WIN A SIGNED MELVINS BASEBALL – ‘BASSES LOADED’ ALBUM OUT NOW!

FullSizeRender (7)418457410533The Melvins have a new album out called Basses Loaded featuring six different bass players (get it?) — Krist Novoselic from Nirvana, Steve McDonald from Redd Kross, Jeff Pinkus from the Butthole Surfers, Trevor Dunn from Mr. Bungle/Fantomas, Jared Warren from Big Business and Dale Crover from the Melvins.

Keeping with the baseball theme, the band signed a handful of regulation MLB baseballs and sent them to select stores, including The Record Exchange. One lucky customer will win it.

To enter the drawing, send an email with the subject “The Melvins” HERE by midnight Thursday, June 16. We will draw a name and notify the winner on June 17.

Hear the Melvins cover “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”.

* One entry per person, NOT per email address. If you have 16 email addresses and you enter with each address, we’ll just delete 15 of them. We have the technology. To be eligible to win, you must live in the Boise metro area and be able to pick up your prize at the store.

VINYL TUESDAY: THE SMITHS AND THE CARS REISSUES, PLUS $5 IN FREE USED VINYL WHEN YOU BUY $25 IN NEW VINYL!

It’s Vinyl Tuesday! Record Exchange customers receive up to $5 in used vinyl* with every $25 in new vinyl purchased and have access to early and exclusive releases. This week’s releases:

418457415646THE SMITHSRANK LP

Digitally remastered edition of this live album from the legendary British quartet. Recorded live at the National Ballroom, London, in October of 1986, roughly six months before they disbanded altogether, these 14 songs capture The Smiths performing in full-on rock-star mode. Here the band’s performance is suitably epic, hit-packed, and engrossing. Morrissey is in fine form providing plenty of banter and personality. Similarly, Marr’s distinctive manic jangle demands much attention, especially on his solo creation “The Draize Train.”

418457415644THE SMITHSLOUDER THAN BOMBS LP

Digitally remastered 180-gram vinyl edition of the classic 1987 collection from the legendary quartet. Compiling singles, B-sides, album tracks, and BBC sessions, Louder Than Bombs boasts a wealth of brilliant material including “Ask,” “You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby” and “Unlovable.” Louder Than Bombs is a necessary purchase for any Smiths fan.

418457463139THE SMITHSTHE WORLD WON’T LISTEN LP

Digitally remastered edition of this 1987 compilation from the legendary British quartet. The World Won’t Listen was a collection of singles, B-sides, album tracks, and BBC sessions and was assembled for the UK market at the same time that the U.S. collection, Louder Than Bombs, was compiled (which contains many of the tracks featured on The World Won’t Listen). Includes Smiths favorites such as ‘Panic’, ‘Ask’, ‘Shoplifters Of The World Unite’, ‘The Boy With The Thorn In His Side’, ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’ and many more.

418457169038THE CARS – THE ELEKTRA YEARS 1978-1987 limited-edition 6LP colored vinyl box set

The Elektra Years 1978-1987 includes six studio albums, each one presented in a replica sleeve with original artwork. Ric Ocasek oversaw digital remastering for the set, while drummer David Robinson – who helped create The Cars’ iconic album covers through the years – served as art director. Each 180-gram LP is pressed on a different color vinyl. The extensive set retraces the band’s musical journey in the studio and includes: The Cars (1978), Candy-O (1979), Panorama (1980), Shake It Up (1981), Heartbeat City (1984) and Door To Door (1987). Among the 60 tracks are the band’s biggest hits – “My Best Friend’s Girl,” “Good Times Roll,” “You Are The Girl,” and “Drive.”

THE KILLS’ ‘ASH & ICE’ OUT NOW’; ENTER TO WIN THE VINYL!

THEKILLS-486x60418457415790The Kills released their new album Ash and Ice on June 3, and The Record Exchange has it on CD, vinyl and limited-edition indie-store-only blue/red swirl vinyl!

Over their almost decade-and-a-half career, The Kills have released four records. Each one a restless, reckless enigmatic art statement that bristled with tension, anxiety, sex, unstudied cool and winking ennui, yet not one of them sounded like the previous one. Ash & Ice is the follow up to 2011’s critically lauded Blood Pressures and was five years in the making in part due to Jamie Hince’s five hand surgeries, which resulted in him having to re-learn how to play guitar with a permanently damaged finger.

It was during Hince’s recuperation from surgery that he first started sketching out what would become the songs for the album. To shake up the writing process, Hince booked a solo trip on the infamous Trans-Siberian Express for inspiration while Alison Mosshart, now residing in Nashville, wrote some of the most affecting, poetically candid lyrics that she ever has, painting word pictures that mine the dangerous terrain between romantic obsession, prophecy and tough love. Where previous albums had an air of detachment and emotional austerity, underpinned by an uneasy self-awareness and unexpressed anger, the 13 songs on Ash & Ice are more understated, less tempestuous and more affecting because of that, exposing the kind of push-pull you feel when you find yourself in a complicated but all-consuming relationship. Ash & Ice is The Kills at their emotionally charged, arresting best. Prepare to be slayed.

