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COLLEEN GREEN'S 'SOCK IT TO ME'

March 19, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

Colleen_468x60colleen greenColleen Green‘s new album Sock It To Me is now available at The Record Exchange on CD and vinyl!

Says Pitchfork: “Sock it to Me mines the melodic sensibility and lyrical themes of 60s girl groups — good boyfriends (‘When He Tells Me’), bad boyfriends (‘Darkest Eyes’) and mean girls at school (‘Every Boy Wants a Normal Girl’). But while the first wave of girl group music was a profession of collectivity and shared wisdom, Green’s music is proudly solo, the product of one singular, isolated person.”

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NEW BLACK ANGELS CD/LP OUT APRIL 2!

March 19, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

Black Angels_468x60Indigo-Meadow-frontThe Black Angels return on April with their fourth full-length Indigo Meadow, which The Record Exchange will have on CD and vinyl!

The band says the album is a “rather major leap forward” affirming their “full-throttle commitment to the psychedelic ethos of creativity, community and boundless experimentation.” Sweet.

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NEW RELEASE TUESDAY 3/19: LOW LISTENING PARTY, FREE PIE HOLE PIZZA!

March 19, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

LOW flyer 3low 200The Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series continues on March 19 with Low‘s Jeff Tweedy-produced The Invisible Way! The album — available on CD and vinyl with an exclusive free bonus EP (while supplies last) — will be featured during our weekly listening party at 6 p.m. while you enjoy free pizza from our New Release Tuesday partners 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).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 march 2013Radio 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

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Specter at the Feast

Justin Timberlake – 20/20 Experience

Various Artists – Love for Levon

Clutch – Earth Rocker

Swollen Members – Beautiful Death Machine

Billy Bragg – Tooth and Nail (deluxe edition also available)

Duane Allman – Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective

Phosphorescent – Muchacho

Simone Dinnerstein and Tift Merritt – Night

Rachel Yamagata – Heavyweight

Suede – Bloodsports

Anthrax – Anthems

Six Feet Under – Unborn

Lordi – To Beast or Not to Beast

Staves – Dead and Born and Grown

Vanna – Few and the Far Between

Walk Off the Earth – R.E.V.O.

Kacey Musgraves – Same Trailer Different Park

William Tyler – Impossible Truth

Alice Smith – She

Rival Sons – Head Down

Sandi Thom – Flesh and Blood

RZA – RZA Presents Shaolin Soul Selection Vol. 1

Kris Kristofferson – Live from Austin Texas

Merle Haggard – Live from Austin Texas

Fats Domino – Live from Austin Texas

Jerry Lee Lewis – Live from Austin Texas

Elvis Presley – Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite

Fol Chen – False Alarms

Colleen Green – Sock It To Me

Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer – Child Ballads

Intronaut – Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words with Tones)

Nails – Abandon All Life

Les Miserables Soundtrack

Alpha Rev – Bloom

VINYL

How to Destroy Angels – Welcome Oblivion

Son Volt – Honky Tonk

Justin Timberlake – 20/20 Experience

They Might Be Giants – Nanobots

Nails – Abandon All Life

Dinosaur Jr. – Now the Fall

Phosphorescent – Muchacho

Clutch – Earth Rocker

Billy Bragg – Tooth and Nail

Assiyo Bellema – Assiyo Bellema

Orchestre National de Mauritanie – Orchestre National de Mauritanie

Short Life of Trouble – Short Life of Trouble

The Black Crowes – Wiser for the Time

Wampire – Hearse

R.L. Burnside – Bothered Mind

Adam Ant – Adam Ant is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner’s Daughter

MC Lars – Greatest Hits

DVD/BLU-RAY

Various Artists – Love for Levon DVD and Blu-ray

Miles Davis – Live at Montreux 1991 DVD

Bill Wyman – Let the Good Times Roll DVD

O.A.R. – Live on Red Rocks DVD

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Criterion Collection) DVD and Blu-ray

Badlands DVD and Blu-ray

Zero Dark Thirty DVD

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DEVENDRA BANHART'S 'MALA' AND OTHER NEW CD RECOMMENDATIONS

March 14, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

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Since his 2002 debut LP, ‘Oh Me Oh My‘…, a glorious tangle of lo-fi tape hiss and acoustic vignettes, Devendra Banhart has traversed myriad stylistic avenues. Be it the scarred folk balladry of his watershed 2004 albums ‘Rejoicing in the Hands‘ and ‘Nino Rojo‘, to his comparatively baroque 2005 release ‘Cripple Crow‘, and his often overreaching late ’00s albums ‘Smoke Rolls Down Thunder Canyon‘ and ‘What Will We Be‘, his ambitions have always been crashing, irrespective of artistic triumph. Mala, Banhart’s seventh LP and first in three and a half years, is yet another stylistic curveball, favoring low-key arrangements with subtle flourishes of Tropicalia, and disco even. It’s also his best album in nearly a decade.

