NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: FOGERTY WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM HIS FRIENDS

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May 29, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

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John Fogerty’s guests on Wrote A Song for Everyone may provide a pupu platter of genres, but the country/rock/progressive duet partners more often serve as a reminder of Fogerty’s singular potency. The far-flung vocalists also demonstrate how vast his songwriting and cultural influence is, comfortably enfolding each without losing the essence of his intent.

Whether it’s the almost feral Miranda Lambert—joined for a squalling guitar solo by Tom Morello on the title track—brazenly evoking Janis Joplin on a performance country radio would never allow, or a hypnotically smooth Dawes on the fraught “Someday Never Comes,” it is Fogerty whose vocal presence stands out. Indeed on “Almost Saturday Night,” recast in Keith Urban’s signature country-pop, the award-winning country cred-monger almost seems flimsy next to Fogerty’s randy howl.

The real thing is hard to come by. In today’s world living it—as Fogerty did before launching Creedence Clearwater Revival—has been replaced by marketing, focus groups, production teams and pitch correction. Even the road-honed Zac Brown Band comes off as pleasant instead of cautionary on the foreboding “Bad Moon Rising.”

When the guests stay true to their roots, Fogerty transcends. Before Bruce Springsteen, Fogerty was the seething, celebratory voice of the disenfranchised young American at a time when working class kids got shipped to Vietnam and stuck in dead jobs to stake their claim at the bottom. A tornado force that captured the zeitgeist as the Summer of Love imploded, Fogerty remains best on his own. Both “Train of Fools” and “Mystic Highway” bristle with derision, expectation and hope. What lies ahead fuels Fogerty’s guitar-playing, writing and muscular rasp—boring straight into the listener—making Song much more than just another all-star redux of what was. — Paste

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PREORDER BOARDS OF CANADA'S 'TOMORROW'S HARVEST' AND GET A DOWNLOAD CARD WITH MUSIC & MORE!

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May 29, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

Boards of Canada have a new album(!) called Tomorrow’s Harvest that hits The Record Exchange on June 11, but you can preorder it now on CD or vinyl and we’ll give you an exclusive download card with music (a new track from the album), video and other goodies.

The buzz around Tomorrow’s Harvest has been reverberating around the globe, with Boards of Canada stringing us along for months with intriguing and mysterious hints and clues. This preorder is your first opportunity to own some new Boards music while you (not-so) patiently wait for June 11.

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NEW RELEASE TUESDAY: SPECIAL DOORS TRIBUTE LISTENING PARTY!

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May 28, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

The Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday Listening Party series continues on May 28 with a special Doors Tribute 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 – it’ll be Doors related!

With the recent passing of Doors founder Ray Manzarek, we thought we’d change things up with the listening party and feature some classic music instead of a new release. Join us for a celebration of one of rock’s most iconic bands!

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

John Fogerty – Wrote a Song for Everyone

Alice in Chains – The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here

Paul McCartney – Wings Over America Deluxe Edition

Rise Against – RPM10

Cocorosie – Tales of a Grasswidow

Tricky – False Idols (deluxe edition also available)

Eisley – Currents

Della Mae – This World Oft Can Be

The Stranglers – Giants

The-Dream – IV Play

Kylesa – Ultraviolet

Dio – Finding the Sacred Heart: Live

Dark Tranquillity – Construct

Tesseract – Altered State

Anvil – Hope in Hell

The Veils – Time Stays We Go

Various Artists – Turn Me Loose: The Outsiders of Old-Time Music

Tony Bennett and Dave Brubeck – Bennett and Brubeck: The White House Sessions Live 1962

Keith Jarrett – Somewhere

Ray Charles – Ray

Vieux Farka Toure – Mon Pays

Marshall Tucker Band – Live From Spartanburg South Carolina!

