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Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2013 Staff Picks!
Take a gander at Elise‘s list:
KURT VILE
Wakin’ On A Pretty Daze
PHOSPHORESCENT
Muchacho
EARL SWEATSHIRT
Doris
TY SEGALL
Sleeper
KADAVAR
Abra Kadavar
SANDRA PHILLIPS
Too Many People In One Bed
A$AP ROCKY
Long.Live.A$AP
CRYSTAL STILTS
Nature Noir
NEKO CASE
The Worse Things Get
THE UNDERACHIEVERS
Indigoism
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 60 titles for your holiday gift-giving and personal pleasure.
Starting Black Friday and continuing through Dec. 31, the following CDs are sale-priced at $9.99 each. See, 10 bucks still does go a long way.
GIVE THE GIFT OF MUSIC TITLES
Alt-J – Awesome Wave
Arctic Monkeys – AM
Avenged Sevenfold – Hail to the King
The Black Angels – Indigo Meadow
Boards of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest
David Bowie – The Next Day
Charles Bradley – Victim of Love
Cage the Elephant – Melophobia
The Civil Wars – The Civil Wars
Eric Clapton – Old Sock
Gary Clark Jr. – Blak & Blu
Guy Clark – My Favorite Picture of You
The Clash – Hits Back
Clutch – Earth Rocker
Cold War Kids – Dear Miss Lonelyhearts
J. Cole – Born Sinner
Cults – Static
Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
Deer Tick – Negativity
Brett Dennen – Smoke and Mirrors
Depeche Mode – Delta Machine
Divine Fits – A Thing Called Divine Fits
Father John Misty – Fear Fun
Foxygen – We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic
Franz Ferdinand – Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
Grouplove – Spreading Rumours
HAIM – Days Are Gone
Beth Hart – Bang Bang Boom Boom
The Head and the Heart – Let’s Be Still
Jimi Hendrix – Miami Pop Festival
Jimi Hendrix – People, Hell and Angels
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts – Unvarnished
Local Natives – Hummingbird
The Lumineers – The Lumineers
Kings of Leon – Mechanical Bull
Johnny Marr – The Messenger
John Mayer – Paradise Valley
Mazzy Star – Seasons of Your Day
Paul McCartney – New
MGMT – MGMT
Mountain Goats – All Hail West Texas
Willie Nelson – To All the Girls …
Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks
Of Montreal – Lousy with Sylvianbriar
Phosphorescent – Muchacho
Portugal. The Man – Evil Friends
Josh Ritter – The Beast in its Tracks
Rodriguez – Searching for Sugar Man
Bob Schneider – Burden of Proof
Sebadoh – Defend Yourself
She & Him – Volume 3
Shovels & Rope – O’ Be Joyful
Skeletonwitch – Serpents Unleashed
Superchunk – I Hate Music
Tame Impala – Innerspeaker
Tedeschi Trucks Band – Made Up Mind
Tomahawk – Oddfellows
Toro Y Moi – Anything in Return
Townes Van Zandt – Sunshine Boy
Various Artists – The Music is You: A Tribute to John Denver
Volcano Choir – Repave
Washed Out – Paracosm
Our friends at Beggars Group — which includes such fine indie labels as Matador, 4AD, XL, Rough Trade and True Panther — released some great albums in 2013, and to celebrate, we’re offering 13 select titles on vinyl — all of which come with a code to download the digital version of the album for free — on sale through January 15!
The titles are as follows:
Atoms for Peace Amok $19.99
Camera Obscura Desire Lines $15.99
Deerhunter Monomania $16.99
Houndmouth From the Hills Below the City $15.99
King Krule Six Feet Beneath the Moon $19.99
The National Trouble Will Find Me $22.99
Palma Violets 180 $15.99
Queens of the Stone Age … Like Clockwork $22.99
Savages Silence Yourself $15.99
Sigur Ros Kveikur $22.99
Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City $15.99
Kurt Vile Wakin’ on a Pretty Daze $19.99
Yo La Tengo Fade $15.99
It’s First Thursday and December, so to celebrate the season we’ll have roaming buskers from the 2013 Idaho Ho Ho CD performing inside the store (6-8pm), not to mention a host of holiday savings:
• Buy 2 get 1 free used CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray and vinyl!
• Buy 2 get 1 espresso drinks!
• Free drip coffee, hot cocoa and fountain soda 5-9 pm!
• 60 $9.99 Give the Gift of Music CDs!
• 13 of ’13 vinyl LP sale!
• Black Friday exclusive releases!
Once again, Moxie Java and Idaho musicians have combined efforts to support the Idaho Foodbank with the fourth volume of IdaHo Ho Ho with Moxie Java, another holiday celebration with music from 12 Idaho artists.
The limited-edition CD is available at the Record Exchange and participating Moxie Java locations throughout the Treasure Valley for $15, with all profits going directly to help fund the efforts of the Idaho Foodbank – the largest distributor of free emergency food in the state. Since 1984, the Idaho Foodbank has provided 100 million pounds of food to a network of more than 200 hunger-relief partners.
TRACK LIST:
1. John Nemeth – “Merry Christmas Baby”
2. Curtis Stigers – “Early On One Christmas Morn”
3. Eilen Jewell – “Christmas Time’s A-Comin’ To Heck with Old Santa Claus”
4. Ned Evett – “Broken Christmas Eve”
5. Edmond Dantes – “Hanging Memories”
6. Calico – “Our Home”
7. Nate Fowler – “Jingle Bells”
8. Kate Comstock – “O Holy Night”
9. Johnny Shoes – “C’mon Christmas”
10. Kayleigh Jack – “Your Holiday Cheer”
11. Reilly Coyote – “I Wanna Wassail With You”
12. Belinda Bowler – “Christmas in the Trenches”
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