MARCH IS METAL MONTH AT THE RX!

The Record Exchange is melting faces all month long with Metal Month!

Visit the store today and score sweet deals on the following titles. We’ll even give you a free March is Metal Month T-shirt and CD Sampler (16 tracks; see below for song list) with your purchase.

METAL MONTH SALE CD TITLES:

3 Inches of Blood Here Waits Thy Doom
Nachtmystium Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. 2
A Perfect Circle Mer De Noms
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step
A Perfect Circle Emotive
Suicide Silence No Time To Bleed (The Body Bag)
Avantasia Wicked Symphony
Blind Guardian At the Edge of Time
Bonded By Blood Exiled to Earth
Exodus Exibit B: Human Condition
In This Moment Star Crossed Wasteland
Megadeth Greatest Hits: Back to the Start
Pentagram Review Your Choices
Sabaton Coat of Arms
Warbringer Waking Into Nightmares
Winds of Plague Great Stone War

METAL MONTH CD SAMPLER TRACK LIST:

Nuclear Blast 1 Cradle of Filth “Lilith Immaculate”
Century Media 2 Deicide “How Can You Call Yourself A God”
Capitol 3 Kill Corps “Save Me”
Century Media 4 Vampires Everywhere “Undead Heart”
Century Media 5 Winds Of Plague “Refined In The Fire”
Century Media 6 Architects (UK) “Day In, Day Out”
Season of Mist 7 Kylesa “To Forget”
Nuclear Blast 8 Agnostic Front “More Than a Memory”
Century Media 9 TesseracT “Deception – Concealing Fate Part 2”
Earache 10 Cauldron “All or nothing”
Earache 11 Hour of 13 “Naked Star”
Candlelight 12 Havok “Covering Fire”
Season of Mist 13 Atheist “Second to Sun”
Willowtip 14 Gigan “The Raven and the Crow”
Earache 15 Wormrot “Manipulation”
Earache 16 Woods of Yrpes “I Was Buried In Mount Pleasant Cemetery”

BRIGHT EYES SCAVENGER HUNT WINNER!

In what has to be a world record or something, Ashley Durand found the Bright Eyes autographed vinyl mere seconds after we posted the photo.

Ashley’s strategy: Camping out at the store this morning and obsessively checking her smartphone for the post. Now, that’s smart.

As for the rest of you, Bright Eyes’ new album The People’s Key is available at The Record Exchange for the $9.99 Right Price on CD and $21.99 on vinyl.

BRIGHT EYES SCAVENGER HUNT! THE SIGNED VINYL IS IN THIS PHOTO; FIRST PERSON TO COME FIND IT, GETS IT!

The Record Exchange Bright Eyes Scavenger Hunt is underway!

In this photo is an autographed vinyl copy of the new Bright Eyes platter The People’s Key. The first person to come to The Record Exchange today and “find” the LP gets to take it home.

Note to winner: Please come to the counter with the vinyl so we can get your name and take your picture. You know, for the cops.

Even if you don’t find the vinyl first, you can get The People’s Key at The Record Exchange on CD for the low, low Right Price of $9.99 — this week only! We also have vinyl, too, but not for 10 bucks.

BRIGHT EYES: NEW CD AVAILABLE TUESDAY FOR $9.99 RIGHT PRICE; AUTOGRAPHED LP SCAVENGER HUNT!

Bright Eyes’ new CD The People’s Key will be available Tuesday at The Record Exchange, and on sale for the $9.99 Right Price for one week only! (Stream the entire album HERE.)

We’ll also have a scavenger hunt for a wicked cool The People’s Key autographed vinyl LP — that’s right, something Conor Oberst held in his own flesh-and-blood hands. We’ll take a picture of the LP “hidden” at the store and post it online; the first person to come to the store and find the LP gets to take it home.

And holy cow, this one is getting some great press. Here’s a snippet of a review from NPR, which is currently streaming the entire album and gushing that it’s the “best record” Conor’s ever put out:

I won’t mince words: This is the best record Bright Eyes has ever made. In fact, it’s the best record the band’s frontman, Conor Oberst, has ever been a part of. Publicists like to say as much any time an artist releases a new album, but in this case, it’s actually true. The People’s Key is a career-defining work of art.

Diehard fans might find it hard to believe that Bright Eyes could produce anything better than 2005’s simultaneously released I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn. But in retrospect, those albums feel less developed than The People’s Key. In earlier recordings such as Fevers and Mirrors and Lifted…, Oberst sounds like a wide-eyed kid who’s still figuring things out. On the new record, he’s older and wiser and more sure of himself. His voice is stronger, the sonic palette is richer and the poetry is more compelling.

The People’s Key starts off as a largely experimental and conceptual record, opening with a strange but fascinating commentary on the expanding universe, time travel, UFOs and the origins of life. “[The aliens] walked like a man but had reptilian features. They had snake-like eyes, a tail and scales. They made slaves of the people. And where they landed in is what The Bible calls the Garden of Eden.” The voice belongs to Denny Brewer, guitarist for the band Refried Icecream and a friend of Oberst’s with some curious views of life on earth.

But this isn’t an overly affected art-rock album that takes itself too seriously. And The People’s Key is Bright Eyes’ most infectious record to date, with captivating melodies and rhythms.

RECORD EXCHANGE INDIE STORE EXCLUSIVES: JOSH RITTER ANIMAL YEARS CD WITH BONUS LIVE DISC!

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:

Josh Ritter The Animal Years CD reissue – includes bonus CD with live acoustic performance of entire album!

OTHER RECENT EXCLUSIVES:

BLACK FRIDAY 2011 EXCLUSIVES – FULL LIST HERE

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