HOLY GRAIL GUITAR CLINIC AND Q&A/SIGNING FRIDAY, APRIL 29

HG_webHoly Grail will visit The Record Exchange (1105 W. Idaho St. in Downtown Boise) for a guitar clinic, Q&A and signing at 6pm Friday, April 29. Holy Grail is performing at Knitting Factory with DevilDriver, Incite and Hemlock later that evening and we have tickets for sale at the store. As always, this Record Exchange in-store event is free and all ages.

Purchase Times of Pride and Peril at the event and get a FREE TICKET to the Knitting Factory show! You can bring a guitar if you wish, but it’s not required —  if you want a critique of your playing chops, Holy Grail will listen and give pointers!

ABOUT HOLY GRAIL

418457140407Los Angeles heavy metal rockstars Holy Grail recently released Times of Pride and Peril, the highly awaited followup to 2012’s Billboard charting, critic favorite Ride the Void. Times of Pride and Peril was recorded with Grammy award-winning producer John Spiker (Tenacious D, Filter). Featuring 10 tracks of solid, classic heavy metal, the album meshes the band’s definitive sound with even catchier vocals and shredding solos while conceptually showcasing the rise and fall of a kingdom.

The band was recently seen on the road with acts including King Diamond, Death Angel, Flotsam and Jetsam and Night Demon and have previously appeared with the likes of Anthrax, Exodus, Orange Goblin and Wednesday 13, in addition to playing at the nationally televised opening home game for the L.A. Kiss arena football team.

Decibel Magazine recently claimed, “You’d have to go back 20 years to find a metal record that achieves this level of instant infectiousness” while praising vocalist James Paul Luna as “the finest metal singer of his generation.”

RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 10 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING APRIL 28, 2016)

4184573234001. A Sailor’s Guide to Earth, Sturgill Simpson
2. Cleopatra, The Lumineers
3. Purple Rain, Prince
4. The Complete Peel Sessions, The White Stripes
5. Santana IV, Santana
6. Dig in Deep, Bonnie Raitt
7. Sounds Like a Reasonable Thing for a Band to Play, eLDopamine
8. Lovers and Leavers, Hayes Carll
9. 25, Adele
10. Ultimate, Prince

NEW RELEASE FRIDAY: AESOP ROCK, NEW MADRID, ROB ZOMBIE, JAYHAWKS, KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD

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

CD

Aesop Rock – Impossible Kid

New Madrid – Magnetkingmagnetqueen

Rob Zombie – Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser

The Jayhawks – Paging Mr. Proust

King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizard – Nonagon Infinity

John Doe – Westerner

Del McCoury and David Grisman – Del and Dawg Live

Sixx:A.M. – Prayers for the Damned

Pity Sex – White Hot Moon

Snarky Puppy – Culcha Vulcha

Martina McBride – Reckless

Lera Lynn – Resistor

American Hi-Fi – Acoustic

Plants and Animals – Waltzed in from the Rumbling

Painted Wives – Obsessed with the End

Fallujah – Dreamless

Ultha – Pain Cleanes Every Doubt

Horse Lords – Interventions

Death Angel – The Art of Dying

Nemesea – Uprise

Honey Island Swamp Band – Demolition Day

Lefty Frizzell – Time Out for the Blues

Mike Dillon – Functioning Broke

VINYL

Aesop Rock – Impossible Kid

The Jayhawks – Paging Mr. Proust

New Madrid – Magnetkingmagnetqueen

King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizard – Nonagon Infinity

Rob Zombie – Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser

Arthur Russell – Tower of Meaning

Andra Day – Cheers to the Fall

Various Artists – Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Live, Vol. 1

Blood Ceremony – Lord of Misrule

Fallujah – Dreamless

Like Rats – II

Wrong – Wrong

Pity Sex – White Hot Moon

Various Artists – Rock n Roll Hall of Fame

John Doe – Westerner

DMX – And Then There Was X

Guy Clark – Dublin Blues

Lucero – Can’t You Hear Them Howl

Konono No. 1 – Meets Batida

Suthep Daoduangmai Band – Come My Brother, Let’s Go to the City!

Sixx:A.M. – Prayers for the Damned

Maybird – Turning Into Water

DVD/BLU-RAY

Ramones – Sheena is a Punk Rocker: Live in Concert DVD

Glen Campbell – The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour DVD

KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD “INFINITE” LISTENING PARTY APRIL 29

418457297509King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard‘s new album Nonagon Infinity is infinite in length (see below), and to celebrate The Record Exchange is hosting an “infinite” listening party on release date Friday, April 29!

From 9am-9pm (Mountain time), Nonagon Infinity will play on the RX hi-fi. The brand new album from the Aussie rockers consists of nine interconnected tracks that comprise an infinite loop of music.

Come to the event, post a photo with the #NonagonMarathon hashtag and get entered to win a Record Exchange prize pack! We’ll also have limited-edition lithographs free with purchase of the album (CD or splatter-colored vinyl).

Coming only six months after the softer, folksy Paper Mache Dream Balloon, Nonagon Infinity finds King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard returning to form on this relentless psychedelic shred fest. Enter the nonagon if you dare.

VINYL TUESDAY: PRINCE AND MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES, PLUS $5 IN FREE USED VINYL WITH $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:

418455576643PRINCEFOR YOU

Days after his untimely passing, Vinyl Tuesday features the vinyl reissue of the Prince album that started it all, For You, originally released in April 1978.

418456763282THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONESLET’S FACE IT

Boston’s plaid founders of ska-core on their multi-platinum album featuring the singles ”The Impression that I Get”, ”Rascal King”, and ”Royal Oil”. First vinyl pressing in nearly 20 years, “Americana” colored vinyl, limited to 400.