NEW RELEASE TUESDAY 3/5: YOUTH LAGOON LISTENING PARTY, FREE PIE HOLE PIZZA PLUS TREEFORT WARMUP PARTY WITH EDMOND DANTES LIVE!

wondrous bughouseThe Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series continues on March 5 with Youth Lagoon‘s Wondrous Bughouse! The album — available on CD and vinyl — will be featured during our weekly listening party at 5 p.m. (NOTE EARLIER TIME) while you enjoy free pizza from our New Release Tuesday partners Pie Hole! Get a free Youth Lagoon poster with purchase and enter to win our New Release Tuesday raffle: A Fat Possum prize pack!

The listening party will kick off our Treefort Warmup Party, which also features a live set from Edmond Dantes and free Payette Brewing Co. beer! Full details HERE.

Are you a proud owner of a Radio Boise KRBX Card? Bring it in every Tuesday pie holefrom 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).

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 radio boise march 2013Boise receives 20% of drink sales from every Radio Boise Tuesday show. You receive 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

Youth Lagoon – Wondrous Bughouse

Josh Ritter – The Beast in its Tracks

Son Volt – Honky Tonk

They Might Be Giants – Nanobots

Jimi Hendrix – People, Hell and Angels

How to Destroy Angels – Welcome Oblivion

Madeleine Peyroux – Blue Room

Kate Nash – Girl Talk

The Cave Singers – Naomi

Robyn Hitchcock – Love From London

Boz Scaggs – Memphis

Hey Marseilles – Lines We Trace

The Last Bison – Inheritance

Autechre – Exai

At the Drive-in – Acrobatic Tenement

Cloud Cult – Love

The Men – New Moon

Tossers – Emerald City

Soilwork – Living Infinite

Caitlin Rose – Stand-in

Shannon Whitworth – High Tide

Rhye – Woman

Ashley Monroe – Like a Rose

The Kingsbury Manx – Bronze Age

The New Amsterdams – Outroduction

Krokus – Dirty Dynamite

Old Man Markley – Down Side Up

Luke Bryan – Spring Break: Here to Party

Various Artists – Disco Love Vol. 3

Various Artists – Deutsche Elektronische Musik: Experimental German Rock and Electronic Music 1972-1983 Vol. 2

Various Artists – Change the Beat: The Celluloid Records Story 1980-1987

Hiromi – Move

Olof Arnalds – Sudden Elevation

Yes – Close to the Edge SACD

Emerson Lake & Palmer – Emerson Lake & Palmer

Fiction – Big Other

Hollis Brown – Ride on the Train

VINYL

Youth Lagoon – Wondrous Bughouse

Josh Ritter – The Beast in its Tracks (deluxe edition also available)

The Civil Wars – Unplugged on VH1

Jimi Hendrix – People, Hell and Angels

Jimi Hendrix – Axix: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix – Are You Experienced?

Frightened Rabbit – Pedestrian Verse

Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind

The Cave Singers – Naomi

Richard Thompson – Electric

Deafheaven – Demo

Underworld – Rez (Bassnectar Remix)

Autechre – Exai

Kate Nash – Girl Talk

Robyn Hitchcock – Love From London

Boz Scaggs – Memphis

Various Artists – West of Memphis: Voices for Justice

Various Artists – Disco Love Vol. 3

Various Artists – Change the Beat: The Celluloid Records Story 1980-1987

Touche Amore/Pianos Become Teeth – Split 7-inch

Cannonball Adderly – Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at The Club

Nick Waterhouse – Raina

Jucifer – Nadir

Doobie Brothers – Toulouse Street

DVD/BLU-RAY

The Dark Knight Blu-ray

Friday the 13th Uncut Blu-ray

NEW PARAMORE CD SINGLE ONLY $1 (INCLUDES COUPON FOR NEW ALBUM!)

468x60(1)paramore-now-single-400x400Paramore‘s new self-titled album comes out on April 9, but right now you can score an indie exclusive CD single for only 99 cents at The Record Exchange!

The CD, which features the single “Now,” comes with a $1 coupon that you can bring back and cash in on the new album courtesy of our friends at Record Store Day!

NEW RELEASE TUESDAY 2/26: JOHNNY MARR LISTENING PARTY AND VINYL TEST PRESSING RAFFLE, FREE PIE HOLE!

Johnny-Marr-The-MessengerThe Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series continues on Feb. 26 with Johnny Marr‘s The Messenger! The album — available on CD and vinyl — will be featured during our weekly listening party at 6 p.m. while you enjoy free pizza from our New Release Tuesday partners Pie Hole! Enter to win one of our New Release Tuesday raffles: A rare vinyl test pressing of The Messenger or a Popstrangers red flexi-disc 7-inch!

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).

