Idaho Live is putting on back-to-back shows at the Egyptian Theatre — Aimee Mann Oct. 4 and Beach House Oct. 5 — and we have a limited number of tickets to hand out free with purchase of the artists’ latest albums!
Purchase Aimee Mann’s Charmer or Beach House’s Bloom at the RX and we’ll give you one ticket per CD purchased (you can also buy the vinyl and get the same deal). Supplies are limited!
The Record Exchange presents Calexico on Thursday, Aug. 11, at the Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise. Doors open at 7 p.m.; show at 8 p.m. Tickets are $23 advance, $26 at the door. Advance tickets are available at egyptiantheatre.net, Egyptian Theatre box office, The Record Exchange and Boise Co-op. Charge tickets by phone at 208.387.1273 Tuesday-Saturday (11 a.m. to 6 p.m.). Reserved seating, all ages, beer and wine.
Purchase your tickets at The Record Exchange and we’ll give you a limited-edition custom gig poster (pictured) designed by Tomas Montano free with purchase! Quantities are limited!
This is a Navajo benefit concert. Proceeds from the ticket sales, beer and wine and a silent auction will be donated to help rebuild Helen Kee’s home. Helen, a Navajo medicine woman, recently had her home vandalized, with generations of ancestry destroyed. She is the matriarch of her Navajo community and a gifted healing woman who has spent her life helping others. Join us in helping to restore hope and happiness in her heart and in her home.
ENTER TO WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS TO THE SHOW HERE.
ABOUT CALEXICO
Calexico (casadecalexico.com) is a diverse collective based around the duo of guitarist/vocalist Joey Burns and drummer John Convertino. The Tucson, Ariz., based band has been cited as a melting pot for country, indie rock, various Spanish-rooted sub-genres, jazz, and many other musical styles. Calexico has released six full-length albums, six original material tour albums, five EPs (one a collaboration with Iron & Wine) and a live DVD. Additionally, they have performed and recorded with notable musicians such as Andrew Bird, Neko Case, Amos Lee, Nancy Sinatra, Glen Hansard, and many more.
There’s always been intrigue and adventure at the heart of Calexico. Ever since they were a largely instrumental duo experimenting with their unique collection of instruments and soundtrack sensibilities, Joey Burns and John Convertino have constantly imbued their music with an unparalleled sense of drama, calling upon the myths and iconography of the American West and its Spanish-speaking neighbor Mexico, equal parts Sergio Leone, Larry McMurtry, Carlos Fuentes and Cormac McCarthy. Naming themselves after a town near the California/Mexico border in honor of this cultural mélange, they’ve spent the eighteen years since they met in Los Angeles mapping out musical territory that had otherwise been neglected or at the very least considered the preserve of historians.
Calexico’s most recent full-length, Carried To Dust, received the following critical praise:
Music of emotional power and beauty…it richly rewards repeat listening. (Pitchfork.com, 8.3 rating)
Calexico arrives as multiple bands on its new album… At its best, it’s all of them at once, eerie and poetic as it straddles more than one border. (The New York Times)
Carried To Dust‘s songs travel a trail that seems carved out of ancient echoes. (Spin Magazine)
A beauty from start to finish. (Paste Magazine)
The Silent Comedy will perform live at The Record Exchange (1105 W. Idaho St., Downtown Boise) at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 21. As always, this Record Exchange in-store performance is free and all ages. The Silent Comedy — which opened for Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses’ sold-out show at the Egyptian Theatre in February — is performing at The Bouquet later that night (8:30 p.m.) and we have tickets for sale here at the store!
We will have The Silent Comedy’s new EP, Cruelty and Clemency, for sale at the in-store, as well as a limited-edition tour-only 7-inch!
ABOUT THE SILENT COMEDY
Since 1996, brothers Jeremiah and Joshua Zimmerman have been fighting an uphill battle to pursue music. That year, their preacher father sold all of their possessions and launched the family on a worldwide adventure that included travels through Asia, Russia, the Middle East, Europe, and the entirety of the United States. From playing folk instruments in the foothills of the Himalayas, to drawing crowds around pianos at Spanish shopping malls, the boys kept their musical outlet alive by any means possible. Different elements of this life history eventually culminated in the formation of The Silent Comedy (thesilentcomedy.com) ten years later.
