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SOCIAL DISTORTION AND OTHER NEW CD RECORD EXCHANGE RECOMMENDATIONS

January 19, 2011 - Recommended , The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

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A follow-up to their acclaimed album Sex, Love and Rock ‘n’ Roll, Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes is Social Distortion‘s seventh studio album and first release in over six years.

Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes builds on singer Mike Ness’ twin footings, one in the haunted American landscapes of Hank Williams and the other in the raw swagger of Exile-era Rolling Stones. While these twin pillars have always been behind Social Distortion’s anthemic songs, on Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes they come roaring to the fore, in one of the hardest rocking, most soulful albums of Ness’ career.

OTHER NEW CD RECOMMENDATIONS:

Pearl Jam Live on Ten Legs (indie store exclusive!)
Gregg Allman Low Country Blues
Electric Wizard Black Masses
White Lies Ritual
Aquabats Hi-Five Soup!
Phish Live Phish 6/27/10: Merriweather Post Pavilion
Phish Live Phish 7/3/10: Verizon Wireless
Phish Live Phish 7/4/10: Verizon Wireless
Jayhawks Hollywood Town Hall
Jayhawks Tomorrow the Green Grass
The Walkmen You and Me
James Blunt Some Kind of Trouble

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VINYL WORD: DELUXE DECEMBERISTS BOX SET CRAMMED WITH JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING EXCEPT A VIAL OF COLIN MELOY’S BLOOD; PLUS PEARL JAM AND JOSH RITTER INDIE STORE EXCLUSIVES!

January 18, 2011 - Recommended , The Record Exchange Blog , The Vinyl Word - by - No Comments

For the Decemberists fan who has it all but needs more, the deluxe box set edition of The King is Dead — limited to 2,500 worldwide and available only at select indie stores and a couple of other places you don’t need to know about — includes:

• One-of-a-kind Polaroid photograph by Autumn de Wilde from the Impossible Project/Decemberists series.
• 72-page hardcover book featuring over 250 unique Polaroid photographs by Autumn de Wilde and illustrations by Carson Ellis.
• The King Is Dead CD.
• Pendarvia DVD – a 30-minute short film by Aaron Rose documenting the making of the album.
• The King Is Dead on 180 gram white vinyl with special cover.
• Limited edition giclée print illustrated by Carson Ellis.
• Digital album download code.
• Downloads of live video of “Rise To Me” from Musicfest Northwest in Portland, Fall 2009, and “Down By The Water.”
• Linen-wrapped, clamshell box with foil-stamped cover.

OTHER NEW VINYL RELEASES:

Pearl Jam Live on Ten Legs (indie store exclusive!)
Josh Ritter The Animal Years (indie store exclusive – first time on vinyl!)
Band of Horses/Cee-Lo Green split 7-inch (extremely limited indie store exclusive – Band of Horses covering Cee-lo’s “Georgia,” Cee-lo covering Band of Horses’ “No One’s Gonna Love You”
The Decemberists The King is Dead (no extra shit — just the wax, man)
Social Distortion Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes
Mogwai Rano Pano
Gregg Allman Low Country Blues
Eulogies Tear the Fences Down
The Frames For the Birds
Gwar Lust in Space
Jayhawks Hollywood Town Hall
Jayhawks Tomorrow the Green Grass
Jason D. Williams Killer Instincts

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NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: THE DECEMBERISTS’ ‘THE KING IS DEAD’ – $9.99 RIGHT PRICE ONE WEEK ONLY!

January 18, 2011 - Buy Stuff Get Free Stuff , On Sale , Recommended , The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

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READ ABOUT DELUXE BOX HERE

FREE LITHOGRAPH WITH PURCHASE!

(If you bought the Decemberists Record Store Day exclusive pre-release 7-inch, don’t forget to bring in your $2 coupon!)

Recorded in a converted barn on Oregon’s Pendarvis Farm, The King Is Dead eschews the high, mystical wailing of British folk for its North American counterpart. Rustic and roomy, the record nods to Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris, early Wilco, the Band, Neil Young, and especially R.E.M. In places, it almost feels like a disrobing: “Let the yoke fall from our shoulders,” frontman Colin Meloy bellows on opener “Don’t Carry It All”, his voice loose and easy, freer than he’s sounded in an awfully long time.