We’re giving away a copy of the album on vinyl! To enter the drawing, send an email with the subject “The Kills” HERE by midnight Sunday, June 12. We will draw a name and notify the winner on June 13.

* One entry per person, NOT per email address. If you have 16 email addresses and you enter with each address, we’ll just delete 15 of them. We have the technology. To be eligible to win, you must live in the Boise metro area and be able to pick up your prize at the store.

NEW RELEASE FRIDAY: PAUL SIMON, TEGAN AND SARA, THE KILLS, MICHAEL FRANTI, PINK FLOYD VINYL REISSUES

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

CD

Paul Simon – Stranger to Stranger (deluxe edition available)

Tegan and Sara – Love You to Death

The Kills – Ash and Ice

Michael Franti and Spearhead – Soulrocker

The Melvins – Bases Loaded

Minor Victories – Minor Victories

Train – Does Led Zeppelin II

The Claypool Lennon Delirium – Monolith of Phobos

Joseph Arthur – Family

Rebelution – Falling Into Place

The Traveling Wilburys – The Traveling Wilburys Collection (two versions available)

The David Grisman Sextet – The David Grisman Sextet

Robert Ellis – Robert Ellis

Volbeat – Seal the Deal and Let’s Boogie

Hellyeah – Unden!able

William Tyler – Modern Country

Fantastic Negrito – The Last Days of Oakland

Fews – Means

If These Trees Could Talk – The Bones of a Dying World

White Zombie – It Came From N.Y.C.

Brad Mehldau – Blues and Ballads

Ladyhawke – Wild Things

Matt Haeck – Late Bloomer

Poison Headache – Poison Headache

Heaven’s Cry – Outcast

Combichrist – This is Where Death Begins (deluxe edition available)

William Bell – This is Where I Live

Cough – Still They Pray

Four By Fate – Relentless

Red – End of Silence: 10th Anniversary Edition

The Lonely Heartstring Band – Deep Waters

The Kinks – Everybody’s in Show-Biz

Steve Gunn – Eyes on the Lines

Elvis Depressedly – Holo Pleasures/California Dreamin’

Gates – Parallel Lives

Various Artists – Me Before You Soundtrack

Various Artists – 40 Years of Stony Plain Records

Nico Yaryan – What a Tease

Maren Morris – Hero

Dan and Shay – Obsessed

Bryan Sutton – The More I Learn

Selah Sue – Reason

The D.O.C. – No One Can Do It Better

Paul Butterfield Blues Band – Got a Mind to Give Up Living

Fairport Convention – Live in Finland 1971

Candlemass – Death Thy Lover

Nervosa – Agony

Beartooth – Aggressive

Classixx – Faraway Reach

Max Jury – Max Jury

Kyle Cox – Trio and Friends

VINYL

Pink Floyd – The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Pink Floyd – Ummagumma

Pink Floyd – A Saucerful of Secrets

Pink Floyd – More

Tegan and Sara – Love You to Death

The Strokes – Future Present Past

Paul Simon – Stranger to Stranger

The Kills – Ash and Ice

Minor Victories – Minor Victories

The Claypool Lennon Delirium – Monolith of Phobos

Michael Franti and Spearhead – Soulrocker

Robert Ellis – Robert Ellis

Rolling Stones – Totally Stripped

White Zombie – It Came From N.Y.C.

Deftones – B-Sides and Rarities

Cough – Still They Pray

Various Artists – The Indestructible Beat of Soweto

Ladyhawke – Wild Things

Volbeat – Seal the Deal and Let’s Boogie

Killswitch Engage – Incarnate

Hellyeah – Unden!able

Keb’ Mo’ – Live: That Hot Pink Blues Album

The Traveling Wilburys – The Traveling Wilburys Collecton

The Kinks – Everybody’s in Show-Biz

Adam and the Ants – Kings of the Wild Frontier

Linkin Park – Living Things

Linkin Park – Reanimation

Kevin Gates – Islah

Dexter Gordon – Body and Soul

William Bell – This is Where I Live

Lucky Dube – House of Exile

Lukas Graham – Lukas Graham

Train – Does Led Zeppelin II

DVD/BLU-RAY

Rolling Stones – Totally Stripped DVD and Blu-ray

Imagine Dragons – Smoke and Mirrors Live DVD and Blu-ray

RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 10 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING JUNE 2, 2016)

4184560960981. And the War Came, Shakey Graves
2. Holy Ghost, Modern Baseball
3. Skin, Flume
4. I Still Do, Eric Clapton
5. Cleopatra, The Lumineers
6. Detour, Cyndi Lauper
7. Untitled Unmastered, Kendrick Lamar
8. Good Times, The Monkees
9. 2, Mudcrutch
10. A Sailor’s Guide to Earth, Sturgill Simpson