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NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: PEOPLE WHO ENJOY AEROSMITH WILL LIKE THE BAND'S MUSIC IN THIS DIMENSION TOO

November 6, 2012 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

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In a cowbell-thwacking song called “Out Go the Lights,” Steven Tyler, Aerosmith’s lead singer, spits out a phrase — “Déjà booty” — that could easily describe Aerosmith’s new album, “Music From Another Dimension!” It’s the first album of Aerosmith’s own songs since 2001, and with it the band aggressively reclaims every last one of its trademarks through the decades.

But there’s some spark amid the calculation. The band hasn’t been lazy; it revs up the old tricks and creates a ruckus despite the elaborate productions. The songs play a knowing double game, switching between grown-ups’ memories and barely postadolescent urges. The guitars of Mr. Perry and Brad Whitford grind and snarl, while Mr. Tyler leers and whoops it up. In “Legendary Child,” which echoes (and quotes lyrics from) “Walk This Way,” the band looks back on a 40-year recording career. But in “LUV XXX” Mr. Tyler promises, “Hot monkey sex on a hot tin roof/You’ll be higher than a shot of a million proof.” He turned 64 this year, and sounds like he’s going on 18.

The Tyler-Perry collaboration has grown strained over the decades, with some very public rifts. And it’s tempting to take the songs written and sung by Mr. Perry as interband memos, like the slow blues-rocker “Something”: “You’re making me wait like there’s no tomorrow/You’re taking from me what I can’t beg or borrow.” It’s followed, and perhaps answered, by “Another Last Goodbye,” which suggests Aerosmith’s “Dream On” rearranged as a Beatles piano ballad, with Mr. Tyler yowling, “What’s it take to make this love survive another last goodbye?” Sure, it’s a boy-girl breakup-and-makeup song, a pop contender. But maybe it’s also a bid for Aerosmith to persist.—The New York Times

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RECORD EXCHANGE (IN)SIDEWALK SALE NOV. 2-6: 50-CENT VINYL, $1 CDs, $5 TEES, GIFT SHOP MARKDOWNS & MUCH MORE!

November 6, 2012 - DVD and Blu Ray , Gift Shop - by - No Comments

We’ve cleaned out our storage, combed through the bins on the floor and we’re ready to purge. Mark your calendars for the The Record Exchange (in)Sidewalk Sale Nov. 2-6!

The “(in)” is there because the sale will be held inside the store instead of the traditional location on the sidewalk. It’s November. It’s getting cold. No one needs that. So we’re moving the beautiful organized chaos that is our annual clearance sale into the warm and welcoming store itself.

Inside, you’ll find scores of savings and deep discounts, everything from 50-cent vinyl LPs and $1 CDs (plus buy 2 get 1 free for both!) to Gift Shop markdowns on collectible toys, novelties, office gifts, cards, jewelry and more! Look for $5 T-shirts, Red Tag clearance vinyl, CDs and DVDs, half-off Gift Shop clearance items and much more throughout the store. Basically, we’re taking up every spare inch of the floor, and there will be plenty of gems to uncover everywhere you look.

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NEW RELEASE TUESDAY 11/6: LISTENING PARTY WITH AEROSMITH, FREE PIE HOLE PIZZA, LAST DAY OF (IN)SIDEWALK SALE!

November 5, 2012 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

The Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series continues on Nov. 6 with Aerosmith‘s new album Music From Another Dimension! The album, on sale for $9.99 for a limited time at the RX, will be featured during our weekly listening party at 6 p.m. Enjoy free Pie Hole pizza while you listen to Music From Another Dimension and enter to win our New Release Tuesday raffle prize!

It’s also the last day of our annual (in)Sidewalk Sale and Election Day — anyone who comes to the RX wearing an “I Voted” sticker gets a free drip coffee or $2 12-ounce espresso drink!

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 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.

Here’s a quick look at the bright and shiny new releases this week at The Record Exchange:

CD

Aerosmith – Music From Another Dimension (deluxe edition also available)

Adele – Skyfall

All That Remains – A War You Cannot Win

Isis – Temporal

Otep – Sounds Like Armageddon

Mike Doughty – The Flip is Another Honey

The Who – Live at Hull

Geoff Tate – Kings and Thieves

Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick: 40th Anniversary Edition

Public Enemy – Evil Empire of Everything

Public Enemy – Most of My Heroes Still Don’t Appear on No Stamp

E-40 and Too Short – History: Function Music

E-40 and Too Short – History: Mob Music

Graveyard – Lights Out

Him – XX: Two Decades of Love Metal

Fear – Fear Record

Megadeth – Countdown to Extinction

Underoath – Anthology 1999-2013

Kylie Minogue – Abbey Road Sessions (deluxe edition also available)

Ne-Yo – R.E.D.

