Two essential 90s alt-rock albums from Bob Mould’s post-Husker Du band Sugar were recently released on CD and vinyl (with bonus tracks and other goodies), and Merge Records sent us an autographed Copper Blue poster to give away to one lucky winner!
To enter to win the poster, send an email with the subject “Sugar” HERE by Sunday, Aug. 19. The winner will be drawn at random and notified on Monday, Aug. 20. CHECK OUT THE SUGAR REISSUES HERE.
PREVIEW/BUY THE CD HERE
Embodying the lost and lonely void that often comes with being single and nursing a broken heart, it’s no surprise Poliça’s debut album was borne out of a break up. A whirling mass of auto-tuned, R&B flecked electropop, Give You The Ghost marries urgency with layers of beats and Gayngs singer Channy Leanagh’s honeyed vocals. Created with Gayngs founder Ryan Olsen and Bon Iver’s Mike Noyce, it’s an album that reels you in, enveloping everything in a black mist, from the slick protestations of ‘Dark Star’ to the surging intensity of closer ‘Leading To Death’. — The Fly
The Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series continues on Aug. 14 with ReVoLtReVoLt‘s new album Latah Nights! The album will be featured during our weekly listening party at 7 p.m. (NOTE DIFFERENT TIME.) Enjoy free Pie Hole pizza while you listen to Latah Nights and enter to win our New Release Tuesday raffle prize! As a bonus, the band will be here hanging out with us while we spin the new record!
Latah Nights is Boise-based ReVoLtReVoLt‘s sophomore record on Spark and Shine. The much-anticipated follow up to their debut Chordata, Latah Nights was recorded in 2011 with legendary producer Conrad Uno (Young Fresh Fellows, Mudhoney, Presidents of USA) at his EGG Studios in Seattle.
Latah Nights follows in the vein of noise-soaked pop and driving rhythms established by Chordata, but takes the band into more complex sonic dimensions. Returning to the studio with Conrad Uno afforded the band a chance to use their previous work and road experience as a starting point to blaze new territory, drawing the listener into a more evolved journey of the musical spectrum, and exploring new depths of lyrical subtlety, from hook driven noise-pop gems (“It Echoes On”) to dark meditations on life and mortality (“Hell Has its Roads”). The release of Latah Nights finds ReVoLtReVoLt as a band at the height of their craft, preparing to head back out on the road in support of a new record, and aimed at an ever-expanding horizon of artistic discovery.
To highlight the new release, ReVoLtReVoLt has lined up a series of events in Boise, starting off with the listening party at The Record Exchange where fans and music lovers will have the opportunity to listen to the new tunes in a fun, intimate setting while mixing and mingling with the ReVoLtReVoLt members. This will be
followed by an all-ages concert at The Crux on Aug. 17 (6 p.m.), then on Aug. 18, a grand finale blowout at Neurolux for a 21 and up event starting at 7 p.m. ReVoLtReVoLt will be on tour throughout the United States in August and September with Built To Spill plus a run of solo dates. For a complete list of tour dates, visit the band’s website.
