THE VINYL WORD: PORTUGAL. THE MAN + DANGER MOUSE = WICKED AWESOME

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The collaboration between Portugal. The Man (band) and Danger Mouse (producer) on the Alaska group’s eighth full-length album was one of those things that made perfect sense as soon as it was announced. P.TM frontman John Gourley and company have always been open to experimentation, always had the musical chops and always exhibited a Danger Mouse-ian undercurrent of gloom, but in recent years they’ve has struggled to find an edge. So who better to refine and congeal the strengths of a stylistically diverse group such as Portugal. The Man than a genius producer who has worked with everyone from Cee-Lo to MF Doom to James Mercer to The Black Keys?

Part of what makes the Danger Mouse/P.TM collaboration work is that Gourley’s natural progression as a songwriter plays right into Danger Mouse’s own strengths. Beginning with 2009’s The Satanic Satanist, Portugal. The Man’s music has skewed toward nebulous, life-affirming proclamations, evoking things like the sun and giving off a general sense of positivity. There’s nothing wrong with this, but there wasn’t a great deal that differentiated The Satanic Satanist, 2010’s American Ghetto and 2011’s In the Mountain in the Cloud, especially considering 2008’s ominous and hard rocking Censored Colors. On Evil Friends, the first album the band has taken an extra year to make, the songs are markedly darker, more sinister and more fun than anything we’ve heard from the band perviously.Paste

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NEW RELEASE TUESDAY: QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE LISTENING PARTY WITH FREE PIE HOLE PIZZA AND NRT RAFFLE PRIZE!

queensThe Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series continues on June 4 with Queens of the Stone Age‘s Like Clockwork! The album — available on CD, vinyl and deluxe vinyl — will be featurQOTSA_LikeClockwork-Packshot 200ed 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

Queens of the Stone Age – Like Clockwork

Barenaked Ladies – Grinning Streak

Portugal. The Man – Evil Friends

The City and Colour – The Hurry and the Harm

Camera Obscura – Desire Lines

Ben Folds Five – Live

Various Artists – Ghost Brothers of Darkland County (deluxe edition also available)

Megadeth – Super Collider

Filter – The Sun Comes Out Tonight

Rogue Wave – Nightingale Floors

Sleeping with Sirens – Feel

Olms – Olms

Eleanor Friedberger – Personal Record

Future Bible Heroes – Memories of Love, Eternal Youth and Partygoing

Future Bible Heroes – Partygoing

Houndmouth – From the Hills Below the City

The Maine – Forever Halloween

Quadron – Avalanche

1975 – IV

Various Artists – You Don’t Know Me: Rediscovering Eddy Arnold

Various Artists – 2013 Warped Tour Compilation

Various Artists – More from Pitch Perfect

Motown – Musical Cast Recording

Capital Cities – In a Tidal Wave of Mystery

Grateful Dead – Dick’s Picks Vol. 23: Baltimore Civic Center 9/17/72

Killing Joke – The Singles Collection 1979-2012 (deluxe edition also available)

GRMLN – Empire

Naam – Vow

My Dying Bride – Manuscript

Teengirl Fantasy – Tracer

Gretchen Wilson – Under the Covers

DJ Clay – The World Upside

The Doobie Brothers – Live at Wolf Trap

George Benson – My Inspiration

Matthew Morrison – Where It All Began

David Ford – Charge

The Amazing Rhythm Aces – Stacked Deck/Too Stuffed to Jump

Surf Punks – Locals Only

Lenka – Shadows

Sonny Locs – Talkbox Classics

Anarbor – Burnout

Savoir Adore – Our Nature

John Hopkins – Immunity

Albert King – Roadhouse Blues

Dave Davies – I Will Be Me

Deep Purple – Copenhagen 1972

Hawkwind Light Orchestra – Stellar Variations

Nektar – Down to Earth

Rory Block – Avalon: A Tribute to Mississippi John Hurt

Broncho – Can’t Get Past the Lives

Buika – La Noche Mas Larga

VINYL

Queens of the Stone Age – Like Clockwork (three vinyl versions available)

