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NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: SHERYL CROW RETURNS TO HER SOUTHERN ROOTS ON “BEST ALBUM TO DATE”

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July 20, 2010 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

Who says you can never go home? After conquering the rock and pop worlds with six Top 10 albums, iconic singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow is headed back to her Southern roots with her new album 100 Miles from Memphis.

100 Miles from Memphis is Crow’s seventh album and its title reflects a statement of purpose, both musical and emotional, that marks her long-awaited return to the sounds that first drew her to making music. With the help of critically acclaimed producers Doyle Bramhall II and Justin Stanley, the album features an eclectic mix of songs. Standout tracks include the CD’s first single “Summer Day,” which is already topping the charts, as well as innovative renditions of classic top hits, including Terence Trent D’Arby’s “Sign Your Name” and a special tribute to Michael Jackson with The Jackson Five’s “I Want You Back.” Crow states, “This album was an important project for me because it allowed me to delve back into the music and sounds that I grew up with.”

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RECORD EXCHANGE THINKINDIE DIGITAL STORE: DANGER MOUSE/SPARKLEHORSE ‘DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL’ FOR $7.99!

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July 14, 2010 - Contests , The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

• NEW RELEASES:

Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Dark Night of the Soul (only $7.99!)
R.E.M. Fables of the Reconstruction Deluxe Edition
Wavves King of the Beach
Autechre Move of Ten
The Innocence Mission My Room in the Trees
Concrete Blonde Bloodletting 20th Anniversary Edition
Mondo Generator Dog Food EP
Carissa’s Wierd They’ll Only Miss You When You Leave
Zoroaster Zoroaster
The Love Language Libraries
MORE HERE

• GET A FREE SUMMER INDIE POP MIXTAPE!

Visit the CIMS Mixtape listening station inside The Record Exchange and grab a card for a free download of a summer indie rock mixtape! The sampler includes tracks from New Pornographers, Delorean, Vampire Weekend, She & Him, Beach House, Avi Buffalo, Teenage Fanclub, Arcade Fire and more!

• INDIGO GIRLS LIVE ALBUM WITH EXCLUSIVE BONUS TRACK!

Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily Saliers celebrate their long-standing passion for live performance with Staring Down the Brilliant Dream, which includes the ThinkIndie exclusive bonus track “Yield” — 32 songs in all!

The album features songs hand-selected by the Grammy-winning duo to capture the most memorable moments of their 2006-2009 shows. The release reflects the spontaneity of a typical Indigo concert and includes a mix of solo performances and other numbers backed by their full band, plus vocal collaborations with such guests artists as Brandi Carlile and Jill Hennessey.
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• LABEL SPOTLIGHT: PARK THE VAN

Started in 2004 and formed on the idea of liking a band, Park the Van represents everything good about the music business. By loving what they release, and having a clear vision and style, it made it easy for music fans and record store clerks to talk up this new label.

Park the Van has a new series of releases from bands they think need your attention. The series is called Delicacies, and we have a few choice titles on sale, including early Dr. Dog albums. We have also added some of their classic label catalog to fill out the page. Dig in; it’s delicious.
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• JOHN NOLAN EXCLUSIVE!

John Nolan is the guitarist/co-vocalist of Taking Back Sunday and the lead singer/guitarist of Straylight Run. On Thursday, June 17, 2010, John stopped by Looney Tunes in West Babylon, N.Y. Looney Tunes is one of the country’s leading indie CD stores. John played an amazing 47-minute acoustic set. The performance is available to you today on high quality 320 MP3.
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• MARCO BENEVENTO CONTEST!

We’ve teamed up with the folks at The Royal Potato Family to bring you a little contest, full album stream and free track from Marco Benevento. Marco’s newest album Between The Needles & Nightfall was released on May 11, and you can check out the full stream below.

Now comes the contest part: Royal Potato Family is giving away five copies of the album on VINYL and there are two ways to be entered. First, anyone who buys the download gets entered into the contest. Second, anyone who takes the free track gets entered to the contest as well. So no purchase is required to win one of the five copies on vinyl. You have until July 7 to enter, so get to enjoying this great album!

STREAM ALBUM, READ ABOUT THE CONTEST HERE
DOWNLOAD THE FREE TRACK HERE
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• A FEAST OF FABULOUS FREELOADS!

One of the coolest things about the Record Exchange ThinkIndie Digital Store is the crazy amount of free downloads.

Seriously, each week new freebies are added to the Freeloads section, and these aren’t just streams — we’re talking fully downloadable and burnable 320KB DRM-free files.