Mala‘s production is crisp and clean, and borderline ascetic when contrasted with Banhart’s three previous albums. Co-produced by Noah Georgeson, who also plays guitar in Banhart’s band, the songs exude a certain cloistered feel, akin to Beck’s Sea Change or The Velvet Underground’s second LP.

Opening track “Golden Girls” is almost dirge-like, with a downtrodden melody that’s belied by Banhart’s exhortation to “get on the dance floor.” “Daniel” is like a sepia-tinged photograph, another slow motion ballad that finds Banhart lamenting with pathos, “I swore I’d never let you go/But love has a way of fading away/I never saw you again.”

Brazilian guitars accent “Never Seen Such Good Things,” an elegiac number that ruminates on the persistence of love (“Love you’re a strange fella/You leave your mark indelibly”), before the sentimentality is blasted to oblivion by Banhart’s hilarious pronouncement of, “If we ever make sweet love again/I’m sure it will be quite disgusting.”

The gentle electro syncopations of “Won’t You Come Over,” and the woozy jazz bebop number “Taurobolium” both hint at just how versatile and gifted Banhart is, perhaps worthy of Swans leader Michael Gira’s assertion long ago that he was in the same league as Beck. But it’s a disservice to compare Banhart to anyone. He’s a singularly idiosyncratic and brilliant songwriter, one hitting an arresting stride on this uniformly superb album. –Under The Radar

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NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: DAVID BOWIE'S "THE NEXT DAY"

March 14, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

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Even after 10 years away from the spotlight, David Bowie – pop’s most important post-Beatles innovator – still commands unrivalled levels of fascination. 

Just when it seemed that he had slipped into a dignified retirement, which no one would have begrudged, the world awoke one morning in January to the remarkable news of not only a single, ‘Where Are We Now?’, available immediately, but also this album.

In the context of the album, ‘Where Are We Now?’ – a moving, backwards glance at The Berlin Years – seems a slight red herring. Bowie does consider the past, ageing, mortality: on the title track’s chant of “My body left to rot in a hollow tree” and ‘I’d Rather Be High’s’ stumbling “to the graveyard”.

‘How Does the Grass Grow?’ poses the question, “Would you still love me if the clocks could go backwards?” (You Will) Set the World on Fire seemingly addresses his pre-stardom self, a You Really Got Me riff and slick confidence reminding us that he’s always had “what it takes”. This elegiac nostalgia is matched by the beautiful You Feel So Lonely You Could Die.

A complex mood pervades elsewhere, a sense of things gone awry. The nicely sinister ‘Dirty Boys’ expressive, serious vocal depicts a skewed Englishness of cricket bats, “Finchley Fair” and running “with dirty boys”.

‘The Stars (Are Out Tonight)’ sees those stars (a recurring theme) anthropomorphised: “sexless and unaroused”, unsettlingly “beaming like blackened sunshine”.

The most experimental cut, ‘If You Can See Me’, proclaims – amidst spacey, tumbling rhythms and scattered jumbles of notes and words – “I will slaughter your kind”.

‘Love Is Lost’ makes youth seem ominous – newness abounds but still “your fear is old”. Clearly this is no elder statesman simply wistfully gazing into a dappled, romanticised past.

‘Valentine’s Day’ and ‘I’d Rather Be High’ are further standouts – the former is a mid-paced depiction of a character with a “tiny face” and “scrawny hands”; the latter, a furious anti-war song.

The closer, ‘Heat’, is a brilliant example of what makes our finest, bravest musician of the past 40 years so irreplaceable. It’s full of spaced-out vocals, ominous noises and bangs, keening strings and disturbing, impressionistic poetry.

With all the opacity and lack of easy answers that you would hope for from this most stylish and creative of artists, this is a triumphant, almost defiant, return. Innovative, dark, bold and creative, it’s an album only David Bowie could make. –BBC Music

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