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VINYL TUESDAY: NEW RELEASES FROM YOUTH LAGOON AND THE MACCABEES!

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September 21, 2015 - The Record Exchange Blog , The Vinyl Word - by - No Comments

It’s Vinyl Tuesday! Record Exchange customers receive up to $5 in used vinyl* with every $25 in new vinyl purchased and have access to early and exclusive releases. This week’s releases:

YOUTH LAGOON – Savage Hills Ballroom
Often perceived as a recluse (his first LP is called The Year of Hibernation, after all), on Savage Hills Ballroom Trevor Powers has fully opened himself to the world for the first time ever. The 10-track collection is his most ambitious, unguarded work to date, recorded in Bristol, UK and co-produced/mixed/engineered by Ali Chant (PJ Harvey, Gravenhurst).

While touring on his last record, 2013’s Wondrous Bughouse, Powers got a call that one of his closest friends had unexpectedly passed away, forcing him to cancel the rest of the tour and head back to Idaho. He says, “That experience made me start viewing Youth Lagoon differently – it was a complete refocus for me.”

This sense of gilded rebirth floods the instrumentation on Savage Hills Ballroom – Power’s vocals are largely unadorned and his pop-conscious electronics reach new feats of precision. Meanwhile the lyrics explore darker territory.

THE MACCABEES – Marks To Prove It
The brand new album from The Maccabees is coming out on vinyl only at indie records stores! (U.S. CD is coming 9/25.) Marks to Prove It, which went No. 1 when the album was released in the UK earlier this year, is “a record of gritty intimacy,” according to Drowned in Sound.

ABOUT VINYL TUESDAY

With the move to a global Friday street date in July, Vinyl Tuesday was established to celebrate music in physical form and give record store customers access to early and exclusive releases. For artists, it’s a chance to showcase special releases on a special day and not get lost on the increasingly crowded Friday/weekend.

* Must be redeemed at time of purchase. Offer valid during regular business hours (10am-9pm) on Tuesdays only. The Record Exchange will not issue store credit for any unused portion of the Vinyl Tuesday used vinyl bonus.

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YOUTH LAGOON LIVE AT THE RECORD EXCHANGE SEPT 18; GUARANTEED-ADMISSION WRISTBAND WITH ‘SAVAGE HILLS BALLROOM’ PREORDER – GET THE ALBUM BEFORE RELEASE DATE!

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September 17, 2015 - Live Shows , Live@RX , The Record Exchange Blog , The Vinyl Word - by - No Comments

YT_2400x2400_grandeYouth Lagoon will perform live at The Record Exchange (1105 W. Idaho St. in Downtown Boise) at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18. This special performance is in celebration of Youth Lagoon’s new album Savage Hills Ballroom (out Sept. 22 on limited-edition gold vinyl and Sept. 25 on CD), and fans will have the opportunity to purchase the album before its official release date for one day only on Sept. 18! This is a LIMITED-CAPACITY EVENT. As always, this Record Exchange in-store event is free and all ages.

VIP wristbands guaranteeing admission to the in-store are now available with preorder of Savage Hills Ballroom. If we sell out of wristbands, you can still purchase the album on Sept. 18 before or after the performance (9am-9pm).

ABOUT YOUTH LAGOON AND ‘SAVAGE HILLS BALLROOM’

Youth Lagoon – aka Boise native Trevor Powers – is releasing his third album, Savage Hills Ballroom, on Sept. 25 via Fat Possum Records (limited-edition gold vinyl comes out on Vinyl Tuesday, Sept. 22). Often perceived as a recluse (his first LP is called The Year of Hibernation, after all), on Savage Hills Ballroom Powers has fully opened himself to the world for the first time ever. The 10-track collection is his most ambitious, unguarded work to date, recorded in Bristol, UK and co-produced/mixed/engineered by Ali Chant (PJ Harvey, Gravenhurst).

While touring on his last record, 2013’s Wondrous Bughouse, Powers got a call that one of his closest friends had unexpectedly passed away, forcing him to cancel the rest of the tour and head back to Idaho. He says, “That experience made me start viewing Youth Lagoon differently – it was a complete refocus for me.”

This sense of gilded rebirth floods the instrumentation on Savage Hills Ballroom – Power’s vocals are largely unadorned and his pop-conscious electronics reach new feats of precision. Meanwhile the lyrics explore darker territory. “Kerry” is the story of Powers’ revered uncle whose drug addiction led him to running from the law for most of his adult life, while “Highway Patrol Stun Gun” imagines Biblical end-times through the lens of the recent cases of police brutality.

