My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James has a new solo album Regions of Light and Sound of God coming out Tuesday, and The Record Exchange was one of only 50 independent record stores in the country to get our hands on an ultra-limited signed white-sleeve version of the LP.
So, what are we going to do with it? We’re going to hold a scavenger hunt for it on Tuesday. Full details/clues/etc. will be posted Tuesday via Facebook, Twitter, etc.
PREVIEW/BUY THE CD HERE
PREVIEW/BUY THE DELUXE CD HERE
PREVIEW/BUY THE VINYL HERE
If a case needs to be made for blues music in the mainstream – and really, given the story of Adele, it shouldn’t – this meeting of crack talents from two generations fits the brief.
Ben Harper has been exploring the rootsy end of the pop spectrum for more than 20 years without ever identifying himself with a genre. He has mixed vintage jazz with beatboxing and even covered “Strawberry Fields Forever.”
But it has been in dialogue that his gifts have flourished, and the passing years have found him an increasingly productive collaborator.
“I only know one tune,” has been Charlie Musselwhite’s confession – but what a tune. This is the veteran whose third wedding featured John Lee Hooker as best man, and since his sensational debut in the 60s blues boom he has earned an unequalled reputation as a harmonica man.
Now sweet, now rasping, and always chorusing and counterpointing with the keenest ears around, Musselwhite’s dialogue with Harper’s soulful tenor and punchy guitar is pure Astaire and Rogers.
All the way through, Musselwhite’s subtle, rich-toned commentary maintains a focus. So you’ll hear echoes of Jimi Hendrix, the Blind Boys and even the laidback groove of Jack Johnson here, but make no mistake: this is the blues. — BBC
PREVIEW/BUY THE VINYL HERE
PREVIEW/BUY THE DELUXE VINYL HERE
Gorilla Manor: goofy name for a young band hoping to be taken seriously for their full-hearted hooks. There was no guarantee Local Natives’ 2009 album would take off the way that it did, or take off at all for that matter. As is frequently the case with debuts, there remained a sad likelihood that it would end up not as a career-launch, but rather a photo album to be looked back upon fondly. In fact, that’s exactly what it sounded like: documentation of friends holing up and having a little fun while they could.
As a result, Manor was an overwhelmingly positive album. Three years later, on Hummingbird, the four remaining members of Local Natives link up once again; this time, with a couple concessions about death. Hummingbird is, in a phrase, pretty damn bleak. Between Kelcey Ayer’s heartbreaking recollection of his mother’s last breaths on “Colombia” to the man pictured on the cover futilely trying to resist being swept away from solid ground, it’s clear that the Los Angeles harmonizers are no longer brazenly jumping off the deep end together. This album is full of sober surrender.
Be that as it may, Hummingbird’s sonic palette makes Gorilla Manor seem monochromatic and lo-fi by comparison. With no small thanks to The National’s Aaron Dessner, who auspiciously came on board as producer, Hummingbird is jam-packed with textural traces of several key indie touchstones: Veckatimest, Bon Iver, and yes, High Violet.
They’ve come a long way since being ‘the band that opened for Arcade Fire.’ Hummingbird proves that these guys are maturing into a sound that’s both singular and wrenching with severity. — Consequence of Sound
The Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series continues on Jan. 29 with Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite‘s Get Up! 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 our New Release Tuesday raffle: A Tegan and Sara prize pack that includes their new album Heartthrob on CD, T-shirt and autographed CD booklet! RSVP HERE.
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
Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite – Get Up! (deluxe edition also available)
Tegan and Sara – Heartthrob
Local Natives – Hummingbird (deluxe edition also available)
Fleetwood Mac – Rumours deluxe and expanded editions
Tomahawk – Oddfellows
Hatebreed – The Divinity of Purpose
Brett Dennen – The Definitive Collection
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble – Texas Flood 30th Anniversary
Adam Ant – … Is the BlueBlack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner’s Daughter
Miles Davis – Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2
Justin Bieber – Believe Acoustic
Dale Watson – El Rancho Azul
Eric Burdon – ‘Til Your River Runs Dry
Lisa Loeb – No Fairy Tale
Blue Sky Riders – Finally Home
The Indians – Somewhere Else
Amor de Dias – Amor de Dias
The Ruby Suns – Christopher
Lost Animal – Ex Tropical
The Reverend Horton Heat – Discovery Vaults
Rock Candy Funk Party – We Want to Groove
Dead Prez – Information Age
Andrea Bocelli – Passione (deluxe edition also available)
Basshunter – Early Bedroom Sessions
Skinny Lister – Forge and Flagon
Emmy Rossum – Sentimental Journey
Deep Purple – Live in Paris 1975
Rick Wakeman – No Earthly Connection
Billy Joe Shaver – The Complete Columbia Recordings
Swing Out Sister – Private View/Tokyo Stories: Live in Tokyo
Fiction Family – Fiction Family Reunion
The Cult of Luna – Vertikal
Ducktails – Flower Lane
Matthew Shipp – Greatest Hits
Natalie MacMaster – Live in Cape Breton
Destiny’s Child – Love Songs
Kenny Rogers – Discovery Vaults
Resistance – Rise From Treason
VINYL
Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite – Get Up!
Local Natives – Hummingbird (deluxe edition also available)
Tomahawk – Oddfellows
Yo La Tengo – Fade
Hatebreed – The Divinity of Purpose
The Indians – Somewhere Else
Ty Segall – Would You Be My Love
Mississippi John Hurt – 1928 Sessions
Septic Flesh – Mystic Places of Dawn
Bukka White – Aberdeen Mississippi Blues
Missing Links – Missing Links
DVD/BLU-RAY
Downton Abbey Season 3 DVD and Blu-ray
Al Green – Let’s Stay Together: The Broadcast Archives DVD
Einstuerzende Neubauten – Live at Rockpalast DVD
Them – Mystic Eyes DVD
Hotel Transylvania DVD
Seven Psychopaths DVD
1. Information Retrieved, Pinback
2. Down IV: The Purple EP, Down
3. Supermegafantastic, Iamdynamite
4. True North, Bad Religion
5. The Lumineers, The Lumineers
6. Anything in Return, Toro Y Moi
7. Let’s Go Out Tonight, Curtis Stigers
8. Wolf’s Law, The Joy Formidable
9. Boys & Girls, Alabama Shakes
10. Fade, Yo La Tengo
11. Cold Fact, Rodriguez
12. Gossamer, Passion Pit
13. Visions, Grimes
14. Give Me All You Got, Carrie Rodriguez
15. Uncaged, Zac Brown Band
16. Hi Ho, Lorey Flinn and Drone Shadow
17. 21, Adele
18. Allen Stone, Allen Stone
19. Long.Live.A$AP, A$AP Rocky
20. III, Crystal Castles