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RECORD EXCHANGE INDIE STORE EXCLUSIVES: JOSH RITTER ANIMAL YEARS CD WITH BONUS LIVE DISC!

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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:

Josh Ritter The Animal Years CD reissue – includes bonus CD with live acoustic performance of entire album!

OTHER RECENT EXCLUSIVES:

BLACK FRIDAY 2011 EXCLUSIVES – FULL LIST HERE

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

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RYAN BINGHAM AND THE DEAD HORSES LIVE AT THE EGYPTIAN THEATRE FEB. 22; RECORD EXCHANGE IN-STORE TOO!

February 9, 2011 - Live Shows , Recommended , The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

Oscar winner Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses are performing live in concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 22, at The Egyptian Theatre. Tickets are $18 advance and $21 day of show for general admission seating. Advance tickets are available at The Record Exchange, The Boise Co-op, The Egyptian Theatre box office and egyptiantheatre.net.

Bingham also will perform a solo acoustic Record Exchange in-store at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 22! Record Exchange in-stores are always free and all ages.

Ryan Bingham won the Academy Award for best original song for “The Weary Kind,” the hauntingly beautiful song from the film Crazy Heart starring Jeff Bridges. Bingham is coming back to Boise for a headlining show after opening for Willie Nelson last summer at the Idaho Botanical Garden.

“Bingham, an ex-rodeo bull rider, is electrifying in a somebody-might-take-a-pool-cue-to-the-head kind of way. This convergence of charisma, energy and songwriting suggests what Springsteen might have been like had he come up in Billy Bob’s instead of the Stone Pony.” – Esquire Magazine, “9 Live Shows a Man Should See”

In “Strange Feelin’ in the Air,” a crooked guitar riff stalks, offering a feeling of apprehension as sure as the shifty outsider bursting through the swinging doors of the townie saloon. It’s pure Ryan Bingham, a conjurer of atmosphere, a gift that he put to good use for “The Weary Kind,” his Oscar-winning song featured in Crazy Heart. – The L.A. Times, Junky Star album review

At this year’s Americana Music Association’s awards show, Bingham won two well-deserved awards, taking home custom made plaques for Artist of the Year and Song of the Year for “The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart),” which he co-wrote with T Bone Burnett. Bingham was the only artist to receive multiple awards at this year’s conference, and provided one of the evening highlights with the performance of his new song “Hallelujah” with the house band, which consisted of Buddy Miller, Don Was and Greg Leisz, to name a few.

For some artists, winning an Oscar would represent reaching a pinnacle. For Bingham, it instead represented a crossroads and a decision about which path to take.

“When there are a lot of people around saying ‘look, you have to capitalize on this and do something really commercial,’ you might think about it for a second,” admits the LA-based singer-songwriter. “But at the end of the day, there’s not a chance in hell I could do that. It made me sick to my stomach just thinking about it. I couldn’t get up in front of people and play a bunch of stuff that didn’t mean anything to me.”

Bingham puts that philosophy to the test in a big way on Junky Star, his third album on Lost Highway, which was recorded in a matter of days with producer T Bone Burnett, his collaborator on the Crazy Heart soundtrack. The disc delivers a bracing fusion of pensive, gravelly ballads – like “Hallelujah,” which is not a Leonard Cohen cover, but his own take on mortality, delivered from the other side of the veil – and raw, rock‘n’roll cuts that showcase Bingham’s incisive, darkly compelling lyrical bent.

Bingham channels a number of unique spirits over the course of the album, leading with his sensitive side on “The Poet” and kicking out the jams on the Waylon-meets-Keith Richards “All Choked Up Again.” Elsewhere, as in songs like “Depression” – a vivid evocation of our current social climate that’d have Woody Guthrie nodding in approval – and the album’s poignant title track, Bingham applies his wizened rasp with precise strokes, wringing emotion from every note.

“I’ve always been passionate about the situation of homeless people and kids having to survive on the streets, so some of these songs come from that, from looking at what people need to do to survive,” he explains. “So Junky Star doesn’t have anything to do with drugs or anything like that, it’s more about finding the beauty in what might at first appear to be rough around the edges. You can see that beauty in someone on the street, like some guy just raving and be like ‘I wonder what this guy has been through to get to that place?’”

Listen to Ryan Bingham on All Things Considered HERE.

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WE HEART MUSIC @ RECORD EXCHANGE: AVETT BROTHERS I AND LOVE AND YOU

February 8, 2011 - On Sale , Recommended , The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

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VINYL ($29.99) AVAILABLE HERE

It’s hard to let go. Of a girlfriend. Of an old hound dog. Of a tattered pair of jeans. And maybe most gut-wrenchingly of all, it’s hard to let go of your favorite heretofore unheralded band. Watching them grow from dingy clubs to cavernous ballrooms. Seeing them jump from a blurb in the local alt-weekly to the cover of a national magazine. And, finally, watching them walk all wobbly kneed and wide-eyed into the larger spotlight.

