RECORD EXCHANGE 2017 STAFF PICKS: ETTA AND MONK

Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2017 Staff Picks!

Here’s Etta’s and Monk’s Top 10:

ALICE COLTRANE TURIYASANGITANANDA
The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
ETTA JAMES
At Last!
THELONIOUS MONK
Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960
MAC DEMARCO
This Old Dog
TEMPLE OF THE DOG
Temple of the Dog Deluxe Edition
TOM WAITS
Rain Dogs
KATE BUSH
Hounds of Love
ELVIS PRESLEY
Hound Dog
SNOOP DOGGY DOGG
Doggystyle
DR. DOG
Abandoned Mansion

RECORD EXCHANGE 2017 STAFF PICKS: BRION

Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2017 Staff Picks!

Here’s Brion’s Top 10:

MOUNT EERIE
A Crow Looked at Me
BELL WITCH
Mirror Reaper
DRAB MAJESTY
The Demonstration
AKIRA KOSEMURA
In the Dark Woods
GAS
Narkopop
KARA-LIS COVERDALE
Grafts
LOSS
Horizonless
MIND OVER MIRRORS
Undying Color
TALSOUNDS
Love Sick
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Twin Peaks: Limited Event Series Soundtrack

RECORD EXCHANGE 2017 STAFF PICKS: JOE K.

Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2017 Staff Picks!

Here’s Joe K.’s Top 10:

2 CHAINZ
Pretty Girls Like Trap Music
21 SAVAGE AND METRO BOOMIN
Savage Mode
WU-TANG CLAN
The Saga Continues
A$AP MOB
Cozy Tapes Vol. 2: Too Cozy
VINCE STAPLES
Big Fish Theory
21 SAVAGE
Issa Album
YOUNG DOLPH
Bulletproof
MIGOS
Culture
21 SAVAGE, OFFSET AND METRO BOOMIN
Without Warning
LIL PUMP
Lil Pump Tape

NEW RELEASE FRIDAY: EMINEM, THE BEATLES, STRANGER THINGS 2, LINKIN PARK, ASKING ALEXANDRIA, N.E.R.D. AND MANY MORE!

Here’s a quick look at the bright and shiny new releases available at The Record Exchange Friday, Dec. 15.

All titles available in-store or our online shop!

CD:

Eminem – Revival
Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein – Stranger Things 2: Original Music
Linkin Park – One More Light Live
Asking Alexandria – Asking Alexandria
N.E.R.D. – No One Ever Really Dies
Nav and Metro Boomin – Perfect Timing
G-Eazy – The Beautiful and Damned
John Williams – Star Wars: The Last Jedi Soundtrack
Subrosa – Subdued: Live at Roadburn
Jeezy – Pressure
Scarface – Deeply Rooted: The Lost Files
Various Artists – Bright: The Album
Boosie Badazz – Boopac

VINYL:

The Beatles – The Christmas Records
The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (picture disc)
The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (2017 remaster)
Various Artists – Box of Souls: A Nightmare on Elm Street (8LP box set)
OCS – Memory of a Cut Off Head
Various Artists – Stranger Things: Music from the Netflix Original Series
Bob Dylan – Time Out of Mind
The Offspring – Ixnay on the Hombre
The Killers – Various Reissues
The Velvet Underground – 1969
Roy Orbison – A Love So Beautiful: Roy Orbison with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
The Specials – The Specials
Gord Downie – Introduce Yourself
Various Artists – Crazy Heart Soundtrack
Danny Elfman – Batman Returns Soundtrack
Otis Redding – The Definitive Studio Album Collection
Nico – Chelsea Girl
Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Live in 1960
Sia – Everyday is Christmas
New Order – NOMC15
Various Artists – Deutsche Elektronische Musik 3
Swingin’ Utters – Drowning in the Sea, Rising with the Sun
Entombed – Wolverine Blues
Solstafir – Svartir Sandar
Hit the Lights – Skip School, Start Fights
Duke Ellington – Duke Plays Ellington
Tennessee Ernie Ford – Sixteen Tons
Kim Wilson – Blues and Boogie Vol. 1

RECORD EXCHANGE 2017 STAFF PICKS: DIANA

Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2017 Staff Picks!

Here’s Diana’s Top 10:

MOSES SUMNEY
Aromanticism
KING KRULE
The Ooz
SZA
Ctrl
THELONIOUS MONK
Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960
KENDRICK LAMAR
Damn.
TYLER, THE CREATOR
Flower Boy
YAEJI
EP2
MIDORI TAKADA
Through the Looking Glass
MATT MARTIANS
The Drum Chord Theory
DUCKWRTH
An XTRA UUGLY Mixtape