CELEBRATE SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY BY SHOPPING THE RECORD EXCHANGE!

Saturday, Nov. 27, is the inaugural Small Business Saturday, and you can celebrate this national buy-local day by shopping The Record Exchange and other independent businesses in Downtown Boise and throughout the Treasure Valley.

Small Business Saturday is a day to come together in support of the small businesses we love. The shops and restaurants that employ our neighbors and reinvest our money close to home. The businesses that are the heartbeat of our communities and local economies.

As an added incentive to support Small Business Saturday, American Express is rewarding card members with $25 when they use their card on Nov. 27 at small businesses like The Record Exchange.

Here at Idaho’s largest independent record store, we’re grateful for your rockin’ support each and every day of the year. Join us Saturday in supporting our community by shopping local.

THE VINYL WORD: THE ALBUM THAT STARTED THE SWELL SEASON

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Through everything — endless years of being labeled the “next big thing,” tours to all the remotest corners of this country and many others, the disintegration of record deals — frontman Glen Hansard has always kept faith with The Frames. As a result, The Swell Season — a collaborative project with Czech singer/pianist Marketa Irglova — is his first album independent of the band.

There are few frills on The Swell Season. Recorded in Prague over just four days with a simple, stripped-down quartet — Irglova’s piano and Hansard’s guitar, bolstered by Marja Tuhkanen on violin and Bertrand Galen’s cello — the album spans the downward trajectory of a doomed relationship.

There’s painful yearning in the heartbreaking “Falling Slowly” (“Take this sinking boat and point it home/We’ve still got time, raise your hopeful voice”), self-loathing (“Leave”) and despair (“Sleeping” — “And all that you’ve ever owned/Is packed in the hall to go And how am I supposed to live without you?”).

The centerpiece of the album is Irglova’s piano-driven title song, three minutes of perfect melancholy. She has an airy, pure voice which combines beautifully with Hansard’s throughout the album, most memorably on “Lies” and “Drown Out.” But it’s also strong enough to stand alone on (slightly) hopeful closing track “Alone Apart.”

Perfect end-of-the-evening listening, The Swell Season is a beautiful, soul-wrenching album. — RTE

OTHER NEW VINYL RELEASES:

Matt and Kim Sidewalks
Baroness A Horse Called Golgotha
The National Terrible Love
Taylor Swift Speak Now
Tobacco L.A. U.T.I.
The Cult Love
Four Tet Rounds
Four Tet Pause
The Fall This Nation’s Saving Grace
The Fall The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall
Mike Patton Mondo Cane
XTC Skylarking

RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 25 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING NOV. 21)

1. Would It Kill You?, Hellogoodbye
2. Long Live the Kings, Kottonmouth Kings
3. The Promise, Bruce Springsteen
4. Loud, Rihanna
5. Sigh No More, Mumford & Sons
6. Pins and Needles, The Birthday Massacre
7. Come Around Sundown, Kings of Leon
8. The Lady Killer, Cee-lo Green
9. Small Craft on a Milk Sea, Brian Eno
10. The Union, Elton John and Leon Russell
11. The Witmark Demos, Bob Dylan
12. Broken Dreams Club, Girls
13.
What Separates Me From You, A Day to Remember
14.
Featuring, Norah Jones
15. Joy to the World
, Pink Martini
16. Vintage Vinos
, Keith Richards
17.
VSQ Performs Lady Gaga, Vitamin String Quartet
18.
Le Noise, Neil Young
19. Brothers, The Black Keys
20.
Gorilla Manor, Local Natives
21.
Tiger Suit, KT Tunstall
22. Illuminations
, Josh Groban
23. I and Love and You
, Avett Brothers
24. Greatest Hits
, Bon Jovi
25. Oracular Spectacular
, MGMT

BLACK FRIDAY INDIE EXCLUSIVES FROM U2, METALLICA, DYLAN, SOUNDGARDEN, TOM PETTY, BLACK KEYS, SPRINGSTEEN, MGMT, DOORS, JIMI HENDRIX AND MANY MORE, PLUS METAL CLUB RELEASES!

While all the yahoos over at the mall are opening at 5 a.m. to sell Snuggies and bad sweaters, The Record Exchange will be celebrating Black Friday like badasses, extending the insanity to a full weekend — staying open until 10 p.m. on Nov. 26 and 27 — and offering you killer deals all over the store plus a sleigh-filling assortment of vinyl and CD exclusives.

Call it Record Store Day 2.0. Black Friday exclusive releases include titles from Metallica, U2, Bob Dylan and many more artists we don’t need to list in this paragraph because they’re listed below. Keep scrolling past that and you’ll find the first round of Metal Club releases we’ll have on Tuesday, Nov. 23 and Black Friday.

Before you peruse the lists, take note of these other Black Friday specials The Record Exchange will be offering all weekend long:

• $7.99 CDs (through Sunday, Nov. 28) from The Black Keys, Mumford & Sons, Weezer, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Jack Jackson, Lady Gaga, Rolling Stones, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Anberlin, Ryan Bingham, Guster and Jimmy Eat World.

