British folk/soul singer Michael Kiwanuka‘s debut album Home Again comes out Tuesday, July 17, but you can score a preview 7-inch single of “I’m Getting Ready” (along with a non-album b-side) 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 17th!
PREVIEW/BUY THE VINYL HERE
RX IN-STORE SUNDAY, AUG. 19!
Cory Chisel’s folk-rock dips its toes into pop, country and blues without fully submerging into any of those genres. Occasional mandolin, female backing vocals, strings, pedal steel, fiddle, flute, pianos, banjo, organ and a wide range of other sounds spice these already zesty songs whose ringing melodies are bolstered by Chisel’s emotive voice, often reminiscent of both Lennon and Petty. His opening slot for many of Norah Jones’ summer dates [Idaho Botanical Garden Aug. 19] should bring much deserved attention to this talented up and coming artist with an old soul. — American Songwriter
The Record Exchange’s New Release Tuesday series continues on June 26 with Linkin Park‘s new album Living Things! The album will be featured during our weekly listening party at 6 p.m. Enjoy free Pie Hole pizza while you listen to Living Things and enter to win our New Release Tuesday giveaway!
Are you a pro
ud 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 Neu
rolux 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
The Flaming Lips – Heady Fwends
Linkin Park – Living Things
Maroon 5 – Overexposed (deluxe edition also available)
The Offspring – Days Go By
Gojira – L’Enfant Sauvage
Jerry Douglas – Traveler
Everest – Ownerless
Blues Traveler – Suzy Cracks the Whip
Joe Jackson – Duke
Cory Chisel – Old Believers
Diiv – Oshin
A Place to Bury Strangers – Worship
The Devil Wears Prada – Dead & Alive
Various Artists – The A, B, C & D of Boogie Woogie
Memphis May Fire – Challenger
Casey Abrams – Casey Abrams
Little Feat – Rooster Rag
Chris Cagle – Back in the Saddle
R. Kelly – Write Me Back (deluxe edition also available)
Kenny G. and Rahul Sharma – Namaste
Electric Prunes – The Complete Reprise Singles
Throw the Fight – What Doesn’t Kill Us
Jill Scott – Crates: Remix Fundamentals Vol. 1
Sonny and the Sunsets – Longtime Companion
Grateful Dead – Dick’s Picks 30: Academy of Music, New York City March 25 & 28, 1972
Grateful Dead – Dick’s Pick 31: Philadelphia Civic Center and Roosevelt Stadium, Aug. 4-5 and 6, 1974
Johnny Cash – Setlist: The Very Best Prison of Johnny Cash Prison Recordings
Miles Davis – Setlist: The Very Best of Miles Davis Live
Elvis Presley – Setlist: The Very Best of Elvis Presley Live
Molly Hatchet – Setlist: The Very Best of Molly Hatchet Live
John Denver – Setlist: The Very Best of John Denver Live
Everclear – Invisible Stars
Cassandra Wilson – Another Country
Chubby Checker – The Very Best of Chubby Checker
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs – Rock Latino
Kasabian – Live! Live at the O2
New Christy Minstrels – Retrospective 1962-1970
VINYL
El-P – Cancer for Cure
Alejandro Escovedo – Big Station
Michael Jackson – I Just Can’t Stop Loving You
Bassnectar – Vava Voom
Cat Power – Moon Pix
The New Pornographers – Mass Romantic
Cory Chisel – Old Believers
SBTRKT – Hold On
Steep Canyon Rangers – Nobody Knows You
The DB’s – Falling Off the Sky
Elmore James – The Best of Elmore James
DVD/BLU-RAY
Pink Floyd – The Story of Wish You Were Here DVD and Blu-ray
Stone Temple Pilots – Alive in the Windy City DVD
Bachman & Turner – Live at the Roseland DVD
The Artist DVD and Blu-ray
21 Jump Street DVD and Blu-ray
The Samurai Trilogy DVD and Blu-ray
Wrath of the Titans DVD and Blu-ray
BUY THE CD HERE
What’s often forgotten in the inevitable march of progress is that today’s good ideas don’t have to go bad. Once a trend’s heat passes, its better innovations might settle into a new variety of classic cool. In Brooklyn’s DIIV, the music of the post-punk and shoegaze eras abandons the lens of nostalgia for the thrill of discovery. The brainchild of sometime-Beach Fossils guitarist Z. Cole Smith, DIIV treats the murky indie ’80s as the riptide that pulls the quartet deep into unexpected waters.
Oshin emphasizes a charmingly low-budget kind of grandeur, like Ride’s Nowhere reconstructed via laptop. That album is one of DIIV’s biggest touchstones, though repeated listens reveal an impressive range of influences. Its hypnotic guitar exchanges evoke Johnny Marr’s peerless melodic sense and the precision of Television, had that band started a decade or so later. The record’s best tracks—“How Long Have You Known,” “Past Lives,” “Earthboy”—balance the flowing textures with structural integrity that refuses to be washed away. — The A.V. Club
PREVIEW/BUY THE CD HERE
On paper, The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends [originally a Record Store Day vinyl exclusive now issued on CD] doesn’t appear to be the next official chapter in the band’s ever-evolving history so much as a tribute to Wayne Coyne’s skills of diplomacy, like his hyperactive Twitter feed brought to life. The internet may have splintered the pop monoculture into myriad musical streams, but Heady Fwends provides as inclusive a congregation of the entire, circa-2012 under-to-overground spectrum as you can muster in a single album, with a guest list that spans top-40 stars (Ke$ha, Chris Martin) and noise-rock extremists (Lightning Bolt), anarchic avant guardians (Nick Cave, Yoko Ono) and chilled-out indie new-schoolers (Bon Iver, Neon Indian), electronic experimentalists (Prefuse 73) and hip-hop heroes-cum-children’s-television hosts (Biz Markie). Really, all you need to complete the picture is a Pauly D remix.
When the Lips started plotting these collaborations last year, they seemed like the latest in a growing line of guinea-pig projects that have kept the band busy since 2009’s Embryonic, click-bait novelties to be filed alongside the six-hour songs and gummy-skull-encased USB sticks. And while the first of these pairings to surface — EPs with Neon Indian, Lightning Bolt, Prefuse 73, and Yoko Ono, each represented here with a single track — yielded interesting moments of aesthetic intersection, their free-form nature didn’t exactly demand repeat listens. The songs on Heady Fwends are likewise rife with indicators of their hastily cobbled-together origins: flubbed vocal cues, songs obviously constructed via email file swaps (Ono’s “Do It!”), goofy lyrics that sound like they were written seconds before recording (“You always want/ To shave my balls/ That ain’t my trip”). But here’s the craziest thing about the whole project: This piecemeal patchwork of tracks hangs together amazingly well as a front-to-back album — to the point where, if the band had released this as the official follow-up to Embryonic, without the public stunt-casting campaign and Record Store Day tie-in, no Flaming Lips fan would feel short-changed.
If anything, Heady Fwends is arguably an even more wiggy experience than Embryonic, an album that marked the Lips’ return to brain-bending, fuzz-covered psychedelia, but was still very much beholden to the record-collector canon of Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and Can. — Pitchfork