GIVE THE GIFT OF MUSIC AT THE RX: HUNDREDS OF TITLES $9.99 OR LESS THROUGH JAN. 31; GREAT V-DAY GIFTS!
Yes, Christmas is over. But it’s not too late to Give the Gift of Music at The Record Exchange — if you act fast, in fact, you could get your Valentine’s Day shopping done early and save mad bank.
Now through Jan. 31, The Record Exchange has hundreds of new CDs, including dozens of 2010 best sellers, sale-priced at $9.99 or less. See, 10 bucks still does go a long way.
Here’s a partial list of Record Exchange Give the Gift of Music titles:
Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
Avi Buffalo – Avi Buffalo
Bobby Bare Jr. – A Storm, A Tree, My Mother’s Head
Barenaked Ladies – Barenaked for the Holidays
Beach House – Teen Dream
Best Coast – Crazy For You
The Black Angels – Phosphene Dream
The Black Keys – Brothers
Black Mountain – Wilderness Heart
Blitzen Trapper – Destroyer of the Void
Blonde Redhead – Penny Sparkle
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
The Books – The Way Out
Bright Eyes and Neva Dinova – One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan – Swim
Caribou – Swim
Charlatans UK – Who We Touch
!!! (Chk Chk Chk) – Strange Weather, Isn’t It?
Colour Revolt – Cradle
The Dead Weather – Sea of Cowards
Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
Devo – Something for Everybody
Dum Dum Girls – I Will Be
Dungen – Skit I Allt
Everest – On Approach
Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
Merle Haggard – I Am What I Am
Hey Marseilles – To Travels and Trunks
Ingram Hill – Look Your Best
Sarah Jaffe – Suburban Nature
Jenny and Johnny – I’m Having Fun Now
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts – Greatest Hits
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings – I Learned the Hard Way
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings – Naturally
Jonsi – Go
Les Savy Fav – Root for Ruin
The Living Sisters – Love to Live
Local Natives – Gorilla Manor
Maps & Atlas – Perch Patchwork
Janelle Monae – The ArchAndroid
The National – High Violet
Of Montreal – False Priest
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Phosphorescent – Here’s To Taking It Easy
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals – Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Josh Ritter – So Runs the World Away
She & Him – Volume 2
Spoon – Transference
Superchunk – Majesty Shredding
The Sword – Warp Riders
The Tallest Man on Earth – The Wild Hunt
Trampled By Turtles – Palomino
Underworld – Barking
Vampire Weekend – Contra
Various Artists – Daptone Gold
Versus – On the Ones and Threes
Paul Weller – Wake Up the Nation
Wolf Parade – Expo 86
The xx – XX
TAYLOR SWIFT SAYS, ‘F**K BEST BUY, GET MY NEW CD AT THE RECORD EXCHANGE.’ OKAY, SHE DIDN’T REALLY SAY THAT …
BUY THE CD HERE
Speak Now is the most savage album of Taylor Swift‘s career, and also the most musically diverse. And it’s excellent, too, possibly her best.
Speak Now is also a bravura work of nontransparent transparency. The album touches on many of the major public events in Swift’s life the last two years — her conflict with Kanye West at the 2009 MTV Music Video Awards, the sprouting criticisms of her live singing voice, a romantic relationship with the actor Taylor Lautner, rumored dalliances with John Mayer and others — without naming names, relying on fans, critics and tabloids to fill in the blanks.
The great accomplishment of this album, though, is that Swift is at her most musically adventurous when she’s most incensed. She may not be outgrowing the ethos of tit for tat — righting wrongs is Swift’s raison d’être — but as an artist, she’s finding new ways to fight back. — Star Tribune
OTHER NEW RX CD RECOMMENDATIONS:
Ghostland Observatory Codename: Rondo
(Hed) P.E. Truth Rising
Andrew Bird Useless Creatures
Bryan Ferry Olympia
Buddy Guy Living Proof
Michael Buble Crazy Love Hollywood Edition
Michael Buble Hollywood the Deluxe EP
Default Comes and Goes
Senses Fail Fire
Trent Reznor The Social Network Soundtrack
Avey Tare Down There
Easy Star Allstars Dubber Side of the Moon
Derailers Live! From Texas
Earth Bureaucratic Desire for Extra Capsular
Drudkh Handful of Stars