NEW DVD/BLU-RAY: GLEEK OUT AT THE RECORD EXCHANGE WITH GLEE GIFT SET

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Got a Gleek on your Christmas list? Head to The Record Exchange and get ’em the Gleek Gift Set!

This special package includes the complete first season of Glee on DVD, plus a collectible journal. The RX also carries all the Glee soundtrack CDs, including the new Christmas Album.

OTHER NEW DVD/BLU-RAY RELEASES:

Avatar DVD
The Last Airbender DVD and Blu-ray
The Office Overtime Digital Short Collection DVD
The Kids Are All Right DVD and Blu-ray
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child DVD
Frank Zappa The Torture Never Stops DVD
Velvet Revolver Live in Houston DVD
Modern Times Criterion Collection DVD and Blu-ray
Spongebob Squarepants: Legends of Bikini Bottom DVD

REVISIT THE DARKNESS WITH BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN’S ‘THE PROMISE’

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BUY THE 3CD/3DVD BOX SET HERE
BUY THE 3LP VINYL BOX SET HERE

Bruce Springsteen‘s The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story comprises over six hours of film and more than two hours of audio across 3 CDs and 3 DVDs or 3 Blu-ray discs. The music and film are packaged within an 80-page spiral-bound notebook containing facsimiles from Springsteen’s own notebooks from the original recording sessions, which include alternate lyrics, song ideas, recording details, and personal notes in addition to a new essay by Springsteen and never-before-seen photographs.

Containing a wealth of previously unreleased material, The Promise (also available in 2CD or 3LP versions) offers an unprecedented look into Springsteen’s creative process during a defining moment in his career.

Darkness was my ‘samurai’ record,” Springsteen writes, “stripped to the frame and ready to rumble. But the music that got left behind was substantial.” For the first time, fans will have access to The Promise – two discs containing a total of 21 previously-unreleased songs from the Darkness recording sessions – songs that, as Springsteen writes, “perhaps could have/should have been released after Born To Run and before the collection of songs that Darkness on the Edge of Town became.”

Highlights of The Promise include the extraordinary rock version of “Racing in the Street,” the never-before-released original recordings of “Because the Night” and “Fire,” the supreme pop opus “Someday (We’ll Be Together),” the hilarious “Ain’t Good Enough for You,” the superb soul-based vocal performance on “The Brokenhearted,” the utterly haunting “Breakaway,” and the fully orchestrated masterpiece and title song “The Promise.”

NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: HENDRIX IS A ‘WEST COAST SEATTLE BOY,’ YOU DIG?

BUY THE 4CD/1DVD BOX SET HERE
BUY THE 8LP VINYL BOX SET HERE
BUY THE CD HERE
BUY THE DELUXE EDITION CD/DVD HERE

West Coast Seattle Boy – The Jimi Hendrix Anthology tracks Jimi Hendrix‘s remarkable journey from little known R&B sideman to international stardom through an unprecedented assemblage of previously unavailable recordings.

This long-awaited career-spanning box set is not a collection of existing Jimi Hendrix albums, but instead 45 unreleased Jimi Hendrix live and studio recordings, including demos and alternate versions of songs from Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold As Love and Electric Ladyland. West Coast Seattle Boy includes Hendrix’s never before heard version of Bob Dylan’s “Tears Of Rage,” solo acoustic recordings of Electric Ladyland favorites like “Long Hot Summer Night” and “1983 (A Merman I Shall Turn To Be)”as well as never before heard live performances from Berkeley and the legendary Band Of Gypsys Fillmore East concert on New Year’s Eve 1969, combined together with such new Hendrix songs as “Hear My Freedom,” “Hound Dog Blues,” “Lonely Avenue” and more.

West Coast Seattle Boy offers the most complete collection of Jimi’s pre-Experience R&B performances (including his singles with the Isley Brothers, Little Richard, Don Covay, King Curtis and more) to ever be officially anthologized while bringing together the most comprehensive and revelatory set of unreleased, fully realized songs, never before heard live performances, alternate studio takes, acoustic and electric demos and other rarities drawn from every chapter of Jimi Hendrix remarkable life and career.

West Coast Seattle Boy includes the 9- minute DVD Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child, a new documentary directed by the Grammy award-winning Bob Smeaton (Beatles Anthology, Festival Express, Beatles: The Studio Recordings). The acclaimed documentary tells Jimi’s incredible story in his own words. The documentary features some of Jimi’s greatest performances, as well as rare and never before seen footage and photos. Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child also includes — for the first time ever—examples from the Hendrix family archive of the late guitarist’s personal drawings, postcards home to his father, song drafts, sketches and lyrics. Jimi’s interviews and private writings shed new insights within the extraordinary life and career of the greatest guitarist of all time.

RECORD EXCHANGE THINKINDIE DIGITAL STORE: GET THE LOW-DOWN ON BUZZ ACTS COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS AND SHADOW SHADOW SHADE – ON SALE!

• NEW RELEASES:

Courtney Marie Andrews For One I Knew $7.99 (ThinkIndie exclusive!)

Shadow Shadow Shade Shadow Shadow Shade

Shipping News One Less Heartless to Fear (win a free T-shirt!)

The Radio Dept. Never Follow Suit

The Tallest Man on Earth Sometimes the Blues is Just a Passing Bird

Grinderman Worm Tamer

Brian Jonestown Massacre If I Love You

Syd Barrett An Introduction

Einstuerzende Neubauten Strategies Against Architecture IV

Zion I Atomic Clock

MORE HERE

• NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS THINKINDIE EXCLUSIVE

Courtney Marie Andrews is just turning 20. Listening to For One I Knew makes you think of someone older and more worldly. Her voice is confident and her music is dark and twisting. At times, she reminds you of Joni Mitchell’s more folky stuff from the early part of her career before she discovered jazz tunings. River Jones Music is a label based in Phoenix, Arizona. The label has a knack for cultivating young artists hanging in the downtown area of that city. Speaking of local artists, local boys Jimmy Eat World had Courtney sing backup on their recent album and tour. Lots going on around this artist. You should also check out her other albums. Yup, older than her years.

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• ARTIST TO WATCH: SHADOW SHADOW SHADE (ONLY $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

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• SHIPPING NEWS CONTEST – WIN A T-SHIRT!

Purchase Shipping NewsOne Less Heartless to Fear album in the RX ThinkIndie Digital Store and get automatically entered to win a free T-shirt from the band!

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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:

Shadow Shadow Shade Is This a Tempest
Deerhoof The Merry Barracks
OFF! (Keith Morris of Black Flag/Circle Jerks) Upside Down
Dr. Dog Nobody Knows Who You Are
Kelly Stoltz I Don’t Get That
Med Where I’m From (feat. Aloe Blacc)
Various Artists Austin City Limits 2010 Sampler (13 tracks!)
Many more HERE

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RX INDIE STORE EXCLUSIVES: WINGLESS ANGELS, BAD BOOKS, SHIPPING NEWS, BOBBY LONG, CALIFORNIA GUITAR TRIO

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:

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

OTHER RECENT EXCLUSIVES:

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