came out the other end was, and is, unlike anything else out there. “I don’t know, man—I just kinda dove into it,” Lewis continues. “These neighbors of mine were in this country band and they got to go on tour all the time, and I had to go to work in this stupid factory. I was like, ‘Man, I gotta get in on that.’ So I pulled a guitar down off the wall of a pawn shop where I was workin’ at the time and learned stuff as I went along. The people I was playing with wanted to practice all the time, and I was like, ‘No, man, let’s get out there—I wanna try to do this shit.’ I pretty much learned on stage.”
After years of struggle to get heard, things started moving fast for Lewis after he and Ernst put together the earliest incarnation of Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, naming themselves after a crusted container of honey they found on the floor of their “disgusting” rehearsal room. They went out with Spoon after Britt Daniel caught a set, and their subsequent, Eno-produced EP caught the ear of Lost Highway’s Kim Buie, who signed them to a record deal. Eno then helmed their 2009 debut album for the label, Tell ’Em What Your Name Is!, much of it cut live off the floor. “The album manages to maximize every incendiary second of sonic sexuality the band is putting out,” raved PopMatters’ Christel Loar. “Make no mistake, Lewis knows his history, but he also knows his moment, too, and it’s now. The Honeybears aren’t afraid to mine the past to make music for the future.”
That spot-on assessment goes double now. “We pride ourselves on keepin’ our own style and staying true to the guys we look up to,” says Lewis. “We play the music that we like listening to. It’s always about the music first.”
As night falls, the van pulls into Marfa, the musicians rub the sleep from their eyes and stretch their muscles, which will soon be put to use unloading their gear. This is what they live for—another night blowin’ the roof off a shithole in front of a houseful of boozed-up locals looking for a thrill. For the paying customers, it’s a few hours of sweet relief. For Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, it’s another long day and hot night in the life of a working band—seven hungry guys with their eyes on the far horizon.

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NEW RELEASE TUESDAY 7/10: LISTENING PARTY WITH DIRTY PROJECTORS, FREE PIE HOLE PIZZA, RARE VINYL GIVEAWAY!

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July 10, 2012 - DVD and Blu Ray , Live Shows - by - No Comments

The Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series returns on July 10 with Dirty Projectors‘ new album Swing Lo Magellan! The album will be featured during our weekly listening party at 6 p.m. Enjoy free Pie Hole pizza while you listen to Swing Lo Magellan and enter to win our New Release Tuesday giveaway: an ultra-rare Dirty Projectors 8″x8″ 200-gram square vinyl single (pictured below, right) featuring “The Gun Has No Trigger” and the lyrics etched in Sumerian Cuneiform (the oldest form of writing we know of) on the b-side!

We also have a limited-edition tour-only white-label 7-inch to hand out to the first five people who buy the album (not just at the party, any time of the day) and Dirty Projectors button packs to give away!

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

Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan

Aesop Rock – Skelethon

Woody Guthrie – Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection

Marina and the Diamonds – Electra Heart

Mission of Burma – Unsound

Delicate Steve – Positive Force

Zac Brown Band – Uncaged

Jimi Hendrix – Live at Berkeley

Holograms – Holograms

Duran Duran – Diamond in the Mind

Serj Tankian – Harakiri

P.O.D. – Murdered Love

Staind – Live from Mohegan Sun

Johnny Cash – Greatest Hits: The Sun Recordings

Brendan James – Hope in Transition

Early November – In Currents

Chatham County Line – Sight and Sound

Alice Cooper – Welcome to My Nightmare

English Beat – Keep the Beat: The Very Best Of

Deep Time – Deep Time

Digitalism – DJ-Kicks

The Doors – Waiting for the Sun

Dusty Springfield – Dusty in Memphis

Jerry Lee Lewis – Greatest Hits: The Sun Recordings

Doug Sahm – San Antonio Hipster

Family of the Year – Loma Vista

Vintersorg – Orkan

Hank Williams Jr. – Old School, New Rules

Thick As Blood – Living Proof

Eleni Mandell – I Can See the Future

Glass Cloud – Royal Thousand

VINYL

Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan

Delicate Steve – Positive Force

Diiv – Oshin

Guns N’ Roses – Use Your Illusion I

Guns N’ Roses – Use Your Illusion II

Jimi Hendrix – Live at Berkeley

Xavier Rudd – Spirit Bird

The Sea and Cake – Fawn

Thelonious Monk – Misterioso

Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins – Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins

The Modern Jazz Quartet – Django

Paul Weller – When Your Garden’s Overgrown

Band of Horses – Infinite Arms

Early November – In Currents

Yes – Open Your Eyes

The Jeff Beck Group – The Jeff Beck Group

DVD/BLU-RAY

Robert Plant and the Band of Joy – Live from the Artists Den DVD and Blu-ray

Jimi Hendrix – Jimi Plays Berkeley DVD and Blu-ray

Jimi Hendrix – Voodoo Child Blu-ray

Muddy Waters and the Rolling Stones – Live at the Checkerboard Lounge DVD and Blu-ray

Duran Duran – Diamond in the Mind DVD and Blu-ray

Adventure Time Season 1 DVD

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NEW RELEASE TUESDAY 7/3: THE LIST OF THIS WEEK'S ARRIVALS; NEXT LISTENING PARTY JULY 10 WITH DIRTY PROJECTORS!

