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May 18, 2011 - The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

What is a Record Exchange exclusive? It’s a CD, vinyl LP, 7-inch, DVD or other product you can only find at the RX — no big box, corporate record store chain or uncle’s basement will have it.

NEW EXCLUSIVES:

Glasvegas Euphoric/Heartbreak vinyl LP
Foster and Lloyd It’s Already Tomorrow CD
Glitch Mob Drink the Sea vinyl LP
Grand Magnolias Grand Magnolias CD

OTHER RECENT EXCLUSIVES:

Tres Mts. Three Mountains CD. A project comprised of Pearl Jams bassist, King’s Xs Vocalist and guitarist and the Fastbacks drummer.
Brendan Benson Lapalco vinyl LP
Vanity Theft Get What You Came For CD
Vanity Theft Anatomy EP
Black Lips/Strange Boys Bruise Cruise Vol. 4 7-inch
Quintron and Miss Pussycat/Turbo Fruits Bruise Cruise Vol. 3 7-inch
Wanda Jackson Thunder on the Mountain/Dust on the Bible 7-inch
Dungen Oga Nasa Mum/Highway Wolf 7-inch
Riley Grandma’s Roadhouse vinyl LP
Booker T and the MG’s McLemore Avenue (Abbey Road covers) vinyl LP
Kate Bush Hounds of Love vinyl LP
Kate Bush The Sensual World vinyl LP
Harry Nilsson A Little Touch of Schmilsson vinyl LP
Dex Romweber Duo Third Man Live 02-04-2010 vinyl LP
Conan O’Brien and the Legally Prohibited Band Third Man Live 06-10-2010 vinyl LP
Pujol Third Man Live 05-21-2010 vinyl LP
Tyvek Third Man Live 09-27-2010 vinyl LP
Gregory Alan Isakov This Empty Northern Hemisphere vinyl LP
Josh Ritter The Animal Years CD reissue – includes bonus CD with live acoustic performance of entire album!
Hellogoodbye Would It Kill You? vinyl LP
Pearl Jam Live on Ten Legs CD and vinyl LP
Josh Ritter The Animal Years vinyl LP (first time on wax – includes CD with live acoustic performance of entire album!)
Band of Horses/Cee-lo Green split 7-inch (Band of Horses covering Cee-lo, Cee-lo covering Band of Horses)
The Decemberists The King is Dead deluxe box set
Bing Crosby and David Bowie Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth 7-inch (red vinyl)
John Fahey Volume One/Blind Joe Death vinyl LP
John Wesley Harding Sings to a Small Guitar Vol. II CD
The Duke Spirit Kusama CD EP
Os Haxixins Noites Brancas 7-inch
Right Now 7 to 10 7-inch
Right Now Carry Me Home vinyl LP
Carbon Leaf Christmas Child CD
The Knife Seeds 12-inch
Fitz and the Tantrums Santa Stole My Lady 7-inch
The Greenhornes Saying Goodbye 7-inch
Laura Marling Blues Run the Game 7-inch
The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers 180-gram vinyl LP
Dead Weather/Third Man vinyl: Tons of new 7-inches, 12-inches and full-length LPs from Jack White’s label, including six Dead Weather titles as well as new cuts from Jack White, Dex Romweber Duo, Conan O’Brien, Carl Sagan, Dan Sartain, Wanda Jackson, Jon Wayne and Secret Sisters.
Keith Richards Life book
DJ Shadow 4 Track Era vinyl LP
Widespread Panic Johnson City 2001 3CD set
The Shipping News One Less Heartless to Fear CD
The Answering Machine Another City Another Story CD
Scott Miller Christmas Gift CD
Wingless Angels (Keith Richards) Wingless Angels CD EXTREMELY LIMITED!
Wingless Angels (Keith Richards) Volumes I and II CD Box Set
Bad Books Bad Books CD
Bobby Long Stranger Songs vinyl LP
California Guitar Trio Andromeda vinyl LP
The Shipping News One Less Heartless to Fear vinyl LP
Jill Cunniff City Beach vinyl LP, available on red/yellow or orange/pink colored vinyl; both versions come with a bonus 7-inch! Limited to 250 copies (that’s in the entire universe).
Keith Richards Vintage Vinos CD (retrospective from out of print studio albums, plus live tracks)
Matisyahu Shake Off the Dust … ARISE CD (reissue of out-of-print, fan-favorite indie debut!
Biffy Clyro Only Revolutions CD
Broken Spindles Document No. 2 (handmade CD, extremely limited)
Dapose Positive Feedback limited-edition vinyl LP
Touch People Everyone Is Not Alive limited-edition vinyl LP
Brendon Benson Well & Goode 7-inch
Paul McCartney and Wings Band on the Run 7-inch. Taken from the forthcoming Paul McCartney Archive Collection reissue of Band On The Run, this limited-edition, highly-collectible vinyl 7-inch replicates the original U.S. single release that shot to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 back in June of 1974. Housed in a deluxe picture sleeve and digitally re-mastered from the original tapes, this is sure to become a sought after Paul McCartney single release for years to come.