Here’s a look at some new additions:

STS9 Equinox (live acoustic)
Adam Franklin (Swervedriver) Yesterday Has Gone Forever
Tauk Eye to Eye
Of Montreal Coquet-Coquette
Lou Barlow Losercore
Cowboy Junkies Stranger Here
Many more HERE

• OTHER GOODIES:

The Fall Your Future Our Clutter full album stream
STREAM THE ALBUM HERE
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Radio Dept. Clinging to a Scheme full album stream
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Trampled By Turtles Palamino full album stream
STREAM THE ALBUM HERE
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THE VINYL WORD: R.E.M.’S CLASSIC REMASTERED ON 180 GRAM VINYL

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July 13, 2010 - The Record Exchange Blog , The Vinyl Word - by - No Comments

Fables of Reconstruction finds R.E.M.‘s star rising fast. With major label world domination still comfortably off in the future, the band was still experimenting; their jangly frenetic sound was deepening by fathoms, and Michael Stipe’s formless rants were solidifying (his diction was improving, too, which only served to clarify his prodigious poetic gift). The album featured some of the group’s most solid pop songcraft to date, as well as some pretty heady meandering (“Feeling Gravity’s Pull”).

Fables of Reconstruction produced some important hits for the group at this crucial juncture of its career. Radio staples like “Driver 8” kept them popular with the increasingly important college crowd (heretofore their bread and butter), while the crisp, jumpy and irresistibly catchy “Can’t Get There From Here” brought them to a new level on the now-essential music video playlists. Diehard fans, however, were drawn to some quintessential R.E.M. moments–the overlapping vocals of “Maps And Legends” and the wistful, soaring “Wendel Gee,” the album’s real gem, a disarming, dreamy, instant classic.

BUY THE 24-BIT DIGITALLY REMASTERED 180 GRAM VINYL HERE

OTHER NEW NEW VINYL RELEASES:

Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse Dark Night of the Soul
M.I.A. Maya
Reflection Eternal: Talib Kweli & Hitek Revolutions Per Minute
Sonic Youth Confusion Is Sex
Walkmen You & Me (Re-Issue)
Kansas Leftoverture
Deep Purple Made In Japan
Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants

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NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: DANGER MOUSE & SPARKLEHORSE’S DEBUT!

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July 13, 2010 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

Dark Night of the Soul, written by Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse: At one point faced the possibility of NEVER being released due do a dispute with record label EMI. Today, the album is making it’s much anticipated/celebrated debut! In 2006 Sparklehorse wrote a number of songs he wasn’t comfortable singing. The solution, bring in an all-star cast including:

James Mercer of The Shins, The Flaming Lips, Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals, Jason Lytle of Grandaddy, Julian Casablancas of The Strokes, Frank Black of the Pixies, Iggy Pop, Nina Persson of The Cardigans, Suzanne Vega, Vic Chesnutt, David Lynch, and Scott Spillane of Neutral Milk Hotel and The Gerbils.

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NEW DVD/BLU-RAY: ADULT SWIM’S INSANE ‘SQUIDBILLIES, VOLUME 3′

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July 6, 2010 - DVD and Blu Ray , The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

“Squidbillies, Adult Swim’s show of hillbilly critters, brings a third volume of backwoods insanity and violence with a side of random Jesus Squid!

Early is the family patriarch. Rusty is his adoring, bepimpled, mulletted son. Granny has a libido that is outright disgusting and the sheriff… well, I don’t think anybody really has an idea exactly what the sheriff is.

In “Anabolic-holic”, what starts off as an innocent day of torturing granny turns into a steroid-addled wrestling brawl with a disgraced champion. Rusty gets in trouble with his father when Early finds the boy reading, and Dean Koontz stops by with a lesson for Early about literacy in “The Liar, the Bitch and the Bored Rube“. “Fine Ol’ Solution” follows the family patriarch when he feels his constitutional rights to not work are being threatened by the population of illegal immigrants. He tries to tackle the situation by hiring illegal immigrants to build a wall to keep themselves out.

In “Lerm”, Early meets an alien who shares his appetite for destruction and the two boys get up to some political hijinks together. Granny tells of her days in the old South in “Confessions of a Gangrenous Mind”, and in “Atone Deaf”, Early tries to deal with his rage problems. “The Big Gay Throwdown” shows the county trying to deal with the homosexual problem, which leads to a revelation for the Sheriff. When Dan Halen has a black hole built in town, the gang gets awful cozy with the almighty in “God’s Bro”, and “Not Without My Cash Cow” follows Early as he tries to make quick cash on the disappearance of his kid.

The show is, first and foremost, inane. Or is that insane? Whatever it is, making sense of the Culyer family’s many misadventures is an activity guaranteed to make your brain hurt, though I think Early wouldn’t have it any other way. Special features include “Music” (the soundtrack with conception art, features songs from the show as well as socre), “That’s not a hat it’s a ragtop for a sex convertible” (which shows Early walking through scenes with hit hat changing through all the various inflammatory and humorous hats he wears throughout the show), “Funny Pete Stuff”  (weird squid related commercials), some of Adult Swim’s famous bumps and footage of the gang at Dragoncon 2009 (during which the man who plays Early speaks and sings, and Early’s character design becomes hilariously clear). Insane yet funny; for Adult Swim fans, Squidbillies is top-notch viewing.” — Amanda Rush, Pop Syndicate

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OTHER NEW DVD/BLU-RAY RELEASES:

Brooklyn’s Finest DVD
A Single Man DVD

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