Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2012 Staff Picks!
Take a gander at Ian‘s list:
KENDRICK LAMAR
Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City
DEATH GRIPS
The Money Store
SOAP AND SKIN
Narrow
CURTIS STIGERS
Let’s Go Out Tonight
NAS
Life is Good
FRANK OCEAN
Channel Orange
BEACH HOUSE
Bloom
KILLER MIKE
R.A.P. Music
LAUREL HALO
Quarantine
HOW TO DRESS WELL
Total Loss
VIEW MORE 2012 STAFF PICKS LISTS HERE.
Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2012 Staff Picks!
Take a gander at Esti‘s list:
TY SEGALL AND WHITE FENCE
Hair
PURITY RING
Shrines
GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR
Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
CHROMATICS
Kill for Love
BLACK MARBLE
A Different Arrangement
MAC DEMARCO
2
DIIV
Oshin
TRUST
TRST
GRIMES
Visions
THEE OH SEES
Putrifiers II
The Record Exchange annual Bonus Club Sale will be held on Monday, Dec. 3, and we’re gearing up to party like never before.
As a thank you to our customers for supporting Idaho’s largest independent record store, The Record Exchange is offering 25% OFF STOREWIDE DURING THE PARTY (5 TO 9 P.M.) AND 20% OFF STOREWIDE DURING THE DAY (9 A.M. TO 5 P.M.).
And that’s just the start. To enhance your holiday shopping experience, the evening festivities also will include:
• FREE CRAFT BEER FROM PAYETTE BREWING CO. We’ll have a keg of delicious, Boise-brewed craft beer from our new partner Payette Brewing Co., and you’ll get to drink some for free (provided you’re 21 or older and show us a valid I.D.).
• ARCHIE’S PLACE. We’ll have Archie’s vegan chili and beef stew for sale!
• GIVEAWAYS
• RAFFLE PRIZES
• EMCEED BY 94.9 FM THE RIVER’S TIM JOHNSTONE
In addition to housing Boise’s Biggest and Best Gift Shop, this season The Record Exchange has dozens of new Record Store Day Black Friday exclusives, plus hundreds of new CDs under 10 bucks, including 60 hand-picked Give the Gift of Music titles!
If you’re not already a member of the RX Bonus Club, you can sign up at the Bonus Club Party and start saving! As a Bonus Club member, you get $10 in store credit every time you accrue $120 in store purchases.
If you want to sign up for the RX Bonus Club prior to the sale, visit The Record Exchange and ask a clerk for a free membership form!
The Record Exchange will host a special IdaHo Ho Ho with Moxie Java benefit album release in-store at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27. As always, this Record Exchange in-store performance is free and all ages.
Once again, Moxie Java and Idaho musicians have combined efforts to support the Idaho Foodbank with the third volume of IdaHo Ho Ho with Moxie Java, another holiday celebration with music from 13 Idaho artists.
The CD will be available at The Record Exchange during the in-store, which will feature artists from the album performing their holiday tunes live on the RX stage!
Scheduled to perform are:
Steve Fulton
Andy Byron
Ophelia
Willison Roos
Scott Riggan
The limited-edition CD will be available at the Record Exchange and participating Moxie Java locations throughout the Treasure Valley for $15, with all profits going directly to help fund the efforts of the Idaho Foodbank – the largest distributor of free emergency food in the state. Since 1984, the Idaho Foodbank has provided 100 million pounds of food to a network of more than 200 hunger-relief partners.
TRACK LIST
1. Carole King – “Carol Of The Bells”
2. New Transit with Todd Sloan – “Satisfy My Heart (Christmas For Beginners)”
3. Ben Darwish & Shook Twins – “Carol Of The Drum”
4. Ryan Bayne – “Go Tell It On The Mountain”
5. Scott Riggan & Jamie Thietten – “Come To Us (O Little Town)”
6. Ophelia – “This Mistletoe (The Bum, Bum, Bum Song)”
7. Micky & The Motorcars – “Odessa Snow”
8. Andy Byron & The Lost River Band – “Christmas Time Again”
9. James Orr – “Auld Lang Syne”
10. Todd Dunnigan – “One For The Angels”
11. Willison Roos – “All I Want Tonight (Christmas In Boise)”
12. Fiona Luray – “For All Eternity”
13. Steve Fulton – “Merry Wishes”
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The name says it all: Give the Gift of Music. Our annual $9.99 holiday CD sale is back, and a top-drawer coalition of record store people across the country (including The Record Exchange) hand-picked 60 titles for your holiday gift-giving and personal pleasure.
Starting Black Friday and continuing through Dec. 31, the following CDs are sale-priced at $9.99 each. See, 10 bucks still does go a long way.
GIVE THE GIFT OF MUSIC TITLES
Jack White – Blunderbuss
The Shins – Port Of Morrow
Bob Dylan – Tempest
Dave Matthews Band – Away From The World
Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Americana
Shinedown – Amarylis
The Lumineers – The Lumineers
Shovels and Rope – O Be Joyful
Grizzly Bear – Shields
Fun. – Some Nights
Gary Clark Jr. – Blak And Blu
Tame Impala – Lonerism
Passion Pit – Gossamer
The Head and the Heart – The Head and the Heart
Beach House – Bloom
Father John Misty – Fear Fun
Willie Nelson – Heroes
Rodriguez – Searching For Sugar Man
Rage Against The Machine – Rage Against The Machine XX
Coheed and Cambria – The Afterman: Ascension
Kaki King – Glow
Lavender Diamond – Incorrupitble Heart
Ozomatli – Ozomatli Presents Ozokidz
Mike Doughty – The Flip Is Another Honey
Miggs – 15th & Hope
The Heavy – The Glorious Dead
The Heavy – The House That Dirt Built
Grouplove – Never Trust A Happy Song
Redd Kross – Researching the Blues
Angus Stone – Broken Brights
Be Good Tanyas – A Collection
Julia Stone – By the Horns
Brother Ali – Mourning in America & Dreaming
P.O.S. – We Don’t Even Live Here
Aesop Rock – Skelethon
The Mynabirds – Generals
Icky Blossoms – Icky Blossoms
Title Fight – Floral Green
Xavier Rudd – Spirit Bird
Eric Bibb and Habib Koite – Brothers in Bamako
Various Artists – First Came Memphis Minnie
King Tuff – King Tuff
The Tallest Man on Earth – There’s No Leaving Now
Bloc Party – Four
Local Natives – Gorilla Manor
Steve Forbert – Over With You
Rhett Miller – The Dreamer
Raveonettes – Observator
Turbonegro – Sexual Harassment
Black Angels – Phosphene Dream
Bad Brains – Bad Brains
Dead Can Dance – Anastasis