TABLEROCK BREWPUB AND THE RECORD EXCHANGE PRESENT POSITIVELY BOB DYLAN’S 70TH BIRTHDAY BASH TUESDAY, MAY 24: LIVE MUSIC, FREE BEER, PRIZES!

TableRock Brewpub and The Record Exchange proudly present Positively Bob Dylan’s 70th Birthday Bash at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 24, at The Record Exchange. As always, this Record Exchange in-store event is free and all ages.

Robert Allen Zimmerman, known to your record collection as Bob Dylan, turns 70 on May 24, and TableRock and The Record Exchange are hosting a celebration in his honor.

The festivities include:

• Live Dylan covers performed on The Record Exchange stage by Thomas Paul, Travis Ward, Bill Coffey, Steve Fulton, Catherine Merrick, Johnny Shoes, James Coberly Smith, ShipShape, Bernie Reilly, Chris Gutierrez, Randy Meenach and Dan Costello.

• Free craft beer courtesy of TableRock Brewpub (21 and older; ID required).

• Huge storewide sale on Dylan CDs, vinyl, DVDs and more.

• Dylan raffle prizes courtesy of Sundazed.

RECORD EXCHANGE EXCLUSIVES: GLASVEGAS VINYL, GLITCH MOB, GRAND MAGNOLIAS, FOSTER AND LLOYD!

What is a Record Exchange exclusive? It’s a CD, vinyl LP, 7-inch, DVD or other product you can only find at the RX — no big box, corporate record store chain or uncle’s basement will have it.

NEW EXCLUSIVES:

Glasvegas Euphoric/Heartbreak vinyl LP
Foster and Lloyd It’s Already Tomorrow CD
Glitch Mob Drink the Sea vinyl LP
Grand Magnolias Grand Magnolias CD

OTHER RECENT EXCLUSIVES:

Tres Mts. Three Mountains CD. A project comprised of Pearl Jams bassist, King’s Xs Vocalist and guitarist and the Fastbacks drummer.
Brendan Benson Lapalco vinyl LP
Vanity Theft Get What You Came For CD
Vanity Theft Anatomy EP
Black Lips/Strange Boys Bruise Cruise Vol. 4 7-inch
Quintron and Miss Pussycat/Turbo Fruits Bruise Cruise Vol. 3 7-inch
Wanda Jackson Thunder on the Mountain/Dust on the Bible 7-inch
Dungen Oga Nasa Mum/Highway Wolf 7-inch
Riley Grandma’s Roadhouse vinyl LP
Booker T and the MG’s McLemore Avenue (Abbey Road covers) vinyl LP
Kate Bush Hounds of Love vinyl LP
Kate Bush The Sensual World vinyl LP
Harry Nilsson A Little Touch of Schmilsson vinyl LP
Dex Romweber Duo Third Man Live 02-04-2010 vinyl LP
Conan O’Brien and the Legally Prohibited Band Third Man Live 06-10-2010 vinyl LP
Pujol Third Man Live 05-21-2010 vinyl LP
Tyvek Third Man Live 09-27-2010 vinyl LP
Gregory Alan Isakov This Empty Northern Hemisphere vinyl LP
Josh Ritter The Animal Years CD reissue – includes bonus CD with live acoustic performance of entire album!
Hellogoodbye Would It Kill You? vinyl LP
Pearl Jam Live on Ten Legs CD and vinyl LP
Josh Ritter The Animal Years vinyl LP (first time on wax – includes CD with live acoustic performance of entire album!)
Band of Horses/Cee-lo Green split 7-inch (Band of Horses covering Cee-lo, Cee-lo covering Band of Horses)
The Decemberists The King is Dead deluxe box set
Bing Crosby and David Bowie Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth 7-inch (red vinyl)
John Fahey Volume One/Blind Joe Death vinyl LP
John Wesley Harding Sings to a Small Guitar Vol. II CD
The Duke Spirit Kusama CD EP
Os Haxixins Noites Brancas 7-inch
Right Now 7 to 10 7-inch
Right Now Carry Me Home vinyl LP
Carbon Leaf Christmas Child CD
The Knife Seeds 12-inch
Fitz and the Tantrums Santa Stole My Lady 7-inch
The Greenhornes Saying Goodbye 7-inch
Laura Marling Blues Run the Game 7-inch
The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers 180-gram vinyl LP
Dead Weather/Third Man vinyl: Tons of new 7-inches, 12-inches and full-length LPs from Jack White’s label, including six Dead Weather titles as well as new cuts from Jack White, Dex Romweber Duo, Conan O’Brien, Carl Sagan, Dan Sartain, Wanda Jackson, Jon Wayne and Secret Sisters.
Keith Richards Life book
DJ Shadow 4 Track Era vinyl LP
Widespread Panic Johnson City 2001 3CD set
The Shipping News One Less Heartless to Fear CD
The Answering Machine Another City Another Story CD
Scott Miller Christmas Gift CD
Wingless Angels (Keith Richards) Wingless Angels CD EXTREMELY LIMITED!
Wingless Angels (Keith Richards) Volumes I and II CD Box Set
Bad Books Bad Books CD
Bobby Long Stranger Songs vinyl LP
California Guitar Trio Andromeda vinyl LP
The Shipping News One Less Heartless to Fear vinyl LP
Jill Cunniff City Beach vinyl LP, available on red/yellow or orange/pink colored vinyl; both versions come with a bonus 7-inch! Limited to 250 copies (that’s in the entire universe).
Keith Richards Vintage Vinos CD (retrospective from out of print studio albums, plus live tracks)
Matisyahu Shake Off the Dust … ARISE CD (reissue of out-of-print, fan-favorite indie debut!
Biffy Clyro Only Revolutions CD
Broken Spindles Document No. 2 (handmade CD, extremely limited)
Dapose Positive Feedback limited-edition vinyl LP
Touch People Everyone Is Not Alive limited-edition vinyl LP
Brendon Benson Well & Goode 7-inch
Paul McCartney and Wings Band on the Run 7-inch. Taken from the forthcoming Paul McCartney Archive Collection reissue of Band On The Run, this limited-edition, highly-collectible vinyl 7-inch replicates the original U.S. single release that shot to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 back in June of 1974. Housed in a deluxe picture sleeve and digitally re-mastered from the original tapes, this is sure to become a sought after Paul McCartney single release for years to come.
Elvis Costello This Year’s Model 180-gram half-speed master vinyl LP (only 5,000 made!)
Elvis Costello Armed Forces 180-gram half-speed master vinyl LP (only 5,000 made!)
Pixies Bossanova 180-gram half-speed master vinyl LP (only 5,000 made!)
Klaxons Surfing the Void CD
Puscifer “C” is for … vinyl LP
Wingless Angels (Keith Richards) Volume I and II
Shadow Shadow Shade Shadow Shadow Shade CD
Soundgarden Telephantasm 3LP vinyl version. Read more HERE.
Amy Correia You Go Your Way CD
Darden Smith Marathon CD
Fever Ray Mercy Street 7-inch
Lloyd Cole Broken Record CD
Nicole Atkins Vultures 7-inch
Cee Lo F**k You CD single, only 99 cents! Read more HERE
Maroon 5 Hands All Over Indie Store Version with bonus tracks
Weezer Raditude Photos 144-page color photo book
Puscifer Sound Into Blood Into Wine CD
Puscifer “C” is For … CD
Sea Wolf Turn the Dirt Over 7-inch
Hayley Taylor One Foot in Front of the Other CD
Mason Jennings Live at First Ave. CD
Brad Best Friends? vinyl LP
Corinne Bailey Rae The Sea vinyl LP
Paper Bird When the River Took Flight CD
Record Store Days book
Coconut Records Nighttiming vinyl LP
Crooked Fingers Forfeit/Fortune vinyl LP
Josh Ritter Golden Age of Radio CD
Josh Ritter S/T CD
Patton Oswalt 222 CD
Right Away, Great Captain! The Eventually Home CD
Warren Haynes The Lone EP
William Fitzsimmons Derivatives CD
Brad Best Friends? CD
The Coral Butterfly House standard/deluxe CD
The Damnwells Golden Days DVD
John Wesley Harding Sings to a Small Guitar Vol. 1 CD
Kristin Hersh Crooked CD
Neu! Vinyl Box Set
Earl Greyhound Suspicious Package CD
Shonen Knife Live at Mowawk Place 2009 DVD
Donavon Frankenreiter Revisited vinyl LP
Various Artists Eat, Pray, Love soundtrack CD
Beck Sea Change half-speed master vinyl LP
Cowboy Junkies Whites Off Earth Now! half-speed master vinyl LP
Elvis Costello My Aim Is True half-speed master vinyl LP
Faith No More Angel Dust half-speed master vinyl LP
Megadeth Countdown to Extinction half-speed master vinyl LP
Pixies Surfer Rosa half-speed master vinyl LP
Pixies Doolittle half-speed master vinyl LP
Bad Brains Live at CBGB 1982 vinyl LP
Builders and the Butchers Where the Roots All Grow CD
Earl Greyhound Soft Targets CD
Filter Inevitable Relapse 7-inch
Junip (Jose Gonzalez) Rope and Summit vinyl LP
Matthew Ryan Dear Lover Acoustic Version CD
Via Audio Animalore CD and vinyl LP
William Fitzsimmons Derivatives CD
Donavon Frankenreiter Revisited CD
Guggenheim Grotto Universe is Laughing CD
Hurricane Bells Tonight is the Ghost CD
I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody’s Business The World We Know CD
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds The Mercy Seat 12-inch (limited edition white vinyl!)
STS9 Ad Explorata vinyl LP
The Glitch Mob Drink the Sea CD
Mz Streamz It’s Alive CD
Shannon McNally Coldwater CD
Snow and Voices Anything That Moves CD
Toots and the Maytals Flip and Twist CD
Record Store Day exclusives. We still have limited quantities left of select titles!
Nirvana In Utero 180-gram yellow colored vinyl LP
Nirvana MTV Unplugged 180-gram red colored vinyl LP
Nirvana Nevermind colored vinyl LP
Slacktone Warning: Reverb Instrumentals CD
Randall Bramlett The Meantime CD
Lou Reed Satellite Of Love 7-inch
The Replacements I’ll Be You 7-inch
The Ramones California Sun 7-inch
Kate Nash My Best Friend is You Indie Store Version with bonus track.
The Ravenna Colt Slight Spell CD and vinyl LP.
Vampire Weekend Contra indie-store version bundled with a limited-edition bonus CD featuring three exclusive tracks!
BlakRoc BlakRoc CD and vinyl LP, ONLY VERSION WITH LUDACRIS/ODB TRACK “COOCHIE” and it’s going quickly! Get it while you can — very limited quantities remaining of this first pressing!
Old Crow Medicine Show Greetings From Wawa limited-edition CD reissue.
DJ Shadow In L.A. 10-31-09 CD
Jack Johnson Brushfire Fairytales limited-edition CD
Josh Ritter Hello Starling vinyl/double CD reissue
The Beatles Abbey Road vinyl box (w/ t-shirt and poster)
Zac Brown Band Live From Bonnaroo CD EP

