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2012 INDIE VINYL FAVORITES ON SALE!

November 19, 2012 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

Have yourself a very vinyl Christmas at The Record Exchange!

Now through Jan. 15, we have a slew of 2012 staff favorites and top sellers on sale, including:

The xx – Coexist $15.99
Purity Ring – Shrines $15.99
Grimes – Visions $14.99
Cat Power – Sun $19.99
David Byrne and St. Vincent – Love This Giant $15.99
Sigur Ros – Valtari $23.99
Titus Andronicus – Local Business $14.99
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes $15.99
Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man in the Universe $14.99
Twin Shadow – Confess $14.99
Tanlines – Mixed Emotions $14.99
Perfume Genius – Put Your Back N 2 It $14.99

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RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 20 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 18, 2012)

November 19, 2012 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

1. King Animal, Soundgarden
2. Koi No Yokan, Deftones
3. Paradise, Lana Del Rey
4.  Psychedelic Pill, Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5. Babel, Mumford & Sons
6. Blak & Blu, Gary Clark Jr.
7. Grrr! Greatest Hits, Rolling Stones
8. Treehouse, Ned Evett
9. Dos!, Green Day
10. Searching For Sugarman, Rodriguez
11. Abbey Road, The Beatles
12. Glad All Over, The Wallflowers
13. Coexist, The XX
14. Bears For Lunch, Guided By Voices
15. Blunderbuss, Jack White
16. The Carpenter, The Avett Brothers
17. Revolver, The Beatles
18. Rubber Soul, The Beatles
19. Glad Rag Doll, Diana Krall
20. Apocryphon, Sword

 

 

 

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GET THE LED OUT AT OUR NEW RELEASE MONDAY LISTENING PARTY ON NOV. 19!

November 18, 2012 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

Next week’s new releases are coming out on Monday instead of the traditional Tuesday on account of Thanksgiving, so The Record Exchange’s weekly New Release Listening Party will take place at 6 p.m. MONDAY, Nov. 19, with Led Zeppelin’s Celebration Day! Enjoy free Pie Hole pizza while you listen to Celebration Day and enter to win one of our raffle prizes – a Led Zeppelin CD collection or T-shirt!

Are you a proud owner of a Radio Boise KRBX Card? Bring it from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday 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 new Radio Boise Tuesdays series at Neurolux is quickly becoming a new favorite on the music scene. The weekly series 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.

CD

Led Zeppelin – Celebration Day (multiple CD/video formats)

Bad Brains – Into the Future

Neil Young – Psychedelic Pill (Blu-ray audio format)

Kid Rock – Rebel Soul

Avett Brothers – Carolina Jubilee

Elvis Costello – In Motion Pictures

AC/DC – Live at River Plate

Kate Earl – Stronger

Elbow – Dead in the Boot

The Faint – Danse Macabre Deluxe Edition

Jason Isbell and 400 Unit – Live from Alabama

Frank Zappa – Various Reissues

Various Artists – Rhythms del Mundo: Africa

Porcupine Tree – Octane Twisted

Aeon – Aeons Black

Phillip Phillips – The World from the Side of the Moon

Oneohtrix Point Never – Rifts

Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin – Instrumental Tourist

Poison the Well – Opposite of December/Tear From the Red

Eva Cassidy – The Best of Eva Cassidy

Kylesa – From the Vaults Vol. 1

Miles Davis – Boppin’ the Blues

Dexter Gordon – Both Sides of Midnight

Death – Spiritual Healing

Tech N9ne – The E.P. Series: E.B.A.H. and Boiling Point

Jay Ungar and Molly Mason – Fiddler’s Holiday

Pitbull – Global Warming (deluxe edition also available)

John Denver and the Muppets – Christmas Together

Il Volo – We Are Love

O.A.R. – Live on Red Rocks

3 Doors Down – Greatest Hits

Kelly Clarkson – Greatest Hits Chapter 1

Various Artists – Sons of Anarchy Vol. 2

Various Artists – Life of Pi Soundtrack

Woe is Me – Genesi[s]

Brad – Welcome to Discovery Park

Sacred Reich – Live at Wacken

VINYL

Grateful Dead – Dick’s Picks Vol. 1

Grateful Dead – Dick’s Picks Vol. 2

Sleep – Dopesmoker

Peter Buck – Peter Buck

Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Psychedelic Pill

Adele – Skyfall

Bad Brains – Into the Future

Isis – Temporal

Avett Brothers – Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions

Taking Back Sunday – Tell All Your Friends

As I Lay Dying – Awakened

Jason Isbell and 400 Unit – Live from Alabama

Chris Robinson Brotherhood – Older Guys

Whitechapel – Whitechapel

Clinic – Free Reign

Elbow – Dead in the Boot

Watain – Various Reissues

Venom – Fallen Angels

The Joy Formidable – Cholla

Kylesa – From the Vaults Vol. 1

Rory Gallagher – Tattoo

Devin Townsend Project – Epicloud

P.O.D. – Murdered Love

Melton Brothers Band with Ms. Alfie Moss – Livin’ in the City

Stoneburner – Sickness Will Pass

Hasabe – Hasabe

DVD/BLU-RAY

Led Zeppelin – Celebration Day (various DVD/Blu-ray formats)

