First Thursday is back Dec. 6, and we have all kinds of sexy savings throughout the store, including:
• Buy 2 get 1 free used CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray and vinyl!
• Buy 2 get 1 free housewares in The Record Exchange Gift Shop!
• Buy 2 get 1 free coffee and espresso drinks!
Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2012 Staff Picks!
Take a gander at Esti‘s list:
TY SEGALL AND WHITE FENCE
Hair
PURITY RING
Shrines
GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR
Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
CHROMATICS
Kill for Love
BLACK MARBLE
A Different Arrangement
MAC DEMARCO
2
DIIV
Oshin
TRUST
TRST
GRIMES
Visions
THEE OH SEES
Putrifiers II
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When the Pittsburgh spitter first broke into mainstream consciousness in 2010 with his ink-covered body, camo shorts and Chuck Taylor sneakers, he was unlike any rapper we had seen, and now that the game has clearly caught on, Wiz Khalifa chose to upgrade on his newest LP,O.N.I.F.C.
Khalifa not only heard the criticisms surrounding his 2011 major-label debut, Rolling Papers, he’s addressed them head-on with O.N.I.F.C. Critics complained about RP’s pop-friendly selections, so Khalifa enlisted Taylor Gang production veterans like Cardo (“Intro”) and Sledgren (“Initiation”) to balance out his latest sonic trip.
“Rise Above” not only features contributions from Pharrell, Wiz also properly introduces his new TG artist Tuki Carter and his future wife Amber Rose, who raps a few bars toward the end. Khalifa even goes as far as to dedicate a few tracks to his hunny on the X-rated “Up in It” and the 1990s R&B-inspired “Got Everything.” On the latter, he professes his love for Rose as stylistically as he professes his love for marijuana. “And I swear you deserve a wedding ring/ Can’t ever see you choosing nothin’ over or instead of me,” he raps.
It’s new ground for Khalifa, who in his younger days, openly celebrated his free-wheeling lifestyle on tracks like 2009’s “Ms. Rightfernow” from hisFlight School mixtape or “The Thrill” from Burn After Rolling.—MTV
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“Pain is not alone.” It’s hard to imagine an artist more successfully merging grandeur with the grotesque than does the legendary Scott Walker on Bish Bosch—the latest decadal zero-crossing on his intrepid voyage deftly skirting the edges of black holes. Beginning in 1978, when he penned the magnificent first four tracks on The Walker Brothers’ reunion, Nite Flights, Walker has been torturously unlatching a Pandora’s toolbox of increasingly entropic, disease-ridden, godless jazz-prayers. Approaching 75 minutes, Bosch is the most Brobdingnagian volume in Walker’s nightmare encyclopedia, but is also more profuse than both Tilt (1995) and The Drift (2006). Torture, bestiality, flatulence, severed genitalia and, well, “blowing up bullfrogs with a straw” all have a home on this record (sit back down, PETA, Walker has stated that his songwriting is in no way autobiographical). During the climax of the record’s centerpiece, “SDSS1416+13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter),” a 21-plus minute track aptly titled after the universe’s coldest sub-stellar body yet discovered, Walker laces a string of schoolyard-caliber fat jokes. Ukelele, whisking machetes and a giant, helical African horn called a kudu shofar—yep, all present.
But what’s really amazing about Bish Bosch is that all of its myriad components are somehow pulled in to exist on the same insane planet. The source of the gravity? Walker’s immense, disgruntled-god croon, of course. Much like the works of Hieronymus Bosch—the album’s namesake painter—it’s foolish to try to absorb the whole piece on first listen, but isolated portions are readily appreciable in their own right. Try to imagine a negative image of The Garden of Earthly Delights. As existentially terrifying as it is impossibly distant, movements of this record are transcendent—the kind that seize the nervous system (refer also to “Corps De Blah,” “Phrasing” and “Epizootics!”). So why endure the horror show? If for no other reason—and there are far too many to list here—Walker’s music should be braved for the simple fact that you won’t encounter anything else like it again, ever.—Filter
The Record Exchange annual Bonus Club Sale will be held on Monday, Dec. 3, and we’re gearing up to party like never before.
As a thank you to our customers for supporting Idaho’s largest independent record store, The Record Exchange is offering 25% OFF STOREWIDE DURING THE PARTY (5 TO 9 P.M.) AND 20% OFF STOREWIDE DURING THE DAY (9 A.M. TO 5 P.M.).
And that’s just the start. To enhance your holiday shopping experience, the evening festivities also will include:
• FREE CRAFT BEER FROM PAYETTE BREWING CO. We’ll have a keg of delicious, Boise-brewed craft beer from our new partner Payette Brewing Co., and you’ll get to drink some for free (provided you’re 21 or older and show us a valid I.D.).
• ARCHIE’S PLACE. We’ll have Archie’s vegan chili and beef stew for sale!
• GIVEAWAYS
• RAFFLE PRIZES
• EMCEED BY 94.9 FM THE RIVER’S TIM JOHNSTONE
In addition to housing Boise’s Biggest and Best Gift Shop, this season The Record Exchange has dozens of new Record Store Day Black Friday exclusives, plus hundreds of new CDs under 10 bucks, including 60 hand-picked Give the Gift of Music titles!
If you’re not already a member of the RX Bonus Club, you can sign up at the Bonus Club Party and start saving! As a Bonus Club member, you get $10 in store credit every time you accrue $120 in store purchases.
If you want to sign up for the RX Bonus Club prior to the sale, visit The Record Exchange and ask a clerk for a free membership form!