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SUB POP RECORD STORE DAY SAMPLER: FREE WITH PURCHASE OF ANY SUB POP RSD RELEASE ON SATURDAY, APRIL 16!

April 14, 2011 - Buy Stuff Get Free Stuff , The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

There’s a reason Sub Pop is one of our favorite record labels. Well, there are many reasons, and one of which is the way these cats celebrate Record Store Day.

Among the 200+ exclusive releases available Saturday, April 16, are some fresh Sub Pop platters from Fleet Foxes, Blitzen Trapper, Lower Dens and The Head and the Heart. And to sweeten the deal — as if new releases from these bands aren’t sweet enough — the Sub Poppers sent us a quantity of bitchin’ CD samplers to give away with purchase of any Sub Pop RSD title.

Terminal Sales Vol. 4: Please to Enjoy, the 2011 Sub Pop label sampler, comes housed in an embossed, die-cut package and includes 18 art prints with information about each of the artists and a folded poster. (Preview the tracks HERE.)

The track listing is as follows:

1. Daniel Martin Moore “Dark Road” from the album In the Cool of the Day (SP860), available January 2011
2. Aurelio “Tio Sam” from the album Laru Beya (NXA002), available on Next Ambiance January 2011
3. The Twilight Singers “On the Corner” from the album Dynamite Steps (SP844), available February 2011
4. Mogwai “Slight Domestic” from the “Mexican Grand Prix” 7″ single on Rock Action Records, available February 2011
5. Papercuts “Do What You Will” from the album Fading Parade (SP885), available February 2011
6. Dum Dum Girls “Wrong Feels Right” from the He Gets Me High EP (SP917), available March 2011
7. J Mascis “Not Enough” from the album Several Shades of Why (SP859), available March 2011
8. Obits “You Gotta Lose” from the album Moody, Standard and Poor (SP857) available March 2011
9. Low “Try to Sleep” from the album C’mon (SP905), available April 2011
10. The Head and the Heart “No One to Let You Down,” previously unreleased. The album The Head and the Heart (SP915) is available for Record Store Day, April 16, 2011
11. Blitzen Trapper “Maybe Baby” from the “Maybe Baby” 7″ single (SP929), available for Record Store Day, April 16, 2011
12. Lower Dens “Deer Knives” from the “Deer Knives” 7″ single (SP927), available for Record Store Day, April 16, 2011
13. Fleet Foxes “Helplessness Blues” from the album Helplessness Blues (SP888), available May 2011
14. Chad VanGaalen “Peace on the Rise” from the album Diaper Island (SP871), available May 2011
15. Shabazz Palaces “lost foundling.” This Shabazz Palaces track is not from the album Black Up (SP900), available May 2011
16. Memoryhouse “Sleep Patterns” from The Years EP (SP925), available at some as-yet-undetermined point in 2011
17. Mister Heavenly “Mister Heavenly” from the as-yet-untitled Mister Heavenly debut album (SP926), available August 2011
18. Niki and the Dove “The Fox” From “The Fox” 12″ single (SP930), available June 2011
19. Blouse “Shadow” From the “Shadow” 7″ single (SP939), available May 2011

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EL TEN ELEVEN RECORD STORE DAY IN-STORE AT THE RECORD EXCHANGE!

April 12, 2011 - Live Shows , Live@RX , The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

El Ten Eleven (elteneleven.com) will perform live at The Record Exchange (1105 W. Idaho St. in Downtown Boise) on Record Store Day (recordstoreday.com) at 5 p.m. Saturday, April 16. As always, this Record Exchange in-store performance is free and all ages. El Ten Eleven also will perform at Neurolux (neurolux.com) later that evening (8 p.m.); advance tickets ($8) are available at The Record Exchange.

Keeping in line with their incessant touring regimen, Los Angeles-based instrumental duo El Ten Eleven (elteneleven.com) are on their second tour of the year and it’s only April. The pair, comprised of Kristian Dunn on double neck bass/guitar and fretless bass and drummer Tim Fogarty, will showcase their jaw-dropping musical acrobatics in Boise at The Record Exchange and Neurolux on Record Store Day.

Although their fourth album may cheekily be called It’s Still Like A Secret (released Nov. 9, 2010 on the band’s own Fake Record Label imprint), El Ten Eleven’s brand of pulsating instrumental rock is far from a secret. For the past eight years, the duo has been exciting listeners with a collection of albums filled with densely textured rhythms, rumbling bass and an ingenious use of guitars and looping pedals, steadily amassing a following by playing more than 400 shows. All of this has caused Relix to feature the band as one of “5 Artists You Should Know About” in their “On The Verge” section in the April/May 2011 issue.

