BRAND NEW DVD/BLU RAY: JANE'S ADDICTION: LIVE IN NYC

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June 25, 2013 - DVD and Blu Ray , On Sale - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

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Jane’s Addiction has always thrown THE most provocative and extravagant parties in rock, mixing a fierce musicality and streetwise lyrics with a theatrical flair. Filmed at New York City’s Terminal 5 on July 25, 2011 and captured in Dolby TrueHD-5.1 Surround Sound and Dolby TrueHD Stereo, LIVE IN NYC encapsulates the true essence of Jane’s Addiction in concert, mixing music with performance art. With the band as the ringleaders, they take you, along with a diverse cast of vagabonds, through an extravagant world of flying burlesque dancers, trapeze artists and carnival sideshow antics, offering stunning visuals enhanced with a visual masterpiece of lasers, capturing the incredible mood of this spectacular night. Amidst it all, Jane’s Addiction, featuring frontman Perry Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro, drummer Stephen Perkins and bassist Chris Chaney, gives astonishing performances of one classic after another including their 1988 Top 10 hit ‘Jane Says,’ and live staples such as ‘Whores’ and ‘Up The Beach,’ and crushing versions of ‘Ocean Size’ and ‘Mountain Song.’-Amazon

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THE VINYL WORD: BOSNIAN RAINBOWS' NEW SELF TITLED ALBUM

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June 25, 2013 - On Sale , The Vinyl Word - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

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Even outside the Mars Volta stuff for which he’s known, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez has funnelled his creativity into a vast range of solo projects and other aliases. From 2004’s folky quasi-Dutch solo debut to his collaborations with experimental icon Lydia Lunch, Rodriguez-Lopez works like a man who has been told the appointed hour of his death.
Yet rather than use his booster-pack of creative freedom to go even further towards the asylum, ‘Bosnian Rainbows’ finds Omar in controlled, more conventional territory than he has been in a while. There’s structure, sub-four-minute songs, melody. It’ll never be Nick Grimshaw’s Record Of The Week and it’s still prog, but it’s a punky prog that at least feels like it is actively trying to make friends with you.

This new post-Mars Volta start sees a fresh bunch of collaborators, too; chief among them singer Teri Gender-Bender of Mexican garage punks Le Butcherettes. While her previous act was in the style of Jon Spencer’s Boss Hogg or The Von Bondies, here she’s given free reign to indulge her inner Grace Slick, drenching the songs with the sort of intense melodies that implore you to throw the tape recorder suicidally in the bath, Fear And Loathing style, when the songs reach a dramatic peak (which is often). By the end, ‘Mother, Father, Set Us Free’ is the full hundred-candles-on-an-altar-at-midnight, total-eclipse-of-the-everything send-off. ‘Eli’ starts out with about as much foreboding as you can fit into six minutes. Creepy hypnotic focal point ‘The Eye Fell In Love’ sits halfway between Heart and various cooler things that pretended they weren’t influenced by Heart.

At the same time, there’s a poppy sweetness that fills in around the basic sense of dread. ‘Turtle Neck’ could be taken from Melody’s Echo Chamber’s whimsical debut. ‘Morning Sickness’ marks the moment where Omar’s guitars give way to synths, the kick drum takes control and you’re left with svelte, sexy disco – it’s practically Glass Candy’s Johnny Jewel.-NME

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SMITH WESTERNS' 'SOFT WILL' AND OTHER NEW CD RECOMMENDATIONS

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June 25, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

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Smith Westerns‘ third album, Soft Will, takes another step away from the scruffy lo-fi approach of their debut, and puts a layer of gloss on the already slick sound they captured on Dye It Blonde. The thing to keep in mind when you’re a band gradually smoothing out and expanding your sound is to make sure you keep whatever it was about your band that made it worthwhile in the first place, and to do something to keep it interesting. The band does both here. The wistfully sincere songwriting is as strong as ever, and while they may have cast off their youthful energy in favor of a more melancholy mood, the subtle hooks are just as sharp and the songs hit home. Leaving their pocket-sized Mott the Hoople crunch behind for the most part, the band aims for something more restrained and arranged, filling out the songs with sweeping synthesizer strings and layers of acoustic guitars. The synths are a nice addition that gives the songs some depth and sonic richness. Indeed much more care has been given overall to the arrangements and the mood they create, and the songs definitely benefit from the effort. There’s nothing that stands out as a single, but almost every song has a melody that grabs you, or at least a sound that draws you in. The more uptempo tracks like “Fool Proof” and “Idol” hook you first, but the slower, more contemplative ones sink in the deepest. Cullen Omori‘s voice may not be the most powerful around but he can deliver enough pathos to at least bend a heart, and Smith Westerns‘ assured delivery allows them to slow it down without getting boring. The best of the bunch is the album-ending “Varsity,” which comes off like a well-crafted, very Midwestern indie rock take on M83. Smith Westerns may have gradually sloughed off all their fans who liked the swaggering lo-fidelity style they began with, but with Soft Will, they should gain back some people who like thoughtful, melodically rich indie rock that isn’t sleepy or clichéd or boring. This album is none of those things and, thanks to their actual growth as artists, it may be their best yet.-allmusic.com

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NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: AMON AMARTH'S 'DECEIVER OF THE GODS'

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June 25, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

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“What begins with scorching, melodic twin leads, a mead-induced flurry of double-kick drumming, and the meatiest, most malevolent vocals this side of Valhalla? If you answered “The ninth studio outing from Swedish melodic death metal legends Amon Amarth” then you are correct and can drink from the chalice. Bolder and more bottom heavy than 2011’s Surtur Rising, Deceiver of the Gods retains the band’s penchant for crafting unyielding blasts of Viking brutality, but tempers each beating with the kind of melodic artistry that can only stem from 15 years spent in the trenches. Those artful melodies imbue much of the album with a toasty patina of NWOBH and power metal, especially on standout cuts like “Father of the Wolf,” “Under Siege,” the aforementioned opening title cut, and the epic closer “Warriors of the North,” all of which sound like deadlier Norse spins on the better cuts from Iron Maiden‘s Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. It’s not all just Manowar sans clean vocals though, as evidenced by the absolutely pulverizing “Blood Eagle” and the propulsive Priest-meets-Venom gallop of “Coming of the Tide,” two tracks that announce (with great authority) that Amon Amarth have lost none of the cunning or vivacity that made them such a dominant force in the early days of the new millennium. If anything, Deceiver of the Gods suggests that Amon Amarth may just now be hitting their stride, as it’s an undeniably well-honed set, yet the band manage to flex their muscles well outside of the Draconian stylistic confines of the genre by remaining, like a true Viking horde, prickly, primal, and unstable.”-allmusic.com

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NEW DELBERT AND GLEN NOW IN STOCK!

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June 20, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

Grammy Award winner and Americana legend Delbert McClinton returns to where he began his recording career over 40 years ago, a duets record with Glen Clark.

Delbert & Glen released two albums in the early 70s. The two remained friends and now have reunited for Blind, Crippled & Crazy. Produced by Gary Nicholson, the 2013 album delivers all the swampy blues, soul and honky tonk sounds with lyrics and harmonies full of wisdom and wit.

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BRAND NEW DVD/BLU RAY: JANE'S ADDICTION: LIVE IN NYC

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