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NEW RELEASE TUESDAY: SIGUR ROS LISTENING PARTY WITH FREE PIE HOLE!

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June 18, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

sigur-ros-kveikur-608x589The Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series continues on June 18 with Sigur Ros‘ Kveikur! The album — available on CD, vinyl and indie exclusive 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!

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).pie hole

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 RADIO BOISE TUESDAYS mayreceive 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

Sigur Ros – Kveikur

Kanye West – Yeezus

Empire of the Sun – Ice on the Dune

Falling in Reverse – Fashionably Late (deluxe edition also available)

Eddie Spaghetti – Value of Nothing

Sublime – 3 Ring Circus: Live at the Palace (deluxe edition also available)

High on Fire – Spitting Fire Live Vol. 1

High on Fire – Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2

Various Artists – Woody Guthrie at 100! Live at the Kennedy Center

Bill Frisell – Big Sur

3OH!3 – Omens

Mac Miller – Watching Movies with the Sound Off

Delbert McClinton and Glen Clark – Blind, Crippled and Crazy

Primus – Sailing the Seas of Cheese Deluxe Edition (CD/Blu-ray)

Stephen Kellogg – Blunderstone Rookery

Austra – Olympia

Primal Scream – More Light

Phish – Ventura

The Mowglis – Waiting for the Dawn

Quasimoto – Yessir Whatever

Kelly Rowland – Talk a Good Game (deluxe edition also available)

Hunter Hayes – Hunter Hayes (Encore)

Booker T. – I Want You

Donna the Buffalo – Tonight, Tomorrow and Yesterday

Hanson – Anthem

Hawkwind – Warrior on the Edge of Time (deluxe edition also available)

Nektar – Time Machine

Rick Moranis – My Mother’s Brisket and Other Love Songs

Valient Thorr – Our Own Masters

Various Artists – Monsters University Soundtrack

Various Artists – World War Z

Hospital Ships – Destruction in Yr Soul

BWB – Human Nature

J. Cole – Born Sinner

Lou Doillon – Places

El Tri – Ojo Por Ojo

Various Artists – Unfinished Song Soundtrack

Ian Tyson – All the Good ‘Uns Vol. 2

Tunng – Turbines

VINYL

Sigur Ros – Kveikur (indie exclusive version also available)

Sigur Ros – Hvarf-Heim

Camera Obscura – Desire Lines

Efterklang – Piramida Concert

The Gaslight Anthem – Singles Collection: 2008-2011

Frank Zappa – Freak Out!