Elvis Costello This Year’s Model 180-gram half-speed master vinyl LP (only 5,000 made!)
Elvis Costello Armed Forces 180-gram half-speed master vinyl LP (only 5,000 made!)
Pixies Bossanova 180-gram half-speed master vinyl LP (only 5,000 made!)
Klaxons Surfing the Void CD
Puscifer “C” is for … vinyl LP
Wingless Angels (Keith Richards) Volume I and II
Shadow Shadow Shade Shadow Shadow Shade CD
Soundgarden Telephantasm 3LP vinyl version. Read more HERE.
Amy Correia You Go Your Way CD
Darden Smith Marathon CD
Fever Ray Mercy Street 7-inch
Lloyd Cole Broken Record CD
Nicole Atkins Vultures 7-inch
Cee Lo F**k You CD single, only 99 cents! Read more HERE
Maroon 5 Hands All Over Indie Store Version with bonus tracks
Weezer Raditude Photos 144-page color photo book
Puscifer Sound Into Blood Into Wine CD
Puscifer “C” is For … CD
Sea Wolf Turn the Dirt Over 7-inch
Hayley Taylor One Foot in Front of the Other CD
Mason Jennings Live at First Ave. CD
Brad Best Friends? vinyl LP
Corinne Bailey Rae The Sea vinyl LP
Paper Bird When the River Took Flight CD
Record Store Days book
Coconut Records Nighttiming vinyl LP
Crooked Fingers Forfeit/Fortune vinyl LP
Josh Ritter Golden Age of Radio CD
Josh Ritter S/T CD
Patton Oswalt 222 CD
Right Away, Great Captain! The Eventually Home CD
Warren Haynes The Lone EP
William Fitzsimmons Derivatives CD
Brad Best Friends? CD
The Coral Butterfly House standard/deluxe CD
The Damnwells Golden Days DVD
John Wesley Harding Sings to a Small Guitar Vol. 1 CD
Kristin Hersh Crooked CD
Neu! Vinyl Box Set
Earl Greyhound Suspicious Package CD
Shonen Knife Live at Mowawk Place 2009 DVD
Donavon Frankenreiter Revisited vinyl LP
Various Artists Eat, Pray, Love soundtrack CD
Beck Sea Change half-speed master vinyl LP
Cowboy Junkies Whites Off Earth Now! half-speed master vinyl LP
Elvis Costello My Aim Is True half-speed master vinyl LP
Faith No More Angel Dust half-speed master vinyl LP
Megadeth Countdown to Extinction half-speed master vinyl LP
Pixies Surfer Rosa half-speed master vinyl LP
Pixies Doolittle half-speed master vinyl LP
Bad Brains Live at CBGB 1982 vinyl LP
Builders and the Butchers Where the Roots All Grow CD
Earl Greyhound Soft Targets CD
Filter Inevitable Relapse 7-inch
Junip (Jose Gonzalez) Rope and Summit vinyl LP
Matthew Ryan Dear Lover Acoustic Version CD
Via Audio Animalore CD and vinyl LP
William Fitzsimmons Derivatives CD
Donavon Frankenreiter Revisited CD
Guggenheim Grotto Universe is Laughing CD
Hurricane Bells Tonight is the Ghost CD
I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody’s Business The World We Know CD
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds The Mercy Seat 12-inch (limited edition white vinyl!)
STS9 Ad Explorata vinyl LP
The Glitch Mob Drink the Sea CD
Mz Streamz It’s Alive CD
Shannon McNally Coldwater CD
Snow and Voices Anything That Moves CD
Toots and the Maytals Flip and Twist CD
Record Store Day exclusives. We still have limited quantities left of select titles!
Nirvana In Utero 180-gram yellow colored vinyl LP
Nirvana MTV Unplugged 180-gram red colored vinyl LP
Nirvana Nevermind colored vinyl LP
Slacktone Warning: Reverb Instrumentals CD
Randall Bramlett The Meantime CD
Lou Reed Satellite Of Love 7-inch
The Replacements I’ll Be You 7-inch
The Ramones California Sun 7-inch
Kate Nash My Best Friend is You Indie Store Version with bonus track.
The Ravenna Colt Slight Spell CD and vinyl LP.
Vampire Weekend Contra indie-store version bundled with a limited-edition bonus CD featuring three exclusive tracks!
BlakRoc BlakRoc CD and vinyl LP, ONLY VERSION WITH LUDACRIS/ODB TRACK “COOCHIE” and it’s going quickly! Get it while you can — very limited quantities remaining of this first pressing!
Old Crow Medicine Show Greetings From Wawa limited-edition CD reissue.
DJ Shadow In L.A. 10-31-09 CD
Jack Johnson Brushfire Fairytales limited-edition CD
Josh Ritter Hello Starling vinyl/double CD reissue
The Beatles Abbey Road vinyl box (w/ t-shirt and poster)
Zac Brown Band Live From Bonnaroo CD EP

