1. 21, Adele
2. Collapse Into Now, R.E.M.
3. Go-Go Boots, Drive-By Truckers
4. Endgame, Rise Against
5. Blessed, Lucinda Williams
6. No Color, Dodos
7. Brothers, Black Keys
8. Sigh No More, Mumford & Sons
9. Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will, Mogwai
10. 100 Lovers, Devotchka
11. People’s Key, Bright Eyes
12. Saints & Sinner, Young Dubliners
13. Kiss Each Other Clean, Iron & Wine
14. Showroom of Compassion, Cake
15. God Willin’ and the Creek Don’t Rise, Ray Lamontagne
16. The King Is Dead, The Decemberists
17. Kmag Yoyo, Hayes Carll
18. Lasers, Lupe Fiasco
19. Zonoscope, Cut Copy
20. Smoke Ring For My Halo, Kurt Vile
21. Wounded Rhymes, Lykke Li
22. Fading Parade, Papercuts
23. 12 Desperate Straight Lines, Telekinesis
24. Black Masses, Electronic Wizzard
25. Mission Bell, Amos Lee
RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 25 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING MARCH 20)
EDDIE SPAGHETTI RX IN-STORE APRIL 21!
“Supersucker Soul Brother Number One” Eddie Spaghetti will perform live at The Record Exchange (1105 W. Idaho St., Downtown Boise) at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 21. As always, this Record Exchange in-store performance is free and all ages.
LISTEN TO “NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD” FROM SUNDOWNER HERE.
Everybody’s got that pal they turn to whenever they need a party, and for a long time Eddie Spaghetti, Supersucker Soul Brother Number One, has been that guy. Reveling in the center stage spotlight and the wallop of thousands of PAs for thousands of shows across the land, Eddie’s learned how to coax the inner life of the party out of all of us. And Sundowner, Eddie’s third solo album and first for his longtime fans at Bloodshot Records, unapologetically wears the love of the good times on its greasy flannel sleeve.
At the heart of Sundowner is a back-of-the-hand dismissal of the fussy genre lines between hard rock and hard country, all done with a sly nod to the bartender that the next round’s on him. The broad mix of source material shows that, in the right hands, C&W cats like Dave Dudley (the snarling “Cowboy Boots”) and Johnny Cash (“What Do I Care”) can obviously nestle up comfortably next to punk rock snots like the Dwarves (“Everybody’s Girl”), or that Rig Rock legend Del Reeves (“Girl On the Billboard”) and Touch & Go Records cult faves the Lee Harvey Oswald Band (“Jesus Never Lived On Mars”) share a surprising commonality.
Eddie takes ‘em all wherever they come from, strips ‘em down and builds ‘em back up around meat-and-potatoes arrangements, some devil-horn-throwing elan and a warmly ragged voice befitting his Southwestern roots. And who better to take on Dean Martin’s self-styled lounge lizard paean “Party Dolls and Wine”? No one we can think of. Sundowner also has songs by a couple of friends that Eddie has recorded with over the years: Willie Nelson (the after-hours croon “Always On My Mind”) and Steve Earle (the chiming “If You Fall in Love”), ‘cuz, as he says, it was “fun to put a little ‘Spaghetti’ on them.”
On Sundowner’s originals, Eddie, almost bashfully, lets some pop smarts shine through, without sacrificing any of the muscle. Check the Velcro-in-your-head harmonies on the title track or the dusty cantina vibe of “Marie.” The opening track, “Never Thought I Would,” positively soars with big hooks, the rush of the big sky and the open road. It’s gonna be hard to keep the speed steady when you’re pounding along to the song with your boot on the accelerator.
For those concerned with that broad creative stroke smearing into a blur, throughout Sundowner Eddie has used a similar cast of musicians to record as he has in the past, including Supersuckers members Scott Churilla (drums and percussion), Metal Marty Chandler (lead guitar), engineer David Fisher, and even his son, Quattro. For the full Supersuckers story, visit supersuckers.com.
TELEKINESIS IN-STORE THURSDAY (6:30)!
Telekinesis (Merge Records) will perform live at The Record Exchange (1105 W. Idaho St., Downtown Boise) at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 24. As always, this Record Exchange in-store performance is free and all ages.
