RECORD EXCHANGE 2017 STAFF PICKS: JOE P.

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 P.’s Top 10:

JIM AND THE FRENCH VANILLA
Afraid of the House
QUIN GALAVIS
The Battery Line
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Welcome to Zamrock! How Zambia’s Liberation Led to a Rock Revolution 1972-1977
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
American Dream
LOOK BLUE GO PURPLE
Still Bewitched
TY SEGALL
Ty Segall
THE STEVENS
Good
MOON DUO
Occult Architecture Vol. 2
CIGGIE WITCH
Mad Music
BLAKE RULES AND NETHERFRIENDS
Blake Rules and Netherfriends Go Camping

RECORD EXCHANGE 2017 STAFF PICKS: CATHERINE

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

Here’s Catherine’s Top 10:

RON GALLO
Heavy Meta
JD MCPHERSON
Undivided Heart and Soul
VALERIE JUNE
The Order of Time
HILLFOLK NOIR
Junkerpunch
THELONIOUS MONK
Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960
CHICANO BATMAN
Freedom Is Free
CHUCK BERRY
Chuck
CIGARETTES AFTER SEX
Cigarettes After Sex
THE DEEP DARK WOODS
Yarrow
KING KRULE
The Ooz

RECORD EXCHANGE 2017 STAFF PICKS: MATT

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

Here’s Matt’s Top 10:

KATE TEMPEST
Let Them Eat Chaos
TYLER CHILDERS
Purgatory
EILEN JEWELL
Down Hearted Blues
WILLIE NELSON
God’s Problem Child
JD MCPHERSON
Undivided Heart and Soul
STEVE EARLE
So You Wannabe an Outlaw
THE WAR ON DRUGS
A Deeper Understanding
CURTIS STIGERS
One More for the Road
BELA FLECK AND ABIGAIL WASHBURN
Echo in the Valley
OFFA REX
The Queen of Hearts

NEW RELEASE FRIDAY: U2, CHRIS STAPLETON, NEIL YOUNG, VAN MORRISON, ROLLING STONES, TYLER, THE CREATOR AND MORE

Here’s a quick look at the bright and shiny new releases available at The Record Exchange Friday, Dec. 1. All titles available in-store or our online shop.

CD:

U2 – Songs of Experience (multiple versions available)
Chris Stapleton – From a Room Vol. 2
Neil Young and Promise of the Real – The Visitor
Van Morrison – Versatile
Rolling Stones – On Air (deluxe edition available)
Cindy Wilson – Change
Miguel – War and Leisure
Frank Turner – Songbook
Twiztid – Twiztid Presents Year of the Sword
Five Finger Death Punch – A Decade of Destruction
The Minus 5 – Dear December
Andy Grammar – The Good Parts
Paul Van Dyk – From Then On
Ella Fitzgerald – Ella at Zardi’s
George Strait – Strait Out of the Box
UFO – Beginnings

VINYL:

U2 – Songs of Experience
Tyler, the Creator – Flower Boy
Judas Priest – Various Reissues
Baths – Romaplasm
Rolling Stones – On Air
Thelonious Monk – Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960
Denzel Curry – 32 Zel
Van Morrision – Versatile
Tom Waits – Real Gone (Remixed and Remastered)
Cursive – Storms of Early Summer: Semantics of Song
Cursive – Such Blinding Stars for Starving Eyes
Dexter Gordon – Both Sides of Midnight
Nightmares on Wax – Citizen Kane
Bryan Adams – Ultimate
John Denver – The Windstar: Greatest Hits

CASSETTE:

Beck – Colors

DVD/BLU-RAY:

Eagles of Death Metal – Nos Amis (Our Friends) DVD and Blu-ray
The Tragically Hip – Long Time Running DVD and Blu-ray

RECORD EXCHANGE 2017 STAFF PICKS: CHELLIE

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

Here’s Chellie’s Top 10:

JD MCPHERSON
Undivided Heart and Soul
EYELIDS
Or
BILLY BRAGG
Bridges Not Walls
FATHER JOHN MISTY
Pure Comedy
IRON AND WINE
Beast Epic
COTTON MATHER
Wild Kingdom
THE NATIONAL
Sleep Well Beast
HAPPYNESS
Write In
SPOON
Hot Thoughts
THE WAR ON DRUGS
A Deeper Understanding