TALKDEMONIC IN-STORE WEDNESDAY, MAY 25 (6PM); OPENING FOR SOLD-OUT MODEST MOUSE SHOW ON MAY 26!

Talkdemonic will perform live at The Record Exchange (1105 W. Idaho St., Downtown Boise) at 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 25. As always, this Record Exchange in-store performance is free and all ages.

NOTE: Talkdemonic is opening for the sold-out Modest Mouse show on Thursday, May 26, at the Knitting Factory. If you want a preview of the show, or if you didn’t get tickets and were bummed about missing Talkdemonic, come hear ’em live at the RX!

Prior to the in-store, Talkdemonic will be interviewed live on our fab new community-supported radio station, Radio Boise, at 3:30 p.m. (KRBX 89.9 FM)

ABOUT TALKDEMONIC:

Portland, Oregon, duo Kevin O’Connor and Lisa Molinaro create lush and evocative instrumental soundscapes under the name Talkdemonic (talkdemonic.com).

Formed in 2003, Talkdemonic began as Kevin’s pursuit for new frontiers in percussion and analog sound. Lisa joined Kevin shortly thereafter, further shaping Talkdemonic’s innovative style with her rich viola and cello arrangements. Talkdemonic released their 2004 darling début Mutiny Sunshine on Lucky Madison Records. In 2006, Kevin and Lisa went on to sign with Arena Rock Recording Co., releasing both Beat Romantic and Eyes At Half Mast and garnering critical attention for their ability to pioneer the marriage of strings with unyieldingly strong percussion and inescapable harmony.