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REMAINING EXCLUSIVES FROM RECORD STORE DAY – QUANTITIES ARE LIMITED!

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April 27, 2011 - The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

Whew. Record Store Day is over, but The Record Exchange still has limited quantities remaining of select titles.

Here’s what we have left*:

* We will update the list daily for the next week or so. Keep in mind that only one or two copies remain in many cases, so this list may not reflect what we currently have in stock at any given moment.

AC/DC Shoot To Thrill/War Machine 7-inch

Adele Rolling in the Deep (Jamie XX Shuffle)/Rolling In the Deep (Live at World Café) 10-inch

Anberlin Cities vinyl LP

Architecture In Helsinki Places Like This pink colored vinyl LP

Bad Brains God Of Love vinyl LP with bonus 7-inch

The Black Angels Another Nice Pair vinyl LP

James Blake James Blake vinyl LP

Blitzen Trapper Maybe Baby/Soul Singer 7-inch free Sub Pop sampler with purchase!

Busdriver ATM blue colored vinyl 7-inch

Circa Survive Appendage CD EP

The Civil Wars Dance Me To The End Of Love 7-inch

Clouds B Chuggas May Be Longing 12-inch

Dennis Coffey Ubiquitous 7-inch

Matt Costa Songs We Sing vinyl LP

Country Joe and the Fish Electric Music for the Mind and Body vinyl LP

Daft Punk Tron: Legacy Translucence 10-inch

The Decemberists Live at Bull Moose CD

Deerhoof Friend Opportunity green colored vinyl LP

Deerhoof/Xiu Xiu Almost Xiu Xiu, Almost Deerhoof 7-inch

Deerhunter Memory Boy white colored vinyl 7-inch

Brett Dennen B Side to the D Side 7-inch

Derek & The Dominos Got To Get Better In A Little While/Layla 7-inch

DeVotchKa How It Ends vinyl LP

DOM Things Change 10-inch

John Fahey Requia (and Other Compositions for Guitar Solo) vinyl LP

Finn Riggins/Hillfolk Noir Split 7-inch

The Flaming Lips All We Have Is Now Vol. 1 book

The Flaming Lips Heady Nuggs: The First 5 Warner Bros. Record 1992-2002 vinyl box set

