NEW RELEASE FRIDAY: DROPKICK MURPHYS, CHAINSMOKERS, GONE IS GONE, DAVID BOWIE, NEIL YOUNG

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

CD

Dropkick Murphys – 11 Short Stories of Pain and Glory
Gone is Gone – Echolocation
Halestorm – Reanimate 3.0: The Covers
Bebel Gilberto – Bebel Gilberto
Alexis Weissenberg – The Complete RCA Album Collection
Chasing Safety – Nomad

VINYL

Dropkick Murphys – 11 Short Stories of Pain and Glory
Chainsmokers – Collage
Gone is Gone – Echolocation
Neil Young – Peace Trail
David Bowie – Legacy
K.D. Lang – Shadowland
Sam Cooke – One Night Stand: Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963
Antonio Carlos Jobim – Stone Flower
Phobocosm – Bringer of Drought

RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 10 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 29, 2016)

eponym-album-cover1. Eponym, SFM-Steve Fulton Music
2. We Got It From Here …, A Tribe Called Quest
3. Idaho Ho Ho Vol. 7, Various Artists
4. You Want It Darker, Leonard Cohen
5. Blue and Lonesome, Rolling Stones
6. 22, A Million, Bon Iver
7. Blurryface, Twenty One Pilots
8. Hardwired … To Self-Destruct, Metallica
9. Cleopatra, The Lumineers
10. Signs of Light, The Head and the Heart

RECORD EXCHANGE 2016 STAFF PICKS: MICHAEL

michaelTis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2016 Staff Picks!

Here’s Michael’s picks:

LEONARD COHEN
You Want It Darker
HAYES CARLL
Lovers & Leavers
DAVID BOWIE
Blackstar
PARQUET COURTS
Human Performance
ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO
Burn Something Beautiful
PAUL SIMON
Stranger To Stranger
ROKIA TRAORE
Ne So
JOSHUA REDMAN & BRAD MEHLDAU
Nearness
BLACK MOUNTAIN
IV
JACK DEJOHNETTE, MATTHEW GARRISON & RAVI COLTRANE
In Movement

RECORD EXCHANGE 2016 STAFF PICKS: JIL

jilTis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2016 Staff Picks!

Here’s Jil’s picks:

DAVID BOWIE
Blackstar
LEONARD COHEN
You Want It Darker
AKA BELLE
I Hear It Now
THE JAYHAWKS
Paging Mr. Proust
SHOVELS & ROPE
Little Seeds
ROKIA TRAORE
Ne So
NICK CAVE & WARREN ELLIS
Hell Or High Water Soundtrack
CASE/LANG/VEIRS
Case/Lang/Veirs
ELDOPAMINE
Sounds Like A Reasonable Thing For A Band To Play
SLEEPY SEAHORSE
Frienditions

RECORD EXCHANGE 2016 STAFF PICKS: ELIZABETH

elizabethTis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2016 Staff Picks!

Here’s Elizabeth’s picks:

BLACK MOUNTAIN
IV
CHAIRLIFT
Moth
DANIEL KERR
Don’t Die
DEDICATED SERVERS
After The Party
THE FANTASTIC NEGRITO
The Last Days Of Oakland
IDYLTIME
Rimrock Country
KARL BLAU
Introducing Karl Blau
PARKER MILLSAP
The Very Last Day
PORCHES
Pool
QUAKER CITY NIGHT HAWKS
El Astronauta