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
Dead Can Dance – Anastasis
Insane Clown Posse – Mighty Death Pop (available in three different colors of deluxe packaging)
Incubus – Incubus HQ Live (deluxe edition also available)
Slightly Stoopid – Top of the World
In This Moment – Blood
Yellowcard – Southern Air
ReVoLtReVoLt – Latah Nights
Polica – Give You the Ghost
Various Artists – Just Tell Me That You Want Me: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac
Dirty Guv’nahs – Somewhere Beneath These Southern Skies
Ben Taylor – Listening
Faceless – Autotheism
Texas Hippie Coalition – Peacemaker
Kottonmouth Kings – Mile High
Randy Foster – Del Rio TX Revisited: Unplugged
Fozzy – Sin and Bones
Corb Lund – Cabin Fever
Steve Earle – The Revolution Starts Now
Steve Vai – Story of Light (deluxe edition also available)
The Trishas – High Wide and Handsome
Ralph Stanley – Old Songs and Ballads Vol. 1
Ralph Stanley – Old Songs and Ballads Vol. 2
Strong Arm Steady and Statik – Stereotype
Charlie Mars – Blackberry Light
Poison Idea – Fatal Erection Years
Daniel Powter – Turn on the Lights
Ash Borer – Cold of Ages
Black Light Burns – The Moment You Realize You’re Going to Fall
Korpiklanni – Manala
Classic Crime – Phoenix
Lijadu Sisters – Horizon Unlimited
The Aborted – Archaic Abattoir
The Aborted – Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage Done
Foreshadowing – Oionos
Foreshadowing – Second World
Grease 1994 Cast Recording
Anvil – Anthology of Anvil
VINYL
Locust – Molecular Genetics From the Gold Standard Labs
Polar Bear Club – Live at the Montage
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Strange Man/Long Progression
Yellowcard – Southern Air
Citizen Cope – One Lovely Day
MC5 – Kick Out the Jams! 1966-1970 (picture disc)
Culture – Seven Sevens Clash
Breathe Carolina – Hello Fascination
The Byrds – Ballad of Easy Rider
Deep Purple – Last Concept in Japan
Dying Fetus – Killing on Adrenaline
Dead C – Harsh 70s Reality
The Crystals – He’s a Rebel
The Crystals – Twist Uptown
The Ronettes – Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes
Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans – Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
Touche Amore – Live on BBC Radio 1
Orca Team – Restraint
Simon Joyner – Ghosts
DVD/BLU-RAY
The Royal Tenenbaums Criterion Collection Blu-ray
Jaws Blu-ray
Jerry Jeff Walker – Live from Dixie’s Bar and Bus Stop DVD
Jay and Silent Bob Get Old: Tea Bagging in the UK DVD
Community Season 3 DVD
Dexter Season 6 DVD
The Titanic: 100 Years in 3D DVD
Wiz Khalifa‘s new album O.N.I.F.C. comes out Tuesday, Sept. 18, but you can score an indie exclusive preview CD single of “Work Hard, Play Hard” (along with b-side “It’s Nothin” feat. 2 Chainz) now for only $1.99 at The Record Exchange!
The single comes with a $2 coupon that you can bring back and cash in on the new album on the 18th!
PREVIEW/BUY THE CD HERE
Dead Can Dance, the long-running project of Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard, are inextricably linked to the 4AD that defined a different generation. Not the current one of Bon Iver or Grimes, but the one of Bauhaus, This Mortal Coil and the Cocteau Twins — 1980s art goth of a particular kind. But neither label nor their bands sought that tag. And since Dead Can Dance’s music incorporated sounds from around the globe and across the centuries, the description seems particularly limiting. Anastasis, the duo’s first new album together in 16 years (following a variety of solo works and collaborations as well as a retrospective 2005 tour), finds Dead Can Dance firmly in their comfort zone, at a time when neither Gerrard nor Perry should feel they have anything left to prove.
Dead Can Dance always avoided a curatorial or purist approach to global music, and that trend continues here. They’re as open to new technologies and recording possibilities as they are to ancient instruments like the yangqin and the bodhrán, but they also eschew the collision of samples and beats that often defines other experimenters in the field. But over time, the influence of Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard has reached far and wide. From Future Sound of London’s early techno landmark “Papua New Guinea”, which samples Gerrard’s voice, to cover versions by bands such as arty metal types the Gathering and the more experimentalist impulses of recent bands like Prince Rama — not to mention Gerrard’s own now extensive work on a wide variety of film soundtracks — Dead Can Dance’s approach to sound has resonated widely.
Despite the long layoff, Anastasis is a logical progression from the band’s mid-90s albums as well as Brendan and Gerrard’s respective solo work since. There’s a suffused steadiness that steers the album, but with time, the individual strengths of each song manifest; the slow vocal and instrumental raptures toward the conclusion of “Agape”, the beguiling sway of “Opium”, where Perry sings about being unable to choose a way forward. And “Return of the She-King”, one of the band’s very few duets, sums up the exact reason Dead Can Dance retain their appeal. It’s the kind of impact and elegance that can be hard to put into words, but searching for a perfect expression is arguably exactly what Dead Can Dance have always strived to achieve. Here, they find it more often than not. — Pitchfork