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NEW RELEASE TUESDAY 10/15: AVETT BROTHERS NEW ALBUM AND SIGNING, PLUS PEARL JAM, THE HEAD AND THE HEART, CULTS, PAUL MCCARTNEY, PELICAN, RED FANG AND MANY MORE!

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avettmagpieThe Record Exchange and 94.9 FM The River will host The Avett Brothers New Album Signing at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct 15 (release date for their latest album Magpie and the Dandelion) at The Record Exchange (1105 W. Idaho St.). Want priority line placement at the signing? Beginning Friday, Oct. 11, purchase Magpie and the Dandelion on CD, deluxe CD or vinyl prior to the event and we’ll give you a VIP line wristband!

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Here’s a quick look at the bright and shiny new releases this week at The Record Exchange:

CD

The Avett Brothers – Magpie and the Dandelion (deluxe edition also available)

Pearl Jam – Lightning Bolt

Paul McCartney – New (deluxe edition also available)

The Head and the Heart – Let’s Be Still

Red Fang – Whales and Leeches (deluxe edition also available)

Pelican – Forever Becoming

Cults – Static

Willie Nelson – To All the Girls

Will Hoge – Never Give In

Paul Simon – The Complete Albums Collection

Paul Simon – Over the Bridge of Time: A Paul Retrospective 1964-2011

Fall Out Boy – Save Rock and Roll PAX-AM Edition

La Luz – It’s Alive

Diane Birch – Speak a Little Louder (deluxe edition also available)

Jerry Garcia Band – Garcia Live Vol. 3: December 14-15, 1975

The Poets of Rhythm – Anthology

Depeche Mode – Should Be Higher

Cole Swindell – Chillin’ It

Trivium – Vengeance Falls

Joshua Bell – Musical Gifts: Joshua Bell and Friends

Anberlin – Devotion (deluxe edition also available)

Doomriders – Grand Blood

Death Angel – Dream Calls for Blood (deluxe edition also available)

Morcheeba – Head Up High

Gary Numan – Splinter (Songs from a Broken Mind)

Cass McCombs – Big Wheel and Others

Lucius – Wildewoman

Flying Colors – Live in Europe

Four Tet – Beautiful Rewind

Dean Wareham – Emancipated Hearts

Frank Turner – Second Three Years/Take to the Road

Bloc Party – Tapes

Eric Clapton – Unplugged Deluxe Edition

The Dismemberment Plan – Uncanney Valley

Scotty McCreery – See You Tonight (deluxe edition also available)

Halestorm – Reanimate 2 EP

Crystal Antlers – Nothing is Real

Gavin DeGraw – Make a Move

Mary J. Blige – Mary Christmas

Black Oak Arkansas – Back Thar N Over Yonder

Black Milk – No Poison, No Paradise

Fink – RCO

Arthur Channel – Arthur Channel

Tristen – Caves

Jonathan Wilson – Fanfare

Monster Magnet – Last Patrol (deluxe edition also available)

Deep Purple – Complete Albums 1970-1976

Deep Purple – Perfect Strangers Live

Jeff Healey Band – Live at the Bottom Line

Meshuggah – Catch Thirty Three

Meshuggah – Obzen

Kevin Devine – Bubblegum

Kevin Devine – Bulldozer

Various Artists – Studio One Ska Fever! More Ska Sounds

Various Artists – The Organization of Pop: Music From The First Thirty Years of ZTT Records

Various Artists – Trevor Jackson Presents Metal Dance 2: Industrial, New Wave, EBM Classics and Rarities 79-88

VINYL

The Avett Brothers – Magpie and the Dandelion

Pearl Jam – Lightning Bolt

The Head and the Heart – Let’s Be Still

Cults – Static

Red Fang – Whales and Leeches (deluxe edition also available)

First Aid Kit – Drunken Trees EP

The Clash – Various Reissues

Botch – We Are the Romans

Yuck – Glow and Behold

Doomriders – Grand Blood

Four Tet – Beautiful Rewind

Jamie Lidell – Big Love Remixes

Dismemberment Plan – Uncanney Valley

Various Artists – Trevor Jackson Presents Metal Dance 2: Industrial, New Wave, EBM Classics and Rarities 79-88

Sarah Jarosz – Build Me Up From Bones

Happy Jawbone Family Band – Happy Jawbone Family Band

Band of Heathens – Sunday Morning Record

Bayside – Shudder

DVD/BLU-RAY

Jason Aldean – Night Train to Georgia DVD

The Doors – Live at the Bowl ’68/Soundstage Performances/Live in Europe 1968 DVD

Frank Zappa – Baby Snakes/Dub Room Special/The Torture Never Stops DVD

Deep Purple – Perfect Strangers Live DVD

Flying Colors – Live in Europe DVD

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94.9 FM THE RIVER PRESENTS THE AVETT BROTHERS NEW ALBUM SIGNING OCT. 15: PREORDER AND GET A VIP WRISTBAND!

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avett94.9 FM The River presents The Avett Brothers New Album Signing at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct 15 (release date for their latest album Magpie and the Dandelion) at The Record Exchange (1105 W. Idaho St.). As always, this Record Exchange in-store event is free and all ages. The Avett Brothers are performing at Morrison Center later that evening (7:30 p.m.).

