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MOSES GUEST IN-STORE THURSDAY AT 5!

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July 18, 2013 - Live Shows , Live@RX - by - No Comments

MosesGuest_photoMoses Guest will perform live at The Record Exchange (1105 W. Idaho St., Downtown Boise) at 5 p.m. Thursday, July 18. The band is performing a pair of Boise shows this week – Wednesday at Neurolux and Thursday at Reef and we have tickets for sale here at the store! As always, this Record Exchange in-store event is free and all ages!

ABOUT MOSES GUEST

Started in 1995, and named after founder Graham Guest’s fifth generation grandfather, Moses Guest is a Texas-based Southern Rock band that has just enough Pop, Jazz, Funk, and Country in its veins to appeal to audiences of all ages and origins.

The current lineup formed in 1998, was voted “Best Rock/Pop Band” in the 2001 Houston Press Music Awards, and has won numerous Battle of the Bands contests.

The band has been selling out shows in Houston since 1999 and concentrating hard on winning over their region, with frequent tours through the South and West.

The band has self-produced five records and one EP on its own record label, Aufheben Records.

Moses Guest has shared the stage with many great acts in the past few years: Moe. (twice), Steve Miller Band, JGB Band, Willie Nelson, Los Lobos, Leftover Salmon, String Cheese Incident, Robert Bradley’s Blackwater Surprise, David Nelson Band, Rebirth Brass Band, The Jayhawks, Lisa Loeb and Colonel Bruce Hampton and the Fiji Mariners (on H.O.R.D.E. 1998 sidestage in Antioch, TN).

Moses Guest was recently voted into the Homegrown Music Networks “Hall Of Fame“.  One of only a handful of bands that have been bestowed this coveted award.

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MOUNTAIN GOATS REISSUE OUT JULY 23!

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July 16, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

mountain-goats-west-texasMerge Records is reissuing The Mountain Goats’ All Hail West Texas on July 23, and the RX will have it on CD and LP!

The last of the “all-home-recordings albums” by the Mountain Goats and the only one about which that claim is true, All Hail West Texas was originally released as a free-standing compact disc on the late, lamented Emperor Jones. That was about a decade ago. The songs were originally transferred from the cassettes onto which they were recorded to 1/4″ reels at Tiny Telephone by Alex Newport, who also played in Fudge Tunnel. John got really excited when he realized his tapes were being EQ’d by the guy from Fudge Tunnel.

Remastered from those reels, along with 7 unearthed songs from the two surviving contemporaneous cassettes, All Hail West Texas stands as the peak of the Mountain Goats’ home recording era, a time people like to refer to as “when John Darnielle had his four-track,” except John did not actually use a four-track. He used the condenser mic of a Panasonic boombox and there was no overdubbing. All songs recorded on the day they were written, usually within minutes of the actual composition. Highlights include “Jenny,” “Fall of the Star High School Running Back,” and “The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton,” a song which has compelled audiences around the globe to yell “Hail Satan,” and to mean it.

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NEW LOVE LANGUAGE OUT JULY 23!

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July 16, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

the-love-language-ruby-redThe Love Language has a new album Ruby Red out July 23 on Merge Records, and the RX will have it on CD and LP!

Completing a triumvirate of spiritual transmissions spent lost (2009’s The Love Language) and found (2010’s Libraries), Ruby Red exorcises the transient brilliance fostered by McLamb within the sheetrock walls of the album’s namesake artist space.

Featuring over twenty musicians and straddling several time zones, McLamb borrowed heavier equipment, and held on to it longer. Initiated in a windowless unit at the fabled Ruby Red, several failed attempts and false starts at a songwriting spree landed McLamb and his engineer/case worker/boxing coach BJ Burton in Black Mountain, North Carolina, consuming every square inch of a carpeted bungalow located a few acres too close to their skittish neighbors.

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THE VINYL WORD: GOGOL BORDELLO'S ALBUM 'PURA VIDA CONSPIRACY'

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July 16, 2013 - On Sale , The Vinyl Word - by - No Comments

GOGOL BORDELLOBUY THE VINYL HERE

Internationally renowned gypsy punk rock group Gogol Bordello return with their sixth full-length album Pura Vida Conspiracy. Produced by Andrew Scheps, the new album was recorded in El Paso, Texas at Sonic Ranch Studios and is a powerful collection of 12 surging new songs.

The album’s title is derived from a Spanish slang phrase for “pure life,” which is a theme that resonates throughout the new material.  The disc’s opener, “We Rise Again,” introduces the album’s limitless, all-embracing themes instantly, centered on a chorus of “Borders are scars on face of the planet.” The new songs are infused with ideas rooted in Eastern philosophy but also search for a means of joining fragmented parts and persons, and of creating a worldwide consciousness.

“For me music is a way to explore human potential,” frontman Eugene Hutz says. “And that’s my main interest in life – human potential. Everyone knows there’s something inside of us that we’re not using. How do we get it? How do we reach it?  Every single person knows that there’s something and nobody knows what it is. So at one point I said to myself, I’m gonna get down and get it.”

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DAVID LYNCH'S 'THE BIG DREAM' AND OTHER NEW CD RECOMMENDATIONS!

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July 16, 2013 - On Sale , Recommended - by - No Comments

THE BIG DREAMBUY THE CD HERE

The blues have been a part of David Lynch’s art for years: pieces from Angelo Badalamenti’s scores, likeFire Walk with Me’s “The Pink Room,” are dominated by time-tested chord progressions and moody atmospheres, while projects like Blue Bob demonstrated Lynch’s formidable guitar skills. All of which is to say that his second album, The Big Dream, should sound familiar to his fans, even as it pushes the blues’ boundaries. These songs are as far removed from many other artists’ bluesy dabblings as they are from Lynch’s solo debut Crazy Clown Time. That album, which spanned industrial-tinged dance music and wild spoken word pieces, was the musical equivalent of his meat sculptures, a bold showcase for the extremes of his surrealism. Fittingly, The Big Dream is blurred around the edges and wrapped in a melancholy fog; the closing track “Are You Sure” is the kind of hazily wistful song Julee Cruise would have sung at one point in Lynch’s career. However, he makes the most of his midwestern twang, using its earthiness to contrast and highlight the dream logic of songs like “Last Call,” a strange but successful blend of quirk and heartache. Lynch also imbues his cover of Bob Dylan’s “The Ballad of Hollis Brown” with creeping decay and despair that pays tribute to both artists’ work (and it’s interesting to note that there’s a similarly pinched quality to both of their voices). While he spends most of The Big Dream in this somber territory, he also remembers that the blues can be fun with “Say It”‘s roadhouse feel and the sexy, rollicking “Star Dream Girl.” The album often works best when Lynch uses elements of the genre as a jumping-off point for his experiments, as on “The Wishin’ Well”‘s shimmery electro mirage or “The Line It Curves,” which features some of his most sophisticated songwriting yet. Even if his take on the blues is far from straightforward, this might be the most accessible set of songs associated with Lynch to date. In its own hypnotic way, The Big Dream honors the blues’ lust for life and its lonely heart.-AllMusic

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