TEGAN & SARA'S HEARTTHROB AND OTHER NEW RX CD RECOMMENDATIONS

Home
/

February 1, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

PREVIEW/BUY THE CD HERE

One of the most impressive aspects about Tegan and Sara is their commitment in honing their craft in such a way as to make every new album that much better than the one preceding it. Heartthrob is easily the most pop-oriented, head-bopping, non-stop, catchy-tune-after-catchy-tune, thrill ride they have ever produced. In an effort to gain a bigger audience—and I’m sorry, but any music act that wants to maintain a tiny cult following so as to not appear to be “selling out” are either fools or liars, or both—Tegan and Sara made a conscious effort to ride the wave of bigger sounding, brighter indie pop tunes that are slowly but surely ingratiating their way onto the tired radio waves.

With Heartthrob, Tegan and Sara have stepped out on that metaphorical cliff. The outcome could result in very few new listeners and an alienation of their existing fanbase who clamour for more of Tegan and Sara’s signature rock/pop style. Or, what is more likely, the album will be embraced by more people than ever, and those already rabid die-hard Tegan and Sara fans will take the girls up on their request to get a little bit closer. Either way, the girls can be proud that their efforts have produced the best record of their career, and quite possibly, one of the best records of the year. The girls have officially thrown their hat in the already gorged pop music scene, and other acts should be forewarned—this is an act that can duke it out with the best of them. — Pop Matters

CLICK HERE FOR OTHER NEW RX CD RECOMMENDATIONS!

Tags: cd new releases whats playing

NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: BEN HARPER AND CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE

Home
/

February 1, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

PREVIEW/BUY THE CD HERE
PREVIEW/BUY THE DELUXE CD HERE
PREVIEW/BUY THE VINYL HERE

If a case needs to be made for blues music in the mainstream – and really, given the story of Adele, it shouldn’t – this meeting of crack talents from two generations fits the brief.

Ben Harper has been exploring the rootsy end of the pop spectrum for more than 20 years without ever identifying himself with a genre. He has mixed vintage jazz with beatboxing and even covered “Strawberry Fields Forever.”

But it has been in dialogue that his gifts have flourished, and the passing years have found him an increasingly productive collaborator.

“I only know one tune,” has been Charlie Musselwhite’s confession – but what a tune. This is the veteran whose third wedding featured John Lee Hooker as best man, and since his sensational debut in the 60s blues boom he has earned an unequalled reputation as a harmonica man.

Now sweet, now rasping, and always chorusing and counterpointing with the keenest ears around, Musselwhite’s dialogue with Harper’s soulful tenor and punchy guitar is pure Astaire and Rogers.

All the way through, Musselwhite’s subtle, rich-toned commentary maintains a focus. So you’ll hear echoes of Jimi Hendrix, the Blind Boys and even the laidback groove of Jack Johnson here, but make no mistake: this is the blues. — BBC

Tags: cd new releases vinyl whats playing

THE VINYL WORD: LOCAL NATIVES RETURN 'WRENCHING WITH SEVERITY'

Home
/

February 1, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

PREVIEW/BUY THE VINYL HERE
PREVIEW/BUY THE DELUXE VINYL HERE

Gorilla Manor: goofy name for a young band hoping to be taken seriously for their full-hearted hooks. There was no guarantee Local Natives’ 2009 album would take off the way that it did, or take off at all for that matter. As is frequently the case with debuts, there remained a sad likelihood that it would end up not as a career-launch, but rather a photo album to be looked back upon fondly. In fact, that’s exactly what it sounded like: documentation of friends holing up and having a little fun while they could.

As a result, Manor was an overwhelmingly positive album. Three years later, on Hummingbird, the four remaining members of Local Natives link up once again; this time, with a couple concessions about death. Hummingbird is, in a phrase, pretty damn bleak. Between Kelcey Ayer’s heartbreaking recollection of his mother’s last breaths on “Colombia” to the man pictured on the cover futilely trying to resist being swept away from solid ground, it’s clear that the Los Angeles harmonizers are no longer brazenly jumping off the deep end together. This album is full of sober surrender.

Be that as it may, Hummingbird’s sonic palette makes Gorilla Manor seem monochromatic and lo-fi by comparison. With no small thanks to The National’s Aaron Dessner, who auspiciously came on board as producer, Hummingbird is jam-packed with textural traces of several key indie touchstones: Veckatimest, Bon Iver, and yes, High Violet.

They’ve come a long way since being ‘the band that opened for Arcade Fire.’ Hummingbird proves that these guys are maturing into a sound that’s both singular and wrenching with severity. — Consequence of Sound

CLICK HERE FOR MORE NEW VINYL RELEASES!

