NEW RELEASE TUESDAY: PET SHOP BOYS LISTENING PARTY WITH RARE TEST PRESSING GIVEAWAY AND PIE HOLE PIZZA, PLUS FLY2VOID MEET & GREET!

pet-shop-boys-electric 200The Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series continues on July 16 with Pet Shop Boys’ Electric! 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 — an ultra-rare (only 10 available in the U.S.) vinyl test pressing of Electric! NOTE: You must purchase a copy of Electric to be entered to win. Here’s why.

Head to the RX early and catch a special release party, meet and greet and acoustic performance with Fly2Void fly2voidstarting at 5 p.m.! The band is celebrating the release of its new album Take on the World, which was mixed at NRG Studios (Linkin Park) by Jay Baumgardner (Papa Roach, Sevendust) in Hollywood and mastered by Tom Baker (Beastie Boys, NIN) at Precision Mastering in Hollywood.

This is Fly2Void’s first album in 11 years and shows the true musical realm of the band’s music and influences. “We poured our musical hearts and souls into this record. We wanted to give our fans, new listeners, and ourselves, the most honest/rockin’/groovin’ musical playlist that we could. Take on the World is definitely an album that wraps up what Fly2Void is all about (musically and personally).”pie hole

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).radio boise tuesdays

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 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

Pet Shop Boys – Electric

Mayer Hawthorne – Where Does This Door Go (deluxe edition also available)

David Lynch – The Big Dream

Sara Bareilles – Blessed Unrest

Robert Randolph – Lickety Split

Matt Nathanson – Last of the Great Pretenders

Fly2Void – Take on the World

Philip H. Anselmo – Walk Through Exits Only

Doc Watson – Definitive

Various Artists – Only God Forgives Soundtrack

Sick Puppies – Connect

Mayday – Believers

Joey and Rory – Joey and Rory Gospel

Cody Simpson – Surfers Paradise

Defeater – Letters Home

Court Yard Hounds – Amelita

Patrick Sweany – Close to the Floor

Various Artists – Teen Beach Movie Soundtrack

Canned Heat – Live Heat ’72

Various Artists – Verve Remixed: The First Ladies

Everfound – Everfound

Nona Hendryx – Nona

Christopher Cross – A Night in Paris

Bob Saget – That’s What I’m Talking About

Various Artists – Turbo Soundtrack

Kidz Bop Kids – Kidz Bop 24

VINYL

Gogol Bordello – Pura Vida Conspiracy

Philip H. Anselmo – Walk Through Exits Only

Matt Nathanson – Last of the Great Pretenders

Sara Bareilles – Blessed Unrest

David Lynch – The Big Dream

Maps – Vicissitude

Defeater – Letters Home

Peter Buck – You Must Fight to Live on the Planet of the Apes

Eric Clapton – Every Little Thing

Cliff Martinez – Only God Forgives Soundtrack

Nightingales and Canaries – Nightingales and Canaries

Black Label Society – Blessed Hellride

Black Label Society – Stronger Than Death

S.E. Rogie – The Sounds of S.E. Rogie Vol. 1

Nachtmystium – Instinct: Decay

Toody – Toody

DVD/BLU-RAY

Black Sabbath – Rock Heroes DVD

Boris Karloff – Black Sabbath Blu-ray

Evil Dead (2013) DVD and Blu-ray

42 DVD and Blu-ray

Lord of the Flies DVD and Blu-ray

Bob Saget – That’s What I’m Talking About DVD

WIN A RARE VINYL TEST PRESSING OF THE NEW PET SHOP BOYS ALBUM!

pet shop boysThe Record Exchange was one of only 10 indie record stores in the country to get our hands on an ultra-rare vinyl test pressing of the new Pet Shop Boys album Electric, and one lucky customer will win it Tuesday!

We will hold the drawing for the test pressing at our Pet Shop Boys New Release Tuesday Listening Party (6 p.m. July 16). Because of the rarity of this item, unlike most New Release Tuesday raffle prizes, you have to purchase the new Pet Shop Boys to be entered to win. Why? Because we want the test pressing to go to a Pet Shop Boys fan and not up on eBay Wednesday.

Fear not, though, as we’ll have a second New Release Tuesday raffle prize for everyone to enter without purchase.

THE VINYL WORD: 'CELESTIAL' BY ISIS

Isis_CelestialBUY THE VINYL HERE

The now-classic debut full-length Celestial highlights ISIS‘ roots in metal and hardcore while displaying the experimentation with post-rock and ambience that they would become best known for. Accurately described by Decibel Magazine as “a transitional record between the band’s early work and the post-metal benchmarks such as Oceanic … the elements of the greatness are present, but rawer, more direct.” Initially surfacing in 2000 following the larvael stages of formative EPs, Celestial was ISIS’ first release with the (then newly-solidified) lineup that would last them through a decade until disbanding in 2010.