Eliane Elias – I Thought About You: A Tribute to Chet Baker

Monster Truck – Furiosity

Various Artists – True Blood Vol. 4 Soundtrack

Kinky Boots – Original Broadway Cast

Popa Chubby – Universal Blues Breakdown

Il Volo – We Are Love

Terence Blanchard – Magnetic

ASG – Blood Drive

Black Star Riders – All Hell Breaks Loose (deluxe edition also available)

Aceyalone – Leanin’ on Slick

Sizzla – Messiah

Various Artists – Arts & Crafts X

Blue Cheer – Rocks Europe

Foreigner – Feels Like the First Time

Burt Bacharach – Anyone Who Had a Heart

VINYL

Alice in Chains – The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here

John Fogerty – Wrote a Song For Everyone

Paul McCartney – Wings Over America Deluxe Edition

Animal Collective – Monkey Been to Burntown

Evanescence – Fallen: 10th Anniversary

Laura Marling – Once I Was an Eagle

Tricky – False Idols

Snoop Lion – Reincarnated

The Pastels – Slow Summits

Converge – Caring and Killing: The Early Years 1991-1994

Thursday – Full Collapse

Dio – Finding the Sacred Heart: Live

Various Artists – Oblivion Soundtrack

Various Artists – Who’s That Man: A Tribute to Conny Plank

Various Artists – Turn Me Loose: The Outsiders of Old-Time Music

Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet

Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed

Rolling Stones – Hot Rocks 1964-1971

Grateful Dead – Dead Set

Traffic – Last Exit

Dark Tranquillity – Construct

Shining – Lots of Girls Gonna Get Hurt

Retox – Ypll

Kylesa – Ultraviolet

Johnny Cash – Greatest Hits Vol. 1

Lee “Scratch” Perry – Rise Again

King Tuff – Was Dead

King Geedorah – Take Me to Your Leader

DVD/BLU-RAY

Judas Priest – Epitaph DVD and Blu-ray

Dio – Finding the Sacred Heart: Live DVD and Blu-ray

Garbage – One Mile High DVD and Blu-ray

Arrested Development Season 2 DVD

Blade Runner: The Final Cut Blu-ray

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RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 20 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING MAY 26, 2013)

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May 27, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

1. Random Access Memories, Daft Punk
2. Trouble Will Find Me, The National
3. Modern Vampires of the City, Vampire Weekend
4. Night Visions, Imagine Dragons
5. American Kid, Patty Griffin
6. Volume 3, She & Him
7. This River, JJ Grey and Mofro
8. Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams, 30 Seconds to Mars
9. Such Hot Blood, The Airborne Toxic Event
10. Nanobots, They Might Be Giants
11. The Great Gatsby Soundtrack, Various Artists
12. More Than Just a Dream, Fitz and the Tantrums
13. Mosquito, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
14. Wigwam, Bob Dylan
15. True North, Bad Religion
16. The Heist, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
17. The Lumineers, The Lumineers
18. The 50th Anniversary Tour Live, The Beach Boys
19. Live at Bull Moose, Mumford & Sons
20. Black Dog Barking, Airborne

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NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: DAFT PUNK

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May 22, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

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Daft Punk have enjoyed near-universal acclaim over 20 years and three albums but Random Access Memories is their greatest achievement: an ambitious masterpiece you can’t imagine being made by anyone other than Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo.

Opener ‘Give Life Back To Music’ sets the tone with guitars that wouldn’t have sounded out of place on Giorgio Moroder’s Top Gun score. It features Chic’s Nile Rodgers and Paul Jackson Jr, who played on ‘Thriller’, so it’s as funky as you’d expect. The sound of a happy crowd gurgles in the background. The party’s right here.

‘The Game Of Love’ slips into a slower tempo, as a melancholy android discovers heartbreak. The record is loosely themed around a robot’s attempt to become human, and if he needs a guide who better than the producer who gave us Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’? ‘Giorgio By Moroder’ is a documentary of sorts, in which the titular hero narrates his life story. When he describes the beginnings of the disco beat, we hear an insistent click track. When he tells us that when we create art there are no rules, the music proves him right. It’s a life-affirming salute to the power of the imagination.

By assembling a cast of their favourite musicians and delving into their adolescent memories, Daft Punk have created something as emotionally honest as any singer-songwriter confessional – and a lot more fun to dance to. Go out and rejoice: there’s something new under the sun. — NME