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NEW RELEASE TUESDAY 4/23: PHOENIX LISTENING PARTY WITH FREE PIE HOLE PIZZA & SIGNED TEST PRESSING RAFFLE!

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

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phoenix test pressingphoenix-bankrupt 200The Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series continues on April 23 with Phoenix‘s Bankrupt! The album — available on CD, deluxe 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 autographed test pressing of Bankrupt!

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).pie hole

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 RADIO BOISE TUESDAYS aprilreceive 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

Phoenix – Bankrupt! (deluxe edition also available)

Snoop Lion – Reincarnated (deluxe edition also available)

Steve Martin and Edie Brickell – Love Has Come for You

Rob Zombie – Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor

Rolling Stones – The Very Best of the Rolling Stones

Michael Buble – To Be Loved

Junip – Junip

Bob Marley and the Wailers – Kaya

Frank Turner – Tape Deck Heart (deluxe edition also available)

Alanis Morissette – Live at Montreux 2012

Smoke Fairies – Blood Speaks

Queensryche – Frequency Unknown

Tom Jones – Spirit in the Room

Tate Stevens – Tate Stevens

Steve Roach – Future Flows

Electric Light Orchestra – Live

Electric Light Orchestra – Zoom

Jeff Lynne – Armchair Theatre

Whitesnake – Made in Japan

The Statler Brothers – Best from the Farewell Concert

Adrian Sherwood – Never Trust a Hippy

No Joy – Wait to Pleasure

Fantasia – Side Effects of You

Paula Cole – Raven

Jerry Miller – New Road Under My Wheels

Viv Albertine (The Slits) – Vermillion Border

VINYL

Phoenix – Bankrupt!

Oneohtrix Point Never – Various Reissues

Junip – Junip

Rob Zombie – Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor

Frank Turner – Tape Deck Heart

Bob Marley and the Wailers – Kaya

Lilacs and Champagne – Danish and Blue

No Joy – Wait to Pleasure

Mourning Reign – Satisfaction Guaranteed

DVD/BLU-RAY

Insane Clown Posse – Riddle Box Weekend DVD

Alanis Morrisette – Live at Montreux 2012

Whitesnake – Made in Japen

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RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 20 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING APRIL 21, 2013)

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

tumblr_mk300rMc6c1qjeqwxo1_5001. Live at Bull Moose, Mumford & Sons
2. Elephant (10th Anniversary), White Stripes
3. Live, Built to Spill
4. Rare Cuts & Oddities, The Grateful Dead
5. The Terror, Flaming Lips
6. Ghost on Ghost, Iron & Wine
7. Low Highway, Steve Earle & the Dukes
8. Mosquito, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
9. Give Up (10th Anniversary), The Postal Service
10. Relationship of Command, At the Drive-In
11. No Fun, The Stooges/The Black Keys
12. Automechanic, Jenny O.
13. Ready to Die, Notorious B.I.G.
14. Tame Impala EP, Tame Impala
15. Lawn Boy, Phish
16. King Animal Demos, Soundgarden
17. Alien Days, MGMT
18. Live Vol. 1-Selections from Adrenaline, Deftones
19. This River, JJ Grey & Mofro
20. Alternate Versions from Either/Or, Elliott Smith

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RECORD STORE DAY EXCLUSIVES LIST PLUS RECORD EXCHANGE RSD EVENTS, INCLUDING 20% OFF USED APRIL 19-21!

April 18, 2013 - DVD and Blu Ray , The Vinyl Word - by - No Comments

RSDCOM2010vectorHere it is — the list of Record Store Day 2013 exclusives. More than 400 limited-edition pieces ranging from vinyl to CDs to cassettes to DVDs to books, all available at The Record Exchange on Saturday, April 20.

Once they’re gone, they’re gone. Look at the list HERE and get ready to get in line for the biggest RSD yet.

[Full product descriptions and more album art available at recordstoreday.com]

A FEW THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE YOU GET TO THE STORE

sub-pop-logo– The Record Exchange Gift Shop will open at 8 a.m., and the exclusives will be available for purchase at 9 a.m. Customers in line will be treated to free drip coffee and Guru Donuts (courtesy of Alternative Distribution Alliance and Sub Pop). A line will most likely form outside the store well before 8 (first people got in line at 3:30 a.m. last year). Quantities are limited on all titles; we recommend getting here early.

ada_logo– Customers are limited to one copy per title. In accordance with Record Store Day policy, there are no pre-orders or holds.