This is the plight of the Avett Brothers fan: He must keep a stiff upper lip as his heroes trek off into the great unknown mainstream.

As much as it should be about the music, the resounding, oft-repeated story-line for I and Love and You is as follows: Grassroots phenoms convert a congregation of followers with kamikaze touring and a deluge of boutique-label releases since 2001, then step up to the big microphone. A major label. A stylist. A recording studio in the surgically enhanced hills of Malibu. A mystical svengali-like producer (Rick Rubin) with globe stompers like the Beastie Boys and Red Hot Chili Peppers on his résumé.

The Avett Brothers (Scott and Seth, plus bassist Bob Crawford and cellist Joe Kwon) no longer belong solely to the indie cult. But to concentrate on the names and dollar signs and intentional pining for mass appeal is to ignore the far more important point—for the Avett Brothers to make this record took ginormous, pendulous testicles. Having conquered every Saturday night music hall and holler between Asheville and Portland, they have made a record that is not just a stab at the mainstream—it’s a harpoon through its sternum.

This is not at all a bad thing.

The Avetts could’ve made some kind of caterwauling record full of flaming banjoes, hootenannies, and throaty hollers that encapsulates their reputation-making live show. In fact, that would’ve been a pretty damn sensible move as far as introductions go. Howdy, we’re the Avett Brothers. We’re gonna hillbilly-rock you like you’ve never been hillbilly-rocked before.

Instead they’ve constructed something beautiful. An album that’s not merely loaded with ballads, it’s almost wall-to-wall epic ballads. Pianos trickle before the storm, strings ball up their fists, swells and waves of sound wash over the Avetts’ sorghum-sweet harmonies. And this is just in the first song, a goose-bump engorging title-track that could by itself inspire a legion of new fans. It’s like Rubin took everything the band does so well and pumped it full of human-growth hormone. With that kind of heartfelt Southern soul pealing from the mouths of two chiseled brothers from North Carolina who look like they should be sucking jugulars on True Blood, can the shrieking masses looking for their next pinups be far behind?

Let’s hope so. Because to lose sight of the art behind the artifice is to do The Avett Brothers a disservice. It takes true talent to pull off this kind of transition. Too many strings and it gets cheesy. Too many love songs and it gets maudlin. Too much navel gazing and the emotion gets diluted. In short, it could’ve come off like a Grizzly Bear album—but to think that is to forget that behind their good looks and gravely golden voices, Scott and Seth are hellacious songwriters. Much like Ryan Adams before the speedballs dulled his fangs, The Avett Brothers are experts in mining the heart and soul of the modern American man. Love is an obvious theme, but so is finding freedom and maturity. Their lyrics are tough yet vulnerable, insightful yet homespun, manly yet emotional. The kind of thing that makes the girls giddy and the boys envious. There’s truth here. So when they croon a line like, “Something has me acting like someone I know isn’t me, ill with want and poisoned by this ugly greed,” you don’t want to gouge out your ears with piano wire.

The depth and beauty that spread all across I and Love and You will, with any luck, keep The Avett Brothers from becoming The Jonas Brothers. My initial research indicates that this is indeed possible. After playing the album for a few ladyfriends in my living room, we sat in silence as they conjured up words between sips of beer. Wow. Chills. Beautiful. Can you burn this for me?

Only after I showed them Scott and Seth’s picture did the swooning, debates over which brother was cuter and dissection of haircuts begin. As The Avett Brothers wander beyond our record collections and off on their own to find fame, this is the best we can hope for. — Paste Magazine

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WE HEART MUSIC @ RECORD EXCHANGE: BAND OF HORSES VALENTINE’S SALE!

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Infinite Arms is Band of Horses‘ third full-length and the first with Tyler Ramsey and Bill Reynolds, long-time touring members of the group. (Watch a video for the song “Laredo” HERE and on the making of Infinite Arms HERE.) Through touring together in support of Cease to Begin and during breaks in the Infinite Arms‘ recording process, the band have become a cohesive force with all members making invaluable contributions to the unmistakable sound that founder Bridwell has crafted since the band’s inception. As Bridwell himself concedes, “in many ways, this is the first Band of Horses record.”

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WE HEART MUSIC @ RECORD EXCHANGE: KINGS OF LEON ON SALE FOR V-DAY!

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On Kings of Leon‘s latest album, Come Around Sundown, the family Followill makes a strong bid to please longtime fans as well as the recently converted. The current single “Radioactive” has the uplift and bombast to make a strong stand at radio; by contrast, “Mi Amigo” has the stripped-down junkie rock jangle of the greatest songs from 2005’s Aha Shake Heartbreak. With Come Around Sundown, Kings of Leon may have the ticket to pleasing everyone all of the time. – Billboard

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