What started gaining momentum in 2006 as a loose collection of musicians, eventually evolved into a solid quintet of performers who turn heads for their wild live performance, genre-bending sound, and unique aesthetic. In 2008, the group recorded their eponymous debut studio EP with Brian Karscig (producer and founding member of Louis XIV). In keeping with their DIY tradition, the band self-produced their follow up LP, Common Faults, in 2010. The resulting buzz from sold-out pressings of both records, and sold-out shows around California, have resulted in sharing the bill with such diverse performers as Mumford and Sons, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Razorlight, Switchfoot, The Black Keys, Common, MGMT, Cold War Kids, Flogging Molly, The Whigs, Delta Spirit, and more.
The band is on tour in support of their newest release, Cruelty & Clemency (Singleton Records). The EP was self-recorded at their home studio with the help of Raymond Richards (Local Natives, Henry Clay People), and was mixed by Brian Malouf (Queen, Pearl Jam, Gomez, O.A.R., Wolfmother). Front-man Joshua Zimmerman describes Cruetly and Clemency as “a perfect illustration of the duality found in our music.”
Standout tracks include “Exploitation” and “Victory”, which “highlight the dynamic ranges that we [The Silent Comedy] reach as a band, as well as dark lyrical themes that are common in our work.” The ruthless lyrics of “Victory” sum up the essence of The Silent Comedy, “I hate being alive if it’s just to survive, I’d rather sing than be left making noise.”
As for tour mates Saint Motel, “We met Saint Motel at South By Southwest in Austin and really enjoyed their live show. We love touring with bands that bring a lot of energy to their performance and it seemed like they would be a great fit for this tour. Considering the summer heat and how much both bands move on stage, the Summer Sweat Tour is a very suitable title.” With the impending release of Cruelty and Clemency and the Summer Sweat Tour on the horizon, Zimmerman is “extremely excited about the future. Ending a tour of the west with Dave Matthews at the Gorge; you can’t ask for a better summer than that!”
The Devil Makes Three‘s Boise show on Monday, May 9, has been moved from The Bouquet to Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City. Everything else is the same: 7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m., show, $10 advance tickets/$12 at the door. Advance tickets are available at The Record Exchange (that’s us!), Egyptian Theatre box office and egyptiantheatre.net. 21 and older; beer and wine. Hillfolk Noir opens. If you already bought tickets or you’re planning on buying tickets, don’t freak out when you notice the tickets say “The Bouquet” on them — just bring ’em to the VaC and they’ll let you in no problem.
The Devil Makes Three quite possibly is the best band that you have never heard of. They have been constantly on tour, selling out dates across the country and in their neck of the woods on the West Coast, drawing nearly capacity crowds nightly. This is all word of mouth. For the past seven years, the Devil Makes Three has garnered fans the old school way, playing a city, making friends, conquering fans and moving on. When they hit the next town, venues are packed with folks that heard from a friend in a city that they’d been before.
Laced with elements of ragtime, country, folk and rockabilly, the critically praised, drummer-less trio — consisting of guitarist/frontman Pete Bernhard, stand-up bassist Lucia Turino and guitarist Cooper McBean — brings forth a genuine approach to acoustic music that is deeply steeped in rhythm and alive with three-part harmonies, which is pleasingly dissimilar to most other bands in modern music.
The Devil Makes Three had the goal of being “an acoustic band but to play our shows like a rock show,” and in the process changed notions of what acoustic music could be. Mixing styles from the ragtime and country music of the ’20s and ’30s to the rock ‘n’ roll and punk music of their adolescence, The Devil Makes Three pushes the boundaries of acoustic music. Citing influences as varied as Steve Earle, the Reverend Gary Davis, Memphis Jug Band and Django Reinhardt, the band combines tight vocal harmonies with idiot-savant finger-style guitar to create an exciting and original sound. The end result is genuine blues music that thrives as much in a live setting as it does on record.
Fronted by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Travis Ward, Hillfolk Noir (petometz.com) has been described as a dark, country-tinged, swampy-swingin’, hillbilly-delta-blues-ragtime word machine. The band calls it Junkerdash, but no matter the descriptor, you’ll find Hillfolk Noir’s psychedelic swamp-shack rags equally spooky and toe-tapping. Hillfolk Noir released a pair of critically-acclaimed albums, Live at the Old Idaho Penitentiary and Skinny Mammy’s Revenge, in 2010.