Speaking of our beloved community radio station, their Radio Boise pie holeTuesdays 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 receive 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 radio boise tuesdays february 2013the 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

Johnny Marr – The Messeger

Atoms for Peace – Amok

Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell – Old Yellow Moon

Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused to Sing

KMFDM – Kunst

Ivan and Aloysha – All the Times We Had

Gold Fields – Black Sun

Shout Out Louds – Optica

Mount Moriah – Miracle Temple

J. Period and Kanye West – G.O.O.D. Music: Remixed and Unreleased

10,000 Maniacs – Music from the Motion Picture

Darkthrone – Underground Resistance

Nektar – Journey to the Center of the Eye

Bill Frisell – Silent Comedy

Wayne Hancock – Ride

Hank Williams – Greatest Hits Live Vol. 2

Boy – Mutual Friends

Taddy Porter – Stay Golden

Vietnam – American Dream

Popstrangers – Antipodes

Grave Babies – Crusher

Jesse Dee – On My Mind/In My Heart

Chris Duarte Group – My Soul Alone

Within the Ruins – Elite

Michael Bolton – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough: A Tribute to Hitsville, USA

Clint Mansell – Stoker

VINYL

Atoms for Peace – Amok

Johnny Marr – The Messenger

Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused to Sing

Down – Down IV Pt. 1: The Purple EP

Autre ne Veut – Anxiety

Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare

Pillowfight – Pillowfight

Anti-Flag – Die for the Government

Vietnam – American Dream

Shout Out Louds – Optica

Wayne Hancock – Ride

Gold Fields – Black Sun

Syl Johnson – Is It Because I’m Black?

Syl Johnson – Dresses Too Short

Traffic – When the Eagle Flies

Albert King – Big Blues

Freddy King – Goes Surfin’

Lusine – Waiting Room

Kustom Kings – Kustom City

Casino Versus Japan – Go Hawaii

DVD/BLU-RAY

Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused to Sing DVD

Master DVD and Blu-ray

The Eagles – Farewell: Live from Melbourne DVD

U2 – Music Milestones: War DVD

Deep Purple – Music Milestones: Made in Japan DVD

Sansho the Bailiff (Criterion Collection) Blu-ray

Midnight Movies Vol. 12: Shockumentary Triple Feature DVD

RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 20 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 24, 2013)

alabama shakes1. Boys & Girls, Alabama Shakes
2. Push the Sky Away, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
3. Donkey Punch the Night, Puscifer
4. The Lumineers, The Lumineers
5. Babel, Mumford & Sons
6. Electric, Richard Thompson
7. Get Up!, Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite
8. Minus the Machine, 10 Years
9. Long.Live.A$AP, A$AP Rocky
10. Etta, Edmond Dantes
11. Some Nights, Fun.
12. Anything in Return, Toro Y Moi
13. Heartthrob, Tegan & Sara
14. Searching for Sugar Man, Rodriguez
15. Home Grown, Innocent Man
16. Wolf’s Law, The Joy Formidable
17. Fade, Yo La Tengo
18. Peter Goes to Law School, The Dirty Moogs
19. Clash the Truth, Beach Fossils
20. 21, Adele

THE VINYL WORD: NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS 'PUSH THE SKY AWAY'

Push-The-Sky-Away-PACKSHOT3-768x768PREVIEW/BUY THE VINYL HERE

As frontman of The Birthday Party, The Bad Seeds and Grinderman, and through incarnations as actor, screenwriter and author, Nick Cave has spent the last 30 years carving a reputation as rock’s great polymath. His great vocal screeds, steeped in literature and religion, make hell on Earth sound as exhilarating as an acid trip at the funfair, with some beautifully desolate ballads about love, loss and heartbreak chucked in as a bonus. 

What’s remarkable is that, after 30 years, a new wind blows through ‘Push The Sky Away’. Like the impatient sea air of Cave’s Brighton home, there’s a sense of change that gusts through the band’s 15th studio album, as it ventures into natural catastrophe (‘We No Who U R’), scientific discovery (‘Higgs Boson Blues’) and ravaging tides (‘Water’s Edge’).

It’s their first album since multi-instrumentalist and Cave’s longest collaborator Mick Harvey left. That, perhaps, is why violinist Warren Ellis takes an even more pivotal role – which feels more in key with Cave and Ellis’ magnificently bleak soundtrack to John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, than the cock-swaggering garage rock of Grinderman and 2008’s ‘Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!’. Recent interviews suggest Cave was tiring of the swampy blues of ‘…Lazarus…’ – “You play a song, and everyone’s grabbing a fuckin’ maraca, y’know?” he said. So it’s no surprise its follow-up is starker, steeped in cinematic strings (‘Jubilee Street’), lush harmonies (‘We No Who U R’), and futuristic clatter from unidentifiable instruments. 

‘Wide Lovely Eyes’ is as heart-swelling as any of Cave’s greatest love songs, but like much on the album there’s a sense of agitation to its terse guitar throbs and space-age warbles. Factory clangs add a suspenseful feel to ‘We No Who U R’ (text-speak from one of rock’s greatest lyricists?) as Cave sings post-apocalyptically of charred trees stood like “pleading hands”. He hasn’t, it’s clear, lost touch with the mythical (“I believe in God, I believe in mermaids too”), nor the religious (girls stand with “legs wide to the world like bibles open”). But there’s a sense that the characters on ‘Push The Sky Away’ are closer in time and space: take the boys on Brighton beach, trying to get the attention of city girls with “white strings floating from their ears”, and the lyrical cameo from Disney’s Hannah Montana in the darkly comic ‘Higgs Boson Blues’. 

What Cave and co have managed here is no mean feat: a masterpiece that merges the experimentation and freedom of their side projects with Cave’s most tender songcraft. “Some people say it’s just rock’n’roll”, he concludes, with a sentimentality that’s almost syrupy, on ‘Push The Sky Away’, “but it gets you right down to your soul”. Amen.NME