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DVD/BLU-RAY: $9.99 MUSIC DVD TITLES!

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June 14, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

smvdv50148The Record Exchange just brought in a slew of music DVDs budget priced at $9.99 apiece.

The DVDs include live performances and video compilations covering numerous artists from numerous genres, including: Black Sabbath, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Michael Jackson, Santana, Alice in Chains, Jeff Buckley, Johnny Cash, The Clash, Roger Waters, Rage Against the Machine, Tool, Ozzy Osbourne, Miles Davis, Bela Fleck, Korn, Lamb of God, Justin Timberlake, John Mayer and more!

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SNL RAP PARODISTS THE LONELY ISLAND AND OTHER NEW RECOMMENDATIONS

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June 13, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

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One thing that has remained constant throughout the history of SNL has been the incorporation of music into the comedy, from the Blues Brothers all the way to the Lonely Island. Adam Sandler’s “At a Medium Pace”, Eddie Murphy’s “Boogie in Your Butt”, and Steve Martin’s “King Tut” all set the bar high for future SNL cast members’ comedy record attempts, and many have failed along the way because we have these aforementioned crown jewels of audio comedy to compare everything else to. Luckily, a couple of notches to the funny bar have been added with The Wack Album, although it’s definitely a rap experience. In fact, it’s some of the dirtiest rap out there. SO dirty, even Blowfly would blush… a little. That could end up being a double-edged sword for the Lonely Island, alienating the comedy fans who despise hard rap music. But millions upon millions of fans can’t be wrong. Just remember, it’s shtick. It is what it is. Still, when you’re hit with (and I paraphrase) “The Lonely Island were beaten to death with their own ‘junk’ outside a strip club” within the first 60 seconds of The Wack Album, you’ve gotta give it a genuine laugh. Just like you did when you first heard Adam Sandler’s “At a Medium Pace”. Even if SNL Digital Shorts and toilet humor in general are your forte, honestly… could you see that one coming.

SNL favorites “YOLO” with Adam Levine and Kendrick Lamar and “3 Way” with Justin Timberlake are here, and having those cuts in high quality without the laugh track makes a great argument for shelling out the Lincolns and Washingtons on Wack, but Wack is more than just critical commentary, raunchy comedy, and greatest hits. It’s also a loving tribute to hip hop, giving nods to some of the cherished moments in the genre. “Spell It Out” shamelessly channels K-Solo’s “Spellbound”, “We Need Love” is an obvious ode to LL Cool J’s “I Need Love”, but also tips its hat to Digital Underground’s “Freaks of the Industry”. “Perfect Saturday” has got a lot of love for Cali, breaking down Snoop’s style over a formulaic revisiting of Ice Cube’s “It Was a Good Day”, then turning its focus onto what could be the start of a new trend… the gangsta fart joke. There are a couple of throwaways scattered among the thoughtful. “The Crew” and “We Are a Crowd” don’t come off very well, but two out of 20 ain’t bad at all. — PopMatters

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NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: BOARDS OF CANADA'S 'TOMORROW'S HARVEST'

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June 12, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

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Sounds like Boards of Canada. In the early years of this century, you heard many electronic music aficionados using that phrase, usually in the context of an endorsement. The Scottish brothers Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin didn’t invent a new sound, but they did take various strands of music floating around and pull them into one place and essentially perfect them. And their particular fusion was so distinctive that their name became shorthand. The appetite for the BoC was so voracious that the group’s actual output, which was actually fairly prolific in its first decade, wasn’t nearly enough to satisfy it. But that was a long time ago. Since 2006 we’ve heard a lot of music that seems spiritually connected to Boards of Canada, from Burial to chillwave, but we haven’t heard a note of music from the originators until the surprise announcement of Tomorrow’s Harvest.

Given its hermetic feel, it makes sense BoC have indicated that soundtracks were an especially big influence. They specifically invoke the work of John Carpenter, Mark Isham, and Wendy Carlos, all of whom constructed some of their most enduring scores in the late 1970s and early 80s. That was a period where analog synthesis was reaching full maturity but digital synthesis was in its earlier stages, when the tape-driven Mellotron competed for studio space with the digital Fairlight and new timbres were being explored. If the earliest Boards of Canada music still seemed inspired by Warp’s post-techno Artificial Intelligence movement, beats on Tomorrow’s Harvest are secondary. The tempos are generally slow, and there’s not much trickiness to the percussion. The tracks tend to create a groove and stick with it for the duration.

What we’re left with is Boards of Canada’s moodiest record, a full-length tinted with atmosphere that unfolds slowly and is happy to allow you to come to it. Creating a new way to hear electronic music, as they did in the first half of their career, earned them that right to make a record that is absorbed through osmosis. And true to its patient nature and long gestation period, Tomorrow’s Harvest’s last third is its best. As they move from the ultra-simple, Music for Films-like “Sundown” through the soot-dusted “New Seeds”, with its quiet guitar grind and bell-like percussion, and then on through the arpeggiated Tangerine Dream-style “Come to Dust” and the the closing bass-pedals of “Semena Mertvykh”, it’s clear that they still, after all this time and all the imitators, own this world. And it’s nice to hear that they’re still inhabiting it. –Pitchfork

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NEW RELEASE TUESDAY: BOARDS OF CANADA LISTENING PARTY PLUS ENTER TO WIN A SURFER BLOOD VINYL LP OR JIMMY EAT WORLD TEST PRESSING!