LISTEN TO FULL TELEKINESIS SONGS HERE.
When Telekinesis (telekinesismusic.com) mastermind Michael Benjamin Lerner set out to record songs for the follow-up to his debut album Telekinesis!, he found himself with no band, a case of vertigo and a wrecked van. The long-distance relationship that inspired his debut album’s songs of wanderlust had ended, and he had just returned from a much-needed escape to Berlin where he banished himself to a room in the warehouse district to write songs from 9 to 5 each day.
With the original recording date scrapped, Michael was inspired (by the heavy, fuzzy bass in Flin Flon’s A-OK) to buy a bass guitar and, in a sudden burst of inspiration, wrote four more songs for the album.
His second attempt at recording led him to Portland and Jackpot! Studios. Michael and Chris Walla continued their partnership from Telekinesis! and again recorded to tape. They tossed out all the rules—as they are wont to do when they get together—and, as Michael says, “went a little crazy,” with impromptu dance parties and recording drum parts backwards.
The result of all of this is 12 Desperate Straight Lines, twelve new songs of heartache, anger and even a little hopefulness. Telekinesis has re-emerged with a new band featuring Jason Narducy (Robert Pollard band, Bob Mould band) on bass and Cody Votolato (Jaguar Love, The Blood Brothers) on guitar.
The van is fixed, the dizziness is gone, and Michael Benjamin Lerner has returned with more proof that Spin was right when they said, “If you don’t like Telekinesis, your ears don’t work.”
RECORD EXCHANGE EXCLUSIVES: BRENDAN BENSON, VANITY THEFT
What is a Record Exchange exclusive? It’s a CD, vinyl LP, 7-inch, DVD or other product you can only find at the RX — no big box, corporate record store chain or uncle’s basement will have it.
NEW EXCLUSIVES:
Brendan Benson Lapalco vinyl LP
Vanity Theft Get What You Came For CD
Vanity Theft Anatomy EP
OTHER RECENT EXCLUSIVES:
BLACK FRIDAY 2011 EXCLUSIVES – FULL LIST HERE
Black Lips/Strange Boys Bruise Cruise Vol. 4 7-inch
Quintron and Miss Pussycat/Turbo Fruits Bruise Cruise Vol. 3 7-inch
Wanda Jackson Thunder on the Mountain/Dust on the Bible 7-inch
Dungen Oga Nasa Mum/Highway Wolf 7-inch
Riley Grandma’s Roadhouse vinyl LP
Booker T and the MG’s McLemore Avenue (Abbey Road covers) vinyl LP
Kate Bush Hounds of Love vinyl LP
Kate Bush The Sensual World vinyl LP
Harry Nilsson A Little Touch of Schmilsson vinyl LP
Dex Romweber Duo Third Man Live 02-04-2010 vinyl LP
Conan O’Brien and the Legally Prohibited Band Third Man Live 06-10-2010 vinyl LP
Pujol Third Man Live 05-21-2010 vinyl LP
Tyvek Third Man Live 09-27-2010 vinyl LP
Gregory Alan Isakov This Empty Northern Hemisphere vinyl LP
Josh Ritter The Animal Years CD reissue – includes bonus CD with live acoustic performance of entire album!
Hellogoodbye Would It Kill You? vinyl LP
Pearl Jam Live on Ten Legs CD and vinyl LP
Josh Ritter The Animal Years vinyl LP (first time on wax – includes CD with live acoustic performance of entire album!)
Band of Horses/Cee-lo Green split 7-inch (Band of Horses covering Cee-lo, Cee-lo covering Band of Horses)
The Decemberists The King is Dead deluxe box set
Bing Crosby and David Bowie Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth 7-inch (red vinyl)
John Fahey Volume One/Blind Joe Death vinyl LP
John Wesley Harding Sings to a Small Guitar Vol. II CD
The Duke Spirit Kusama CD EP
Os Haxixins Noites Brancas 7-inch
Right Now 7 to 10 7-inch
Right Now Carry Me Home vinyl LP
Carbon Leaf Christmas Child CD
The Knife Seeds 12-inch
Fitz and the Tantrums Santa Stole My Lady 7-inch
The Greenhornes Saying Goodbye 7-inch
Laura Marling Blues Run the Game 7-inch
The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers 180-gram vinyl LP
Dead Weather/Third Man vinyl: Tons of new 7-inches, 12-inches and full-length LPs from Jack White’s label, including six Dead Weather titles as well as new cuts from Jack White, Dex Romweber Duo, Conan O’Brien, Carl Sagan, Dan Sartain, Wanda Jackson, Jon Wayne and Secret Sisters.
