1. The Suburbs, Arcade Fire
2. God Willin’ and the Creek Don’t Rise, Ray LaMontagne
3. Final Frontier, Iron Maiden
4. The Remix, Lady Gaga
5. Electronic Anthology Project, Electronic Anthology Project
6. Foundling, David Gray
7. III, The Budos Band
8. Tin Can Trust, Los Lobos
9. Recovery, Eminem
10. Order of the Black, Zakk Wylde and Black Label Society
11. No Better Than This, John Mellencamp
12. Brothers, The Black Keys
13. Mines, Menomena
14. Longest EP, NOFX
15. Admiral Fell Promises, Sun Kil Moon
16. Perch Patchwork, Maps & Atlases
17. Exile on Main Street, Rolling Stones
18. One Eskimo, One Eskimo
19. Only By the Night, Kings of Leon
20. Meridional, Norma Jean
21. Intriguer, Crowded House
22. Mojo, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
23. To the Sea, Jack Johnson
24. Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin, Brian Wilson
25. Expo 86, Wolf Parade
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RX INDIE STORE EXCLUSIVES: BRAD VINYL, PAPER BIRD, RITTER REISSUES, WILLIAM FITZSIMMONS, MANY MORE!
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:
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
OTHER RECENT EXCLUSIVES:
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
THE BEACH BOYS’ BRIAN WILSON AND OTHER NEW CD RECOMMENDATIONS
Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin is the quintessential signature sounds of Brian Wilson (co-founding member of the Beach Boys), elegantly combined with the timeless classic melodies of some of the most revered songs from George and Ira Gershwin.
Wilson has re-recorded and re-imagined twelve classic songs from the Gershwin Brothers and collaborated on two new Wilson/Gershwin compositions. The Gershwin estate gave Wilson access to rare, unfinished pieces of music by George Gershwin, with which Brian crafted collaborative compositions unlike anything the world has heard with “The Like in I Love You” and “Nothing But Love”. Wilson chose to record George and Ira Gershwin songs because he considers the late composers of classics like “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “Rhapsody in Blue” and “Summertime” as a critical influence on him.
BUY THE CD HERE
OTHER NEW CD RECOMMENDATIONS:
Chief Modern Rituals
Superchunk No Pocky for Kitty
Superchunk On the Mouth
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin Let It Sway
Darker My Love Alive As You Are
NOFX Longest EP
Taking Back Sunday Live from Orensanz
Esperanza Spalding Chamber Music Society
Iron Maiden Final Frontier
Kem Intimacy
Lissie Catching a Tiger
David Gray Foundling
John Mellencamp No Better Than This
Antibalas Who Is This America?
Toadies Feeler
Boris & Ian Astbury BXI
Leslie Stevens & The Badgers Roomful of Smoke
Arab Strap Philophobia
Arab Strap Week Never Starts Around Here
Trace Adkins Cowboy’s Back In Town
American Hi-Fi Fight the Frequency
RECORD EXCHANGE STAFF PICK: MATT THE INTERN ON WILD NOTHING’S ‘GEMINI’
Wild Nothing‘s Gemini — you may have heard about it in the blogosphere — has been on heavy rotation at The Record Exchange, and Matt the Intern is here to tell you why:
So far 2010 has been a big year for bedroom pop, yet nothing has been quite as magical as Wild Nothing’s Gemini.
Meet Jack Tatum, the early twenty-year-old behind Wild Nothing who draws influences from his daydreams and the time of the ’80s. Tatum centers around his dreams, which tend to be gloomy, singing of love, loss, and escape. Musically, Wild Nothing’s sound is ethereal, dreamy guitar pop, hinting back to the styles of My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins and Johnny Marr.
Tatum’s congenital songcrafting could be the greatest element about Wild Nothing. From the first listen, it’s striking to hear such wonderful arrangements, and soon the songs make their way into everyday life. Gemini is an instant classic. It’s an album for the hopeful and the sad. Though this record is usually found in my daily rotation, I find it best on a drive through the rain or on a night walk in the pleasant summer air.
The Record Exchange has Gemini available in the store on CD and vinyl, or you can download it from our ThinkIndie Digital Store HERE.