It’s First Thursday, and we have all kinds of sexy savings throughout the store, including:
• Buy 2 get 1 free used CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray and vinyl!!
• Buy 2 get 1 free coffee and espresso drinks!
1ST THURSDAY AT THE RX JUNE 6: BUY 2 GET 1 FREE SAVINGS ALL OVER STORE!
THE VINYL WORD: PORTUGAL. THE MAN + DANGER MOUSE = WICKED AWESOME
PREVIEW/BUY THE VINYL HERE
The collaboration between Portugal. The Man (band) and Danger Mouse (producer) on the Alaska group’s eighth full-length album was one of those things that made perfect sense as soon as it was announced. P.TM frontman John Gourley and company have always been open to experimentation, always had the musical chops and always exhibited a Danger Mouse-ian undercurrent of gloom, but in recent years they’ve has struggled to find an edge. So who better to refine and congeal the strengths of a stylistically diverse group such as Portugal. The Man than a genius producer who has worked with everyone from Cee-Lo to MF Doom to James Mercer to The Black Keys?
Part of what makes the Danger Mouse/P.TM collaboration work is that Gourley’s natural progression as a songwriter plays right into Danger Mouse’s own strengths. Beginning with 2009’s The Satanic Satanist, Portugal. The Man’s music has skewed toward nebulous, life-affirming proclamations, evoking things like the sun and giving off a general sense of positivity. There’s nothing wrong with this, but there wasn’t a great deal that differentiated The Satanic Satanist, 2010’s American Ghetto and 2011’s In the Mountain in the Cloud, especially considering 2008’s ominous and hard rocking Censored Colors. On Evil Friends, the first album the band has taken an extra year to make, the songs are markedly darker, more sinister and more fun than anything we’ve heard from the band perviously. — Paste
NEW RELEASE TUESDAY: QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE LISTENING PARTY WITH FREE PIE HOLE PIZZA AND NRT RAFFLE PRIZE!
The Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series continues on June 4 with Queens of the Stone Age‘s Like Clockwork! The album — available on CD, vinyl and deluxe vinyl — will be featur
ed 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).
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
Queens of the Stone Age – Like Clockwork
Barenaked Ladies – Grinning Streak
Portugal. The Man – Evil Friends
The City and Colour – The Hurry and the Harm
Camera Obscura – Desire Lines
Ben Folds Five – Live
Various Artists – Ghost Brothers of Darkland County (deluxe edition also available)
Megadeth – Super Collider
Filter – The Sun Comes Out Tonight
Rogue Wave – Nightingale Floors
Sleeping with Sirens – Feel
Olms – Olms
Eleanor Friedberger – Personal Record
Future Bible Heroes – Memories of Love, Eternal Youth and Partygoing
Future Bible Heroes – Partygoing
Houndmouth – From the Hills Below the City
The Maine – Forever Halloween
Quadron – Avalanche
1975 – IV
Various Artists – You Don’t Know Me: Rediscovering Eddy Arnold
Various Artists – 2013 Warped Tour Compilation
Various Artists – More from Pitch Perfect
Motown – Musical Cast Recording
Capital Cities – In a Tidal Wave of Mystery
Grateful Dead – Dick’s Picks Vol. 23: Baltimore Civic Center 9/17/72
Killing Joke – The Singles Collection 1979-2012 (deluxe edition also available)
GRMLN – Empire
Naam – Vow
My Dying Bride – Manuscript
Teengirl Fantasy – Tracer
Gretchen Wilson – Under the Covers
DJ Clay – The World Upside
The Doobie Brothers – Live at Wolf Trap
George Benson – My Inspiration
Matthew Morrison – Where It All Began
