Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2017 Staff Picks!
Here’s Taylor’s Top 10:
DRAB MAJESTY
The Demonstration
JOHN CARPENTER
Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998
CIGARETTES AFTER SEX
Cigarettes After Sex
THUNDERCAT
Drunk
KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD
Flying Microtonal Banana
CHELSEA WOLFE
Hiss Spun
SANNHET
So Numb
BEACH HOUSE
B-Sides and Rarities
LOUNGE ON FIRE
Lips of Calypso
GODFLESH
Post Self
The name says it all: Give the Gift of Music. Our annual $9.99 holiday CD sale is back, and a top-drawer coalition of record store people across the country (including The Record Exchange) hand-picked 50 titles for your holiday gift-giving, plus this year we’ve added 40 vinyl LPs into the mix!
Now through Sunday, Jan. 8, the CDs listed below are sale-priced at $9.99 each. Prices vary on the vinyl titles.
GIVE THE GIFT OF MUSIC TITLES
CDs ($9.99 EACH)
Anthrax – For All Kings
St. Paul and the Broken Bones – Sea of Noise
J Dilla – The Diary
DJ Shadow – The Mountain Will Fall
Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 1
Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 2
John Prine – For Better, Or Worse
Margo Price – Midwest Farmer’s Daughter
Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
Twenty One Pilots – Blurryface
Sturgill Simpson – A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
Green Day – Revolution Radio
Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Getaway
Panic! at the Disco – Death of a Bachelor
Young the Giant – Home of the Strange
The Head and the Heart – Signs of Light
Mac Miller – The Divine Feminine
Regina Spektor – Remember Us to Life
Fitz and the Tantrums – Fitz and the Tantrums
The Monkees – Good Times!
Tegan and Sara – Love You to Death
Lake Street Dive – Side Pony
Weezer – Weezer (White Album)
Eric Clapton – I Still Do
Blood Orange – Freetown Sound
The Kills – Ash and Ice
Shovels and Rope – Busted Jukebox Vol. 1
The Lumineers – Cleopatra
The Julie Ruin – Hit Reset
Dawes – We’re All Gonna Die
Nick Waterhouse – Never Twice
Badbadnotgood – IV
Bon Iver – 22, A Million
The Bangles – Ladies and Gentlemen … The Bangles
Bonnie Raitt – Dig in Deep
Thao and the Get Down Stay Down – A Man Alive
Beach House – Depression Cherry
Father John Misty – I Love You, Honey Bear
Goat – Requiem
Dinosaur Jr. – Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not
Angel Olsen – My Woman
Explosions in the Sky – The Wilderness
DIIV – Is The Is Are
Bob Weir – Blue Mountain
Wille Nelson – For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price
Roy Orbison – The Ultimate Collection
David Bowie – Legacy
Elvis Presley – The Wonder of You
Mike Watt – Ring Spiel Tour ’95
Modern Baseball – Holy Ghost
Cage the Elephant – Tell Me I’m Pretty
Ray LaMontagne – Ouraboros
Sia – This is Acting
VINYL (PRICES VARY)
John Prine – For Better, Or Worse $17.99
John Prine – In Spite of Ourselves $17.99
Weezer – Weezer (White Album) $17.99
Panic! at the Disco – Death of a Bachelor $17.99
Sturgill Simpson – A Sailor’s Guide to Earth $19.99
The Head and the Heart – Signs of Light $18.99
Green Day – Revolution Radio $18.99
Twenty One Pilots – Blurryface $23.99
Conor Oberst – Ruminations $19.99
Margo Price – Midwest Farmer’s Daughter $15.99
Eric Clapton – I Still Do $23.99
Shovels and Rope – Busted Jukebox Vol. 1 $19.99
The Lumineers – Cleopatra $23.99
The Julie Ruin – Hit Reset $14.99
Tacocat – Lost Time $13.99
Nick Waterhouse – Never Twice $17.99
Badbadnotgood – IV $17.99
Holy Fuck – Congrats $19.99
Bon Iver – 22, A Million $22.99
Beach House – Depression Cherry $17.99
Father John Misty – I Love You, Honey Bear $17.99
Goat – Requiem $19.99
Dinosaur Jr. – Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not $18.99
Angel Olsen – My Woman $18.99
John Carpenter – Lost Themes II $18.99
Wild Nothing – Life of Pause $23.99
Cymbals Eat Guitars – Pretty Years $21.99
Explosions in the Sky – The Wilderness $22.99
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago $16.99
Bon Iver – Bon Iver $16.99
Miles Davis – Kind of Blue $21.99
The Strokes – Is This It $16.99
Michael Jackson – Thriller $16.99
Wu-Tang Clan – Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) $16.99
A Tribe Called Quest – Midnight Marauders $16.99
Bob Weir – Blue Mountain $23.99
Wille Nelson – For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price $16.99
Roy Orbison – The Ultimate Collection $21.99
Elvis Presley – The Wonder of You $21.99
Mike Watt – Ring Spiel Tour ’95 $21.99
Modern Baseball – Holy Ghost $17.99
There’s a new Curtis Stigers album coming January 20, and you can preorder it at The Record Exchange before Christmas!
The genre-hopping singer/songwriter/saxophonist celebrates the 50th anniversary of Sinatra at the Sands with the Danish Radio Big Band on new live recording One More for the Road.
50 years ago, magic was made on the stage of the Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, when the timeless cool of Frank Sinatra met the robust swing of the Count Basie Orchestra. Sinatra at the Sands has remained a beloved classic ever since, the perfect marriage of old-school pop and big band jazz.
Singer, songwriter and saxophonist Curtis Stigers has been bringing those worlds together in his own music for the last three decades (along with touches of nearly every other genre one could call to mind), which makes him an ideal candidate to reinterpret Ol’ Blue Eyes’ cherished repertoire for modern ears. On his twelfth album and ninth release for Concord Records, One More for the Road, Stigers captures the rare alchemy of hipness, elegance, playfulness and feeling that made Sinatra’s renditions of these songs immortal while adding his own unique twist.
On One More for the Road, Stigers finds his own version of that elusive Sinatra-Basie chemistry with the virtuosic and ebulliently swinging musicians of the Danish Radio Big Band. Recorded in the band’s headquarters, the acoustic marvel that is the DR Koncerthuset in Copenhagen, the bristling live recording features the DRBB playing vibrant takes based on the original Nelson Riddle and Billy May arrangements, which can’t help but spark inspired vocal performances from Stigers.
Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2016 Staff Picks!
Here’s Michael’s picks:
LEONARD COHEN
You Want It Darker
HAYES CARLL
Lovers & Leavers
DAVID BOWIE
Blackstar
PARQUET COURTS
Human Performance
ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO
Burn Something Beautiful
PAUL SIMON
Stranger To Stranger
ROKIA TRAORE
Ne So
JOSHUA REDMAN & BRAD MEHLDAU
Nearness
BLACK MOUNTAIN
IV
JACK DEJOHNETTE, MATTHEW GARRISON & RAVI COLTRANE
In Movement
Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2016 Staff Picks!
Here’s Jil’s picks:
DAVID BOWIE
Blackstar
LEONARD COHEN
You Want It Darker
AKA BELLE
I Hear It Now
THE JAYHAWKS
Paging Mr. Proust
SHOVELS & ROPE
Little Seeds
ROKIA TRAORE
Ne So
NICK CAVE & WARREN ELLIS
Hell Or High Water Soundtrack
CASE/LANG/VEIRS
Case/Lang/Veirs
ELDOPAMINE
Sounds Like A Reasonable Thing For A Band To Play
SLEEPY SEAHORSE
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