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JIMMYEW_WLP_PRE_R_468x60SB-pythons-468x60boards-of-canada_tomorrows-harvest 200The Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series continues on June 11 with Boards of Canada’s Tomorrow’s Harvest! The album — available on CD, indie exclusive 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 one of our New Release Tuesday raffle prizes, which include a Jimmy Eat World vinyl test pressing and signed LP jacket and Surfer Blood vinyl LP!

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:

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Boards of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest (indie exclusive version also available)

Black Sabbath – 13 (deluxe edition also available)

Jimmy Eat World – Damage

Surfer Blood – Pythons

Jason Isbell – Southeastern

The Black Dahlia Murder – Everblack

Goo Goo Dolls – Magnetic

The Lonely Island – The Wack Album

Bob Schneider – Burden of Proof

Joseph Arthur – The Ballad of Boogie Christ

Disclosure – Settle

Children of Bodom – Halo of Blood (deluxe edition also available)

Blackmore’s Night – The Dancer and the Moon (deluxe edition also available)

CSS – Planta

I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody’s Business – Enola

The Dandy Warhols – Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia deluxe edition

Prodigy and the Alchemist – Albert Einstein

John Vanderslice – Dagger Beach

The Zombies – Breathe In Breathe Out

Harry Connick, Jr. – Every Man Should Know

Andrew Stockdale – Keep Moving

Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks – Live at Davies

Dave Koz – Summer Horns

The White Mandingos – The Ghetto is Tryna Kill Me

The Almost – Fear Inside Our Bodies

Black Veil Brides – Wretched and Divine: The Story of the Wild Ones Ultimate Edition

Gold Panda – Half of Where You Live

Sonny and the Sunsets – Antenna to the Afterworld

SPM – Pocos Pero Locos Presents: SPM

Pacific Air – Stop Talking

Scale the Summit – Migration

Septicflesh – Esoptron

Emily’s Army – Lost at Seventeen

Boysetsfire – While the Nation Sleeps

Deafheaven – Sunbather

Walter Trout – Luther’s Blues: A Tribute to Luther Allison

Morgan Heritage – Here Come the Kings

Sturgill Simpson – High Top Mountain

Big Time Rush – 24/Seven (deluxe edition also available)

Aoife O’Donovan – Fossils

Various Artists – Now That’s What I Call Country Vol. 6

Various Artists – Man of Steel Soundtrack

Various Artists – Bling Ring Soundtrack

VINYL

Boards of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest

Black Sabbath – 13

Surfer Blood – Pythons

Jimmy Eat World – Damage

Patty Griffin – American Kid

Emily Wells – Mama Acoustic Recordings

Spinal Tap – This is Spinal Tap Soundtrack

Bonobo – First Fires

Jason Isbell – Southeastern

Bob Schneider – Burden of Proof

Slightly Stoopid – Top of the World

Kode9 – Xingfu/Kan

Xiu Xiu/Lawrence English – Split (LAMC No. 8)

Sonny and the Sunsets – Antenna to the Afterworld

Isaac Hayes – Greatest Hit Singles

Cannibal Corpse – Gallery of Suicide 25th Anniversary

Hessian – Manegarmr

Atheist – Elements

Atheist – Piece of Time

Skip James – Complete 1931 Session

Lightnin’ Hopkins – Walkin’ This Road By Myself

Immolation – Kingdom of Conspiracy

Deafheaven – Sunbather

Flesh Eaters – No Questions Asked Expanded Edition

Braids – In Kind/Amends

Chet Baker – Chet

Agrimonia – Rites of Separation

DVD/BLU-RAY

Paul McCartney and Wings – Rockshow DVD and Blu-ray

The Grateful Dead – The View From the Vault DVD

The Grateful Dead – The View From the Vault II DVD

House of Cards Season 1 DVD

Newsroom Season 1 DVD

Tosh.0 – Cardigans Plus Casual Jackets DVD

Wild Strawberries (Criterion Collection) Blu-ray

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters DVD

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RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 20 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING JUNE 9, 2013)

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June 10, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

They-Might-Be-Giants-Nanobots-608x6081. Nanobots, They Might Be Giants
2. Like Clockwork, Queens of the Stone Age
3.Random Access Memories, Daft Punk
4. Modern Vampires of the City, Vampire Weekend
5. Evil Friends, Portugal the Man
6. Trouble Will Find Me, The National
7. Super Collider, Megadeth
8. The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, Alice in Chains
9. Grinning Streak, Barenaked Ladies
10. Grmey 2 Shiney, Afrikan Tone
11. The Lumineers, The Lumineers
12. Wrote a Song for Everyone, John Fogerty
13. Feel, Sleeping With Sirens
14. Hurry & The Harm, City and Colour
15. Southeastern, Jason Isbell
16. Forever Halloween, Maine
17. What’s That Hat For?, Hillfolk Noir
18. Desire Lines, Camera Obscura
19. Ghost Brothers, Ghost Brothers
20. Nightingale Floors, Rogue Wave

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