NEW RELEASE TUESDAY 1/15: LISTENING PARTY WITH YO LA TENGO, FREE PIZZA!

Yo-La-Tengo-Fade-608x608The Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series returns on Jan. 15 with Yo La Tengo‘s Fade! The album — available on CD and indie-store-exclusive vinyl — will be featured during our weekly listening party at 6 p.m. Enjoy free Pie Hole pizza while you listen to Fade and enter to win our New Release Tuesday raffle prize! 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 pie holeTuesdays 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 radio boise tuesdays january 2013the 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

Yo La Tengo – Fade

A$AP Rocky – Long.Live.A$AP (deluxe edition also available)

Pantha du Prince and the Bell Laboratory – Elements of Light

DeVotchKa – Live with the Colorado Symphony

J.J. Cale – In Session at the Paradise Studios

Christopher Owens (ex-Girls) – Lysandre

Ziggy Marley – Ziggy Marley in Concert

Various Artists – West of Memphis: Voices for Justice

Hank Williams – Greatest Hits Live Vol. 1

The Lone Bellow – The Lone Bellow

Teena Marie – Beautiful

BT – If the Stars Are Eternal So Are You and I

BT – Nuovo Morceau Subrosa

The Small Faces – Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake

Steve Roach and Byron Metcalf – Tales from the Ultra Tribe

Family – Bandstand

Anthony Jeselnik – Caligula

W.A.S.P. – Sting

The Tenors (formerly The Canadian Tenors) – Lead with Your Heart

2Cellos – In2ition

Kotipelto/Liimatainen – Blackoustic

Kidz Bop Kids – Kidz Bop 23

VINYL

Yo La Tengo – Fade (indie exclusive version with bonus 7-inch)

The National – Virginia EP

Various Artists – Reservoir Dogs soundtrack

The Velvet Underground and Nico – Scepter Studios Acetate

Dick Dale – At the Drags

Dick Dale – King of the Surf Guitar

The Rascals – Time Peace: The Rascals’ Greatest Hits

DVD/BLU-RAY

Taken 2 DVD and Blu-ray

Tin Drum (Criterion Collection) DVD and Blu-ray

The Man Who Knew Too Much (Criterion Collection) DVD and Blu-ray

RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 20 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING JANUARY 13, 2013)

Celebration-Day1. Celebration Day, Led Zeppelin
2. Former Lives, Benjamin Gibbard
3. Stars and Satellites, Trampled By Turtles
4. Boys & Girls, Alabama Shakes
5. Babel, Mumford & Sons
6. Dopesmoker, Sleep
7. Bright Lights, Gary Clark Jr.
8. Brothers, The Black Keys
9. III, Crystal Castles
10. Signed and Sealed in Blood, Dropkick Murphys
11. Sing the Delta, Iris Dement
12. Paradise, Lana Del Rey
13. Traveler, Trey Anastasio
14. Unorthodox Jukebox, Bruno Mars
15. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles
16. The Heist, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
17. Algiers, Calexico
18. Night Visions, Imagine Dragons
19. Love This Giant, David Byrne and St. Vincent
20. Locked Down, Dr. John

CIMS HANDPICKED: DROPKICK MURPHYS

dropkick murphysPREVIEW/BUY THE CD HERE
PREVIEW/BUY THE VINYL HERE

Dropkick Murphys formed in 1996 in Boston. The band was originally just a bunch of friends looking to play music for fun. They got started playing in the basement of a friend’s barbershop with the intent to blend the musical influences they had grown up with (Punk Rock, Irish Folk, Rock and Hardcore) into one loud, raucous, chaotic, and often out of tune mix. It’s like Gangs of New York came to yr VFW hall, but with a much less gruesome ending.

Where Going Out in Style told the story of a fictional character named Cornelius Larkin, complete with an obituary written by Michael Patrick MacDonald for the liner notes, Signed and Sealed in Blood has no such constraints. “This is just the opposite of that,” bassist Ken Casey explains, “Just us having fun and making the most catchy, singalong kind of songs we can. It’s not that the last album wasn’t fun. It was. Going Out in Style is one of the records I’m most proud of … This time we cut loose.”

But he does feel that Signed and Sealed in Blood is also “almost a continuation of Going Out in Style in a musical sense. There’s an upbeat, party vibe to it. A lot of these songs, we were having such a good time writing them and just enjoying the writing process. It’s the quickest we’ve released an album, ever, after another.”

BROADCAST REEMERGES WITH A MOODY SOUNDTRACK, PLUS MORE RX PICKS!

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Berberian Sound Studio was one of the finest films of 2012. Released on a limited cinematic run last summer, it’s a psychological thriller/horror affair starring Toby Jones as a sound effects specialist who begins work in an Italian horror film studio on an amazingly titled (if slightly worrying) film called The Equestrian Vortex. And he soon starts to go a bit mad.

So far, so Broadcast, you may think. And you’d be right. Having created spooky soundtracks for imaginary films – check out their 2009 album, Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age – creating unnerving accompaniments comes easy to them.

Using wonky equipment, elderly electronics, spooky organs and creepy reverb, James Cargill – the one remaining member after Trish Keenan’s shocking early death in 2011 – has assembled a perfect soundtrack for the on-screen action. This was the couple’s final work together, although Cargill has said there is more unreleased Trish-featuring material, which may come out in the future.

There’s a kid-in-a-sweetshop aspect to proceedings, as Cargill throws in everything to create a perfect spooky mood. Berberian Sound Studio and Broadcast are a perfect match, and this soundtrack – something you may not want to listen to alone if you keep hearing a weird noise outside the window – gives you an idea of how magnificent this band can be. — BBC

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HERE'S THE METAL: FREE WINTER HAT WITH PURCHASE OF ANY OF THESE CDs!

here's the metal januaryOur Here’s the Metal program, which highlights select metal titles each month and offers you a free gift with purchase, continues in January with a fine selection of face-melting titles!

Purchase any of the following sale-priced titles and we’ll give you a free Here’s the Metal winter beanie hat!

All That Remains A War You Cannot Win $12.99
Cryptopsy The Best Of Us Bleed $13.99
Death Spiritual Healing $13.99
For Today Immortal $12.99
HIM XX – Two Decades Of Love Metal $12.99
Shadows Fall Fire From The Sky $12.99
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats Blood Lust $12.99
Motorhead Presents Lemmy: 49% Mother F**ker, 51% Son Of A Bitch (DVD) $19.99
Motorhead Presents Lemmy: 49% Mother F**ker, 51% Son Of A Bitch (Blu-ray) $21.99