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NEW DVD/BLU-RAY: 127 HOURS

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Aron Ralston (played by James Franco) is traipsing alone through Utah’s Canyonlands National Park, minding his own sweet-natured, loosey-goosey business, when an errant step drops him into a crevasse. That in itself wouldn’t be so bad if he hadn’t managed to get his right hand stuck between a heavy boulder and the side of the cavern–a cavern that will be his grave, if he doesn’t figure out how to get himself out. Danny Boyle’s film of this real-life 2003 incident builds up to what we all know is going to happen: Ralston must sever his arm between his elbow and wrist, after a few long, lonely days of avoiding the idea. (Superb casual line delivery by Franco: “So I found this great tourniquet….”) Because this is a film by the director of Slumdog Millionaire and Trainspotting, we can expect a barrage of visual high jinks, despite the fact that this story would seem to be a simple tale of a man stuck in the desert. Boyle deploys flashbacks and fantasies to fill up the screen, plus he gets some mileage out of Ralston’s video camera–and, of course, this director can’t resist juicing the soundtrack with pop tunes, from Sigur Rós to Edith Piaf to Slumdog composer A.R. Rahman. Maybe Boyle is simply hyperactive, or maybe he’s really onto something about what would happen inside the mind of a man left in extremis for an extended period (who wouldn’t have a few Boyle-esque hallucinations, under the circumstances?). The cumulative effect is overbearing, but Franco’s performance is spirited and endearing–he makes Ralston sufficiently “of life” that you definitely don’t want to see this goofball soul be lost. – Robert Horton

OTHER NEW DVD/BLU-RAY RELEASES:

Love Actually
Aqua Unit Patrol Squad Vol. 1
Crosby & Nash Crosby & Nash: In Concert
Ice Age 3- Dawn of the Dinosaur
Pink Panther 2
Miracle On 34th Street (1947)
Night At The Museum – Battle of Smithsonian
Taylor Swift Journey To Fearless
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid
Cream Live At The Royal Albert Hall 2005

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THE VINYL WORD: GRATEFUL DEAD ‘EUROPE ’72’ – REMASTERED

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This sprawling three-records-on-two-CDs set offers a healthy cross-section of material and finds the band honing even further its blend of musical languages. There are country-inflected boogies, blues rave-ups, passionate ballads, and, of course, the extended, adventurous jams that made them famous. Many of the Grateful Dead‘s best-loved tunes made their initial vinyl appearances here, including “He’s Gone,” “Jack Straw,” “Brown-Eyed Women,” “Ramble on Rose,” and “Tennessee Jed”–most of which reveal a heavy country influence, especially in Robert Hunter’s lyrics. In addition to introducing these new songs, Europe ’72 also showcases brilliantly fine-tuned versions of “Truckin'” (complete with a lengthy “Epilogue”) and “China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider,” which became the first of the band’s many magical song combinations. – Marc Greilsamer

OTHER NEW VINYL RELEASES:

Youth Lagoon The Year Of Hibernation
Blue October Any Man In America
Jayhawks Mockingbird Time
Talk Talk Laughing Stock
Lil Wayne The Carter IV
Cormans Halloween Record With Sound Effects
Tori Amos Night Of Hunters
Deep Purple Live 1999 Melbourne Park
Mayer Hawthorne How Do You Do
Starfucker/Champagne Champagne Dragon Queens (Skeletron Mix)

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BJORK ‘BIOPHILIA’ AND OTHER NEW CD RECOMMENDATIONS!!

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The biggest artists in the world might look on in envy at the advance publicity for Björk‘s eighth album, Biophilia. It’s been heralded not merely as an important new release but the future of the entire record industry. “Björk Fights to Save Music” offered the headline in Mojo, not a magazine renowned for working itself up into a state of breathless over-excitement. According to a cover feature in Wired, it represents not merely an attempt to “define humanity’s relationship with sound and the universe” but also to “pioneer a music format that will smash industry conventions”, neither of which are claims anyone was in a hurry to make for, say, Beady Eye’s Different Gear, Still Speeding.

But then, who can blame them? Biophilia invites a degree of grandiosity. It is, by all accounts, the first album to be released as a suite of iPad and iPhone apps, intended as “a semi-educational project for children using sound, texts and visuals” covering, among other topics, plate tectonics, genetics and human biorhythm. It took three years to make, a period that involved discussions not merely with Björk’s record company, but Apple and National Geographic. It required the employment of an immense supporting cast. David Attenborough provides narration. Dr Nicola Dibben, a senior lecturer in music at Sheffield University, wrote the essays that accompany every song. An American mathematician and a British scientist and film-maker, bonded by their desire to collect every element in the periodic table, developed some of the apps, and a robotics company’s director of engineering was commissioned to build four “gravity harps”, which, according to their creator, “make music using the oscillating transformation of gravitational potential energy into kinetic energy and back again.” – The Guardian