Meloy is an established fan of certain strains of Americana music, and he’s enlisted a few inimitable guests: R.E.M.’s Peter Buck plays on three tracks, Gillian Welch sings on seven, and Welch’s songwriting partner, the guitarist Dave Rawlings, appears every so often as a backing vocalist. There are moments when the record’s twang can feel a little overcooked (the Decemberists have never been great at spontaneity, exactly), but there’s an interesting tension between the inherent unpretentiousness of country music– it’s rural, it’s populist, it’s based in universal emotions– and the Decemberists’ literary cartwheeling. So while there’s still plenty of fussy wordplay (“Hetty Green/ Queen of supply-side bonhomie bone-drab,” Meloy bleats in “Calamity Song”) and at least one Infinite Jest joke, there are also loads of simple, rousing choruses. In the past, Meloy’s ability to write a sweet, memorable melody has occasionally gotten lost, but on King, his songwriting shines. — Pitchfork

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RECOMMENDED: ELEPHANT REVIVAL’S ‘BREAK IN THE CLOUDS’ CD, ONLY $9.99!

January 14, 2011 - Recommended , The Record Exchange Blog - by - 1 Comment

Neo-acoustic folk quintet Elephant Revival‘s latest CD Break in the Clouds is currently available at The Record Exchange for only $9.99!

Elephant Revival represents an emerging new genre, experimenting with Scottish/Celtic fiddle tunes, original folk pieces, traditional ballads, psychedelic country, indie rock, powerful reggae grooves, 40s/50s jazz standards and the occasional hip-hop beat.

With an all-encompassing approach to musical genres, the band creates a unique sound that is both unmistakably modern and soaked in all manner of tradition. The group is well known as pioneers in a new emerging genre referred to as transcendental folk.

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RECORD EXCHANGE THINKINDIE DIGITAL STORE: NEW CAKE, CAGE THE ELEPHANT

January 12, 2011 - Recommended , The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

• NEW RELEASES:

Cage the Elephant Thank You Happy Birthday
Cake Showroom of Compassion
British Sea Power Valhalla Dancehall
Tapes ‘n Tapes Outside
The Head and the Heart The Head and the Heart (new Sub Pop signing!)
N.E.R.D. The Best Of
OFF! First Four EPs
Shadow Shadow Shade Shadow Shadow Shade
New Years Evil EP
Christine Owman Throwing Knives

• R.I.P. CAPTAIN BEEFHEART (1941-2010)

Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) mixed a musical brew of jazz, blues, classical and rock to form a truly unique sound. Record store clerks the world over revel in turning on new recruits and browsing customers to his racious sound and vivid album artwork. His impact on musicians and music fans is unmeasurable.

STREAM/BUY HIS ALBUMS HERE

• THINKINDIE EXCLUSIVE: CHRISTINE OWMAN

This young lady has already started to build up a reputation of explosive live shows: headbanging to obscure movie projections from the ’20s and ’30s, playing the saw, the cello, the ukulele and singing through effect pedals.

Born in Sweden, Christine Owman lived a couple of years in the States as a child. She has worked and toured with a number of talented, well-known artists in different constellations throughout the years; members of the Cardigans (Magnus Svenningsson, Lasse Johansson and Bengt Lagerberg), Bebe Risenfors (Tom Waits and Elvis Costello’s bands), Erik Nilsson (Irya’s Playground, Ane Brun’s and Nina Kinert’s bands), Conny Nimmersjo (Bob Hund), Ebbot Lundberg (The Soundtrack of Our Lives), Ola Frick (Moonbabies), Cecilia Nordlund (Cilihili, Fever Ray), Irya Gmeyner and Andi Almqvist.

Owman has been touring all over Europe these past months – from Russia to the UK to Iceland. She recently toured Canada for the first time, where she played at Calgary Opera Centre (during Sled Island) and sold out all her merch on her first show in Canada!

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• 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:

Various Artists 1320 Records Volume II (full album!)
The Twilight Singers On the Corner
Bright Eyes Shell Games
David Lowery The Palace Guards
Braids Lemonade
Asobi Seksu Trails
Say Hi Devils
OFF! Upside Down
Noah and the Whale Wild Thing
Cave Singers Swim Club
Deerhoof vs Kasai Allstars Travel Broadens
Destroyer Chinatown
Beach House I Do Not Care for the Winter Sun

Many more HERE
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