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RECORD EXCHANGE THINKINDIE DIGITAL STORE: KINGS OF LEON, BOB DYLAN AND SHADOW SHADOW SHADE (YOUR NEW FAVORITE BAND YOU DON’T KNOW YET)

October 21, 2010 - Recommended , The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

• NEW RELEASES:

Shadow Shadow Shade Shadow Shadow Shade

Bob Dylan Witmark Demos 1962-1964

Bob Dylan The Best of the Original Mono Recordings (full mono albums also available)

Kings of Leon Come Around Sundown (deluxe version also available)

Panda Bear You Can Count on Me

Iggy Pop and James Williamson Kill City

Squarepusher Shobaleader One

ESG Dance to the Best of ESG

Liz Phair Funstyle

Liars Proud Evolution

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
DOWNLOAD FREE TRACK 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
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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NEW DVD/BLU-RAY: SHONEN KNIFE LIVE!

October 21, 2010 - DVD and Blu Ray , Recommended , The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

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It’s one thing to hear Japanese indie darlings Shonen Knife, and entirely another thing to see them. They are, after all, the band whose show transformed Kurt Cobain “into a hysterical nine-year-old girl at a Beatles concert” (his own words, allegedly). The sight of three diminutive Japanese women on stage, in neon outfits, wielding guitars and drums and a rich pop-punk styled after The Ramones, Buzzcocks, early Clash, etc., is worth the price of admission.

Live At Mohawk Place 2009 was recorded in Buffalo, N.Y. the final stop on SK’s recent North American tour. The DVD is a good introduction for newbies, and offers a mix of old hits (“Flying Jelly Attack,” “Antonio Baka Guy,” “Johnny Johnny Johnny,” “Banana Chips”) and newer jewels (“Giant Kitty,” “BBQ Party,” “Pyramid Power”), all detailed in crisp, clear A/V.

The DVD offers the biggest (visual) clue to the band’s complexity: what looks like three teenage girls who should be way out of their element — playing loud, full-steam rock in roll on too-big instruments, in Buffalo, for crying out loud, halfway across the world from home — somehow managing to seem right at home. This is SK’s ineluctable charm. Because if three diminutive Japanese women can produce such exuberant, infectious racket, and Cobain can feel like a little girl, then surely anything is possible. — Chart Attack

OTHER NEW DVD/BLU-RAY RELEASES:

Joe Bonamassa Joe Bonamassa Live from the Royal Albert Hall Blu-ray
Johnny Cash Christmas with Johnny Cash DVD
Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen’s Lonesome Heroes DVD
Rocky Horror Picture Show Blu-ray
John Denver Rocky Mountain Christmas DVD
Bob Dylan Tales from a Golden Age 1941-66 DVD
Predators DVD
Jim Morrison Final 24: His Final Hours DVD
Pee Wee’s Playhouse Complete Collection DVD
Phish Coral Sky DVD
Elvis Presley Elvis Christmas DVD
Phil Spector A Christmas Gift for You DVD
Zombie Christ DVD
Seven Samurai Blu-ray

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NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: KINGS OF LEON’S ‘COME AROUND SUNDOWN,’ NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE $9.99 RIGHT PRICE!

October 20, 2010 - On Sale , Recommended , The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

BUY THE CD HERE
FREE 7-INCH WITH PURCHASE! (WHILE SUPPLIES LAST)

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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NEW RELEASES FROM THE BEATLES AND BOB DYLAN AT THE RECORD EXCHANGE!

October 19, 2010 - On Sale , Recommended , The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

The Beatles 1962-1966 (Red Album) BUY HERE
The Beatles 1962-1966 (Red Album) with T-shirt BUY HERE
The Beatles 1967-1970 (Blue Album) BUY HERE
The Beatles 1967-1970 (Blue Album) with T-shirt BUY HERE

Now available at The Record Exchange are The Beatles’ original 1973 compilations, 1962-1966 (Red) and 1967-1970 (Blue).

The two compilations have been digitally remastered, and both 2-CD packages include expanded booklets with original liner notes, newly written essays by Bill Flanagan and rare photos.

The first Beatles compilations to be released after the band’s 1970 disbandment, the popular ‘Red’ and ‘Blue’ collections each feature a selection of singles and album tracks .

‘Red’ and ‘Blue’ have been remastered by the same dedicated team of engineers at EMI Music’s Abbey Road Studios responsible for remastering The Beatles’ original UK studio albums, carefully maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the original analog recordings. The result is the highest fidelity the catalogue has seen since its original release.

Bob Dylan The Best of the Original Mono Recordings (1CD) BUY HERE
Bob Dylan The Original Mono Recordings (8CD Box Set) BUY HERE
Bob Dylan The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 (2CD) BUY HERE
Bob Dylan The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 (4LP Box Set) BUY HERE

Now available at The Record Exchange are Bob Dylan’s The Bootleg Series, Volume 9 — The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 and his first eight albums in a box set titled The Original Mono Recordings.

Both sets have been long sought-after by collectors and fans worldwide, with The Witmark Demos seeing their first commercial release nearly five decades after they were first recorded, and The Original Mono Recordings returning to the marketplace for the first time ever on compact disc, as well as on fully analog 180-gram vinyl.

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RECORD EXCHANGE THINKINDIE DIGITAL STORE: BELLE AND SEBASTIAN ESSAY CONTEST (MEET STUART MURDOCH!)

October 13, 2010 - Contests , Recommended , The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

• 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

Want the latest news on releases from the RX ThinkIndie store? Sign up for an RSS feed HERE.

You go now: recordexchange.thinkindie.com

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