The Beach Boys – 50th Anniversary Live in Concert DVD and Blu-ray

Tony Bennett – Zen of Bennett DVD

Harry Nilsson – The Point DVD

The Replacements – Color Me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements DVD

Archers of Loaf – What Did You Expect? Live at Cat’s Cradle DVD

O.A.R. – Live on Red Rocks DVD

The Rolling Stones – Under Review 1975-83: Ronnie Wood DVD

Ike and Tina Turner – On the Road: 1971-72 DVD

Elvis Presley – In the Movies DVD

Rascal Flatts – All Access and Uncovered DVD

Wilson Phillips – Wilson Phillips Live from Infinity Hall DVD

Meatloaf – Guilty Pleasures Tour Live From Sydney DVD

Zombies!! Super Pack DVD

The Puppet Master 2 DVD

The Puppet Master 3 DVD

Pato Banton – Live and Seen DVD

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THE VINYL WORD: THE BEATLES REMASTERED VINYL ARE FINALLY HERE!

November 17, 2012 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

PREVIEW/BUY THE ALBUMS HERE

Twist and shout, shout, shout: The Beatles are at long last getting the treatment they’ve always deserved on vinyl. The most anticipated catalog reissues in music history have arrived and feature the pristine remastering that fans have craved for decades. Your wishes have come true: Every Beatles album. Every official Beatles song. Faithfully reproduced album jackets. Available individually or in a glorious box set.

Proper care and a painstaking series of steps were taken to ensure that music lovers would hear the Fab Four in all their glory. With EMI’s legendary Abbey Road Studios providing the backdrop, the four-year restoration process combined veteran expertise, state-of-the-art equipment, vintage studio gear, and rigorous testing to net what is without doubt the highest fidelity possible and authentic, jaw-dropping sound guaranteed to rival the original LPs.

At the start of the restoration process, engineers conducted extensive tests before copying the analog master tapes into the digital realm using 24-bit/192 kHz resolution and a Prism A-D converter. Dust build-ups were removed from tape machine heads after the completion of each title. Artifacts such as electrical clicks, microphone vocal pops, excessive sibilance, and poor edits were improved upon as long as it was determined that doing so didn’t at all damage the integrity of the songs. Similarly, de-noising technology was applied in only a few necessary spots and on a sum total of less than five of the entire 525 minutes of Beatles music. Compression was also used sparingly and only on the stereo versions to preserve the sanctity of the dynamics.

A rigorous string of checks and balances ensured that the results exceeded expectations. Subject to numerous playback tests, songs were auditioned by the remastering team to determine if any lingering mistakes needed correction. The restored versions were also compared side-by-side against the original vinyl pressings (loaded into Pro Tools), and then again auditioned in the same studio where all recent Beatles projects, including Love, were mixed. Once all EQ issues had been addressed, another round of listening litmus tests occurred in still another location. Finalization required the approval of everyone involved in the remastering process. For this project, there was no such thing as too many cooks in the kitchen. Yes, it took a village to get it right.

Each album features original U.K. vinyl album artwork, original U.K. track listings, expanded booklets containing original and newly penned liner notes, recording notes, rare photos, and fold-out packaging.

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CIMS HANDPICKED: SUPERGROUP BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION'S 'AFTERGLOW'

November 14, 2012 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

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Black Country Communion is a head-on collision between American and British rock influences — a true supergroup that delivers a titanic rock experience. The seed for Black Country Communion was planted when legendary frontman and bass guitarist Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Trapeze) and master blues-rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa combined forces on stage in Los Angeles in 2009. The brainchild of producer Kevin Shirley (Black Crowes, Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin), the band added to its rock lineage with powerhouse drummer Jason Bonham (Led Zeppelin) and keyboardist Derek Sherinian (Dream Theater, Billy Idol, Alice Cooper). BCC’s latest album, Afterglow, has a slightly different genesis than the two albums that preceded it. “There were six months to write this album, and I’m really excited by the way it came out,” comments Hughes, the man responsible for the bulk of its contents. “I wanted to make a record that stood up to the first two, but not to repeat either of those records. I wanted this album to have more acoustic moments than the previous two. I wanted to hear more of Derek and I wanted the more angelic voice of Glenn as well as the more aggressive one … Above all, I wanted more drama.”

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