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NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: PEOPLE WHO ENJOY AEROSMITH WILL LIKE THE BAND'S MUSIC IN THIS DIMENSION TOO

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November 6, 2012 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

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In a cowbell-thwacking song called “Out Go the Lights,” Steven Tyler, Aerosmith’s lead singer, spits out a phrase — “Déjà booty” — that could easily describe Aerosmith’s new album, “Music From Another Dimension!” It’s the first album of Aerosmith’s own songs since 2001, and with it the band aggressively reclaims every last one of its trademarks through the decades.

But there’s some spark amid the calculation. The band hasn’t been lazy; it revs up the old tricks and creates a ruckus despite the elaborate productions. The songs play a knowing double game, switching between grown-ups’ memories and barely postadolescent urges. The guitars of Mr. Perry and Brad Whitford grind and snarl, while Mr. Tyler leers and whoops it up. In “Legendary Child,” which echoes (and quotes lyrics from) “Walk This Way,” the band looks back on a 40-year recording career. But in “LUV XXX” Mr. Tyler promises, “Hot monkey sex on a hot tin roof/You’ll be higher than a shot of a million proof.” He turned 64 this year, and sounds like he’s going on 18.

The Tyler-Perry collaboration has grown strained over the decades, with some very public rifts. And it’s tempting to take the songs written and sung by Mr. Perry as interband memos, like the slow blues-rocker “Something”: “You’re making me wait like there’s no tomorrow/You’re taking from me what I can’t beg or borrow.” It’s followed, and perhaps answered, by “Another Last Goodbye,” which suggests Aerosmith’s “Dream On” rearranged as a Beatles piano ballad, with Mr. Tyler yowling, “What’s it take to make this love survive another last goodbye?” Sure, it’s a boy-girl breakup-and-makeup song, a pop contender. But maybe it’s also a bid for Aerosmith to persist.—The New York Times

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NEW RELEASE TUESDAY 11/6: LISTENING PARTY WITH AEROSMITH, FREE PIE HOLE PIZZA, LAST DAY OF (IN)SIDEWALK SALE!

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The Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series continues on Nov. 6 with Aerosmith‘s new album Music From Another Dimension! The album, on sale for $9.99 for a limited time at the RX, will be featured during our weekly listening party at 6 p.m. Enjoy free Pie Hole pizza while you listen to Music From Another Dimension and enter to win our New Release Tuesday raffle prize!

It’s also the last day of our annual (in)Sidewalk Sale and Election Day — anyone who comes to the RX wearing an “I Voted” sticker gets a free drip coffee or $2 12-ounce espresso drink!

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 new Radio Boise Tuesdays series at Neurolux is quickly becoming a new favorite on the music scene. The weekly series 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

Aerosmith – Music From Another Dimension (deluxe edition also available)

Adele – Skyfall

All That Remains – A War You Cannot Win

Isis – Temporal

Otep – Sounds Like Armageddon

Mike Doughty – The Flip is Another Honey

The Who – Live at Hull

Geoff Tate – Kings and Thieves

Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick: 40th Anniversary Edition

Public Enemy – Evil Empire of Everything

Public Enemy – Most of My Heroes Still Don’t Appear on No Stamp

E-40 and Too Short – History: Function Music

E-40 and Too Short – History: Mob Music

Graveyard – Lights Out

Him – XX: Two Decades of Love Metal

Fear – Fear Record

Megadeth – Countdown to Extinction

Underoath – Anthology 1999-2013

Kylie Minogue – Abbey Road Sessions (deluxe edition also available)

Ne-Yo – R.E.D.

Corrosion of Conformity – Eye for an Eye (deluxe edition also available)

Various Artists – N.O.W. Vol. 44

Horseback/Locrian – New Dominions

War from a Harlots Mouth – Voyeur

Creedence Clearwater Revival – Ultimate CCR: Greatest Hits and All Time Classics

Various Artists – Punk Goes Pop Vol. 5

Nigel Bennett – Truth or Consequences

Rumer – Boys Don’t Cry

Iamamiwhoami – Kin

Duke Ellington – The Complete Columbia Studio Albums

Bessie Smith – The Complete Columbia Recordings

Doug Stanhope – Before Turning the Gun on Himself

The Residents – Demonic: Demons Dance Alone Live

Glenn Gould – This is Glenn Gould

Bert Jansch – Heartbreak

Glee Cast – Glee: The Music Presents Glease

Garbarek/Gismonti/Haden – Magico: Carta de Amor

Candy Hearts – Best Ways to Disappear

Bobo Stenson Trio – Indicum

Saigon – Greatest Story Never Told Chapter 2: Bread and Circuses

Junior Kimbrough – Live From New York

Doug Sahm – Last Real Texas Blues Band Live

Joao Gilberto – Roots of Bossa Nova

Cafe Con Musica – Cafe Con Musica

Doro – Raise Your Fist

Anaal Nathrakh – Vanitas

VINYL

Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick 40th Anniversary Edition

Polica – Give You the Ghost

Metalocalypse: Dethklok – Dethalbum III

Dirty Projectors – About to Die

Liars – Brats

All That Remains – A War You Cannot Win

In This Moment – Blood

Django Django – Django Django

The Walkmen – Dance with Your Partner

Lee Perry – Aura Meets Lee Perry at Black Ark

Samiam – The Complete Control Sessions

Robert Glasper Experiment – Black Radio Recovered: The Remix EP

Burt Jansch – Heartbreak

Fred McDowell – Mama Says I’m Crazy

Holy Shit – You Made My Dreams Come True

Motion City Soundtrack – Making Moves

DVD/BLU-RAY

The Rolling Stones – Charlie is My Darling: Ireland 1965 DVD, Blu-ray and box set

