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NEW DVD/BLU-RAY: THE ROLLING STONES' 'CROSSFIRE HURRICANE'

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May 23, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

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Crossfire Hurricane, directed by Brett Morgen, is released as part of the ongoing 50th anniversary celebrations of The Rolling Stones. This superb new film tells the story of the Stones’ unparalleled journey from blues obsessed teenagers in the early sixties to their undisputed status as rock royalty. All of The Rolling Stones have been newly interviewed and their words form the narrative arc that links together archive footage of performances, news coverage and interviews, much of it previously unseen. Taking its title from a lyric in “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” Crossfire Hurricane gives the viewer an intimate insight into exactly what it’s like to be part of The Rolling Stones as they overcome denunciation, drugs, dissensions and death to become the definitive survivors. Over a year in the making and produced with the full co-operation and involvement of The Rolling Stones, Crossfire Hurricane is and will remain the definitive story of the world’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll band.

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THE NATIONAL'S 'TROUBLE WILL FIND ME' AND OTHER NEW CD RECOMMENDATIONS

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Most people attribute The National’s escalating popularity to their reliability: They write songs about existential dread and the real pressures that result when others are depending on you to have your shit together. And while that steadiness is certainly important, it gives short shrift to how the Brooklyn-via-Cincinnati band’s career fulfills a fantasy. Though their self-titled 2001 debut is all but written out of their history, every National album since has been more ambitious, accomplished, and successful than the one that came before it. They are strivers, and their place in the indie rock world suggests that life can be a series of upward promotions and self-improvement. But hard work is often a cover for repressed frustration, as was clear on 2010’s High Violet, an album whose wrought arrangements and violent lyrics underscored every story about what a tremendous pain in the ass it was to make. The question they ask on Trouble Will Find Me is both relatable and fantastical: When do we get a break from shooting up the ladder?

The National may find it impossible ever to relax, but they have learned to stop struggling on Trouble Will Find Me, their leanest and most aerodynamic record yet. While the National never lacked confidence or craft, Trouble is an easily accessible and self-assured work, largely because it focuses on the visceral power of Berninger’s vocals and Bryan Devendorf’s inventive drumming. It’s a sign of trust that they can convey all of their ornate and rich melancholy without every sad note being underlined by a bassoon. — Pitchfork

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NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: DAFT PUNK

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May 22, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

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Daft Punk have enjoyed near-universal acclaim over 20 years and three albums but Random Access Memories is their greatest achievement: an ambitious masterpiece you can’t imagine being made by anyone other than Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo.

Opener ‘Give Life Back To Music’ sets the tone with guitars that wouldn’t have sounded out of place on Giorgio Moroder’s Top Gun score. It features Chic’s Nile Rodgers and Paul Jackson Jr, who played on ‘Thriller’, so it’s as funky as you’d expect. The sound of a happy crowd gurgles in the background. The party’s right here.

‘The Game Of Love’ slips into a slower tempo, as a melancholy android discovers heartbreak. The record is loosely themed around a robot’s attempt to become human, and if he needs a guide who better than the producer who gave us Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’? ‘Giorgio By Moroder’ is a documentary of sorts, in which the titular hero narrates his life story. When he describes the beginnings of the disco beat, we hear an insistent click track. When he tells us that when we create art there are no rules, the music proves him right. It’s a life-affirming salute to the power of the imagination.

By assembling a cast of their favourite musicians and delving into their adolescent memories, Daft Punk have created something as emotionally honest as any singer-songwriter confessional – and a lot more fun to dance to. Go out and rejoice: there’s something new under the sun. — NME

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THE VINYL WORD: DIRTY BEACHES RETURN WITH A DOUBLE ALBUM

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Two years ago, Alex Hungtai (a.k.a. Dirty Beaches) still had a day job. Last month, he was touring Russia and Europe and Southeast Asia in advance of the release of an ambitious double-album set. That’s a remarkable shift in status in just two years, and it would be a proud accomplishment for nearly any performer, but for a purveyor of sounds as uncompromising and intense as Dirty Beaches’, it’s all the more notable. Even more notable? The fact that Drifters/Love is the Devil—the aforementioned double-album set—makes exactly zero concessions to Dirty Beaches’ growing profile.

The Drifters section consists of eight tracks that find Hungtai continuing to scratch around in the raw, dark, Suicide-worshipping lo-fi of his earlier work. Reverb-drenched and profoundly emotionally disaffected, the interplay of driving, droney synths; relentlessly recycled rhythms; primal, distorted vocals and ghastly atmospherics continues to be mood music of the most dismal and splenetic sort. The last track of Drifters is “Landscapes in the Mist,” an imprecise and foggy bit of wordless ambience that’s exactly as focused as its title suggests, and it functions as the perfect segue into the Love is the Devil section, where Hungtai seems to abandon song-form altogether and gives into his most experimental tendencies.