At times impetuous yet palliative, Talkdemonic’s sound captures the universally intangible, what we wish we to say but cannot find words, a surge and a calm, instrumental modern music at its finest.

Talkdemonic finds themselves either touring the country or nesting in the Pacific Northwest, creating arresting music for the masses. Their fourth and perhaps most inventive album is scheduled for release in 2011.

THE VINYL WORD: HANK WILLIAMS III CULLS RARE CUTS ON ‘HILLBILLY JOKER’

BUY THE VINYL HERE

First things first: If my bootleg Hank III collection (what, you don’t have one?) is to be believed, a large percentage—80%, to be exact—of the tracks on Hillbilly Joker have been floating around the interwebs in a quasi-legal status since 2003 under the album title This Ain’t Country. (Some tracks also appear on III Shades of Hank; use this information however you’d like.) That said, even with a new moniker, the old This Ain’t Country is a pretty apt title—as Williams fans who dig his hard rock side project, Assjack, know, there’s more to the man than his souped-up, hellbound take on his grandfather’s genre. Hillbilly Joker splits the difference between Hank III proper and Assjack, and as a result, will either offer something for both sets of fans or disappoint them, depending on your level of cynicism.

The Hank III thematic elements are in place, even if the sound isn’t. The hard rock attack and more guttural vocals may turn off those who prefer their Hank twangy, nasal, and surrounded by steel guitars and fiddles, though even the haters may be surprised by how fluid Williams’s voice is on a tune like “10 Feet Down,” twisting from cookie monster growl to swagger to croak on a syllable, as if possessed by a demon; he makes Jello Biafra sound like Calvin Johnson. — PopMatters

OTHER NEW VINYL RELEASES:

Deftones Around the Fur
Girls Names Dead to Me
The Go-Go’s Beauty and the Beat 30th Anniversary
Moby Destroyed
Alexander Turnquist Hallway of Mirrors
Wild Beasts Smother

DANGER MOUSE GOES TO ‘ROME’ AND OTHER NEW CD RECOMMENDATIONS

BUY THE CD HERE

The great, and only, disappointment with Rome is that once you’ve heard the album, you’ll want to watch the movie it accompanies. Except there is no movie. Imagined as an homage to Italian film scores from the 1960s and ’70s, Rome is a fabrication from the minds of producer Danger Mouse (a.k.a. Brian Burton of Gnarls Barkley and Broken Bells fame) and composer-arranger Daniele Luppi. As such, fabled film composer Ennio Morricone’s spirit figures prominently into this project.

Rome proudly requires you to listen to it from start to finish. Pick and choose your songs (or downloads), and you will lose the cinematic sweep of the music. Much of the album is instrumental, imbued with swells of majestic strings, organic acoustic and electric guitars, and hallucinatory chants. Think of it as the soundtrack to a spaghetti western that takes place in modern-day Los Angeles.

For the songs with lyrics, Burton and Luppi enlisted two singers in the starring roles, each for a trio of tunes. Jack White turns up as a renegade ramblin’ man on “Two Against One’’ (“I keep my enemies closer/Than my mirror ever gets to me’’). And Norah Jones smolders in the dusky confines of “Season’s Trees,’’ her cadences coy and languid as the music drifts by.

White and Jones are the marquee collaborators, but they are by no means the only attractions. Luppi also rounded up musicians who had played on Morricone’s classic film scores for westerns such as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (including the haunting Italian singer Edda Dell’Orso on the opening track, “Theme of ‘Rome’’). — Boston Globe

OTHER NEW CD RECOMMENDATIONS:

Hank Williams III Hillbilly Joker
Levon Helm Ramble at the Ryman
Seether Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray
Sick Puppies Tri-Polar
Moby Destroyed
Glasvegas Euphoric/Heartbreak
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones Rocket Science
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Various Collector’s Editions
The Go-Go’s Beauty and the Beat 30th Anniversary
Sarah Jarosz Follow Me Down
Motorhead The World is Yours
Tinie Tempah Disc-overy