NPR called Wondrous Bughouse “the most arresting headphones record you’ll hear all year,” but on Savage Hills Ballroom Powers has taken off the cans and made a record meant to communicate, rather than shut out. “I think I’ve had a lot of barriers in my life in general that I don’t let people past, and I’ve gotten really sick of all that,” he explains, “It’s too tiring trying to pretend you don’t have as many flaws as everyone else.”

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VINYL TUESDAY: FAITH NO MORE REISSUES, AGAINST ME!, DAPTONE GOLD, ASHLEY MONROE, SINEAD O’CONNOR, ALVIN BROS AND MORE!

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September 15, 2015 - The Record Exchange Blog , The Vinyl Word - by - No Comments

vinyl tuesday 9.15.15It’s Vinyl Tuesday! Record Exchange customers receive up to $5 in used vinyl* with every $25 in new vinyl purchased and have access to early and exclusive releases. This week’s releases:

VARIOUS ARTISTS – Daptone Gold Vol. 2
DAPTONE DOES IT AGAIN! 21 tracks featuring 45-only, unrelease, and bonafide modern classics by Daptone’s elite roster of stars, including: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Charles Bradley, Naomi Shelton, The Budos Band, Antibalas and more! Deluxe 2xLP includes extensive linernotes by WFMU’s Mr. Fine Wine, full-size Daptone logo iron-on, 32″ x 27″ double-sided poster and download card.

ASHLEY MONROE – The Blade
The Blade, Ashley Monroe’s second Warner Bros. album, is one of the year’s most anticipated country records. The album was again produced by close friends Vince Gill and Justin Niebank, who helmed Monroe’s Warner Music Nashville’s debut, Like A Rose, one of 2013’s most celebrated releases. “I think every song on this record has an edge of some sort,” Monroe told People. “It cuts. That’s why I thought The Blade was a perfect title. Born in East Tennessee, Monroe has collaborated with countless artists and musicians, being a member of the Pistol Annies with Miranda Lambert, and recently earning her first No. 1 song at Country radio for “Lonely Tonight,” a duet with label-mate Blake Shelton, which earned the pair a CMT Music Award nomination for Collaborative Video of the Year.

HAPPY MONDAYS – Pills, Thrills N Bellyaches
180g yellow vinyl reissue on the 25th anniversary of its release.

FAITH NO MORE – Angel Dust
Two-LP set that includes the original release accompanied by a second LP filled with rarities related to the album. Among the nine tracks featured on the bonus disc is a mix of “Midlife Crisis” by the band’s longtime producer Matt Wallace, a trio of live recordings from a concert in Munich, Germany, as well as covers of the Dead Kennedys’ “Let’s Lynch the Landlord” and the band’s unforgettable take on the Commodores’ “Easy.”

FAITH NO MORE – The Real Thing
Two-LP set that includes the original release accompanied by a second LP filled with rarities related to the album.

AGAINST ME! – New Wave
Reissue of the 2007 major label debut of one of the most controversial modern day rock acts. Features the singles ”Stop” and ”Thrash Unreal.” Produced by Butch Vig. Split black/yellow 150 gram vinyl w/ insert, limited to 1,800.

FRANZ NICOLAY/FRANK TURNER – Sing Noel Coward
Frank Turner and Franz Nicolay (of Against Me!, World Inferno/Friendship Society, the Hold Steady) cover songs by the English playwright/composer/singer Sir Noel Peirce Coward. Black vinyl 7”, limited to 1,000. Tracklisting: A. Franz Nicolay – “Sail Away” B. Frank Turner – “There are Bad Times Just Around the Corner”

ALPINE – Yuck
The vinyl release of their latest album.

SINEAD O’CONNOR – I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got
180g vinyl reissue of Sinéad O’Connor’s popular sophomore breakthrough.

DAVE ALVIN & PHIL ALVIN – Lost Time
The newest album from the Alvin Brothers. Over Lost Time’s twelve tracks, Dave and Phil pay homage to a number of artists and songs that had an early, formative influence, in Dave’s words “the masters of the Blues, the most transcendental form of American music.” Everyone from Lead Belly to James Brown is represented, but the figure who looms largest on the album, and in the brothers’ own musical journey, is Big Joe Turner. The Alvins met Big Joe as teenagers, and he would mentor them for the remainder of his life.

ABOUT VINYL TUESDAY

With the move to a global Friday street date in July, Vinyl Tuesday was established to celebrate music in physical form and give record store customers access to early and exclusive releases. For artists, it’s a chance to showcase special releases on a special day and not get lost on the increasingly crowded Friday/weekend.

* Must be redeemed at time of purchase. Offer valid during regular business hours (10am-9pm) on Tuesdays only. The Record Exchange will not issue store credit for any unused portion of the Vinyl Tuesday used vinyl bonus.

