Do you like it hard and heavy? Then come to The Record Exchange and visit The Headbanger’s Wall, a listening station devoted to some of today’s best bands pummeling you with raw power and raw emotion.
The Headbanger’s Wall currently features Philip Anselmo, Butcher Babies, The Defiled, Newsted and Iwrestledabearonce. Come melt your face with us.
Purchase Headbanger’s Wall titles HERE.
The Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series continues on Aug. 6 with The Civil Wars’ The Civil Wars! The album — available on CD and vinyl — will be featured during our weekly listening party at 6 p.m.! Enjoy free pizza from our New Release Tuesday partners Pie Hole and enter to win our New Release Tuesday raffle prize – a numbered vinyl test pressing of The Civil Wars!
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 Radio Boise Tuesdays series at 
Neurolux 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
The Civil Wars – The Civil Wars
KT Tunstall – Invisible Empire/Crescent Moon (deluxe edition also available)
Explosions in the Sky and David Wingo – Prince Avalanche Soundtrack
Old Crow Medicine Show – Carry Me Back to Virginia
The Polyphonic Spree – Yes, It’s True
Newsted – Heavy Metal Music
Norma Jean – Wrongdoers
Iwrestledabearonce – Late for Nothing
Walking Papers – Walking Papers
Hugh Laurie – Didn’t It Rain
Amanda Shires – Down Fell the Doves
Defiled – Daggers
Volto! – Incitare
Asking Alexandria – From Death to Destiny
Donovan – Lady of the Stars
Pond – Hobo Rocket
Water Liars – Phantom Limb
Chris Thile – Bach: Sonatas and Partitas Vol. 1
Superhumanoids – Exhibitionists
Exhumed – Necrocracy
Moderat – II (deluxe edition also available)
Revocation – Revocation
Rudimental – Home
Elvis Presley – Elvis at Stax (deluxe edition also available)
Paul Allen and the Underthinkers – Everywhere at Once
Gary Burton – Guided Tour
Kim Fowley – Frankenstein and the All-Star Monster Band
Brett Eldredge – Bring You Back
Various Artists – NOW Vol. 47
Manchild – Lawn Mower Man
Karnivool – Asymmetry
Dangerous Summer – Golden Record
Chick Corea – Vigil
Christian McBride Trio – Out Here
Richie Havens – Alarm Clock
Salem – Necessary Evil
It’s a Beautiful Day – Beyonddreams
It’s a Beautiful Day – Live at the Fillmore ’68
Alfie Boe – Storyteller
Centuries – Taedium Vitae
Kurt Cobain – Early Life of a Legend
VINYL
The Civil Wars – The Civil Wars
Electronic Anthology Project – The Electronic Anthology Project of Death Cab for Cutie
Explosions in the Sky and David Wingo – Prince Avalanche Soundtrack
Talking Heads – Fear of Music
Van Dyke Parks – Songs Cycled
Pond – Hobo Rocket
The Polyphonic Spree – Yes, It’s True (deluxe edition also available)
Sick Puppies – Connect
Corrosion of Conformity – Eye for an Eye
Dead in the Dirt – Blind Hole
CSS – I’ve Seen You Drunk Girl
High On Fire – Surrounded By Thieves
Queensryche – Operation: Mindcrime
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats – Blood Lust
Bug – Filthy
Elvis Presley – Elvis at Stax
Newsted – Heavy Metal Music
Emperor – In the Nightside Eclipse
Revocation – Revocation
Cannibal Corpse – Gore Obsessed (Picture Disc)
A Day to Remember – Various Reissues
Emmure – Various Reissues
Michael Ras and the Sons of Negus – Nyabinghi
Exhumed – Necrocracy
Chixdiggit! – From Scene to Shining Scene
Bill Frisell – Big Sur
DVD/BLU-RAY
Charles Bradley – The Soul of America DVD
Ween – Live in Chicago DVD
AC/DC – The Bon Scott Years DVD
Cream – Farewell Concert DVD
Eric Clapton – The Eric Clapton Years DVD
Mickey Hart – Innovators in Music DVD
West of Memphis DVD
Weather Report – Birdland: A Musical Documentary DVD
Community Season 4 DVD
Oblivion DVD and Blu-ray
Mud DVD and Blu-ray
In Heaven There Is No Beer DVD
On the Road DVD
The Best of Fridays DVD