Want priority line placement at the signing? Beginning Friday, Oct. 11, purchase Magpie and the Dandelion on CD, deluxe CD or vinyl prior to the event and we’ll give you a VIP line wristband! (There will be a secondary line for customers without wristbands, which will follow the VIP line.) Free lithograph with purchase, too!

Listen to The River leading up to the event for your chance to win tickets to the Morrison Center show!

A LETTER FROM THE AVETT BROTHERS ABOUT MAGPIE AND THE DANDELION

avettmagpieWe wanted to let you know what we’ve been up to this year.

It’s been one of the most amazing years in our lives up to this point. Not only did we get our first Grammy Award nomination, but we played some of the most incredible shows we’ve ever done. That’s what we really remember. Every night, there was this energy in the air. You could feel it in the gusts of wind or as the stars blanketed the sky. Everybody felt it, and it made each gig simply electric.

We’ve got to let you in on a little secret because you’ve been so good to us. While we were working on The Carpenter, we were so inspired that we wrote another record as well. During those sessions, we just felt it. Working with Rick Rubin again, we tapped into something very special. It’s like everybody was in the same zone.

Now, we’re ready for you to hear the record. It’s called Magpie and the Dandelion, and it’s out October 15. It’s new and being heard for the first time.

If you think about a Magpie, it’s a bird from the crow family. You can see them everywhere, and they’ve got this strange grace. And, we all know what a dandelion is. It reminds you of being a kid and watching a flower come apart on a summer day. There’s a youthful wonder in that. Those kinds of feelings live and breathe inside this album.

As a little treat, our friends at NPR are streaming the first single “Another Is Waiting” so you can have a taste of what’s to come. We’ll be back out on the road and are looking forward to sharing these new songs with you.

For now, enjoy the music.

Sincerely,
The Avett Brothers

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RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 20 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 13, 2013)

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October 14, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

featured new releases1. Pure Heroine, Lorde
2. Silver Bell, Patty Griffin
3. Event II, Deltron 3030
4. Country Music Dead, New Transit
5. Days Are Gone, Haim
6. Mountains of Sorrow, Rivers of Song, Amos Lee
7. Old, Danny Brown
8. Wise Up Ghost, Elvis Costello and the Roots
9. Diving Board, Elton John
10. Innocents, Moby
11. Melophobia, Cage the Elephant
12. The Bones of What You Believe, Chvrches
13. Whales and Leeches, Red Fang
14. Native, Onerepublic
15. AM, Arctic Monkeys
16. All the Little Lights, Passenger
17. We Need Medicine, The Fratellis
18. Bitter Rivals, Sleigh Bells
19. Babel, Mumford and Sons
20. Hesitation Marks, Nine Inch Nails

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THE VINYL WORD: CAGE THE ELEPHANT 'IN A CLASS OF THEIR OWN' ON NEW LP

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October 10, 2013 - The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

new vinylPREVIEW/BUY THE VINYL HERE

It’s hard to think of many peers for Cage the Elephant. They’re a young Kentucky rock band riffing on Zep and garage-punk without retro nostalgia; whip-smart songwriters un-beloved by hipsters; rock-radio hitmakers who play with the unhinged mania of a warehouse set. On Melophobia they’re in a class of their own among big, unit-shifting rock bands who can play with the scrap and imagination of van-tour vermin. — L.A. Times

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NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: SLEIGH BELLS' THIRD ALBUM 'BITTER RIVALS' IS AN 'EXCITING AND POWERFUL RECORD'

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The opening title track off of the third Sleigh Bells album, Bitter Rivals, must have been carefully crafted to both introduce listeners to the record and build anticipation for what is to come.

It doesn’t start with a bang—rather, the duo begins the album with a groovy guitar riff (with really great tones) and some minor backing percussion, including a quiet chorus of snapping and…barking dogs—but within a minute, the song comes crashing in to reveal the band’s signature electronic indie-pop sound. The driving rhythms, crunchy guitars and frantic synthesizers establish an entirely different, chaotic vibe (made more chaotic by Alexis Krauss’ layered and heavily affected vocals) that juxtaposes the much mellower opening.

Sleigh Bells exercise and play around with these quick, often unexpected, dynamic shifts in tempo and melody throughout Bitter Rivals. Of course, the group’s bread-and-butter is still in writing catchy, noisy guitar-based pop songs with a distinct electronic edge, and there’s plenty of that to go around on the album, but the duo is also adept at recognizing when to pepper in moments of contrasting instrumentation to freshen up the songs and reinvigorate the listener.

In addition, these variations in arrangement serve to display the duo’s ever-growing range as songwriters, but it’s not always necessary to slow things down or drastically alter a song’s makeup to do that, because underneath all of those crunchy, distorted guitars and pulsing synthesizers and digital drums, Sleigh Bells is a pop band. And as a pop band, its songs ultimately depend on crafting memorable melodies that resonate with a listener, which for the most part, they’re able to accomplish on nearly every track on Bitter Rivals.

These creative movements make Bitter Rivals an exciting and powerful record, because it reminds the listener that sometimes it’s okay to follow an idea into unexpected territory and shake things up. — Paste

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