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NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: 1990s ALT-ROCK SURVIVORS TOADIES DELIVER THEIR BEST ALBUM SINCE REFORMING

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July 31, 2012 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

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When it comes to twitchy, psychotic rock, Toadies remains the band to beat. “Possum Kingdom” was as much a blueprint as it was a ’90s alt-rock hit. On Play.Rock.Music., the best yet of the albums the band has made since reforming in 2006 after a five-year breakup, Toadies zigzag through fast, jumpy rock ’n’ roll (“Rattler’s Revival”), narcotic balladry (“Sunshine”), and fuzzed-out, psychedelic blues (“Animals”). On this outing, Toadies push off into some fresh directions. Holding it together is the band’s cinematic perspective, with singer Vaden Todd Lewis very good in acting and producing roles. In “Summer of the Strange,” Lewis directs the unraveling of a frightening tale of sanity slipping away. “Magic Bullet” and “Laments of a Good Man” mine familiar Toadies turf — dark impulses sparked by despair. But before anyone dismisses Toadies as misanthropic, Lewis signs off with the genuinely tender “The Appeal.” — Boston Globe

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NEW RELEASE TUESDAY 7/31: LISTENING PARTY WITH TOADIES, NICKI BLUHM IN-STORE, FREE PIE HOLE PIZZA & MORE!

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July 31, 2012 - DVD and Blu Ray , Live Shows , Live@RX - by - No Comments

The Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series continues on July 31 with Toadies‘ new album Play.Rock.Music! The album will be featured during our weekly listening party following a special New Release Tuesday in-store with Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers at 6 p.m. Enjoy free Pie Hole pizza while you listen to Nicki Bluhm and Play.Rock.Music and enter to win our New Release Tuesday raffle prize!

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

Joshua Radin – Underwater

Joss Stone – Soul Sessions Vol. 2 (deluxe edition also available)

Toadies – Play.Rock.Music

Bjork – Biophilia Remix Series (multiple CDs available individually)

Frank Zappa – Various Reissues

Blur – Various Reissues (with bonus discs of extra material)

Bob Marley and the Wailers – In Dub Vol. 1

Phish – Chicago ’94

Testament – Dark Roots of Earth (deluxe edition also available)

Nachtmystium – Silencing Machine

Gloriana – Thousand Miles Left Behind

Locust – Molecular Genetics from the Gold Standard Labs

Joey and Rory – His and Hers

Gaelic Storm – Chicken Boxer

Grateful Dead – Dick’s Picks Vol. 29 (5/19/77 Atlanta, Georgia, and 5/21/77 Lakeland, Florida)

Neil Diamond – Hot August Night 40th Anniversary Edition

Polar Bear Club – Live from the Montage Music Hall

High on Fire – Art of Self Defense

Rick Ross – God Forgives, I Don’t (deluxe edition also available)

Shovels and Rope – O’ Be Joyful

Reel Big Fish – Candy Coated Fury

Necro – Murder Murder Kill Kill

Old 97’s – Drag It Up Deluxe Edition

Jesse Harris – Sub Rosa

Cradle of Filth – The Principle of Evil Made Flesh

Cradle of Filth – V Empire (Or Dark Faerytales on Phallustein)

Germs – Media Blitz

Charles Mingus – The Complete Album Collection

Thelonious Monk – The Complete Thelonious Monk Quartet Studio Recordings

Christian Scott – Christian Atunde Adjuah

Various Artists – Johnny Cash Music Festival

Jackyl – Best in Show

Heptones – Good Vibes

Allen Stone – Allen Stone

Various Artists – Sparkle Soundtrack

Pitbull – I Am Armando

Randy Crawford and Joe Sample – Live

Mike Jones – Greatest Hits and Dirty Dubstep Remixes

Company Band – Pros and Cons

Glen Campbell – Live Anthology 1972-2011

Beth Hart – 37 Days

Beth Hart – My California

John Abercrombie Quartet – Within a Song

Marillion – This Strange Engine

Nona Hendryx – Mutatis Mutandis

Charm City Devils – Sins

River City Tanlines – Coast to Coast

Ponderosa – Pool Party

Elvis Presley – I Am an Elvis Fan

VINYL

Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan

Regina Spektor – What We Saw from the Cheap Seats

Bjork – Biophilia Remix Series (multiple 12-inches available individually)

Blur – Various Reissues

Old 97’s – Various Reissues

The Beach Boys – That’s Why God Made the Radio

The Smiths – Hatful of Hollow

Bob Marley and the Wailers – In Dub Vol. 1

Devo – Total Devo

Jimmy Cliff – Rebirth

Nachtmystium – Silencing Machine

Major Lazer – Get Free

Smile – Flash in the Night

3 Inches of Blood – Love Live Heavy Metal

Tangerine Dream – Live Miles

The Bamboos – Medicine Man

Darkest Hour – Eternal Return

DVD/BLU-RAY

Gojira – Flesh Alive DVD

Johnny Cash Music Festival DVD

King Crimson – Live in Argentina 1994 DVD

Marillion – Somewhere in London DVD

Date Night Blu-ray

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RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 20 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING JULY 29)

