BLITZEN TRAPPER RECORD EXCHANGE IN-STORE OCT. 20; BUY THE CD AT THE IN-STORE, GET FREE TICKET TO THEIR SHOW AT THE KNITTING FACTORY!

Blitzen Trapper will visit The Record Exchange for an in-store performance at 6:30 p.m. (NOTE NEW TIME) Wednesday, Oct. 20. As always, this Record Exchange in-store event is free and all ages.

Later that night, Blitzen Trapper will perform at The Knitting Factory, and if you buy Blitzen Trapper’s new album Destroyer of the Void at the in-store (on sale for $11.99), you’ll get a FREE TICKET (while supplies last) to the Knitting Factory show courtesy of your friends at The Record Exchange and The Knitting Factory! We also have some cool Blitzen Trapper koozies to give away with purchase, too.

Blitzen Trapper is based in Portland, Oregon. There are six of them in the band and they’ve been together since 2000. Over the course of their four full-length albums to date, including their revelatory 2008 Sub Pop release Furr, front man Eric Earley’s considerable poetic talents and his band’s hard-earned chops have gained them a growing international audience.

The band’s continuing exploration of American music that spans from the ‘60s folk movement to the country sounds of the ’70s, to the pop balladry and prog rock of the ’80s has earned it notice ranging from Rolling Stone magazine to late-night network television to Yo Gabba Gabba, among a great many others.

In January 2009 and again in January 2010, Earley and a few of his bandmates entered the attic studio of lauded Portland musician and studio engineer Mike Coykendall (Bright Eyes, M Ward, She & Him) to work on what would become Destroyer of the Void. And the resulting new album takes Blitzen Trapper further than ever before, building on the band’s seamless marriage of the familiar and the fantastic to, literally, create an otherworldly experience.

FREE GAELIC STORM TICKETS! FREE!

Our good friends at the Knitting Factory have given us some Gaelic Storm tickets to give away absolutely free — no purchase necessary!

All you gotta do is come in to The Record Exchange and get ’em — limit 2 per customer, while supplies last, yada yada yada. The show is Friday, Oct. 8. Let the thunder roll.

LET’S GIVE AWAY SOME CDs, PT. 5

Today is the final day of the 8-day Record Exchange 33 1/3 Anniversary Sale, and we’re feeling generous.

In addition to 33% off new CDs today, we’re giving away a free CD for the next five hours leading up to the Record Exchange Alive After Five Season Finale with BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet and the Jeremiah James Gang.

This hour’s giveaway — the fifth and final one before we head down to Alive After Five — is Dirty Projectors’ Bitte Orca Expanded Edition. The first person to send an email with the subject “Dirty Projectors” HERE wins it!

NOTE: You can only win once, so if you’ve already scored a free CD today, you know, let others have a chance.

LET’S GIVE AWAY SOME CDs, PT. 4

Today is the final day of the 8-day Record Exchange 33 1/3 Anniversary Sale, and we’re feeling generous.

In addition to 33% off new CDs today, we’re giving away a free CD for the next five hours leading up to the Record Exchange Alive After Five Season Finale with BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet and the Jeremiah James Gang.

This hour’s giveaway is WavvesKing of the Beach. The first person to send an email with the subject “Wavves” HERE wins it!

NOTE: You can only win once, so if you’ve already scored a free CD today, you know, let others have a chance.

LET’S GIVE AWAY SOME CDs, PT. 3

Today is the final day of the 8-day Record Exchange 33 1/3 Anniversary Sale, and we’re feeling generous.

In addition to 33% off new CDs today, we’re giving away a free CD for the next five hours leading up to the Record Exchange Alive After Five Season Finale with BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet and the Jeremiah James Gang.

This hour’s giveaway is Taio Cruz‘s Rokstarr. The first person to send an email with the subject “Taio” HERE wins it!

NOTE: You can only win once, so if you’ve already scored a free CD today, you know, let others have a chance.