Corrosion of Conformity – Eye for an Eye (deluxe edition also available)

Various Artists – N.O.W. Vol. 44

Horseback/Locrian – New Dominions

War from a Harlots Mouth – Voyeur

Creedence Clearwater Revival – Ultimate CCR: Greatest Hits and All Time Classics

Various Artists – Punk Goes Pop Vol. 5

Nigel Bennett – Truth or Consequences

Rumer – Boys Don’t Cry

Iamamiwhoami – Kin

Duke Ellington – The Complete Columbia Studio Albums

Bessie Smith – The Complete Columbia Recordings

Doug Stanhope – Before Turning the Gun on Himself

The Residents – Demonic: Demons Dance Alone Live

Glenn Gould – This is Glenn Gould

Bert Jansch – Heartbreak

Glee Cast – Glee: The Music Presents Glease

Garbarek/Gismonti/Haden – Magico: Carta de Amor

Candy Hearts – Best Ways to Disappear

Bobo Stenson Trio – Indicum

Saigon – Greatest Story Never Told Chapter 2: Bread and Circuses

Junior Kimbrough – Live From New York

Doug Sahm – Last Real Texas Blues Band Live

Joao Gilberto – Roots of Bossa Nova

Cafe Con Musica – Cafe Con Musica

Doro – Raise Your Fist

Anaal Nathrakh – Vanitas

VINYL

Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick 40th Anniversary Edition

Polica – Give You the Ghost

Metalocalypse: Dethklok – Dethalbum III

Dirty Projectors – About to Die

Liars – Brats

All That Remains – A War You Cannot Win

In This Moment – Blood

Django Django – Django Django

The Walkmen – Dance with Your Partner

Lee Perry – Aura Meets Lee Perry at Black Ark

Samiam – The Complete Control Sessions

Robert Glasper Experiment – Black Radio Recovered: The Remix EP

Burt Jansch – Heartbreak

Fred McDowell – Mama Says I’m Crazy

Holy Shit – You Made My Dreams Come True

Motion City Soundtrack – Making Moves

DVD/BLU-RAY

The Rolling Stones – Charlie is My Darling: Ireland 1965 DVD, Blu-ray and box set

Queen – Hungarian Rhapsody: Queen Live in Budapest DVD and Blu-ray (four versions)

Stray Cats – Live at Montreux 1981 DVD

Iwrestledabearonce – Beary Scary Movie DVD

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RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 20 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 4, 2012)

November 5, 2012 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

1. Psychedelic Pill, Neil Young & Crazy Horse 
2. Any Man In America, Blue October
3. Babel, Mumford & Sons
4. Born To Sing: No Plan B, Van Morrison
5. Searching For Sugarman, Rodriguez
6. Between the Ditches, The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band
7. Night Visions, Imagine Dragons
8. Mystic Pinball, John Hiatt
9. Blak & Blu, Gary Clark Jr.
10. Sing The Delta, Iris Dement
11. Apocryphon, Sword
12. Rabbit Days & Dumplings, Elena Park Moon and Friends
13. Red, Taylor Swift
14. Tempest, Bob Dylan
15. Haunted Man, Bat For Lashes
16. Atlas, Parkway Drive
17. Heist, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
18. Former Lives, Benjamin Gibbard
19. Information Retrieved, Pinback
20. Let’s Go Out Tonight, Curtis Stigers

 

 

 

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THE RECORD EXCHANGE AT THE BOISE RECORD SHOW & SWAP SUNDAY, NOV. 4

November 2, 2012 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

The Record Exchange is participating in the fifth annual Boise Record Show and Swap from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4, at the Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St. in Downtown Boise’s Linen District.

General admission is $5 beginning at 11 a.m. Want to get in the door before the public? Purchase a VIP early admission pass ($10) beginning at 10 a.m. A free raffle ticket is included with admission.

Dealers from three states — including record stores and private collectors — will have on hand thousands of records from multiple genres, offering everything from affordable classics to hard-to-find pieces. Everyone from the hardcore collector hunting for rarities to the thrifty newcomer looking to start a collection will find something at the swap.

VPS Idaho will have hourly raffle drawings, records spinning all day on the VPS hi-fi and merchandise for sale. Visitors to the swap can also sign up for free VPS membership.

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