Flying Lotus Cosmogramma Alt Takes vinyl LP

The Frustrators Griller CD

Lady Gaga Born This Way 12-inch picture disc

Green Day/Husker Du Split 7-inch

The Growlers Gay Thoughts 7-inch

Steve Gunn/Ilyas Ahmed Split 7-inch

John Hammond So Many Roads vinyl LP

The Head And The Heart The Head And The Heart CD free Sub Pop sampler with purchase!

The Head And The Heart The Head And The Heart vinyl LP free Sub Pop sampler with purchase!

Jimi Hendrix Fire/Touch You (previously unreleased) 7-inch

Jimi Hendrix Fire/Touch You (previously unreleased)/Cat Talking To Me CD

In This Moment The Promise CD

Skip James Today! vinyl LP

Javelin Canyon Candy 10-inch

Javelin Coleridge/Colleagues 7-inch

Joan of Arc Don’t Mind Control blue colored vinyl LP

Job For A Cowboy Ruination green colored vinyl 10-inch

Job For A Cowboy Ruination orange colored vinyl 10-inch

Job For A Cowboy Ruination red colored vinyl 10-inch

Kings of Leon Holy Roller Novocaine 10-inch

Frank Kozik Record Store Day exclusive vinyl figure (blind box; four different figures)

The Luyas/Twin Sister When I Am A Woman/Meet The Frownies 7-inch

Machine Head The Black Procession 10-inch

Manchester Orchestra Simple Math/The Plan 7-inch

Manhattan Murder Mystery Manhattan Murder Mystery vinyl LP

Mastodon Live At The Aragon double vinyl LP with bonus DVD

Midlake/Will Self Am I Going Insane 12-inch

Mighty Clouds Mighty Clouds vinyl LP

My Chemical Romance Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na) 7-inch picture disc

The Naked and Famous No Lights EPs CD

Nickel Creek Nickel Creek vinyl LP

Nickel Creek This Side vinyl LP

Nickel Creek Why Should the Fire Die? vinyl LP

Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard Of Oz vinyl LP free Ozzy poster with purchase!

Ozzy Osbourne Flying High Again/I Don’t Know (Live) 7-inch free Ozzy poster with purchase!

Pearl Jam Vs. vinyl LP

Pearl Jam Vitalogy vinyl LP

Pearl Jam Immortality/Rearviewmirror (The Frogs) 7-inch

Rancid Let The Dominoes Fall collector’s edition CD/vinyl box set

The Republic Tigers Merrymake It With Me/Whale Fight 7-inch

The Republic Tigers No Land’s Man CD EP

Robbie Robertson How to Become Clairvoyant vinyl LP

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Telesterion 2CD

Todd Rundgren Todd Rundgren’s Johnson CD

Rush Caravan/BU2B colored vinyl 7-inch

The Seeds Evil Hoodoo 10-inch

Paul Simon So Beautiful or So What vinyl LP

Skysaw No One Can Tell/Serated 7-inch

Sno Angels/Melted Wires Split 7-inch

Sonic Youth Whore’s Moaning: Oz ’93 Tour Edition vinyl LP

Regina Spektor Four From Far 7-inch

Superchunk/Coliseum Horror Business/Bullet 7-inch

Peter Tosh Legalize It/Equal Rights colored vinyl 7-inch

Tres Mts. Tres Mts. vinyl LP

Various Artists Jimi Hendrix Tribute (Cee-Lo Green, Santana, Robert Randolph) CD single

