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NEW RELEASE TUESDAY 2/26: JOHNNY MARR LISTENING PARTY AND VINYL TEST PRESSING RAFFLE, FREE PIE HOLE!

February 26, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

Johnny-Marr-The-MessengerThe Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series continues on Feb. 26 with Johnny Marr‘s The Messenger! The album — available on CD and vinyl — 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! Enter to win one of our New Release Tuesday raffles: A rare vinyl test pressing of The Messenger or a Popstrangers red flexi-disc 7-inch!

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 pie holeTuesdays 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 radio boise tuesdays february 2013the 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

Johnny Marr – The Messeger

Atoms for Peace – Amok

Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell – Old Yellow Moon

Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused to Sing

KMFDM – Kunst

Ivan and Aloysha – All the Times We Had

Gold Fields – Black Sun

Shout Out Louds – Optica

Mount Moriah – Miracle Temple

J. Period and Kanye West – G.O.O.D. Music: Remixed and Unreleased

10,000 Maniacs – Music from the Motion Picture

Darkthrone – Underground Resistance

Nektar – Journey to the Center of the Eye

Bill Frisell – Silent Comedy

Wayne Hancock – Ride

Hank Williams – Greatest Hits Live Vol. 2

Boy – Mutual Friends

Taddy Porter – Stay Golden

Vietnam – American Dream

Popstrangers – Antipodes

Grave Babies – Crusher

Jesse Dee – On My Mind/In My Heart

Chris Duarte Group – My Soul Alone

Within the Ruins – Elite

Michael Bolton – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough: A Tribute to Hitsville, USA

Clint Mansell – Stoker

VINYL

Atoms for Peace – Amok

Johnny Marr – The Messenger

Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused to Sing

Down – Down IV Pt. 1: The Purple EP

Autre ne Veut – Anxiety

Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare

Pillowfight – Pillowfight

Anti-Flag – Die for the Government

Vietnam – American Dream

Shout Out Louds – Optica

Wayne Hancock – Ride

Gold Fields – Black Sun

Syl Johnson – Is It Because I’m Black?

Syl Johnson – Dresses Too Short

Traffic – When the Eagle Flies

Albert King – Big Blues

Freddy King – Goes Surfin’

Lusine – Waiting Room

Kustom Kings – Kustom City

Casino Versus Japan – Go Hawaii

DVD/BLU-RAY

Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused to Sing DVD

Master DVD and Blu-ray

The Eagles – Farewell: Live from Melbourne DVD

U2 – Music Milestones: War DVD

Deep Purple – Music Milestones: Made in Japan DVD

Sansho the Bailiff (Criterion Collection) Blu-ray

Midnight Movies Vol. 12: Shockumentary Triple Feature DVD

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THE VINYL WORD: NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS 'PUSH THE SKY AWAY'

February 21, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

Push-The-Sky-Away-PACKSHOT3-768x768PREVIEW/BUY THE VINYL HERE

As frontman of The Birthday Party, The Bad Seeds and Grinderman, and through incarnations as actor, screenwriter and author, Nick Cave has spent the last 30 years carving a reputation as rock’s great polymath. His great vocal screeds, steeped in literature and religion, make hell on Earth sound as exhilarating as an acid trip at the funfair, with some beautifully desolate ballads about love, loss and heartbreak chucked in as a bonus. 

What’s remarkable is that, after 30 years, a new wind blows through ‘Push The Sky Away’. Like the impatient sea air of Cave’s Brighton home, there’s a sense of change that gusts through the band’s 15th studio album, as it ventures into natural catastrophe (‘We No Who U R’), scientific discovery (‘Higgs Boson Blues’) and ravaging tides (‘Water’s Edge’).