Keith Richards Life book
DJ Shadow 4 Track Era vinyl LP
Widespread Panic Johnson City 2001 3CD set
The Shipping News One Less Heartless to Fear CD
The Answering Machine Another City Another Story CD
Scott Miller Christmas Gift CD
Wingless Angels (Keith Richards) Wingless Angels CD EXTREMELY LIMITED!
Wingless Angels (Keith Richards) Volumes I and II CD Box Set
Bad Books Bad Books CD
Bobby Long Stranger Songs vinyl LP
California Guitar Trio Andromeda vinyl LP
The Shipping News One Less Heartless to Fear vinyl LP
Jill Cunniff City Beach vinyl LP, available on red/yellow or orange/pink colored vinyl; both versions come with a bonus 7-inch! Limited to 250 copies (that’s in the entire universe).
Keith Richards Vintage Vinos CD (retrospective from out of print studio albums, plus live tracks)
Matisyahu Shake Off the Dust … ARISE CD (reissue of out-of-print, fan-favorite indie debut!
Biffy Clyro Only Revolutions CD
Broken Spindles Document No. 2 (handmade CD, extremely limited)
Dapose Positive Feedback limited-edition vinyl LP
Touch People Everyone Is Not Alive limited-edition vinyl LP
Brendon Benson Well & Goode 7-inch
Paul McCartney and Wings Band on the Run 7-inch. Taken from the forthcoming Paul McCartney Archive Collection reissue of Band On The Run, this limited-edition, highly-collectible vinyl 7-inch replicates the original U.S. single release that shot to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 back in June of 1974. Housed in a deluxe picture sleeve and digitally re-mastered from the original tapes, this is sure to become a sought after Paul McCartney single release for years to come.
Elvis Costello This Year’s Model 180-gram half-speed master vinyl LP (only 5,000 made!)
Elvis Costello Armed Forces 180-gram half-speed master vinyl LP (only 5,000 made!)
Pixies Bossanova 180-gram half-speed master vinyl LP (only 5,000 made!)
Klaxons Surfing the Void CD
Puscifer “C” is for … vinyl LP
Wingless Angels (Keith Richards) Volume I and II
Shadow Shadow Shade Shadow Shadow Shade CD
Soundgarden Telephantasm 3LP vinyl version. Read more HERE.
Amy Correia You Go Your Way CD
Darden Smith Marathon CD
Fever Ray Mercy Street 7-inch
Lloyd Cole Broken Record CD
Nicole Atkins Vultures 7-inch
Cee Lo F**k You CD single, only 99 cents! Read more HERE
Maroon 5 Hands All Over Indie Store Version with bonus tracks
Weezer Raditude Photos 144-page color photo book
Puscifer Sound Into Blood Into Wine CD
Puscifer “C” is For … CD
Sea Wolf Turn the Dirt Over 7-inch
Hayley Taylor One Foot in Front of the Other CD
Mason Jennings Live at First Ave. CD
Brad Best Friends? vinyl LP
Corinne Bailey Rae The Sea vinyl LP
Paper Bird When the River Took Flight CD
Record Store Days book
Coconut Records Nighttiming vinyl LP
Crooked Fingers Forfeit/Fortune vinyl LP
Josh Ritter Golden Age of Radio CD
Josh Ritter S/T CD
Patton Oswalt 222 CD
Right Away, Great Captain! The Eventually Home CD
Warren Haynes The Lone EP
William Fitzsimmons Derivatives CD
Brad Best Friends? CD
The Coral Butterfly House standard/deluxe CD
The Damnwells Golden Days DVD
John Wesley Harding Sings to a Small Guitar Vol. 1 CD
Kristin Hersh Crooked CD
Neu! Vinyl Box Set
Earl Greyhound Suspicious Package CD
Shonen Knife Live at Mowawk Place 2009 DVD
Donavon Frankenreiter Revisited vinyl LP
Various Artists Eat, Pray, Love soundtrack CD
Beck Sea Change half-speed master vinyl LP
Cowboy Junkies Whites Off Earth Now! half-speed master vinyl LP
Elvis Costello My Aim Is True half-speed master vinyl LP
Faith No More Angel Dust half-speed master vinyl LP
Megadeth Countdown to Extinction half-speed master vinyl LP
Pixies Surfer Rosa half-speed master vinyl LP
Pixies Doolittle half-speed master vinyl LP
Bad Brains Live at CBGB 1982 vinyl LP
Builders and the Butchers Where the Roots All Grow CD
Earl Greyhound Soft Targets CD
Filter Inevitable Relapse 7-inch
Junip (Jose Gonzalez) Rope and Summit vinyl LP
Matthew Ryan Dear Lover Acoustic Version CD
Via Audio Animalore CD and vinyl LP
William Fitzsimmons Derivatives CD
Donavon Frankenreiter Revisited CD
Guggenheim Grotto Universe is Laughing CD
Hurricane Bells Tonight is the Ghost CD
I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody’s Business The World We Know CD
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds The Mercy Seat 12-inch (limited edition white vinyl!)