Tags: new releases vinyl whats playing

NEW RELEASE TUESDAY 1/29: LISTENING PARTY WITH BEN HARPER AND CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE, PLUS FREE PIE HOLE PIZZA, TEGAN AND SARA PRIZE PACK!

Home
/

January 28, 2013 - DVD and Blu Ray - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

The Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series continues on Jan. 29 with Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite‘s Get Up! The album — available on CD and vinyl — will be featured during our weekly listening party at 6 p.m. while you enjoy free pizza from our New Release Tuesday partners Pie Hole! Enter to win our New Release Tuesday raffle: A Tegan and Sara prize pack that includes their new album Heartthrob on CD, T-shirt and autographed CD booklet! RSVP HERE.

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 Radio Boise Tuesdays series at Neurolux 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

Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite – Get Up! (deluxe edition also available)

Tegan and Sara – Heartthrob

Local Natives – Hummingbird (deluxe edition also available)

Fleetwood Mac – Rumours deluxe and expanded editions

Tomahawk – Oddfellows

Hatebreed – The Divinity of Purpose

Brett Dennen – The Definitive Collection

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble – Texas Flood 30th Anniversary

Adam Ant – … Is the BlueBlack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner’s Daughter

Miles Davis – Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2

Justin Bieber – Believe Acoustic

Dale Watson – El Rancho Azul

Eric Burdon – ‘Til Your River Runs Dry

Lisa Loeb – No Fairy Tale

Blue Sky Riders – Finally Home

The Indians – Somewhere Else

Amor de Dias – Amor de Dias

The Ruby Suns – Christopher

Lost Animal – Ex Tropical

The Reverend Horton Heat – Discovery Vaults

Rock Candy Funk Party – We Want to Groove

Dead Prez – Information Age

Andrea Bocelli – Passione (deluxe edition also available)

Basshunter – Early Bedroom Sessions

Skinny Lister – Forge and Flagon

Emmy Rossum – Sentimental Journey

Deep Purple – Live in Paris 1975

Rick Wakeman – No Earthly Connection

Billy Joe Shaver – The Complete Columbia Recordings

Swing Out Sister – Private View/Tokyo Stories: Live in Tokyo

Fiction Family – Fiction Family Reunion

The Cult of Luna – Vertikal

Ducktails – Flower Lane

Matthew Shipp – Greatest Hits

Natalie MacMaster – Live in Cape Breton

Destiny’s Child – Love Songs

Kenny Rogers – Discovery Vaults

Resistance – Rise From Treason

VINYL

Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite – Get Up!

Local Natives – Hummingbird (deluxe edition also available)

Tomahawk – Oddfellows

Yo La Tengo – Fade

Hatebreed – The Divinity of Purpose

The Indians – Somewhere Else

Ty Segall – Would You Be My Love

Mississippi John Hurt – 1928 Sessions

Septic Flesh – Mystic Places of Dawn

Bukka White – Aberdeen Mississippi Blues

Missing Links – Missing Links

DVD/BLU-RAY

Downton Abbey Season 3 DVD and Blu-ray

Al Green – Let’s Stay Together: The Broadcast Archives DVD

Einstuerzende Neubauten – Live at Rockpalast DVD

Them – Mystic Eyes DVD

Hotel Transylvania DVD

Seven Psychopaths DVD

Tags: benefits listen before you buy new releases pie hole radio boise stuff to do vinyl whats playing

RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 20 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING JANUARY 27, 2013)

Home
/

January 28, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

1. Information Retrieved, Pinback
2. Down IV: The Purple EP, Down
3. Supermegafantastic, Iamdynamite
4. True North, Bad Religion
5. The Lumineers, The Lumineers
6. Anything in Return, Toro Y Moi
7. Let’s Go Out Tonight, Curtis Stigers
8. Wolf’s Law, The Joy Formidable
9. Boys & Girls, Alabama Shakes
10. Fade, Yo La Tengo
11. Cold Fact, Rodriguez
12. Gossamer, Passion Pit
13. Visions, Grimes
14. Give Me All You Got, Carrie Rodriguez
15. Uncaged, Zac Brown Band
16. Hi Ho, Lorey Flinn and Drone Shadow
17. 21, Adele
18. Allen Stone, Allen Stone
19. Long.Live.A$AP, A$AP Rocky
20. III, Crystal Castles

Tags: cd new releases top sellers vinyl whats playing

TEGAN & SARA'S HEARTTHROB AND OTHER NEW RX CD RECOMMENDATIONS

Recent Posts

NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: BEN HARPER AND CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE

THE VINYL WORD: LOCAL NATIVES RETURN 'WRENCHING WITH SEVERITY'

NEW RELEASE TUESDAY 1/29: LISTENING PARTY WITH BEN HARPER AND CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE, PLUS FREE PIE HOLE PIZZA, TEGAN AND SARA PRIZE PACK!

RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 20 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING JANUARY 27, 2013)