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

1. Shrines, Purity Ring
2. Gossamer, Passion Pit
3. Handwritten, The Gaslight Anthem
4. Yellow & Green, Baroness
5. Carry Me Back, Old Crow Medicine Show
6. Stars and Satellites, Trampled By Turtles
7. Bear Creek, Brandi Carlile
8. Uncaged, Zac Brown Band
9. Best of Kokua Festival, Jack Johnson and Friends
10. Let’s Go Out Tonight, Curtis Stigers
11. Americana, Neil Young and Crazy Horse
12. Oceania, Smashing Pumpkins
13. The Idler Wheel, Fiona Apple
14. Tour EP, The Ascetic Junkies
15. Hypnotic Nights, Jeff the Brotherhood
16. Home Again, Michael Kiwanuka
17. The Lumineers, The Lumineers
18. Bloom, Beach House
19. Spark Seeker, Matisyahu
20. Channel Orange, Frank Ocean

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GASLIGHT ANTHEM'S 'HANDWRITTEN' AND OTHER NEW CD RECOMMENDATIONS

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July 26, 2012 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

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The reason The Gaslight Anthem was able to write the best record of its career-so-far, and the frontrunner for 2012’s album of the year, is probably more a result of The Horrible Crowes than most of us really know. “I was bored,” Brian Fallon said. “After the last record for Gaslight Anthem, I was just bored. I still had the desire to write, but I didn’t want to write any more rock and roll songs. I was in this weird mood.” So he wrote Elsie with Ian Perkins, a darker, slower, brooding cauldron of an album that was nearly perfect – for what it was. Elsie somehow set off a switch, and returning with guitarist Alex Rosamilia, bassist Alex Levine and drummer Benny Horowitz enabled The Gaslight Anthem to write more freely than ever.

Handwritten is the The Gaslight Anthem’s most versatile work. It combines the raw rock and roll sound of The ’59 Sound with the best soulful parts from American Slang and Elsie. Fallon’s voice is absolutely in its best shape, as the croon we heard with The Horrible Crowes strongly complements his rougher vocal parts. Most interestingly, we find a lighthearted and jovial vibe to the album at times, harkening to the Senor and The Queen EP more than anything else. But Handwritten still brings something new to the table, and what else should we expect?

The group’s influences are still abundant on the record – there’s some Bob Dylan in the harmonica on the rhythmic “Keepsake,” there’s some heavy Tom Petty on the phenomenal closer “National Anthem,” and some The Rising or Magic-era Bruce Springsteen on another highlight in “Here Comes My Man.” The latter of those three has a killer bassline and “ooh-sha-la-la” bits that would catch the attention of even the E Street Band’s backup vocalists. But we know better than to overplay the talk of influences at this point in Gaslight’s career – this is a group that has reinvented itself twice now, a group with much more than a modicum of pressure accompanying its major label debut, a group that can change faces with its versatility while remaining very much itself.

The ’59 Sound. American Slang. Handwritten. The Gaslight Anthem presents its case-so-far. As listeners, as fans of music, we’ve already hit the lottery here. — Absolute Punk

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ASCETIC JUNKIES IN-STORE JULY 25; TREEFORT FAVS RETURN TO THE RX!

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July 25, 2012 - Live Shows , Live@RX - by - No Comments

Treefort Music Fest favorites The Ascetic Junkies will perform live at The Record Exchange (1105 W. Idaho St., Downtown Boise) at 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 25. As always, this Record Exchange in-store performance is free and all ages. The band is performing a full set at Flying M Coffeegarage in Nampa later that evening!

Back in March, The Ascetic Junkies performed a memorable Secret Treefort In-store at the RX, and we’re excited to welcome them back to the store!

ABOUT THE ASCETIC JUNKIES

The Ascetic Junkies are a pop band with more than a passing interest in Americana, noise and psychedelic song structure quirks. Hailing from Portland, Oregon, they’ve been inciting audiences to dance and sweat all over the West Coast and beyond since 2008. The band has its roots in a merging of rock and bluegrass, but after self-releasing an album in 2008, they started indulging in the pop/Americana/indie realm. Since then, they’ve constantly evolved their sonic palette without losing the core focus of their sound, which has been made easier by the distinct sound of their dual-lead-vocal center. Kali and Matt write the songs, and Cole and Stephen help take them and twist them into something unique, fun, and shape-shifting. They have gathered fond comparisons within the pop world as diverse as The Avett Brothers, The New Pornographers and The Dirty Projectors.

Through the last four years, the Ascetic Junkies have self-released two albums and seen a third released on Portland indie label Timber Carnival Records, toured often all over the Northwest, West Coast and Northeast and had the pleasure of sharing the stage with such national acts as Nicole Atkins, Warpaint, Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside and Asobi Seksu. In 2011, their received several honors on their home turf, including having tracks featured on the prestigious PDX Pop Now! compilation and Tender Loving Empire’s “Friends and Friends of Friends Vol. 4,” and having a self-produced music video highlighted and screened at NW Film Fest.

2012 finds the band planning to tour more than ever, recording a lot of new electrified material that intentionally sits on the border between “really catchy” and “pretty weird” and taking in the sights while driving back and forth across the country to bring their tunes to fans in towns big and small.

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