Likened to “watching two superheroes do their thing” by SF Weekly, El Ten Eleven’s live show is truly a technical marvel to witness as the duo recreate their pounding landscapes without the help of a single computer or sequencer. Instead, Dunn wields a double-neck bass/guitar and a fretless bass and records and loops himself live while his feet dance on an extensive floorboard of pedals. His partner in crime, Fogarty, wreaks havoc on his drum kit and electronic drum pads while also occasionally looping himself. “As each layer upon layer is set, El Ten Eleven’s songs coalesce into head nodding, cog-spinning music machines,” LA Weekly exclaimed about the musicians’ method.

Like their instrumental contemporaries such as Explosions in the Sky, El Ten Eleven’s music is highly sought after and has been heavily used in the realms of television, film and advertising. Of significant note are two highly acclaimed PBS documentaries — Helvetica and Objectified — both of which were nominated for Independent Spirit Awards. These films, directed and produced by Gary Hustwit, were scored by Dunn and prominently feature El Ten Eleven’s music. The highly anticipated next installment, Urbanized, will be released this year and once again feature music by El Ten Eleven and Dunn, including several pieces composed exclusively for the film.

Praise for El Ten Eleven and It’s Still Like A Secret:

“They drive somewhere between a roughed-up version of Sigur Rós and Ratatat you wouldn’t dare bring home to your parents.” — Filter

“The act is a wonder to behold live, but on the group’s fourth album, the layered sound is just as hypnotic.” — Los Angeles Magazine

“Bassist-guitarist Kristian Dunn and drummer Tim Fogarty indulge in plenty of effects and loops to fill out their sound with glittering layers, but always keep the instrumentals focused on bright pulses and punchy hooks.” — The Onion

“What El Ten Eleven does — as just two people — is a thing of beauty and something that usually takes the hands of many more.” — Daytrotter.com

“No duo anywhere is melded tighter than these two.” — The Stranger

For more information on the fourth-annual Record Store Day (April 16) at The Record Exchange, including in-store events and the release of more than 200 exclusive CD and vinyl titles, visit therecordexchange.com/recordstoreday.

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NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: FOO FIGHTERS ‘WASTING LIGHT,’ AVAILABLE NOW AT THE RECORD EXCHANGE!

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Rock is back, and it’s about fucking time. Wasting Light is exactly the kick-start needed to jolt the genre back to life in an era when hairstyles lead to record deals and guitar solos are in critical danger of disappearing forever in exchange for hazy fuzz and a general sense of disaffection. Dave Grohl and his Foo Fighters come across as demon-possessed men on a mission this time round, bringing their stadium sound back to the garage, making for a scruffy and dangerous record with manic energy to spare.

Wasting Light sounds like the work of a band with something to prove, rather than the work of one of the biggest rock bands in the world. And while Foo Fighters output has been impressively consistent since their inception in 1995, this album feels reinvigourated and important, as if everything were riding on it. Gone are the trumped up arrangements of 2007’s Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace; gone are the dichotomized concepts of 2005’s two-disc experiment In Your Honour. Wasting Light – which marks guitarist Pat Smear’s first album since The Colour And The Shape – is a high-wire act with razor-sharp precision.

Grohl could easily have led his band in a completely different direction, constructing his songs with built-in reverb and easily chanted choruses (like Kings Of Leon have been known to do). Certainly no one could have scoffed if a stadium band made another stadium album. But Wasting Light is a gamble: the work of a garage band battling room noises on analogue tape, brushing aside the computers entirely, and opting instead to mix by ear the old-fashioned way. The result is perhaps the most exciting and hard-hitting mainstream rock ‘n’ roll album since the turn of the century.

Bridge Burning begins the album with disjointed, angular guitar jabs before Grohl unleashes his trademark gravelly scream: “These are my famous last words!” With that, the mood is set from the outset: caged, thrashing aggression fighting for space with infectious hooks. And Foo Fighters never let up, turning in one of the most evenly balanced efforts of their careers. Lead single Rope opens with a false sense of calm, a red herring delay effect on the guitar. “Give me some rope, I’m coming loose,” Grohl sings. “I’m hanging on you.”