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NEW RELEASE FRIDAY: GARY CLARK JR., DURAN DURAN, SLAYER, BEIRUT, BEN FOLDS, LOW AND CIRCE (SIGUR ROS)

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September 11, 2015 - The Record Exchange Blog , The Vinyl Word - by - No Comments

new release friday 9.11.15Here’s a quick look at the bright and shiny new releases this week at The Record Exchange:

CD

Gary Clark Jr. – The Story of Sonny Boy Slim

Duran Duran – Paper Gods (deluxe edition available)

Slayer – Repentless (three versions available)

Beirut – No No No

Circe (Sigur Ros) – Circe

Shannon and the Clams – Gone by the Dawn

Ben Folds – So There

Bring Me the Horizon – That’s the Spirit

Hollywood Vampires – Hollywood Vampires

Jewel – Picking Up the Pieces

Low – Ones and Sixes

Craig Finn – Faith in the Future

Scorpions – Return to Forever

California Honeydrops – A River’s Invitation

Jess Glynne – I Cry When I Laugh

Paris – Pistol Politics

The Libertines – Anthems for Doomed Youth

Brett Eldredge – Illinois

John Mark Nelson – I’m Not Afraid

Empress Of – Me

Chick Corea and Bela Fleck – Two

Santana and McLaughlin – Invitation to Illumination: Live at Montreux 2011

Phil Cook – Southland Mission

Stereophonics – Keep the Village Alive (deluxe edition available)

Nero – Between Two Worlds

Leona Lewis – I Am (deluxe edition available)

The Legendary Shack Shakers – Southern Surreal

Guilty Simpson – Detroit’s Son

Superhumanoids – Do You Feel Ok?

Shemekia Copeland – Outskirts of Love

Micachu and the Shapes – Good Sad Happy Bad

Nils Frahm – Late Night Tales

Paul Hardcastle – 19 (the 30th Anniversary Mixes)

Plainsong – Reinventing Richard: The Songs of Richard Farina

Emerson Lake and Palmer – Live at Montreux 1997

Pat Metheny, Jan Garbarek and Gary Burton – Hommage a Eberhard Weber

John Pizzarelli – Midnight McCartney

VINYL

Gary Clark Jr. – The Story of Sonny Boy Slim

Beirut – No No No

Slayer – Replentless

Circe (Sigur Ros) – Circe

Bring Me the Horizon – That’s the Spirit

Civil Twilight – Story of An Immigrant

Empress Of – Me

Duran Duran – Paper Gods

Buddy Guy – Born to Play Guitar

London Symphony Orchestra – Tommy Soundtrack

DMX – The Great Depression

Micachu and the Shapes – Good Sad Happy Bad

Scale The Summit – The Migration (Blue)

Vince Guaraldi – Peanuts Greatest Hits

Little Richard – Greatest Hits

Stereophonics – Keep the Village Alive

Scorpions – Return to Forever

Elohim – She Talks Too Much

Hidden Charms – Dreaming Of Another Girl

Miynt – Civil War

Powers – Dreaming Of Another Girl

Aquilo – Calling Me

Beach Baby – No Mind No Money

DVD/BLU-RAY

Jeff Lynne – Live in Hyde Park DVD and Blu-ray

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DURAN DURAN ‘PAPER GODS’ LISTENING PARTY SEPT. 10 – WIN AN ULTRA-RARE DURAN DURAN TURNTABLE AND LP!

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September 10, 2015 - The Record Exchange Blog , The Vinyl Word - by - No Comments

418456749217image002The Record Exchange is celebrating the release of Duran Duran‘s new album Paper Gods with a listening party at 6pm Thursday, Sept 10. Paper Gods will available for purchase on CD, deluxe CD and vinyl Friday, Sept. 11, and we’ll have limited-edition signed postcards and posters with preorders at the listening party, plus you’ll have a chance at winning a Duran Duran turntable and Paper Gods vinyl test pressing!

How many bands can you think of that, decades into their career, are still capable of springing surprises, of blazing fresh trails, creating new music that is up there with the imperishable songs that first propelled them to fame, fortune and critical acclaim? On Sept. 11, Duran Duran will cement their place in that illustrious grouping with a new studio album – their 14th, no less – that burnishes their role in the story of pop, and puts the many young pretenders whose music they have influenced firmly in their place. As part of a major new recording deal with Warner Bros. Records, Paper Gods starts the next chapter in the history of the band, with a host of A-list collaborators – including Nile Rodgers, Mark Ronson, Mr Hudson, Janelle Monáe, John Frusciante, Kiesza and Davide Rossi – joining the party.

 

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