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The Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series is taking a break for the holiday on July 3 but will return on July 10 with Dirty Projectors‘ new album Swing Lo Magellan! The album will be featured during our weekly listening party at 6 p.m. Enjoy free Pie Hole pizza while you listen to Swing Lo Magellan and enter to win our New Release Tuesday giveaway: an ultra-rare Dirty Projectors 8″x8″ 200-gram square vinyl single featuring “The Gun Has No Trigger” and the lyrics etched in Sumerian Cuneiform (the oldest form of writing we know of) on the b-side!

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

Nile – At the Gate of Sethu

Flo Rida – Wild Ones

Chris Brown – Fortune (deluxe edition also available)

Asia – XXX (deluxe edition also available)

Wolves at the Gate – Captors

Keller Williams – Pick

Gold Motel – Gold Motel

The Small Faces – Ogden’s Nut Gone Fluke

Teenage Bottlerocket – Freak Out!

Rick Estrin and the Nightcats – One Wrong Turn

Stevie Jackson (Belle & Sebastian) – (I Can’t Get No) Stevie Jackson

Abandon All Ships – Infamous

Doug Benson – Smug Life

Jellyfish – Live at Bogart’s 1991

Prodigy of Mobb Deep – H.N.I.C. 3 (deluxe edition also available)

Tha Dogg Pound – Doggy Bag

Christian Death – Death Box

James Luther Dickinson and North Mississippi Allstars – I’m Just Dead, I’m Not Gone

Mum – Early Birds

Cradle of Filth – Dusk and Her Embrace

Lonesome River Band – Chronology Vol. 2

Chrome Waves – Chrome Waves

Neptune Towers – Caravans to Empire Algol

Word Alive – Life Cycles

Periphery – Periphery II

Marillion – Best.Live

Deathspell Omega – Drought

Miseration – Tragedy Has Spoken

C-Bo – Orca

Bonded By Blood – Aftermath

Soundtrack – The Amazing Spider-Man

VINYL

Animal Collective – Honeycomb/Gotham

Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart (picture disc)

Big K.R.I.T. – Live from the Underground

Teenage Bottlerocket – Freak Out!

The Jeff Beck Group – The Jeff Beck Group

Kreator – Phantom Antichrist

Five Americans – I See the Light

Plant and See – Plant and See

DVD/BLU-RAY

The Grateful Dead Movie DVD

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ALIVE AFTER FIVE: GET DOWN TO ANDY FRASCO AND THE U.N.'S PARTY BLUES!

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This week’s Alive After Five headliner: Andy Frasco and the U.N.
Go Listen Boise local opener: Dedicated Servers

ABOUT ANDY FRASCO AND THE U.N.

Andy Frasco, a 23-year-old blues/jazz musician hailing from the San Fernando Valley in Southern California, is nothing short of an enigma. Influenced by Damien Rice, Sam Cooke, Professor Longhair, Van Morrison and Tom Waits, Frasco’s style is as uninhibited as those artists who inspire him. Let’s call it Party Blues.

Within the past three years alone, Frasco has trekked over 120,000 miles, performed over 700 shows spanning over 6 countries. Frasco’s journey, however, is just beginning. This revolutionary is on a mission to alter the music business as we know it.

Frasco’s a rarity in the music business: one who is an industry “insider” and a talented musician. This unparalleled insight is due, in part, to his days of managing and promoting bands when he was 16 years old. He’s booked bands like HelloGoodbye, and worked with labels and venues such as Drive Thru, Atlantic Records and The Key Club in Hollywood.

What’s more, Frasco does not come from a musical background. His family played no instruments, and it wasn’t until the age of 17 that Frasco met his soul mate: the piano. At 19 years old, Frasco traveled to New York to work with friend and colleague Jordan Stilwell, producing his first album Growth and Progress. From there, Frasco toured the country with VH1’s Save the Music Foundation, raising money for Music Education in the Public Schools.

Yet 220 shows in 360 days through 33 states that he personally booked on the Save the Music Tour wasn’t enough for this young prodigy. Frasco headed back to Los Angeles to form his own band and produce his third and current album, Love, You’re Just Too Expensive. Frasco continues to prove that he is a dynamic force with which to be reckoned, as listeners marvel at his talent and soulful performances wherever he goes.

Andy Frasco has jammed with artists such as Leon Russell, Galactic, Jakob Dylan, Pretty Lights, Butch Walker, The Flobots, Spill Canvas, Suburban Legends, Nural, Tyler Hilton, & John Mayer.

In 2011 alone, Frasco received musician of the year at showcases such as Sundance Film Festival, HatchFest, Orion’s Music Festival and the European Independent Film Festival.

Frasco may just be the “Second Coming” of blues music for this emerging generation, changing the course of mainstream music in a blazing path of glory that will someday take him home.

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