Various Artists Local Customs: Pressed at Boddie CD

Various Artists No One Got Hurt (Bloodshot Records live compilation) CD

Various Artists Rough Guide To African Guitar Legends vinyl LP

Vivian Girls I Heard You Say 7-inch

Young The Giant Apartment 7-inch

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SUB POP DAY AT RECORD EXCHANGE: THE HEAD AND THE HEART IN-STORE, FLEET FOXES LISTENING PARTY MAY 3

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April 26, 2011 - Buy Stuff Get Free Stuff , Live Shows , Live@RX , On Sale , Recommended , The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

Tuesday, May 3, is Sub Pop Day at The Record Exchange, and we’ll have special sales and a couple of amazing events to celebrate this fine day:

The Head and the Heart in-store (6 p.m.). These Seattle favorites were recently signed to Sub Pop, which re-released the band’s self-titled album on CD and vinyl for Record Store Day. Customers who purchase The Head and the Heart during the in-store will receive a 24-page tour photo scrapbook free with purchase. (See below for more info on The Head and the Heart.)

Fleet Foxes listening party (5 p.m.). Fleet Foxes’ highly-anticipated new album Helplessness Blues comes out on May 3, and we’ll be playing the album on the store hi-fi prior to The Head and the Heart’s performance. We’ll also have a limited-edition silkscreen poster (pictured) to give away with purchase of Helplessness Blues (while supplies last).

The first 25 people to get to the RX for the listening party will be entered to win a nifty Sub Pop prize pack that includes an ultra-limited (100 copies worldwide) white vinyl LP pressing of Helplessness Blues. When you arrive at the store for the listening party, come to the counter and ask for a number. We’ll draw the winning number following The Head and the Heart’s set (you must be present to win).

ABOUT THE HEAD AND THE HEART

So many decisions in life and in the music we love can come down to a critical tug between the logic in our heads and the hot red blood beating through our hearts. Seattle’s The Head and the Heart live authentically in that crux, finding joy and beauty wedged there. Their music pulses effervescently — both explosively danceable and intuitively intelligent. With Americana roots and strong vocal harmonics that swell like a river, this band finds its anchor in solid songwriting that has even the jaded humming along by the second listen.

Leaving a variety of day jobs and academic pursuits, The Head and the Heart came together in the summer of 2009, during frequent visits to the open mic night at Conor Byrne in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. California-transplant Josiah Johnson and Virginia-native Jonathan Russell formed the core songwriting partnership, quickly adding keyboardist Kenny Hensley to the mix. Kenny, then 21, had packed up his piano and moved up to Seattle from California to pursue musical score-writing. The luminous Charity Rose Thielen, violin and vocals, had just returned from a year of studying and playing music in Paris. Drummer Tyler Williams cold left a successful band in Virginia after Jon sent him the demo of “Down in the Valley,” relocating across states to be a part of this. Finally, Chris Zasche, was bartending at Conor Byrne and mentioned one day that he’d be happy to play bass for the nascent band. It all felt right: The Head and the Heart was born.

Whether penning songs on the beach at Seattle’s Discovery Park, or working out melodies in the piano practice rooms at the Seattle Public Library, Charity describes the early months of the band’s existence as touched by a shared purpose and connection. She recalls an email she sent to Josiah that summer, confessing that she was “sleepless and penniless, but inspired nonetheless.”

The band entered Seattle’s Studio Litho in early 2010 to record these songs that had been kicking and twisting in the catalytic development of their live show. Recorded by Shawn Simmons at Studio Litho and Steven Aguilar at Bearhead Studio, the band was selling burned copies in handmade denim sleeves at local shows within a few weeks. Self-released in June 2010, the debut album helped build an impressive head-of-steam for the band through the second half of the year, gaining fans at influential Seattle station KEXP, local record shops (a consistent top 10 seller for Easy Street and the #1 album of 2010 at Sonic Boom), and venues up and down the West Coast, culminating with signing to Sub Pop Records in November. For the 2011 re-release of the album, “Sounds like Hallelujah” has been re-recorded, live favorite “Rivers and Roads” has been added, and the album has been re-mastered.