Frank Zappa – Over-Nite Sensation

Eddie Spaghetti – Value of Nothing

Primal Scream – More Light

The Cars – Greatest Hits

Shannon and the Clams – Dreams in the Rat House

Delbert McClinton and Glen Clark – Blind, Crippled and Crazy

Kadavar – Kadavar

Maron – Soundtrack

Hospital Ships – Destruction in Yr Soul

Veronica Falls – Waiting for Something to Happen

Manfred Mann – Various Reissues

Story So Far/Stick to You – Split 7-inch

DVD/BLU-RAY

Sublime – 3 Ring Circus: Live at the Palace DVD

Mumford and Sons – Extraordinary Folk DVD

Workaholics Season 3 DVD

Beach Boys – Good Vibrations Tour DVD

Jackson Browne – I’ll Do Anything: Live in Concert DVD and Blu-ray

Lana Del Rey – The Greatest Story Never Told DVD

Ron Asheton – Tribute Concert with Iggy and the Stooges and Friends DVD

Muddy Waters – In Concert 1976 DVD

Bruce Cockburn – Pacing the Cage DVD

Experience Montreux DVD

Things to Come DVD and Blu-ray

Jack the Giant Slayer DVD and Blu-ray

Safety Last! DVD and Blu-ray

Big Band Collection DVD

Gene Kelley – Greatest Classic Films DVD

Movie 43 DVD

21 and Over DVD

Quarter DVD

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KANYE WEST'S 'YEEZUS' AND OTHER NEW CD RECOMMENDATIONS

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“You see it’s leaders, and it’s followers,” Kanye West tells us. “But I’d rather be a dick than a swallower.” And Yeezus, Mary and Yoseph, does he mean it. Yeezus is the darkest, most extreme music Kanye has ever cooked up, an extravagantly abrasive album full of grinding electro, pummeling minimalist hip-hop, drone-y wooz and industrial gear-grind. Every mad genius has to make a record like this at least once in his career – at its nastiest, his makes Kid A or In Utero or Trans all look like Bruno Mars.

“We get this bitch shakin’ like Parkinson’s,” he implores over the system-shock body rock of album opener “On Sight,” one of three songs co-produced by Daft Punk. Yet, if the overall feel is jarring, the sonic palette is as typically rich as ever. There’s bunker-club hipster dance music, ring-the-alarm Jamaican dance hall, forlorn Auto-Tune soul, crackling old-soul samples and downcast techno rap of the sort he pioneered on 2008’s 808s & Heartbreak – often all at once. “Hold My Liquor” is an elegantly wasted house ballad, with Justin Vernon of Bon Iver as dyspeptic diva crooning under the amber waves of drank and teenage Chicago rapper Chief Keef playing the sad gangsta. “Black Skinhead” is Marilyn Manson reanimated as a mechanical animal programmed to chomp whitey.

Executive co-producer Rick Rubin gets a beard-load of credit for helping make what could’ve been an assaulting overload feel contained and of a piece. He and Kanye deployed a less-is-less strategy, making sure that every contusive hit has maximum impact. Kanye’s lyrics are pretty focused too, rendering his classic themes as petulant primal screams. On “I Am a God,” a lurching, nightmarish throbber, he raps: “I am a god/So hurry up with my damn massage/In the French-ass restaurant hurry with my damn croissants.” During “I’m in It,” which sounds something like the soundtrack to a snuff film for Cylons, Kanye sounds at once righteous and evil: “Black girl sipping white wine, put my fist in her like the Civil Rights sign.”

On that song, Kanye brags that he wants to “start a new movement.” It’s ironic, then, that Yeezus‘ best track is classic soul, and vintage Kanye; “Blood on the Leaves” is a buzzing, bluesy, static-y track that flips a chipmunk-soul sample of Nina Simone doing “Strange Fruit” into a fevered tell-all about a pregnancy with another woman (“We coulda been somebody,” he laments in a pained sing-yell). Only Kanye West would take an American masterpiece about a lynching and use it to back a song about what a drag it is to have to attend basketball games with a girl you knocked up sitting across the court. And it’s hard to imagine anyone else making it this urgent. The dick sure has some balls.-Rolling Stone

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NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: SIGUR ROS' EXCELLENT NEW 'KVEIKUR'

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That Kveikur translates to “candlewick” and phonetically sounds like “quake” is appropriate, as Sigur Rós’ seventh album is their most explosive and action-packed. Perhaps it’s to compensate for the departure of Sveinsson, or maybe bassist Georg Holm and drummer Orri Páll Dýrason are just tired of getting 0% of the credit over the past decade and a half. Either way, Kveikur is defined by its rhythm section, even as it wisely repositions Jónsi‘s inimitable vocals as the focus, back where they belong after being used as mostly texture on Valtari.

After the ambient bubble bath of Valtari, the deep drum hits within the first minute of “Brennisteinn” disrupt Sigur Rós’ artistic stasis like a cannonball; the heavy metal churn takes on a metaphorical and symbolic aspect, as if signifying Sigur Rós’ transformation from an inanimate object into a vengeful, destructive Decepticon. From there on out, Sigur Rós are fully committed to stress testing their sound. Whenever the distorted bass lunges on the title track, it sounds like it’s trying to drill oil from the ocean floor. The feedback shrieks throughout “Brennisteinn” feel elegant and sleek rather than abrasive, like fine cutlery on black marble instead of nails on a chalkboard. “Hrafntinna” is a metal song in a literal sense, composed of fractured cymbals, sonorous brass, the whinny of horsehair on steel guitar strings; over its six minutes, there’s a filmic, storytelling quality that shows Jónsi could and should be doing soundtrack work for movies with more heft than We Bought A Zoo.