• $99.99 turntables — choose any deck regularly priced $109.99-$159.99 (through Sunday, Nov. 28).

• 20% off Skull Candy headphones (through Sunday, Nov. 28).

And now, we give you the list of Black Friday exclusives:

Metallica Live at Grimey’s CD and double 10-inch LP
U2 Wide Awake in Europe 12-inch (3 live tracks, including 1 previously unreleased)
Bob Dylan red vinyl 7-inch (“The Times They Are A-Changin'”/”Like a Rolling Stone” 2010 mono version)
Bruce Springsteen 7-inch (“Save My Love”/”Because the Night” from Darkness at the Edge of Town reissue)
Jimi Hendrix Merry Christmas/Happy New Year green vinyl 10-inch (“Little Drummer Boy”/”Silent Night”/”Auld Lang Syne”)
The Doors The Doors mono vinyl LP (first time mono version is available outside of box set since the 1960s)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 7-inch (“Nowhere”/”Surrender” previously unreleased tracks)
George Harrison All Things Must Pass numbered vinyl reissue
Soundgarden 7-inch (“The Telephantasm”/”Gun” live, previously unreleased tracks)
The Black Keys Brothers vinyl LP with bonus 10-inch (6 unreleased tracks)
Iron and Wine Walking Far From Home CD single and 12-inch (2 tracks from forthcoming 2011 album, 1 exclusive track)
Cee-Lo Green F**k You CD single and 7-inch (vocal version/instrumental version)
Black Crowes 10-inch picture disc (“Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys”/”Remedy” acoustic)
Drive-By Truckers 10-inch (“The Thanksgiving Filter”/”Used to Be a Cop” from forthcoming 2011 album Go Go Boots)
Cage the Elephant 7-inch (“Shake Me Down”/”Aberdeen” from forthcoming 2011 album)
Roky Erickson and The Black Angels Night of the Vampire DVD (live video of Erickson performing 13th Floor Elevators songs backed by The Black Angels)
MGMT 7-inch with 20-page storybook (“Congratulations”/”Congratulations” remix)
Deodato Prelude CTI 40th Anniversary 180-gram vinyl LP
George Benson White Rabbit CTI 40th Anniversary 180-gram vinyl LP
Freddie Hubbard Red Clay CTI 40th Anniversary 180-gram vinyl LP
Stanley Turrentine Sugar CTI 40th Anniversary 180-gram vinyl LP
The Ting Tings orange/white colored vinyl 7-inch (“Hands”/”Hands” remix)
Dr. Dog double 7-inch
Grinderman Heathen Child 12-inch
Gaslight Anthem 7-inch (Rolling Stones cover “Tumbling Dice”/”She Loves You”)
Clem Snide Your Favorite Music baby blue colored vinyl LP
Matisyahu Two limited-edition 7-inch
Badly Drawn Boy It’s What I’m Thinking vinyl LP
Killing Joke Absolute Dissent 2CD Deluxe Edition
Parlophone Record Store Day 7-inch box set featuring Blur (first new track in eight years, recorded exclusively for RSD!), Hot Chip, Kylie Minogue, Eliza Doolittle and Tinie Tempah
Frank Sinatra A Jolly Christmas vinyl LP reissue
KT Tunstall Have Yourself a Very KT Christmas CD
Sick Puppies 7-inch (“That Time of Year Again”/”Odd One” acoustic)

METAL CLUB (AVAILABLE NOV. 23 OR BLACK FRIDAY)

Slayer red vinyl 7-inch (“World Painted Blood”/”Atrocity Vendor” explicit version)
Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age double vinyl LP
Pantera Cowboys From Hell Demos vinyl LP
Mastodon Crack the Skye CD/DVD tunnel book
The Sword hexagonal vinyl picture disc (“The Night Sky Cried Tears of Fire”/”Farstar”)
Anthrax Live at the Sonisphere 10-inch picture disc
Job for a Cowboy Ruination 10-inch colored vinyl box set (3LP)
The Damned Things (members of Anthrax, Fall Out Boy, As I Lay Dying) CD single and color vinyl 7-inch (“We’ve Got a Situation Here”/”Ironiclast”)
Monster Magnet Mastermind CD/USB stick

SATURDAY’S BLUE AND ORANGE SALE EMAIL HAS BEEN SENT; CHECK YOUR INBOX NOW AND SAVE TOMORROW!

If you’re a Record Exchange email subscriber, check your inbox tonight for the post-game details on Saturday’s Blue and Orange Sale on used CDs, DVDs and vinyl LPs.

If you’re not a subscriber yet and want all the details, email us HERE today or Saturday with the subject “Blue and Orange Sale” and we’ll send you the info. To receive future Blue and Orange Sale updates right after each BSU game, sign up HERE. Go Broncos!