With chugging sludge, expansive doom, droning metal and a nuanced yet vital use of keys, samples and noise, Celestial at times borders on completely devastation, but gracefully shifts into passages of sheer beauty. ISIS came into their own with Celestial, mastering the flow of sonic dynamics between “loud” and “quiet”, smoothly bringing sparse elements into an otherwise oppressively heavy sound.

This unique and varied album of nearly an hour’s length was their first captured by engineer Matt Bayles, who subsequently recorded ISIS‘ following three long-players. Aaron Turner’s artwork has been fully reimagined from the original elements, and the double LPs are housed in a gatefold jacket with printed innersleeves containing flood-black interior printing. Out of print for years, Celestial is finally available again with newly remastered audio, carefully crafted specifically for vinyl by longtime cohort James Plotkin. 

CLICK HERE FOR MORE NEW VINYL RELEASES!

NEW RELEASE TUESDAY: THRIFTSTORE MASTERPIECE LISTENING PARTY WITH FREE PIE HOLE PIZZA JULY 9 (6PM)!

thriftstore masterpieceThe Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series continues on July 9 with Thriftstore Masterpiece‘s Presents Lee Hazelwood’s Trouble is a Lonesome Town! 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 — a vinyl test pressing of the album!

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 (exclupie holeding 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 Boise receives 20% of drink sales from every Radio Boise Tuesdradio boise tuesdaysay 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

Thriftstore Masterpiece – Trouble is a Lonesome Town

Jay-Z – Magna Carta Holy Grail

Battlecross – War of Will

Editors – The Weight of Your Love (deluxe edition also available)

Daughn Gibson – Me Moan

The Reverend Horton Heat – Live at the Fillmore

Preservation Hall Jazz Band – That’s It!

Scud Mountain Boys – Do You Love the Sun

U-Ziq – Chewed Corners

Anna Von Hausswolff – Ceremony

Skylar Grey – Don’t Look Down

Speedy Ortiz – Major Arcana

Monsters Scare You – Die a Legend

Deep Forest – Deep Africa

Bell X1 – Chop Chop

Overseas – Overseas

Octopus Project – Fever Forms

… And You Will Know Us By the Trail of the Dead – Various Reissues

Devo – Hardcore Vol. 1 and 2

Travis Tritt – Calm After

Status Quo – Bula Quo

Whitesnake – Made in Britain/The World Record

Jesse Harris – Borne Away

Trampled Under Foot – Badlands

Ramin Djawadi – Game of Thrones: Season Three

Letlive – Blackest Beautiful

Solomon Burke – Live at Montreux 2006

Michael Martin Murphey – Red River Drifter

Hebronix – Unreal

The Burial – In the Taking of Flesh

Maps – Vicissitude

Cornell Campbell Meets Soothsayers – Nothing Can Stop Us

Butcher Babies – Goliath

Like Moths to Flames – An Eye for An Eye

Sirenia – Perils of the Deep Blue

Whirr – Around

Pat Travers Band – Can Do

Adlib – Bad Newz

Big B – Fools Gold

Merry Clayton – The Best of Merry Clayton

Deadly Gentlemen – Roll Me Tumble Me

VINYL

Zomby – With Love

Baths – Obsidian

Isis – Celestial

John Prine – Missing Years

U-Ziq – Chewed Corners

Ben Folds Five – Live

… And You Will Know Us By the Trail of the Dead – Various Reissues

Johnny Cash – Get Rhythm/I Walk the Line

Woods – Be All Be Easy

Overseas – Overseas

Preservation Hall Jazz Band – That’s It!

Smith Westerns – Varsity

Gretchen Wilson – Under the Covers

The James Hunter Six – Minute By Minute

Anna Von Hausswolff – Ceremony

The Lonely Island – The Wack Album

Queensryche – Queensryche

Cannibal Corpse – Bloodthirst 25th Anniversary Picture Disc

Caspian – Four Trees

Josefus – Not Dead Yet

Letlive – Blackest Beautiful

Turn Me on Dead Man – We Are the Star People

Hebronix – Unreal

Whirr – Around

Durian Brothers/Ensemble Skalectrik- Split Series No. 22

Prisonaires – Baby Please/Just Walkin’ in the Rain

Rufus Thomas Jr. – Bear Cat/Walking in the Rain

Atriarch – Ritual of Passing

DVD/BLU-RAY

Portlandia Season 3 DVD and Blu-ray

Solomon Burke – Live at Montreux 2006 DVD

The Host DVD and Blu-ray

Spring Breakers DVD and Blu-ray

Admission DVD

Psycho DVD

Birds DVD

BANG YOUR HEAD AGAINST THE HEADBANGER'S WALL AT THE RX!

headbangersjuly120Do you like it hard and heavy? Then come to The Record Exchange and visit The Headbanger’s Wall, a listening station devoted to some of today’s best bands pummeling you with raw power and raw emotion.

The Headbanger’s Wall currently features Valient Thorr, Amon Amarth, Heaven and Earth, Queensryche, Children of Bodom, August Burns Red, Dio, Battlecross, Better Left Unsaid and Monsters Scare You. Come melt your face with us.

Purchase Headbanger’s Wall titles HERE.