Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2012 Staff Picks!
Take a gander at Jil‘s list:
CATE LE BON
Cyrk II
CAT POWER
Sun
LEONARD COHEN
Old Ideas
GLEN HANSARD
Rhythm and Repose
AKA BELLE
Disappearing Night
CURTIS STIGERS
Let’s Go Out Tonight
BOBBY WOMACK
The Bravest Man in the Universe
J.D. MCPHERSON
Signs and Signifiers
KATE BUSH
50 Words for Snow
RODRIGUEZ
Searching for Sugar Man
VIEW MORE 2012 STAFF PICKS LISTS HERE.
Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2012 Staff Picks!
Take a gander at Michael‘s list:
DR. JOHN
Locked Down
LEONARD COHEN
Old Ideas
THE TOURE-RAICHEL COLLECTIVE
The Tel Aviv Session
MURDER BY DEATH
Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon
CURTIS STIGERS
Let’s Go Out Tonight
JOHN HIATT
Mystic Pinball
LOS LOBOS
Kiko Live
J.D. MCPHERSON
Signs and Signifiers
CALEXICO
Algiers
THE BLACK KEYS
El Camino
VIEW MORE 2012 STAFF PICKS LISTS HERE.
Our friends at Merge Records have a couple of fantastic holiday albums from She & Him and Tracey Thorn, and to celebrate the season they’ve given us some freebies to hand out with purchase as well as some goodies for a prize pack contest!
Purchase She & Him’s A Very She & Him Christmas and we’ll give you a She & Him floaty pen and customized gift wrap. Purchase Thorn’s Tinsel and Lights and we’ll give you some gift wrap, too!
The prize pack includes a signed She & Him LP, Tracey Thorn LP, She & Him mittens and Tracey Thorn Christmas cards. To enter to win, send an email with the subject “Merge holiday” HERE by Thursday, Dec. 20. The winner will be selected at random and notified on Friday, Dec. 21.
Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2012 Staff Picks!
Take a gander at Sue‘s list:
CALEXICO
Algiers
CURTIS STIGERS
Let’s Go Out Tonight
JOHN HIATT
Mystic Pinball
LOS LOBOS
Kiko Live
MUMFORD AND SONS
Babel
MY MORNING JACKET
Circuital
NEIL YOUNG AND CRAZY HORSE
Psychedelic Pill
RODRIGUEZ
Searching for Sugar Man
STEVE EARLE
I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive
THE SHINS
Port of Morrow
VIEW MORE 2012 STAFF PICKS LISTS HERE.
1. Ida Ho Ho Ho (2012)
2. Searching For Sugarman, Rodriguez
3. Babel, Mumford & Sons
4. The Lumineers, The Lumineers
5. Cold Fact, Rodriguez
6. Let’s Go Out Tonight, Curtis Stigers
7. Unorthodox Jukebox, Bruno Mars
8. Blak & Blu, Gary Clark Jr.
9. Tre!, Green Day
10. Psychedelic Pill, Neil Young & Crazy Horse
11. Former Lives, Benjamin Gibbard
12. Born To Sing: No Plan B, Van Morrison
13. My Head Is An Animal, Of Monsters & Men
14. Good Kid M.A.A.D City, Kendrick Lamar
15. King Animal, Soundgarden
16. Celebration Day, Led Zeppelin
17. Turn On The Bright Lights 10th Anniversary Edition, Interpol
18. Girl On Fire, Alicia Keys
19. The Heist, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
20. Vicious Lies & Dangerous Rumors, Big Boi