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NEW RELEASE TUESDAY: VAMPIRE WEEKEND LISTENING PARTY WITH FREE PIE HOLE PIZZA AND NRT RAFFLE!

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

Vampire-Weekend-Modern-Vampires-of-the-4.21.2013 200The Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series continues on May 14 with Vampire Weekend‘s Modern Vampires of the City! 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!

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

Vampire Weekend – Vampires of the City

Orchid – Mouths of Madness

Pop Evil – Onyx

R.E.M. – Green 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

Kings of Leon – The Complete Albums Collection

Mark Lanegan and Duke Garwood – Black Pudding

Ms Mr – Secondhand Rapture

Dillinger Escape Plan – One of Us is the Killer

Escape the Fate – Ungrateful (deluxe edition also available)

Snowden – No One in Control

Boxer Rebellion – Promises

Four Tet – Rounds (reissue)

Bibio – Silver Wilkinson

Devo – Live in Seattle 1981

Wampire – Curiosity

Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats – Mind Control

Tea Leaf Green – In the Wake

George Strait – Love is Everything

Chip Taylor – Block Out the Sirens of This Lonely World

Christian McBride and Inside Straight – People Music

Wonder Years – Greatest Generation

Ben Lee – Welcome to the Work

The Features – The Features

Demi Lovato – Demi

PJ Norton – New Orleans

Huey Lewis and the News – Sports! 30th Anniversary Edition

Agnetha Faltskog – A

Eve – Lip Lock

Bobby McFerrin – Spirityouall

Tommy Emmanuel and Martin Taylor – Colonel and Governor

Jason Boland and the Stragglers – Dark and Dirty Mile

Trace Adkins – Love Will

Eluvium – Nightmare Ending

Buck 65 – Situation

Amy Grant – How Mercy Looks From Here

Juan Luis Guerra – Asondeguerra Tour

Sam Amidon – Bright Sunny South

Anamanaguchi – Endless Fantasy

Arckanum – Fenris Kindir

Immolation – Kingdom of Conspiracy

Immortal – Various Reissues

VINYL

Vampire Weekend – Vampires of the City (deluxe edition also available)

Iggy and the Stooges – Ready to Die

Mark Lanegan and Duke Garwood – Black Pudding

R.E.M. – Green 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

Rilo Kiley – Rkives

Atlas Genius – When It Was Now

Dear Hunter – Migrant

Nick Drake – Bryter Layter

Major Lazer – Free the Universe

Cannibal Corpse – Vile 25th Anniversary Picture Disc

Four Tet – Rounds (reissue)

Bibio – Silver Wilkinson

Boxer Rebellion – Promises

Escape the Fate – Ungrateful

Bright Me the Horizon – Sempiternal

Drowningman – Busy Signal at the Suicide Hotline

Epitaph for a Legend – Epitaph for a Legend

Bass Drum of Death – Shattered Me

Neon Neon – Praxis Makes Perfect

B Dolan – Fallen House, Sunken City

Swamp Dogg – Gag a Maggot

Henry Flynt – Graduation

Ekin Fil – Ekin Fil

Human Eye – 4: Into Unknown

DVD/BLU-RAY

Slightly Stoopid – Live at Robertos Tri Studios DVD

3:10 to Yuma (Criterion Collection) DVD and Blu-ray

Dexter Season 7 DVD

Cloud Atlas DVD and Blu-ray

Kaskade – Freaks of Nature Tour DVD

Jubal (Criterion Collection) DVD

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RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 20 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING MAY 12, 2013)

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tn1. American Kid, Patty Griffin
2. Monomania, Deerhunter
3. Annie Up, Pistol Annies
4. Volume 3, She & Him
5. Love Has Come For You, Steve Martin & Edie Brickell
6. More Than Just a Dream, Fitz and the Tantrums
7. Mosquito, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
8. Silence Yourself, Savages
9. Ghost on Ghost, Iron & Wine
10. The Low Highway, Steve Earle & the Dukes
11. MCII, Mikal Cronin
12. Tape Deck Heart, Frank Turner
13. Dear Miss Lonelyhearts, Cold War Kids
14. The Music is You: A Tribute to John Denver, Various Artists
15. The Heist, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
16. Boys & Girls, Alabama Shakes
17. The Beast In Its Tracks, Josh Ritter
18. Old Yellow Moon, Emmylou Harris
19. Golden, Lady Antebellum
20. Stories Don’t End, Dawes

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FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS AND OTHER NEW RX CD RECOMMENDATIONS

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May 9, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

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On their debut album, 2010’s Pickin’ Up the Pieces, Fitz and the Tantrums were retro-soul revivalists with new-wave panache. It was an all-killer, hooks-galore smash, built on the band’s roomy Wrecking Crew grooves and the sassy sexual tension of co-vocalists “Fitz” Fitzpatrick and Noelle Scaggs. Their hi-fi sequel More than Just a Dream flips the script, drawing out their ‘80s synth fetish. But to label it a “throwback” album would be short-sighted: Working with producer Tony Hoffer, the band bounces giddily through the last half-century of pop music, from Motown to synth-pop, from early hip-hop to campy indie-bombast. Whatever it is, it’s a front-to-back kaleidoscope behemoth that signals the band’s ambition to dominate commercial radio. This kind of album is a dying breed—the kind where every single track wants to be a single, even the ballads; the kind that gets catchier and weirder with every spin. — Paste

