Judging from this week’s new vinyl releases, Santa Claus is a big fan of Tom Waits. Who wouldn’t be? After all, Waits wrote a Christmas song of sorts (see below).
Just in time for the big day, Rhino has rolled out four beautiful 180-gram Tom Waits vinyl reissues:
Closing Time
The Heart of Saturday Night
Nighthawks at the Diner
Small Change
OTHER NEW VINYL RELEASES:
Boston Boston
Ride Nowhere
Electric Wizard Black Masses
Loreena McKennitt The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Thou Summit
Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2010 Staff Picks!
Take a gander at Joe Kinney‘s list:
KANYE WEST My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
CLIPSE Til the Casket Drops
HIGH ON FIRE Snakes for the Divine
HORSEBACK The Invisible Mountain
ALOE BLACC Good Things
EARTH A Bureaucratic Desire for Extra-Capsular Extraction
ELECTRIC WIZARD Black Masses
SYL JOHNSON Complete Mythology
DRAKE Thank Me Later
METH, GHOST, RAE Wu-Massacre
“Oh, you should see what it looks like from out here!”
If you’re looking to give someone a “major award” for Christmas, come in and check out our line of official Christmas Story gifts in The Record Exchange Gift Shop!
We have everything from Christmas Story adhesive bandages to pint glass sets to beer steins, along with working replicas of the infamous Leg Lamp!
Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2010 Staff Picks!
Take a gander at Jil‘s list:
BLITZEN TRAPPER Destroyer of the Void
THE BLACK KEYS Brothers
JOSH RITTER So Runs the World Away
GIL SCOTT-HERON I’m New Here
BROKEN BELLS Broken Bells
THE NATIONAL High Violet
EELS Tomorrow Morning
THE ELECTRONIC ANTHOLOGY PROJECT The Electronic Anthology Project
EILEN JEWELL Butcher Holler: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn
RYAN BINGHAM AND THE DEAD HORSES Junky Star
We’re officially in last-minute shopping mode, folks, and The Record Exchange wants to make it easy on you this week. Now through Thursday, we’re holding special NoonTunes Holiday Flash Sales from noon to 2 p.m.!
Today’s NoonTunes Holiday Flash Sale: 20% off Record Exchange Gift Cards and RX official merch in the Gift Shop – that includes t-shirts, hats, tote bags, shot glasses, coffee mugs, acrylic tumblers and many more goods with The Record Exchange logo!*
* Excludes sale and clearance items.