White Limo – the video for which features Lemmy Kilmister – is rock ‘n’ roll at its most macho; Grohl’s voice sounds stretch to its sonic limits over riffs that call up imagery of repeatedly smashing one’s Trans Am into a brick wall. This is music that could put hair on the chests of budding hipsters the world over, if only they would take a break from waxing their blond mustaches.

On Miss The Misery, Grohl screams in anguish: “I never want to die.” Despite moving at potentially disastrous speeds, Foo Fighters have managed to keep their wheels spinning for nearly two decades, consistently turning in records that define their genre in its place and time. Wasting Light is no exception, and it could just be the shot heard round the world to get rock back into the equation. –Musicomh

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VINYL WORD: PANDA BEARS ‘TOMBOY’. PLUS WINTER, TV ON THE RADIO, FOO FIGHTERS, HENDRIX AND MORE!

April 12, 2011 - The Record Exchange Blog , The Vinyl Word - by - No Comments

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Tomboy is a homogenous record, its eleven songs a steady mix of jagged, attacking guitars and that one damn sunshine and rainbows harmony. But it is a dynamic record as well, alive, moving, intimate. I admit, what sold me on this beast was that first crack of “Slow Motion,” that snap that slices through the track’s as-yet-developed, unstoppable groove. It’s a jarring moment, a part that confirms what the broadened remasters of “You Can Count on Me” and “Tomboy” suggest: that Panda Bear still has the creative ingenuity that made him Animal Collective’s most fascinating member for the past half decade. It’s difficult to not appreciate the delicious irony of Noah opening Tomboy with “Know you can count on me” when the time between the release of the lackluster first cut of “Tomboy” and the album’s own highly anticipated release date had been just long enough to let doubts of Tomboy’s quality seep in. But there was no need for worry. Tomboy is every bit as good as it promised to be, and more.

The “as good” bit comes from the songs. Prerelease singles “Slow Motion,” “Alsatian Darn” and “Last Night at the Jetty” rightfully generated quite a buzz for Tomboy. In their unmixed form, they were terrific, showing a Panda Bear not so dissimilar from the Panda Bear whose Brian Wilson influence drenched Merriweather Post Pavilion and Fall Be Kind. When they’re mixed, however, they acquire new, exciting textures, filling the open space evoked by Lennox’s ever-present reverb. Producing credit goes to Sonic Boom, who earns it by deepening the low end of Panda Bear’s tracks and letting Lennox’s voice cover every inch of the record, creating Tomboy’s lush wall of sound. As he did on Person Pitch, Lennox trades in a beach-y, surf-y, what-have-you vibe. But unlike Person Pitch, Tomboy is immediate, as though Panda Bear has, for the first time in his solo career, allowed himself to come in close, singing not from a distance but vibrantly next to us.

http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/42890/Panda-Bear-Tomboy/

OTHER NEW VINYL RELEASES:

Tv On The Radio, Nine Types Of Light
Foo Fighters, Wasting Light
Winter, Into Darkness
Jimi Hendrix, South Saturn Delta
Jeff Buckley, Grace
Brett Dennen, Loverboy
Feelies, Here Before
Rory Gallegher, Irish Tour 74
Low, C’mon
Ponytail, Do Whatever You Want All The Time
Rebelution, Bright Side Of Life
Rebelution, Courage To Grow
Thursday, No Devolucion
Whiskeytown, Pneumonia

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RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 25 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING APRIL 10)

April 11, 2011 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

1. Greatest Story Never Told, Saigon
2. King Of Limbs, Radiohead
3. How To Become Clairvoyant, Robbie Robertson
4. 21, Adele
5. Arrows, Lonely Forest
6. Sigh No More, Mumford & Sons
7. Dust Bowl, Joe Bonamassa
8. Rare Bird Alert, Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers
9. Scandalous, Black Joe Lewis
10. Brothers, The Black Keys
11. Lungs, Florence & The Machine
12. Angles, The Strokes
13. God Willin’ & The Creek Don’t Rise, Ray Lamontagne
14. Houdini/Pumped Up Kicks, Foster The People
15. See My Friends, Ray Davis
16. Smoke Ring For My Halo, Kurt Vile
17. Barton Hollow, Civil Wars
18. Roadside Attraction, Marcia Ball
19. Epic, Sharon Van Etten
20. Attack & Release, Black Keys
21. Endgame, Rise Against
22. Kiss Each Other Clean, Iron & Wine
23. Eureka, Mother Mother
24. Belong, Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
25. Showroom Of Compassion, Cake

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