OMD – English Electric

Portugal. The Man – Evil Friends

Rise Against – RPM10

Jason Isbell – Southeastern

Megadeth – Super Collider

Natalie Maines – Mother

Olms – Olms

Houndmouth – From the Hills Below the City

Teengirl Fantasy – Tracer

Traffic – Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory

The Doobie Brothers – Live at Wolf Trap

Lenka – Shadows

Loop – Heaven’s End

Naam – Vow

Goat – Dreambuilding/Stonegoat

Ry Cooder – Bop Till You Drop

Ry Cooder – Borderline

Donovan – Various Reissues

DVD/BLU-RAY

Frank Zappa – A Token of His Extreme DVD

Doobie Brothers – Live at Wolf Trap DVD and Blu-ray

Identity Theft DVD and Blu-ray

Shaun of the Dead/Hot Fuzz DVD and Blu-ray

Adventure Time Season 2 DVD

Creature from the Black Lagoon Blu-ray

Brad Pitt – Four Film Favorites DVD

Destiny’s Child – Video Anthology DVD

Warm Bodies Blu-ray

A Good Day to Die Hard Blu-ray

Stalag 17/The Dirty Dozen DVD

RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 20 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING JUNE 3, 2013)

new vinyl1. Random Access Memories, Daft Punk
2. Modern Vampires of the City, Vampire Weekend
3. Trouble Will Find Me, The National
4. The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, Alice in Chains
5. Wrote a Song for Everyone, John Fogerty
6. The Lumineers, The Lumineers
7. Bankrupt!, Phoenix
8. American Kid, Patty Griffin
9. Night Visions, Imagine Dragons
10. What’s That Hat For?, Hillfolk Noir
11. The Heist, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
12. Boys & Girls, Alabama Shakes
13. Born to Die, Lana Del Rey
14. Sigh No More, Mumford & Sons
15. Comedown Machine, The Strokes
16. Blood Drive, ASG
17. Volume 3, She & Him
18. I’m a Shy Guy, Frim Fram 4
19. Some Nights, Fun.
20. Ghost on Ghost, Iron & Wine

NEW HILLFOLK NOIR, TRAVIS WARD ALBUMS NOW AVAILABLE AT THE RX!

what's that hat farNew albums from Hillfolk Noir and Travis Ward are now available at The Record Exchange!

Hillfolk Noir’s What’s That Hat For? was recorded with Jon and Jude Mullin at the Ozark Missile Studio (Jon Mullin also recorded Hillfolk Noir’s 2012 album Hillfolk Noir Radio Hour). Following the conceptual Radio Hour, the band took a minimalist approach to the Hat sessions, jump upscutting 26 tracks with the Mullins, 14 of which are featured on what Ward calls Hillfolk Noir’s “favorite record to date.”

“I’ve known Jon Mullin for as long as I’ve been serious about music and look up to him as a friend and artist,” Ward says. “The studio was a large room with vaulted ceilings, stove and wood floors. Jon had really great microphones and preamps and a sweet old half-inch reel-to-reel. We filled up three tapes and were stunned by the sound of the raw audio — warm and clear.”

“Less is more” also characterized the three sessions for Travis Ward’s Jump Ups and Jollities, a traditional blues-folk solo album recorded at Steve Fulton’s Audio Lab. Each of the album’s bare-bones songs features Ward and a lone instrument, created “with deep forests and high mountains on my mind,” he says.

ALICE IN CHAINS AND OTHER NEW CD RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE RX

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The second record that Alice in Chains have released since their return to activity in 2005, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here is an evolution in concept and politics, if not a dramatic departure from their distinct style and execution.

What is different is the perspective — the ideas within the record. While Alice in Chains have primarily drawn upon personal struggles and inner darkness as the source of their material in the past, this latest effort also reaches outwards, incorporating themes of religious belief and extremism, and the hostility of the current socio-political climate.

A brooding, groovy, muscular album, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here is a more mature and thoughtful application of Alice In Chains’ undeniably powerful aesthetic. Exclaim

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