The Record Exchange has had a long-time crush on Sub Pop, so naturally we were blushing with excitement when we heard about the Sub Pop Tops Black Friday Flash Sale.
The RX is teaming with Sub Pop to give you special $9.99 Black Friday weekend (the whole weekend, not just Friday) sale prices on the following top-selling Sub Pop 2011 CDs:
Washed Out – Within and Without
Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
The Head and the Heart – The Head and the Heart
Leading up to our final day of bidding on Dec. 3 at the Radio Boise Practice New Year’s Eve Party, The Record Exchange is showcasing the artists who donated their talents to the sixth annual MUNNY Silent Auction Fundraiser. Featured in this post is Grant Olsen.
CURRENT BID: $40
BID ON THIS MUNNY HERE
ABOUT THE ARTIST
I make things from wool and other animal fibers as well as found objects. I also paint and print and have done a number of public works for the city of Boise and have been included in gallery shows throughout the United States. In 2003, I won a Fellowship Award from the Idaho Commission on the Arts. I also volunteer teaching English and sewing to refugees and I love fostering dogs from the Idaho Humane Society. — Grant Olsen
Artist Statement: This piece is made from un-spun and un-dyed wool roving from a local sheep farm.
BUY THE CD HERE
It’s fitting that this major retrospective release from the band isn’t a greatest hits, but a collection of tour-only LPs, available on vinyl for the first time and summarized on a 16-track CD. Calexico have been releasing these limited-edition LPs on their own Our Soil Our Strength label since 1999, using them as clearinghouses for outtakes, one-offs, live cuts, and mostly studio experiments with various techniques, instruments, and musical genres. Packed together as Road Atlas 1998-2011, they form a compelling history of Burns and Convertino’s partnership as they broke free of Giant Sand and Friends of Dean Martinez and gradually discovered what all they could do on their own. The vinyl set is almost a real-time account of a band feeling its way forward, and the fact that they never intended for these LPs to be “real” Calexico releases means they didn’t have to worry about adhering to any particular approach or dynamic. Calexico could be a slippery entity, reassessing the possibilities with every note. In that regard, these LPs are essential to the band’s identity. — Pitchfork
OTHER CD RECOMMENDATIONS:
Rolling Stones Some Girls
Chris Cornell Songbook
Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys Remix EP
Willie Nelson Remember Me Vol. 1
Matisyahu Miracle
Lady Gaga Born This Way: The Remix
Nickelback Here & Now
Daughtry Break the Spell
Adam Lambert Beg for Mercy
Rihanna Talk That Talk
Taylor Swift Speak Now World Tour Live
Yelawolf Radioactive
Rush Sector 1, Sector 2, Sector 3
Michael Jackson Immortal
Mary J. Blige My Life II
Leading up to our final day of bidding on Dec. 3 at the Radio Boise Practice New Year’s Eve Party, The Record Exchange is showcasing the artists who donated their talents to the sixth annual MUNNY Silent Auction Fundraiser. Featured in this post is Shelley McCarl.
CURRENT BID: $200
BID ON THIS MUNNY HERE
ABOUT THE ARTIST
I am a Boise painter working in pastel and oil, and my usual subjects are panoramic landscapes and still life. I am particularly interested in depicting the play of light, whether it falls on open Idaho desert or on the various textures of objects I set up in a still life. The MUNNY project, which I have participated in for most of the years that The Record Exchange has sponsored it, gives me an opportunity to do something entirely different from my typical painting, and it’s also really fun. My work can be seen on my website, shelleymccarl.com, or by appointment by calling me at (208) 283-4158. — Shelly McCarl
Leading up to our final day of bidding on Dec. 3 at the Radio Boise Practice New Year’s Eve Party, The Record Exchange is showcasing the artists who donated their talents to the sixth annual MUNNY Silent Auction Fundraiser. Featured in this post is James Lloyd.
CURRENT BID: $35
BID ON THIS MUNNY HERE
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Learn more about James Lloyd by visiting his blog: jameslloydprojects.tumblr.com