It’s their first album since multi-instrumentalist and Cave’s longest collaborator Mick Harvey left. That, perhaps, is why violinist Warren Ellis takes an even more pivotal role – which feels more in key with Cave and Ellis’ magnificently bleak soundtrack to John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, than the cock-swaggering garage rock of Grinderman and 2008’s ‘Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!’. Recent interviews suggest Cave was tiring of the swampy blues of ‘…Lazarus…’ – “You play a song, and everyone’s grabbing a fuckin’ maraca, y’know?” he said. So it’s no surprise its follow-up is starker, steeped in cinematic strings (‘Jubilee Street’), lush harmonies (‘We No Who U R’), and futuristic clatter from unidentifiable instruments. 

‘Wide Lovely Eyes’ is as heart-swelling as any of Cave’s greatest love songs, but like much on the album there’s a sense of agitation to its terse guitar throbs and space-age warbles. Factory clangs add a suspenseful feel to ‘We No Who U R’ (text-speak from one of rock’s greatest lyricists?) as Cave sings post-apocalyptically of charred trees stood like “pleading hands”. He hasn’t, it’s clear, lost touch with the mythical (“I believe in God, I believe in mermaids too”), nor the religious (girls stand with “legs wide to the world like bibles open”). But there’s a sense that the characters on ‘Push The Sky Away’ are closer in time and space: take the boys on Brighton beach, trying to get the attention of city girls with “white strings floating from their ears”, and the lyrical cameo from Disney’s Hannah Montana in the darkly comic ‘Higgs Boson Blues’. 

What Cave and co have managed here is no mean feat: a masterpiece that merges the experimentation and freedom of their side projects with Cave’s most tender songcraft. “Some people say it’s just rock’n’roll”, he concludes, with a sentimentality that’s almost syrupy, on ‘Push The Sky Away’, “but it gets you right down to your soul”. Amen. –NME

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BEACH FOSSILS' 'CLASH THE TRUTH' AND OTHER NEW RECOMMENDATIONS

February 20, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

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Dustin Payseur has luck on his side. Just hours before Hurricane Sandy ravaged NYC, the Beach Fossils frontman finished his second album in a studio that was eventually destroyed. This was fresh off guitarist Zachary Cole Smith and bassist John Pena leaving to pursue their projects: DIIV and Heavenly Beat, respectively. Astonishingly, without those talents, Payseur is at his strongest, as Clash the Truth is easily the best thing he’s done so far. Inspired by his passion for ’80s UK hardcore, Payseur has instilled more urgency into his songs, which don’t fully embrace nihilism, but show more raw aggression in his wistful songwriting than previously. Polishing the lo-fi edges of their debut and strong-arming the dream pop of their What A Pleasure EP, Beach Fossils have found a balance that’s better than anyone could have hoped for. — Exclaim

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IVAN AND ALYOSHA DEBUT OUT FEB. 26!

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

ivan aloyshaivan alyoshaIvan & Alyosha‘s highly-anticipated debut album All the Times We Had will be available on CD and vinyl at The Record Exchange on Feb. 26!

NPR, which is currently streaming the album, had this to say: “Can a debut album really be ‘long-awaited’? The Seattle folk-pop band Ivan & Alyosha has been percolating for years now, bubbling up with several ingratiating EPs and even performing a Tiny Desk Concert back in early 2011. These guys have been polishing and tightening their sound — and many of these particular songs — for ages, though this seems like as good a moment as any for a proper coming-out party. Besides, it’s about time Ivan & Alyosha received due praise as a standard-bearer for hyper-accessible, harmony-rich roots music.

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JOHNNY MARR SOLO ALBUM FEB. 26!

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

johnny marrJohnny-Marr-The-MessengerFormer Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr is releasing his debut solo album The Messenger on Feb. 26, and The Record Exchange will have it on CD and vinyl!

Says The Guardian, where The Messenger is currently streaming: “If guitar music is struggling for an identity right now, then Marr has a pretty strong view of what it’s lacking: sparkling arpeggios, soaring choruses, endless spidery guitar parts of the kind that would only ever appear on a Johnny Marr record (mainly because only Johnny Marr could play them). For a musician who has so long sought to escape from the shadow of the Smiths, The Messenger is also an album that references his former band and is all the better for doing so.”

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