– Demand for the Dave Matthews Band 4LP set greatly exceeded the number pressed and we ended up with only one copy. We are holding a benefit silent auction for our lone copy with proceeds going to Go Listen Boise. Full details HERE.

– We will not be buying used products on Record Store Day. Buying will resume on Sunday, April 21. Thank you for your cooperation.

– The store is staying open late (until 10 p.m.) on Record Store Day.

RECORD EXCHANGE RECORD STORE DAY EVENTS

FRIDAY, APRIL 19

– RSD Exclusives Listening Party 6-8pm — free Payette Brewing Co. beer and tons of raffle prizes, including a drawing for “first in line” privileges on Record Store Day!!
– 20% off used CDs, vinyl, DVD/Blu-ray and cassettes!

SATURDAY, APRIL 20

– 400+ exclusives released — open 9am-10pm; Gift Shop opens at 8am for line. Free drip coffee & Guru Donuts (courtesy of Alternative Distribution Alliance) 8-9am! The Record Exchange will stay open until 10 p.m. on Record Store Day.
– Record Store Day Food Truck Rally 4-8pm!
– Go Listen Boise buskers and bake sale on the sidewalk!
– 20% off used CDs, vinyl, DVD/Blu-ray and cassettes!

SUNDAY, APRIL 21
– 20% off used CDs, vinyl, DVD/Blu-ray and cassettes!

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THE VINYL WORD: IRON & WINE 'GHOST ON GHOST'

April 16, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

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After expanding his intimate indie folk sound about as far as it could go on the last Iron & Wine album,Kiss Each Other Clean, Sam Beam (and trusty producer Brian Deck) take a step back on Ghost on Ghost and deliver something less suited for large arenas and more late-night jazz club-sized. The arrangements on that album were stuffed with instruments and seemed built to reach the back row; this time there are still plenty of horns, violins, and female backing vocals in the mix, but they are employed with a much lighter touch. Working with jazz drummer Brian Blade and a standup bass and mixing together elements of country, jazz, indie rock, and soft rock, the album has a much more intimate feel that suits Beam’s quietly soulful vocals much more naturally. It’s still very slick and pro-sounding, but not to the point of distraction. It sounds like the work of two highly skilled craftsmen making the kind of album they should make, instead of guys trying to make something relevant and “big.” Beam’s songs this time are more diverse than usual; he delivers the kind of songs an Iron & Wine follower would expect, nocturnal and hushed confessionals (the echoing “Joy,” “Winter Prayers”) and cinematic ballads (“Baby Center Stage”) that sound like they would have fit in well on the last couple albums. Balancing these against gritty and intense songs that seethe with barely controlled drama and emotion (“Grass Widows,” “Lover’s Revolution”) and a couple almost happy-sounding uptempo tracks (like the rambling, very Belle & Sebastian-influenced “Grace for Saints and Ramblers”) shows that Beam is really expanding the kind of songs he is writing and doing it with a large degree of success. Anyone who has been with I&W since the beginning might find it hard to believe they would ever record a song as lightly soulful and sweet as the almost jaunty “The Desert Babbler” or as easy on the ears as “New Mexico’s No Breeze,” which sounds like a dusty indie pop take on Seals & Crofts, or as musically complex as the very hooky “Caught in the Briars.” Bringing the scale back down to something human while injecting some jazz and sunshine into the I&W sound proves to be a very good strategy for Beam, and it makes Ghost on Ghost one of the most satisfying albums the group has done to date. –All Music Guide

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STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES 'THE LOW HIGHWAY' & OTHER NEW CD RECOMMENDATIONS

April 16, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

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Steve Earle‘s status as American legend keeps growing, helped by a recent role in David Simon’s ‘Treme ‘and a book deal for his memoir and a second novel. He covers his musical spectrum on this 15th album, beginning with a stark gaze at America’s decline on the wistfulcountry rock of the title track, a theme picked up on ’21st Century Blues’, where “millennium” is rhymed with “bare minimum”. There are blazing rock-outs (Calico County), down-home bluegrass (Warren Hellman’s Banjo) and three tuneful songs from ‘Treme’. Earle’s vocals are often a cryptic Texan growl, but the playing is immaculate and the songcraft admirable. –The UK Guardian

 

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