THE VINYL WORD: THE RETURN OF A CLASSIC PUNK COMPILATION

V-A - Not So Quiet On The Western Front (1982)PREVIEW/BUY THE VINYL HERE

In 1999, Alternative Tentacles reissued this classic compilation with Jeff Bale (longtime Maximumrocknroll columnist and one of the compilers of this compilation) and his label, Sonic Reducer Records. Originally released in 1982 by MaximumRocknRoll on Alternative Tentacles Records, NOT SO QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT was the first compilation to document the Northern California punk scene (an idea that was subsequently copied in other cities). It contained the first issue of MRR before it was MRR.

Fast forward to 2013 & the 30th anniversary of this compilation. Alternative Tentacles has teamed up again with Jeff Bale and the current crew at Maximumrocknroll to reissue the vinyl version of this classic, complete with the 48 page newsprint booklet printed directly from the 1999 transparencies at the same San Francisco print shop that printed it last time. There’s also a brand new 2013 insert written by Maximumrocknroll. The piece gives a contextual overview of the record and the scenes that existed in 1982, 1999, and now!

And just like the original release, all songs are in the same order, pretty much the same artwork, and it still comes with the first issue of MRR — a.k.a. the 48-page lyric booklet. Unlike the original pressing, this one comes with a free download code!

CLICK HERE FOR MORE NEW VINYL RELEASES!

NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: TORO Y MOI'S SHARP 'ANYTHING IN RETURN'

new vinylPREVIEW/BUY THE CD HERE
PREVIEW/BUY THE VINYL HERE

Chaz Bundick, aka Toro y Moi, is one of music’s shape-shifters, a singer-songwriter and bedroom producer who cheerfully hops from genre to genre, mostly to avoid the awful label chillwave slapped on him even before he released his debut album of dreamy yet wayward electronica, Causers of This, in 2010. Since then he’s taken two steps forward into dance music (the EP Freaking Out), one step back into jangly indiepop (the compilation June 2009), and now returns to the disco house party with his sharpest album to date. Opening track “Harm in Change” thrillingly layers clean piano, distorted keyboards, crisp percussive snaps, low-end drum rolls, inarticulate female moans and a vocal that grows more urgent by the minute. “So Many Details” lives up to its title by ploughing melody into melody, drum track into drum track, squiggles into bleeps. So inventive and complex is the music that the lyrics – musing on love and separation, following Bundick’s relocation to California – sound gauche by comparison. — The Guardian

NEW RELEASE TUESDAY 1/22: LISTENING PARTY WITH TORO Y MOI, FREE PIZZA!

toro y moiThe Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series continues on Jan. 22 with Toro Y Moi‘s Anything in Return! The album — available on CD and vinyl — will be featured during our weekly listening party at 6 p.m. on real, hold-it-in-your-hands vinyl, then we’ll give it away as our New Release Tuesday raffle prize once we’re done spinning it! 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 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 january 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

Toro Y Moi – Anything in Return

Bad Religion – True North

Various Artists – 12-12-12: The Concert For Sandy

Carrie Rodriguez – Give Me All You Got

Ra Ra Riot – Beta Love

Otep – Hydra

Trapt – Reborn (deluxe edition also available)

Guided By Voices – Down By the Racetrack

Camper Van Beethoven – La Costa Perdida

Petra Haden – Petra Goes to the Movies

The Joy Formidable – Wolf’s Law

The Used – Vulnerable (II)

Septic Flesh – Mystic Places of Dawn

Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin – Reverse Shark Attack

Say Anything – All My Friends Are Enemies: Early Rarities

Aaron Neville – My True Story

The Lone Bellow – The Lone Bellow

Gary Allan – Set You Free

Various Artists – 2013 Grammy Nominees

Foxygen – We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic

Widowspeak – Almanac

The Pogues – The Very Best of the Pogues

Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons – Gold Vault of Hits

Frankie Valli and the Four Season – Second Vault of Golden Hits

Billy Joel – She’s Got a Way: Love Songs

Max Gomez – Rule the World

Buck Owens – Honky Tonk Man: Buck Sings Country Classics

Ash Borer – Ash Borer

Roy D. Mercer – Red White and Bruised

Helloween – Straight Out of Hell (deluxe edition also available)

Love and Death – Between Here and Lost

Tyler Bryant and the Shakedowns – Wild Child

Gliss – Langsom Dans

Chris Darrow – Artist Proof

Ex Cops – True Hallucinations

Fidlar – Fidlar

Big Harp – Chain Letter

VINYL

Toro Y Moi – Anything in Return

Bad Religion – True North

A$AP Rocky – Long.Live.A$AP

Guided By Voices – Down By the Racetrack

Various Artists – Not So Quiet on the Western Front (punk compilation)

The Fixx – Beautiful Friction

Chris Darrow – Artist Proof

Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin – Reverse Shark Attack

UV Race and the Eddy Current Suppression Ring – UV Race and the Eddy Current Suppression Ring

The Black Dahlia Murder – Nocturnal

Traditional Fools – Traditional Fools

Cannibal Corpse – Eaten Back to Life

Mugstar – Axis

Nails – Obsence Humanity

Secret – Agnus Dei

DVD/BLU-RAY

Searching for Sugar Man DVD and Blu-ray

Pina DVD and Blu-ray (Criterion Collection)

Blackmore’s Night – Beginning DVD

Tunnel Vision DVD

End of Watch DVD

RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 20 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING JANUARY 20, 2013)

featured new releases1. Fade, Yo La Tengo
2. The Lumineers, The Lumineers
3. Down IV: The Purple EP, Down
4. Supermegafantastic, Iamdynamite
5. Information Retrieved, Pinback
6. Boys & Girls, Alabama Shakes
7. Allen Stone, Allen Stone
8. Babel, Mumford & Sons
9. The Virginia EP, The National
10. Cold Fact, Rodriguez
11. The Heist, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
12. Searching for Sugar Man, Rodriguez
13. My Head is An Animal, Of Monsters and Men
14. Visions, Grimes
15. Coexist, The xx
16. If You’re Never Gonna Move, Jessie Ware
17. Live in Holland, Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three
18. Unorthodox Jukebox, Bruno Mars
19. Night Visions, Imagine Dragons
20. Bloom, Beach House

NEW YO LA TENGO ALBUM 'FADE' NOW AVAILABLE, INCLUDING EXCLUSIVE LP!

yo la tengoPREVIEW/BUY THE CD HERE
PREVIEW/BUY THE EXCLUSIVE VINYL HERE

featured new releasesYo La Tengo‘s long-awaited new album Fade is now available at The Record Exchange!

We’re happy to have new music from this old favorite, and you can listen to it with us tonight during our New Release Tuesday Listening Party (6 p.m.) with free Pie Hole pizza!

Even more exciting is this: The Record Exchange is one of a handful of indie record shops in the country to get our hands on an exclusive vinyl version of the album with a bonus 7-inch featuring an additional two tracks. The digital download card also has an extra exclusive track, the 11-minute “Oriole.”