Queen – Hungarian Rhapsody: Queen Live in Budapest DVD and Blu-ray (four versions)

Stray Cats – Live at Montreux 1981 DVD

Iwrestledabearonce – Beary Scary Movie DVD

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RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 20 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 4, 2012)

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November 5, 2012 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

1. Psychedelic Pill, Neil Young & Crazy Horse 
2. Any Man In America, Blue October
3. Babel, Mumford & Sons
4. Born To Sing: No Plan B, Van Morrison
5. Searching For Sugarman, Rodriguez
6. Between the Ditches, The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band
7. Night Visions, Imagine Dragons
8. Mystic Pinball, John Hiatt
9. Blak & Blu, Gary Clark Jr.
10. Sing The Delta, Iris Dement
11. Apocryphon, Sword
12. Rabbit Days & Dumplings, Elena Park Moon and Friends
13. Red, Taylor Swift
14. Tempest, Bob Dylan
15. Haunted Man, Bat For Lashes
16. Atlas, Parkway Drive
17. Heist, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
18. Former Lives, Benjamin Gibbard
19. Information Retrieved, Pinback
20. Let’s Go Out Tonight, Curtis Stigers

 

 

 

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THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO 45TH ANNIVERSARY SUPER DELUXE EDITION CD AND BOX SET AND OTHER NEW RX CD RECCOMENDATIONS

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October 30, 2012 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

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The Velvet Underground & Nico has long been viewed as the anti-Sgt. Pepper, a dark counterpoint to the Summer Of Love belief that sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll would bring out the full potential of youth and help change the world. But it’s gradually revealed itself over the years as the anti-Revolver, an album that can be any number of things depending on what listeners are looking for. There are the amphetamine jags (“I’m Waiting For The Man,” “Run Run Run”), the woozy psychedelia for an acid-rock scene that wouldn’t have them (“Heroin,” “European Son”), the brilliantly misguided AM pop (“Sunday Morning,” “I’ll Be Your Mirror,” “There She Goes Again”), and a towering, untouchable fortress of solitude still breathtaking after nearly half a century (“All Tomorrow’s Parties”). Something for everyone, in other words.

The record has also never been meant for casual listening, a fact implicitly acknowledged by the new 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition. With the stereo and mono versions of the album, single edits, alternate takes, rehearsal sessions, live tracks, and Nico’s chamber-goth Chelsea Girl in its entirety, the six CDs serve as a reminder that masterpieces don’t simply will themselves into being. 

The uniform inferiority of the non-album tracks would normally be a bummer to anyone looking for hidden treasure. Instead, it’s the entire raison d’être for the set, reinvigorating the myth of The Velvet Underground & Nico by exploding it. A flat, vocal-free mix of “All Tomorrow’s Parties” reveals how vital Nico was to that song’s sense of panoramic perfection and how even the purely instrumental sections of the final version carry the echoes of her earlier presence. 

“The Nothing Song,” from a 1966 show in Columbus, Ohio, is simple, interminable, and gorgeous. With Tucker setting an unwavering heartbeat, there’s plenty of space to waft through but also enough nettles—some screeching feedback, Nico’s wordless (or at least unintelligible) wailing—to grab onto. Even the shifting fidelity of the recording provides necessary movement. Despite its title, the song captures the ineffable somethingness that the band tapped into in the final shaping of the album. Even now, 45 years on, in a world where music has been irrevocably altered by The Velvet Underground & Nico, there’s still nothing else that sounds like it.–A.V. Club

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VINYL WORD: BLACK MARBLE'S MELODIC DEBUT ALBUM 'A DIFFERENT ARRANGEMENT' IS 'QUIETLY INFECTIOUS'

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October 30, 2012 - On Sale , The Vinyl Word - by - No Comments

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Every object inside Black Marble‘s debut A Different Arrangement LP seems swaddled in a thick layer of nicotine-stained gauze. The basslines flex their muscles inside the dressing, the bioluminescence of the synth leads peeking through at the seams. Chris Stewart could be singing across a foggy Brooklyn alley, his voice trailing with detached amusement as he spells out his wry philosophies. His lyrics come through in fits and starts, but even when they’re intelligible, they’re not the point. A Different Arrangement hinges on melody and the way it wrestles with itself across open space to nestle into a satisfying whole.

 Black Marble is all notes, nests and wires of notes, notes in logical progressions and notes that fall just short of where you expect them to go. The old, warm melodies of New Wave and the rigid post-punk spines are all there, but they’ve been pixelated and slushed around into a new product–a different arrangement, if you will.

The result is a quietly infectious record, the kind that seeps into your brainstem and bounces its many charms around without your realizing their source. So many tracks on A Different Arrangement chirp and squirm with soft synths and subtle hooks, yet Black Marble offer enough variation in texture and structure as to keep a uniform aesthetic interesting. They’re the chaos of Former Ghosts honed in to a knife’s edge, retaining the raw heat while relinquishing the forthright emotional barbs. As far as content goes, Black Marble relish ambiguity, straddling optimism and nihilism, never quite letting on what they’re thinking. But the masks only serve to augment a record whose textural complexities and depths sink in further, quietly addictive, play after play.—Prefix

 

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