NEW RELEASE TUESDAY 10/2: LISTENING PARTY WITH BETH ORTON, FREE PIE HOLE PIZZA & VINYL RAFFLE PRIZES!

The Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series continues on Oct. 2 with Beth Orton‘s new album Sugaring Season! The album will be featured during our weekly listening party at 6 p.m. Enjoy free Pie Hole pizza while you listen to Sugaring Season and enter to win one of our New Release Tuesday raffle prizes – including a limited-edition vinyl promo of Sugaring Season and a vinyl copy of the new Muse album The 2nd Law!

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

Muse – The 2nd Law (deluxe edition also available)

Flying Lotus – Until the Quiet Comes

Van Morrison – Born to Sing: No Plan B

Tori Amos – Gold Dust (deluxe edition also available)

Diana Krall – Glad Rag Doll (deluxe edition also available)

Beth Orton – Sugaring Season

Iris DeMent – Sing the Delta

Matt & Kim – Lightning

The Mountain Goats – Transcendental Youth

Mark Eitzel – Don’t Be a Stranger

First Aid Kit – Drunken Trees EP

Tift Merritt – Traveling Alone

Lindi Ortega – Cigarettes and Truckstops

Three Days Grace – Transit of Venus

The Tragically Hip – Now for Plan A

Tristen Prettyman – Cedar + Gold

Axewound – Vultures

The Vaccines – Come of Age

Heart – Fanatic

Frank Turner – Last Minutes and Lost Evenings

The Grateful Dead – Dick’s Picks Vol. 27: Oakland Coliseum Arena 12/16/92

Tilly and the Wall – Heavy Mood

The Casualties – Resistance box set

Moon Duo – Circles

Papa Roach – Connection

Ensiferum – Unsung Heroes

Various Artists – The Cobra Records Story

Andre Williams – Life

Shoes – 35 Years: The Definitive Shoes

Charlie Hunter – Baboon Strength

Yo-Yo Ma – Silk Road Journeys: When Strangers Meet

Marillion – Sounds That Can’t Be Made

Demetri Martin – Standup Comedian

Jerrod Niemann – Free the Music

Jackie Evancho – Songs from the Silver Screen

Nik Bartsch’s Ronin – Live in Marciac

Taken By Trees – Other Worlds

Ten Years After – Rock and Roll Music to the World

Abba – The Essential Collection

VINYL

Flying Lotus – Until the Quiet Comes (180-gram deluxe edition also available)

Beth Orton – Sugaring Season

Yo La Tengo – Stupid Things

Iris DeMent – Sing the Delta

No Doubt – Push and Shove (picture disc)

Heart – Fanatic

Sondre Lerche – Duper Sessions

Sondre Lerche – Faces Down

Sondre Lerche – Phantom Punch

Sondre Lerche – Two Way Monologue

Karen Dalton – It’s So Hard to Tell Who’s Going to Love You the Best

Serge Gainsbourg – Historie de Melody Nelson

Bathory – Bathory

Bathory – Twilight of the Gods

DVD/BLU-RAY

Led Zeppelin – The Song Remains the Same Blu-ray

Yes – Yesspeak DVD

Dark Shadows DVD and Blu-ray

Demetri Martin – Standup Comedian DVD

Cinderella Blu-ray

The New Girl Season 1 DVD

For Your Eyes Only DVD

A Dolphin Tale DVD

BUY THE CD, GET A FREE TICKET: AIMEE MANN, BEACH HOUSE AT THE EGYPTIAN!

Idaho Live is putting on back-to-back shows at the Egyptian Theatre — Aimee Mann Oct. 4 and Beach House Oct. 5 — and we have a limited number of tickets to hand out free with purchase of the artists’ latest albums!

Purchase Aimee Mann’s Charmer or Beach House’s Bloom at the RX and we’ll give you one ticket per CD purchased (you can also buy the vinyl and get the same deal). Supplies are limited!

RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 20 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2012)

1. Babel, Mumford & Sons
2. Uno!, Green Day
3. Shields, Grizzly Bear
4. The Carpenter, The Avett Brothers
5.  Battle Born, Killers
6. Tempest, Bob Dylan
7. Bloom, Beach House
8. Mystic Pinball, John Hiatt
9. Megalithic Symphony, Awolnation
10. Charmer, Aimee Mann
11. Heat Lightening Rumbles In The Distance, Patterson Hood
12. Away From The World, Dave Matthews Band
13. Tomorrowland, Ryan Bingham
14. Mirage Rock, Band of Horses
15. Push & Shove, No Doubt
16. Breakup Song, Deerhoof
17. Let’s Go Out Tonight, Curtis Stigers
18. Awakened, As I Lay Dying
19. North, Matchbox Twenty
20. Sun, Cat Power

 

THE VINYL WORD: HIGH ON FIRE'S DEBUT ALBUM REISSUED BY SOUTHERN LORD!

PREVIEW/BUY THE VINYL HERE

Following the long, drawn-out demise of his former band, legendary doomsters Sleep (whose final album, Dopesmoker, was tied up in legal squabbles and went unreleased for years), guitarist Matt Pike finally unleashed years of pent-up song writing into a new stoner rock trio called High on Fire. On the band’s first effort for Man’s Ruin Records, 2000’s The Art of Self Defense, Pike’s instantly recognizable snarling guitar tone is the most obvious remnant from his Sleep days. But on outstanding tracks like “Baghdad” and “Blood From Zion,” his previous group’s snail-paced grind is replaced by driving riffs and thunderous drums that sound positively upbeat by comparison. The album also sees Pike tackling lead vocals for the first time (bassist Al Cisneros handled vocal duties in Sleep), and though his voice is buried somewhat low in the overall mix (lack of confidence perhaps?), this only places more emphasis on the true focus of High on Fire — his bludgeoning guitar riffs. The heaviest of these serves as the backbone for the album’s best track “Last,” which simply must be heard to be believed. — allmusic

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HAYES CARLL RECORD EXCHANGE ALIVE AFTER FIVE SEASON FINALE SEPT. 26!

Join us on Wednesday, Sept. 26, for the annual end of season Record Exchange Party at Alive After Five with headliner Hayes Carll. This free, all-ages concert on the Grove Plaza in Downtown Boise kicks off at 5 p.m. and will wrap up at 9 p.m. Local artist Matti Sand will open.

ABOUT HAYES CARLL

Hayes Carll is an odd mix. Wildly literate, utterly slackerly, impossibly romantic, absolutely a slave to the music, the 35-year old Texan is completely committed to the truth and unafraid to skewer pomposity, hypocrisy and small-minded thinking. Last year, “Another Like You,” Carll’s stereotypes attract duet of polar opposites, was American Songwriter’s #1 Song of 2011 – and KMAG YOYO was the Americana Music Association’s #1 Album, as well as making best-of lists for Rolling Stone, SPIN and a New York Times Critics Choice.

But more importantly than the critical acclaim is the way Carll connects with music lovers across genres lines. Playing rock clubs and honkytonks, Bonnaroo, Stones Fest, SXSW and NXNE, he and his band the Gulf Coast Orchestra merge a truculent singer/songwriter take that combines Ray Wylie Hubbard’s lean, freewheeling squalor with Todd Snider’s brazen Gen Y reality and a healthy dose of love amongst unhealthy people.

More information on Hayes Carll: hayescarll.com.

Alive After Five Sponsors include: Bud Light, 94.9 The River, Boise Weekly, Idaho Business Review, KIVI Today’s Channel 6, ACHD Commuteride, Primary Health, Idaho Lottery, VW & Audi Boise, The Downtown Public Parking System, Sysco Food Services of Idaho, Kokanee, 10 Barrell Brewing, Odell Brewing Company, Ultra 19th Hole, BRJ Distributing, Pepsi Bottling Company, The Record Exchange, The Owyhee Plaza, and Boise Office Equipment. Local opening bands are supported by Boise City Dept of Arts & History and Go Listen Boise.

Parking is available in the Downtown Public Parking Garages where the first hour is free. Bring a chair. No coolers or pets allowed in the Grove Plaza during the event. Should the event be cancelled due to bad weather, the band will play from 5-8 p.m. at Liquid, 405 S. 8th St., Boise.

The event is organized by the Downtown Boise Association (DBA) and is a fundraiser for downtown cleaning services, beautification projects and marketing. The Downtown Boise Association mission is to be the steward for the promotion and operation of Downtown Boise as an attractive, safe and vibrant place to work, shop, live and play. Alive After Five is a downtown marquee event that attracts thousands to downtown throughout the summer.

A full schedule of bands with links to the band websites and weekly food vendors can be found online at downtownboise.org.