The songs resulting from those first inspired months pick at the multicolored threads of leaving home, finding home, and through that process of deconstruction, finding yourself. These are songs about crossing rivers and roads to get to the one you love, about family far away, and the desire to chase Technicolor dreams down foreign horizons. When people hear these songs, or see the band live, the first thing they have to do is tell someone else. Their shows are, simply, one hell of a lot of breathless fun. Each song explodes into a potent supernova on stage, where half the audience is zealously singing along with every lyric, and the other half is wishing they knew the words. The band has accepted nearly every show offered to them in the past year, from backyards strung with Christmas lights to coffee shops, open mics, and even high school classrooms in Middle America. From the first months of the band’s life, their reputation as a phenomenal live band has preceded them wherever they play.

The strength of Josiah, Jon and Charity’s vocal harmonies on the album makes it feel like these three were born to pour their voices together, as the band’s songs revel in jaunty bass lines with ebullient handclaps peppering the best moments. A palette of orchestral elements weave their way through the album, including cello, glockenspiel, and violin, all shading in the songs’ development. For all the times your toes tap while enjoying this band, often the lightness will deceptively belie the depth of ache in the lyrics when you sit down to really listen. There is magic in the music, but not magic contrived by trickery or posturing. “It seems actually that the more genuine and honest we are in the songwriting and performing, the more people relate to that transparency,” Charity muses.

This is an album for people who unabashedly sing and drum along on the steering wheel, and also for those who appreciate a well-crafted collection of songs that build into something wholly beautiful.

There is in this music a counter-cultural optimism, with roots that grow deep and melodies that lodge themselves far into that place inside you where the head meets the heart.

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IN THE RECORD EXCHANGE GIFT SHOP: FRANK KOZIK RECORD STORE DAY VINYL FIGURE STILL AVAILABLE (LIMITED TIME)!

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April 21, 2011 - Gift Shop , The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

All the Record Store Day exclusive fun isn’t limited to music. This year, Record Store Day teamed up with Frank Kozik to release four exclusive RSD RPM Kozik vinyl figures!

This special-edition collectible (limited to 5,000) comes in a blind box and is still available in limited quantities at The Record Exchange!

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RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 25 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING APRIL 17)

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April 18, 2011 - The Record Exchange Blog - by The Record Exchange - No Comments

1. Wasting Light, Foo Fighters
2. Indie Rock Song Blues/Some Are Knightz, Hillfolk Noir/Finn Riggins
3. The King Of Limbs, Radiohead
4. Ripple, Built to Spill
5. Tomboy, Panda Bear
6. So Beautiful or So What, Paul Simon
7. Paper Airplane, Alison Krauss and Union Station
8. Live at Bull Moose, The Decemberists
9. Nine Types of Light, TV on the Radio
10. The Family Sign, Atmosphere
11. Swan, Unwritten Law
12. Holy Roller Novocaine, Kings of Leon
13. The Head and the Heart, The Head and the Heart
14. Split EP, Mumford & Sons, Laura Marling and Dharohar Project
15. Hormoaning, Nirvana
16. How To Become Clairvoyant, Robbie Robertson
17. Atlantic Records Presents …, Death Cab for Cutie
18. Loverboy, Brett Dennen
19. Sigh No More, Mumford & Sons
20. Helplessness Blues, Fleet Foxes
21. Angles, The Strokes
22. Live in Concert: Brandeis University 1963, Iron & Wine
23. Information Retrieved A, Pinback
24. Covers, Deftones
25. Gotta Get That Feeling, Bruce Springsteen

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