It’s one thing for a complete sonic overhaul to be necessary, but what stands out about Kveikur is how natural it feels. As opposed to a rebranding, this is Sigur Rós internally reconstituted, where the biggest addition isn’t distorted guitars or huge drums or Jónsi going full tilt. More than sounds, this is an integration of new verbs and actions, as Sigur Rós pummel, rage, wail and assert, asking hard questions of themselves. What if they could harness their power to convey immediate anger instead of patient catharsis, as a soundtrack for lifting weights instead of zoning out? Jónsi’s vocals will always bear an extraterrestrial shimmer, but why can’t he play the avenging archangel rather than a friendly ghost? After 15 years of evoking Iceland’s gorgeous, volcanic terrain and woodsprite legends, why not reflect the endless winters, cratered economy and the frightening suicide rate?

Even if it doesn’t have the same cultivated mystery or incapacitating demands of Agaetis Byrjun or ( ), Kveikur is every bit a return to form, tapping into its predecessors’ bottomless emotional wellspring for a Sigur Rós album that can be listened to casually or intensely, a collection that works as effectively as a spiritual experience and pop music, the essence of their overwhelming, widescreen grandeur conveyed with the immediacy of a 50-minute rock record.-Pitchfork

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DUNNY 2013 SERIES HAS ARRIVED!

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DunnySeries20133Inch_large_image1_39756Kidrobot’s biggest release of the year has arrived! Step right up! Step right up! Dunny Series 2013 invites you to tour the tent, point & wonder, and behold a collection of freaks for the geek you didn’t know you were!

Artists from off the beaten path and the road less traveled lure you to embrace the strange and scary. Featuring 20 designs across 14 artists, each artist applies his or her custom style to bring fantastic, eccentric and sometimes downright frightening designs to homes and shelves throughout the world. The Side Show features the return of some favorite acts, Andrew Bell, Jeremyville, Jon-Paul Kaiser, Julie West, Mishka, Nathan Jurevicius, Scribe, and Sergio Mancini. Joining the cast of characters for the first time is Ardabus Rubber, Carson Ting, Cris Rose, DGPH, Okkle, and Scott Tolleson. Together these ingenious designs by sensational artists come together to bring the oddities to life as Dunny 2013 “Side Show.”

Don’t lose your nerve now, witness all the demented glory these abominations are, and bring them home to haunt your dreams …

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VINYL WORD: SABBATH SLUDGE ON WAX

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13 offers many of the primal joys that helped immortalize Black Sabbath in the first place, while documenting the spark that still unites Osbourne, Iommi, and Butler, all three of whom sound about as vital here as anyone could’ve hoped.

The record’s greatest strength is how well it captures the apocalyptic trudge that Sabbath nailed from the very first downbeat of their 1970 debut. The doomy passages in the first two tracks, “End of the Beginning” and “God Is Dead?”, sound stupendously heavy. This isn’t just a result of 13‘s raw production values; it’s also that the band is clearly grasping for the same dire emotions (soul-deep malaise, reaper-fearing horror) that fueled their early work, emotions that from the mid-’80s on– as Iommi carried on under the Sabbath banner with a Wiki-nightmare’s worth of collaborators– have shared album space with less weighty, more pedestrian hard rock. As Iommi, Butler, and Wilk lurch through the titanic riff of “End of the Beginning”, with Ozzy sneering, “Reeeeeee-animation of the sequence,” it’s clear that a legacy is being reclaimed. — Pitchfork

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