STS9 Ad Explorata vinyl LP
The Glitch Mob Drink the Sea CD
Mz Streamz It’s Alive CD
Shannon McNally Coldwater CD
Snow and Voices Anything That Moves CD
Toots and the Maytals Flip and Twist CD
Record Store Day exclusives. We still have limited quantities left of select titles!
Nirvana In Utero 180-gram yellow colored vinyl LP
Nirvana MTV Unplugged 180-gram red colored vinyl LP
Nirvana Nevermind colored vinyl LP
Slacktone Warning: Reverb Instrumentals CD
Randall Bramlett The Meantime CD
Lou Reed Satellite Of Love 7-inch
The Replacements I’ll Be You 7-inch
The Ramones California Sun 7-inch
Kate Nash My Best Friend is You Indie Store Version with bonus track.
The Ravenna Colt Slight Spell CD and vinyl LP.
Vampire Weekend Contra indie-store version bundled with a limited-edition bonus CD featuring three exclusive tracks!
BlakRoc BlakRoc CD and vinyl LP, ONLY VERSION WITH LUDACRIS/ODB TRACK “COOCHIE” and it’s going quickly! Get it while you can — very limited quantities remaining of this first pressing!
Old Crow Medicine Show Greetings From Wawa limited-edition CD reissue.
DJ Shadow In L.A. 10-31-09 CD
Jack Johnson Brushfire Fairytales limited-edition CD
Josh Ritter Hello Starling vinyl/double CD reissue
The Beatles Abbey Road vinyl box (w/ t-shirt and poster)
Zac Brown Band Live From Bonnaroo CD EP
NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: RISE AGAINST’S ‘ENDGAME” ON CD & VINYL!
Given the amount of truly memorable, treasured songs they’ve written in their career, it almost seems odd that this is only Rise Against’s sixth album. They’re very much ensconced as venerable veterans. Having notched three Gold-certified albums in the US since leaving Fat Wreck for a major label, the Chicago quartet have never compromised in terms of lyrical or musical style and integrity. They’ve impressively evolved as recording artists and songwriters in this time, creating records that appeal to the masses but never pander to a trite concept or formula of what ‘should’ be popular. Put simply: they break the template of achieving mainstream success as a punk band. Having set such standards, it’s perhaps unsurprising that ‘Endgame’ is a brilliant record. It’s an album in which frontman Tim McIlrath delivers some of his most compelling lyrical work. It’s an album drenched in hugely anthemic, melodic movements that could bring stadium crowds to a frenzy while never deviating from a punk blueprint. Opening with ‘Architects’, a galloping punk rock song with a typically catchy chorus and rabble-rousing middle eight about retaining youthful idealism, McIlrath sings the line: “Do you remember when you were young, how you wanted to set the world on fire?”, much like Against Me!’s ‘Teenage Anarchist’ but without the ironic resignation to the world’s realities as one grows older. It’s a brilliant statement of intent for things to come from a band who have consistently balanced an ethical world-view with an awareness (and concern) about the shortcomings of politics in their nation and a proud empathy for their country and its people. –RS