NEW RELEASE TUESDAY 1/15: LISTENING PARTY WITH YO LA TENGO, FREE PIZZA!

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

The Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series returns on Jan. 15 with Yo La Tengo‘s Fade! The album — available on CD and indie-store-exclusive vinyl — will be featured during our weekly listening party at 6 p.m. Enjoy free Pie Hole pizza while you listen to Fade and enter to win our New Release Tuesday raffle prize! 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

Yo La Tengo – Fade

A$AP Rocky – Long.Live.A$AP (deluxe edition also available)

Pantha du Prince and the Bell Laboratory – Elements of Light

DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony

J.J. Cale – In Session at the Paradise Studios

Christopher Owens (ex-Girls) – Lysandre

Ziggy Marley – Ziggy Marley in Concert

Various Artists – West of Memphis: Voices for Justice

Hank Williams – Greatest Hits Live Vol. 1

The Lone Bellow – The Lone Bellow

Teena Marie – Beautiful

BT – If the Stars Are Eternal So Are You and I

BT – Nuovo Morceau Subrosa

The Small Faces – Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake

Steve Roach and Byron Metcalf – Tales from the Ultra Tribe

Family – Bandstand

Anthony Jeselnik – Caligula

W.A.S.P. – Sting

The Tenors (formerly The Canadian Tenors) – Lead with Your Heart

2Cellos – In2ition

Kotipelto/Liimatainen – Blackoustic

Kidz Bop Kids – Kidz Bop 23

VINYL

Yo La Tengo – Fade (indie exclusive version with bonus 7-inch)

The National – Virginia EP

Various Artists – Reservoir Dogs soundtrack

The Velvet Underground and Nico – Scepter Studios Acetate

Dick Dale – At the Drags

Dick Dale – King of the Surf Guitar

The Rascals – Time Peace: The Rascals’ Greatest Hits

DVD/BLU-RAY

Taken 2 DVD and Blu-ray

Tin Drum (Criterion Collection) DVD and Blu-ray

The Man Who Knew Too Much (Criterion Collection) DVD and Blu-ray

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RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 20 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING JANUARY 13, 2013)

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1. Celebration Day, Led Zeppelin
2. Former Lives, Benjamin Gibbard
3. Stars and Satellites, Trampled By Turtles
4. Boys & Girls, Alabama Shakes
5. Babel, Mumford & Sons
6. Dopesmoker, Sleep
7. Bright Lights, Gary Clark Jr.
8. Brothers, The Black Keys
9. III, Crystal Castles
10. Signed and Sealed in Blood, Dropkick Murphys
11. Sing the Delta, Iris Dement
12. Paradise, Lana Del Rey
13. Traveler, Trey Anastasio
14. Unorthodox Jukebox, Bruno Mars
15. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles
16. The Heist, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
17. Algiers, Calexico
18. Night Visions, Imagine Dragons
19. Love This Giant, David Byrne and St. Vincent
20. Locked Down, Dr. John

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NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: DROPKICK MURPHYS' 'SIGNED AND SEALED IN BLOOD' DELIVERS A 'PUNKIER GRIT'

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January 9, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

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Celtic-inflected, proudly Bostonian punk band Dropkick Murphys received a sizeable bump in 2011: a guest vocal from Bruce Springsteen on “Peg O’ My Heart,” a track from the group’s seventh album, Going Out In Style. A solid album, Style was aided not only by Springsteen’s presence, but also a slicker sheen that the group has been gradually cultivating over its 16-year existence. Dropkick Murphys aren’t taking their eyes off the rafters on their new album, Signed And Sealed In Blood, but they are throwing a bone to their longtime fans: a punchier, punkier grit.

As with the Murphys catalog in general, there’s not the faintest trace of new influence or direction to Signed. It doesn’t need one. Frontman Al Barr and his raucous gang deploy the usual shots of anthemic punk and Irish-folk jig-and-jangle, with a chaser of traditional instrumentation. Dropkick Murphys have long made it their mission to tap into the raw emotion and rowdy spirit of the blue-collar streets of their hometown. Signed And Sealed In Blood gives that sound some teeth to match. — The A.V. Club

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THE VINYL WORD: CRYSTAL CASTLES' III FINALLY MAKES IT TO YOUR TURNTABLE

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January 8, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

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Crystal Castles’ third album ushers in a new approach. Recorded in Warsaw with Kath’s digital arsenal of old replaced by vintage analogue synthesizers, it retains something of Crystal Castles’ initial approach – a spontaneous first-take policy still reigns – but adds a bigger sound and glossy production values to the mix.

This wasn’t guaranteed to turn out well. For one, ‘analogue synths’ are what literally everybody from Hot Chip to Metronomy to James Murphy is banging on about these days. And two, Crystal Castles have always felt as digital as a corrupt data file – the last people you’d expect to go analogue. But as the first tracks from (III) began to sneak out, it was clear Ethan and Alice had found a way to expand their palette without losing their essence. First there was ‘Plague’ – an apocalyptic liturgy retooled for the dancefloor – and then the exceptional ‘Wrath Of God’. It beams in on a pulsing, David Guetta-like synth fanfare, with something sinister coursing through its veins. The melodies take on a funereal hue while Alice’s voice goes from subsumed to strangulated, and the pummelling beats sound less like freedom and more like a prison.

But (III) is, unmistakably, the sound of a band softening. Yes, there are moments of wilful sonic evil: see ‘Insulin’, its beats distorted as if cushioned by concrete, Alice’s wails stuttering through the mix as if broadcast through a run-down walkie-talkie. But as the cover image – a striking picture of a burka-clad woman cradling a wounded relative, shot in Yemen by photojournalist Samuel Aranda – suggests, (III) is out to find moments of beauty in a world full of ugliness.

The first Crystal Castles album (2008’s Crystal Castles) was a punkish exhortation to murder on the dancefloor. For (III), they’ve remade themselves. Not entirely. But in toning down the shock and awe, they’ve revealed the beating heart at the centre of their work. The message, still, is that the world is a cruel and fucked-up place. But being doomed seldom sounded so beautiful. — NME

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