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THE VINYL WORD: DEERHUNTER'S 'MONOMANIA'

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Monomania, the fifth studio full-length album from Atlanta art-punk band Deerhunter begins not with bang, but a croak. Following a few seconds of guitar interplay, frontman Bradford Cox howls a little before “Neon Junkyard” kicks into proper gear, then sings, “Finding the fluorescence in the junk / By night illuminates the day.”

Much like the band making it, this record’s a little weird, unpredictable, and off-putting. Deerhunter’s lineup has been in continual flux in recent years, which could be why Cox and company always manage to sound so delightfully just left of normal. But this band, which now comprises Cox, longtime members Moses Archuleta (drums) and Lockett Pundt (guitars, vocals), and new guys Frankie Broyles (guitars) and Josh McKay (bass, organ, etc.), has managed to continually transcend interpersonal drama to create some of the best and most interesting music in indie rock.

Monomania feels less like a collection of songs that belong together and more like simply a group of great tunes. Pundt brings his gorgeous, mournful vocals and inspired melodies to “The Missing,” which follows like an anvil to the hangover racket of “Leather Jacket II,” its guitars screaming, drums crashing. As off-putting as Deerhunter can be, it isn’t afraid to get catchy (“Dream Captain”), nor does it shy away from gentle, ponderous ambling (“T.H.M.”), all of which lends to a lack of identity that often befits a great—if all over the place—mixture. There are just a handful of tracks on Monomania that could be aptly described as “sounding nothing like Deerhunter,” and that’s part of its charm.

Perhaps the best and weirdest track on Monomania is “Pensacola,” a rollicking country jam—complete with steel guitar—that hints at young, chorus-less Bob Dylan at his best. Seemingly an ode to escaping to Florida from the town that’s given the narrator nothing but a “bald head and trouble,” “Pensacola” finds Cox whooping and yelping and sounding like he’s having a damn good time. It’s as if he found the fluorescence in the junk and simply couldn’t wait to share it with the world. –A.V. Club

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NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: PATTY GRIFFIN'S 'AMERICAN KID'

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American Kid is Patty Griffin’s first album of primarily original material since 2007’s Children Running Through. It’s her most stripped-down recording since her debut, Living with Ghosts. Acoustic guitars of all stripes, mandolins, earthy drums, percussion, bass, and occasional piano and organ accompany her instantly recognizable voice. Co-produced by the artist and Craig Ross, she is joined by longtime guitarist Doug Lancio, as well as Cody and Luther Dickinson. Robert Plant appears on three songs, including the single “Ohio.” The set was recorded in Memphis and Brooklyn. Griffin wrote most of these songs after learning of her father’s impending death. They aren’t so much about his actual life, but her making sense of the coming absence of his physical presence in hers, what she knew of him and his times. These songs are mostly acoustic; one can hear traces of early blues, various American folk styles, gospel, and vintage country music in her brand of Americana. There isn’t anything extra anywhere in the mix. The space in the high lonesome “Go Wherever You Wanna Go,” with Luther’s National Steel guitar playing slide in counterpart to Griffin’s earthy vocal, is almost spooky. The combined supplication and exhortation in the haunted “Don’t Let Me Die in Florida” carries traces of prewar and Memphis blues. The duet between Griffin and Plant on “Ohio,” is a shimmering, open-tuned droning float, it’s lyric binds spiritual and physical love; it would not have been out of place on a Band of Joy record. The feeling of home and hearth saturates her excellent reading of Lefty Frizzell’s “Mom & Dad’s Waltz,” while the musical sensation — if not the form — of the folk-blues courses through the disquieting “Faithful Son,” with a haunting backing vocal by Plant. “Irish Boy” evokes an early 20th century parlor song; Griffin’s only accompaniment is her piano. “Get Ready Marie” is a barroom waltz, complete with a male backing chorus and made loopy by an off-kilter Hammond B-3. The set closer, “Gonna Miss You When You’re Gone,” is Griffin speaking directly to her father, addressing the deep mark he made upon her life, even as he’s passing through it. It’s part Lonnie Johnson and Lil Green swing blues, and part Peggy Lee pop. It’s slow burning, tender, and bittersweet, a three a.m. confession in an empty room, sung from one spirit to another. While the theme of mortality runs deep through American Kid, so does the celebration of life. Roughshod and unpredictable songs engage it in the present as well as the past, through courage, fear, love, memory, and the grainy, knotty, often invisible ties that bind. With its immediacy, economy, cagey strength, and vulnerability, Griffin delivers these 12 songs not as gifts or statements, but as her own evidence of what is, what was, and what yet may come. –All Music

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