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Yeah, it’s Saturday, but The Record Exchange is still giving it to the people.
First one to send an email with the subject “Street Dogs” HERE wins the Street Dogs‘ new self-titled CD and a pair of tickets to their Oct. 21 show at the Knitting Factory!
• NEW RELEASES:
The Young Scamels Tempest (w/ ThinkIndie exclusive bonus track)
Shadow Shadow Shade Shadow Shadow Shade
Belle and Sebastian Write About Love
Antony and the Johnsons Swanlights
Badly Drawn Boy It’s What I’m Thinking
Old 97’s The Grand Theatre Volume 1
Railroad Earth Railroad Earth
Yann Tiersen Dust Lane
Nels Cline Dirty Baby
Blue Water White Death Blue Water White Death
MORE HERE
• NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: SHADOW SHADOW SHADE FOR $5.99!
L.A. buzz band Shadow Shadow Shade release their debut album Shadow Shadow Shade on Public Records. It jumps out the gate with “Is This A Tempest In The Shape Of A Bell,” which sounds like Brian Eno fronting early Pink Floyd.
I guess it’s no wonder that this seven-piece band see themselves as a big art project more than a rock group. The members include a producer, an opera singer (you can’t miss her) and various other art type folks. The vocal arrangements are quite startling in their complexity and tonal quality.
I guess the thing that really gets me about this group, is the depth of the music and the vision put into the entire project. From the cover art to individual notes, you can tell they give a shit. They conjure bands like the Mama’s And Papas, Queen, Roxy Music and the already mentioned Pink Floyd. The new album’s on sale for $5.99, which makes it easy to afford. I promise the music is not cheap and it will keep you wondering where these guys have been hiding all these years. – radiofreedavis@thinkindie
BUY ALBUM HERE
• BELLE AND SEBASTIAN ESSAY CONTEST – MEET STUART MURDOCH!
Do you know how to write about love ? Are you a huge Belle & Sebastian fan? Well, Think Indie and Matador records has a contest for you. The first 20 people to buy the new Belle & Sebastian album Write About Love will get a code that allows them to enter a special contest. (The code will be emailed to you after your purchase — not immediately, we aren’t NASA).
The contest is a 300-word essay contest about love. The band will judge the entries. The winner will have Stuart Murdoch fly into your town. He will hang with you for the afternoon and then write a song about you. That song will be featured on a limited-edition 7-inch.
BUY ALBUM, ENTER CONTEST HERE
• A FEAST OF FABULOUS FREELOADS!
One of the coolest things about the Record Exchange ThinkIndie Digital Store is the crazy amount of free downloads.
Seriously, each week new freebies are added to the Freeloads section, and these aren’t just streams — we’re talking fully downloadable and burnable 320KB DRM-free files.
Here’s a look at some new additions:
Shadow Shadow Shade Is This a Tempest
Various Artists Austin City Limits 2010 Sampler (13 tracks!)
Stereolab Sun Demon
Belle and Sebastian Write About Love
Crocodiles Fire of Comparison EP (four free tracks!)
Sufjan Stevens I Walked
Many more HERE
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Surfer Blood is playing Neurolux on Thursday, Oct. 7, as part of the Promenade Music Festival, and some lucky ducks will get to meet the band, exchange high-fives and so forth during the Surfer Blood Soundcheck Meet-and-Greet!
To enter, all you gotta do is send an email with the subject “Surfer Blood” HERE by noon Tuesday, Oct. 5. The winner receives admission for two to the meet-and-greet, a pair of Promenade Music Festival 3-day passes and a copy of Surfer Blood’s Astro Coast on vinyl for the band to sign. YOU MUST BE 21 TO ENTER THIS CONTEST AND WILL BE REQUIRED TO SHOW PROOF WITH A VALID I.D.
Today is the final day of the 8-day Record Exchange 33 1/3 Anniversary Sale, and we’re feeling generous.
In addition to 33% off new CDs today, we’re giving away a free CD for the next five hours leading up to the Record Exchange Alive After Five Season Finale with BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet and the Jeremiah James Gang.
This hour’s giveaway — the fifth and final one before we head down to Alive After Five — is Dirty Projectors’ Bitte Orca Expanded Edition. The first person to send an email with the subject “Dirty Projectors” HERE wins it!
NOTE: You can only win once, so if you’ve already scored a free CD today, you know, let others have a chance.
Today is the final day of the 8-day Record Exchange 33 1/3 Anniversary Sale, and we’re feeling generous.
In addition to 33% off new CDs today, we’re giving away a free CD for the next five hours leading up to the Record Exchange Alive After Five Season Finale with BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet and the Jeremiah James Gang.
This hour’s giveaway is Wavves‘ King of the Beach. The first person to send an email with the subject “Wavves” HERE wins it!
NOTE: You can only win once, so if you’ve already scored a free CD today, you know, let others have a chance.