OTHER NEW CD RECOMMENDATIONS:

Marketa Irglova Anar
Radiohead Tkol Rmx 1234567
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas Symphony
Peter Gabriel New Blood
Five Finger Death Punch American Capitalist
Rachael Yamagata Chesapeake
Evanescence Evanescence
Lauren Alaina Wildflower
Ben Folds Retrospective: The Best Imitation of Myself
Mayer Hawthorne How Do You Do

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NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: RYAN ADAMS ‘ ASHES & FIRE’

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Historically, Ryan Adams has released, via labels or for download, every idea he’s put down on tape. The dude barely has a filter. Some consider him prolifically gifted, others annoyingly egotistical, but then when he waits a couple of years to drop something new, the anticipation is that much greater. Ashes & Fire is as close as it gets to the brilliance of his first post-Whiskeytown offering, Heartbreaker. It’s a subdued affair, rarely breaking much more than an acoustic guitar– and light-piano sweat, except on the honky-tonk jangle of the title track. But Adams’s songwriting has long been his strong suit, and his lyrics here are more than enough to carry the weight. A song like “Dirty Rain” — with its “Waiting outside while you find your keys/Like bags of trash in the blackening snow/City of neon and toes that freeze” — paints such a vivid scene, it’s like getting lost in a sonic picture book. Even the sappiest lines (“I will shelter you with my love and forgiveness”) are saved by an unwavering earnestness and, given Adams’s melancholy recording history, dispense a positively restrained sense of hope. – The Phoenix 

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YOUTH LAGOON RX IN-STORE AND FAT POSSUM DAY TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11; WRISTBAND REQUIRED FOR ADMISSION

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Youth Lagoon will perform live at The Record Exchange (1105 W. Idaho St., Downtown Boise) at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11. As always, this Record Exchange in-store event is free and all ages.

Trevor Powers (aka Youth Lagoon), the Boise breakout artist whose critically-acclaimed Fat Possum debut The Year of Hibernation (full stream HERE) hit stores Tuesday, Sept. 27, is back in Boise for his only hometown show between fall tours. Please join us to welcome Trevor back, hear some live music and celebrate the release of The Year of Hibernation!

We’re expecting a big crowd, so we will be closing the store early (7 p.m.) and a wristband will be required for admission to the in-store. Anyone who purchases The Year of Hibernation on CD or vinyl (vinyl available Tuesday, Oct. 11, the day of the in-store) will receive one wristband. The first 100 wristbanded customers at the in-store will receive a free Youth Lagoon poster!

Oct. 11 is also Fat Possum Day at The Record Exchange. In addition to Youth Lagoon, the revered indie label has released great albums this year from Yuck, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Bass Drum of Death and others, and they’ve generously supplied us with a ton of swag to give away at the in-store, including:

• Autographed Andrew Bird Useless Creatures vinyl LP
• Autographed Band of Horses Infinite Arms poster
• Autographed and framed The Walkmen Lisbon flat
• Vinyl LPs from Mellowhype, Bass Drum of Death, Bolan’s Zip Gun and Lost Sounds
• Much more!

ABOUT YOUTH LAGOON

Twenty-two year old Trevor Powers, whose musical venture is called Youth Lagoon (facebook.com/youthlagoon), has had a long year. Not because he’s been endlessly touring or pursuing some wild dream, but because of life – the life of a kid going to college, being in love, dealing with heartache, and just living.

“Youth Lagoon isn’t me.” says Powers. “It’s merely a part of me. I was in and out of different bands in high school and always tried to define myself by what music I played. I tried to find a sense of meaning by being in a band. But it wasn’t until this last year – when I realized I was more than just music – that I was able to create music that means something to me. And that is Youth Lagoon.”

Throughout the course of 2010, Powers began to write an album about things he had a hard time talking about. He claims that when he tries to talk about it to people, he doesn’t make sense. So he wrote an album about it titled The Year of Hibernation.

“For my whole life I’ve dealt with extreme anxiety.” says Powers. “Not anxiety about passing a test or somewhat normal things, but weird, bizarre things. Things that only I know. I sometimes feel like I’m literally being eaten up inside. So I started writing these songs. Not just songs about my anxiety, but about my past and my present. Songs about memories, and all those feelings that those bring. I know that if I can be honest about what is inside my mind, there will be others that will be able to relate to it.”

Although his music seems somewhat dreamy with the first listen, the lyrics show a different side to the matter. Hidden beneath the melodies is a voice that is eerie yet nostalgic. Powers claims his music is like letting people read his journal. “I don’t think I could ever write a completely happy album. It’s not that I’m not a happy person,” claims Powers, “but I just have too many things in my mind that haunt me.”

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