RECORD EXCHANGE ’10 PICKS: MATT

Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2010 Staff Picks!

Take a gander at Matt‘s list:

STEVE WYNN AND THE MIRACLE 3 Northern Aggression
WILLIE NELSON Country Music
VARIOUS ARTISTS Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine
ROBERT PLANT Band of Joy
OLD 97’S The Grand Theatre Volume One
RAY LAMONTAGNE God Willin’ and the Creek Don’t Rise
THE BLACK KEYS Brothers
LOREENA MCKENNITT The Wind That Shakes the Barley
V.V. BROWN Traveling Like the Light
THE NATIONAL High Violet

RECORD EXCHANGE ’10 PICKS: DAN

Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2010 Staff Picks!

Take a gander at Dan‘s list:

THE FALL Your Future Our Clutter
HIGH ON FIRE Snakes for the Divine
RED SPAROWES The Fear is Excruciating, But Therein Lies the Answer
THE SWORD Warp Riders
PAUL WELLER Wake Up the Nation
THE BUDOS BAND The Budos Band III
GRINDERMAN Grinderman 2
KINGS GO FORTH The Outsiders Are Back
THE RADIO DEPT. Clinging to a Scheme
TRICKY Mixed Race

RECORD EXCHANGE ’10 PICKS: GLENN

Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2010 Staff Picks!

Take a gander at Glenn‘s list:

MORNE Untold Wait
BLACK FREIGHTER Graves and Monuments
SPECTRES Last Days
DAITRO Y
PELICAN What We All Come to Need
INSUICIETY Insuiciety
ACEPHALIX Aporia
SYSTEMATIC DEATH Systema Six
EXTORTION Loose Screws
MAYFLOWER Second Best Sunsets

RECORD EXCHANGE ’10 PICKS: ELISE

Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2010 Staff Picks!

Take a gander at Elise‘s list:

ALOE BLACC Good Things
BEACH HOUSE Teen Dream
CATE LE BON Me Oh My
KANYE WEST My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
TIMBER TIMBRE Timber Timbre
GANG OF FOUR Entertainment
CLIPSE Til the Casket Drops
KINGS GO FORTH The Outsiders Are Back
DRAKE Thank Me Later
MOUNTAIN MAN Made The Harbor

THE VINYL WORD: TOM WAITS REISSUES!

Judging from this week’s new vinyl releases, Santa Claus is a big fan of Tom Waits. Who wouldn’t be? After all, Waits wrote a Christmas song of sorts (see below).

Just in time for the big day, Rhino has rolled out four beautiful 180-gram Tom Waits vinyl reissues:

Closing Time
The Heart of Saturday Night
Nighthawks at the Diner
Small Change

OTHER NEW VINYL RELEASES:

Boston Boston
Ride Nowhere
Electric Wizard Black Masses
Loreena McKennitt The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Thou Summit