Gunsmoke Season 9 Vol. 1 DVD
Sapphires DVD
Silver Streak DVD
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Filmmaker Poull Brien presents this stirring profile of soul singer Charles Bradley, who became an unlikely star at the age of 62, when his debut album No Time for Dreaming was named one of Rolling Stone magazine’s top 50 albums of 2011. Abandoned by his parents as a youth, Bradley endured hardship and poverty while growing up on the streets and performing James Brown covers. For 48 years his dreams of stardom remained just out of reach, yet through it all Bradley never gave up hope that one day he would find success. That day ultimately came when he decided to ditch the James Brown act, and find his own voice. Now, as Bradley turns 62, Brien turns his camera on the unlikely star whose powerful voice has stirred the souls of music lovers and cynical critics alike. Over the course of the following months, Brien’s lens captures all the joy of Bradley’s late-life success, and offers inspirational testament to the power of dreams.– Rovi
PREVIEW/BUY THE VINYL HERE
The Electronic Anthology Project was formed by Built to Spill bassist Brett Nelson in 2009. Having always loved 80’s New Wave music Nelson wondered what a guitar driven band like Built To Spill would sound like as an 80’s synth-pop band. So Nelson entered his home studio and emerged with seven Built To Spill tracks recorded using only synthesizers and a drum machine. Fellow BTS bandmate Doug Martsch re-sang all new vocals and helped Nelson mix the final product. The Electronic Anthology Project debuted July 2010 as a self released C.D.
In late 2012, Nelson recorded five demos of his favorite Death Cab for Cutie songs as 80’s synth-pop and sent them to lead singer, Ben Gibbard, who agreed to re-sing two of the songs for The Electronic Anthology Project of Death Cab for Cutie. Nelson and Gibbard re-imagine 2005’s Soul Meets Body (Plans) and 1998’s Champagne From A Paper Cup (Something About Airplanes) to be released July 2, 2013 as various runs (500 each) of colored 7″ vinyl and a digital bundle for download.-Electronic Anthology Project
BUY/PREVIEW THE CD HERE
BUY/PREVIEW THE VINYL HERE
The cover art to The Civil Wars’ self-titled sophomore album depicts a vast, billowing plume of black smoke, suggestive, perhaps, of a smoldering relationship that eventually ignited and left some unpleasant fallout. Right now, despite this release, the vehicle of singer-songwriters John Paul White and Joy Williams, The Civil Wars, is no more. The record was put together late in 2012, seemingly just as the duo called time midway through a European tour, citing “internal discord and irreconcilable differences of ambition” as reasons for the “hiatus.”
That said, the music doesn’t show signs of suffering from this creative fission, the record as compelling as its Grammy-winning predecessor, 2011′s Barton Hollow. Of course, there’s nothing to say that great art can’t come from internal strife – just look at Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, for one.
White’s delivery meshes perfectly with Williams’ remarkably pure vocal tone to create an intimacy that verges on the claustrophobic. From the country swing of “From The Valley” to the fulsome blues rock of “Oh Henry”, the album is instrumentally heavier than its predecessor, and this makes the stripped-down songs stand out to greater effect. So, the bittersweet blowout of “Same Old Same Old” and shaded intensity of the Smashing Pumpkins cover, “Disarm”, claim their space.
There might not be a “Poison & Wine” here, but taken as a whole, The Civil Wars is a more consistent collection than Barton Hollow. Chances are these songs will endure, but hopefully the hiatus won’t.- Consequence Of Sound