David Ford – Charge
The Amazing Rhythm Aces – Stacked Deck/Too Stuffed to Jump
Surf Punks – Locals Only
Lenka – Shadows
Sonny Locs – Talkbox Classics
Anarbor – Burnout
Savoir Adore – Our Nature
John Hopkins – Immunity
Albert King – Roadhouse Blues
Dave Davies – I Will Be Me
Deep Purple – Copenhagen 1972
Hawkwind Light Orchestra – Stellar Variations
Nektar – Down to Earth
Rory Block – Avalon: A Tribute to Mississippi John Hurt
Broncho – Can’t Get Past the Lives
Buika – La Noche Mas Larga
VINYL
Queens of the Stone Age – Like Clockwork (three vinyl versions available)
OMD – English Electric
Portugal. The Man – Evil Friends
Rise Against – RPM10
Jason Isbell – Southeastern
Megadeth – Super Collider
Natalie Maines – Mother
Olms – Olms
Houndmouth – From the Hills Below the City
Teengirl Fantasy – Tracer
Traffic – Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory
The Doobie Brothers – Live at Wolf Trap
Lenka – Shadows
Loop – Heaven’s End
Naam – Vow
Goat – Dreambuilding/Stonegoat
Ry Cooder – Bop Till You Drop
Ry Cooder – Borderline
Donovan – Various Reissues
DVD/BLU-RAY
Frank Zappa – A Token of His Extreme DVD
Doobie Brothers – Live at Wolf Trap DVD and Blu-ray
Identity Theft DVD and Blu-ray
Shaun of the Dead/Hot Fuzz DVD and Blu-ray
Adventure Time Season 2 DVD
Creature from the Black Lagoon Blu-ray
Brad Pitt – Four Film Favorites DVD
Destiny’s Child – Video Anthology DVD
Warm Bodies Blu-ray
A Good Day to Die Hard Blu-ray
Stalag 17/The Dirty Dozen DVD
RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 20 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING JUNE 3, 2013)
1. Random Access Memories, Daft Punk
2. Modern Vampires of the City, Vampire Weekend
3. Trouble Will Find Me, The National
4. The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, Alice in Chains
5. Wrote a Song for Everyone, John Fogerty
6. The Lumineers, The Lumineers
7. Bankrupt!, Phoenix
8. American Kid, Patty Griffin
9. Night Visions, Imagine Dragons
10. What’s That Hat For?, Hillfolk Noir
11. The Heist, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
12. Boys & Girls, Alabama Shakes
13. Born to Die, Lana Del Rey
14. Sigh No More, Mumford & Sons
15. Comedown Machine, The Strokes
16. Blood Drive, ASG
17. Volume 3, She & Him
18. I’m a Shy Guy, Frim Fram 4
19. Some Nights, Fun.
20. Ghost on Ghost, Iron & Wine
THE VINYL WORD: SHABAZZ PALACES AND OTHERS LIGHT UP ANCO REMIX EP
PREVIEW/BUY THE VINYL HERE
“Out of my body, out of my mind,” echoes Shabazz Palaces’ Ishmael Butler over the duo’s remix of Animal Collective’s “New Town Burnout”. In eight short words, Butler epitomizes the effect of an AnCo listening experience — an experience amplified here by the broken sci-fi score of Shabazz beatsmith Tendai Maraire.
Originally an instrumental produced by Panda Bear at the tail end of his Tomboy recording process, “New Town Burnout” made its way to 2012’s Centipede HZ as a straightforward (for AnCo) psych-pop burner. Shabazz Palaces have taken the track’s stems and deconstructed them into an experimental hip-hop effort that follows in the genre-bending exploits of Saul Williams and Death Grips.
To complete the four-track remix EP, AnCo have pulled together experimental pop artists (Brian DeGraw of Gang Gang Dance and the duo behind Teen Girl Fantasy] plus the talents of famed Chicago footwork forefather Traxman to supply reworks of analog-adventure “Monkey Riches”. Whoever believes that dance music has hit a state of homogenization (eyes trained to you, Daft Punk) definitely hasn’t been listening to the same discs as Animal Collective. — Consequence of Sound