These eight tracks are surprisingly beautiful—in a way that most previous Dirty Beaches work has only hinted at—and also haltingly abrasive. “Woman” is built upon an insistent and skull-piercing electronic modulation cycle, around which Hungtai drifts, dropping in tentative piano notes that seem to be searching for a structure that never materializes. “Like the Ocean We Part” is the closest this half of the record comes to resembling “songs,” but that’s only because it’s on this cut that Hungtai’s voice appears, grizzled and over-effected to incomprehensibility though it may be. The gloomy and beautiful tracks on Love is the Devil may be pointing a way forward for Dirty Beaches, they may have been conceived as a spiritual complement to Drifters, or they may just be a temporary detour; whatever their intent though, their presence is a welcome addition to the Dirty Beaches catalog. — Paste

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NEW RELEASE TUESDAY: THE NATIONAL LISTENING PARTY WITH FREE PIZZA!

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The-National 200The Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series continues on May 21 with The National‘s Trouble Will Find Me! 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!

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!

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Here’s a quick look at the bright and shiny new releases this week at The Record Exchange:

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The National – Trouble Will Find Me

Daft Punk – Random Access Memories

30 Seconds to Mars – Love Lust Faith and Dreams

Beach Boys – The 50th Anniversary Tour Live

Darius Rucker – True Believers

Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa – Seesaw

Dirty Beaches – Drifters/Love is the Devil

Airbourne – Black Dog Barking

Willy Moon – Here’s Willy Moon

Primus – Sailing the Seas of Cheese Deluxe Edition

Radiation City – Animals in the Median

Townes Van Zandt – High Low and In Between

Townes Van Zandt – The Late Great Townes Van Zandt

Moody Blues – Live at Montreux 1991

Moody Blues – Threshold of a Dream: Live at the Isle of Wight Festival

Pat Metheny – Tap: John Zorn’s Book of Angels Vol. 20 (deluxe edition also available)

Swamp People – Swamp People

Bob James and David Sanborn – Quartette Humaine

Majical Cloudz – Impersonator

French Montana – Excuse My French

Indigenous – Vanishing Americans

Audra McDonald – Go Back Home

G&D (Georgia Anne Muldrow and Dudley Perkins) – Lighthouse

Alpine – A is for Alpine

John Blue – Sticky Change

Alejandro Sanz – MTV Unplugged

Brand New Heavies – Forward

Guitar Shorty – My Way or the Highway

Come – 11:11 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

Saturday Looks Good to Me – One Kiss Ends It All

Angie Johnson – Sing for You

Mike Scott and Friends – Home Sweet Home: Civil War Era Songs

Scout Niblett – It’s Up to Emma

Pretty Things – Introducing

JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound – Howl

Clairy Browne and the Bangin’ Rackettes – Baby Caught the Bus

New Politics – Bad Girl in Harlem

Nektar – Remember the Future

Captain Beyond – Live in Texas: October 6, 1973

VINYL

The National – Trouble Will Find Me

Daft Punk – Random Access Memories

Primus – Sailing the Seas of Cheese Deluxe Edition

Dirty Beaches – Drifters/Love is the Devil

Caribou – The Milk of Human Kindness

Caribou – Start Breaking My Heart

Townes Van Zandt – High Low and In Between

Townes Van Zandt – The Late Great Townes Van Zandt

Frank Turner – Recovery

Wooden Indian Burial Ground – Holy Mountain

Wooden Indian Burial Ground – Wooden Indian Burial Ground

Radiation City – Animals in the Median

Come – 11:11 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

Django Django – Hi Djinx

Sodom – Epitome of Torture

30 Seconds to Mars – Love Lust Faith and Dreams

T-Bone Walker – Call It Stormy Monday: The Essential Collection

Emili Sande – Our Version of Events

K-OS – Black on Blonde

Scout Niblett – It’s Up to Emma

Majical Cloudz – Impersonator

Bob James and David Sanborn – Quartette Humaine

The Big Sleep – Nature Experiments

DVD/BLU-RAY

Rolling Stones – Crossfire Hurricane DVD and Blu-ray

True Blood Season 5 DVD

Howl’s Moving Castle Blu-ray

My Neighbor Totoro Blu-ray

Medium Cool (Criterion Collection) DVD and Blu-ray

Queen – On Fire: Live at the Bowl DVD

Aaron Neville – My True Story DVD

Stand Up Guys DVD

Side Effects DVD and Blu-ray

Beautiful Creatures DVD

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