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February 14, 2011 - On Sale , The Record Exchange Blog - by - No Comments

Did you watch the Grammy Awards Sunday night? The Record Exchange did, and we were so inspired that we arrived at work today in a giant egg.

We also were inspired to compile this quick list of Grammy-winning CDs — many of which are on sale — because invariably on the Monday after the Grammys, we field a lot of questions about the winning artists. And it’s Valentine’s Day, so maybe you need some gift ideas.

If you have any specific questions about certain artists and/or albums, email them HERE.

Lady Antebellum Need You Now
Arcade Fire The Suburbs
Ray LaMontagne God Willin’ and the Creek Don’t Rise
The Black Keys Brothers
Cee Lo Green The Lady Killer
Lady Gaga The Fame Monster
Train Save Me San Francisco
Various Artists Crazy Heart Soundtrack
John Legend and the Roots Wake Up!
Eminem Recovery
Jay-Z The Blueprint 3
Neil Young Le Noise
Herbie Hancock The Imagine Project
Jeff Beck Emotion and Commotion
Rihanna Loud
Michael Buble Crazy Love
Paul McCartney Good Evening New York City
Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures
Iron Maiden The Final Frontier
Muse The Resistance
Fantasia Back to Me
Bruno Mars Doo-Wops and Hooligans
Usher Raymond V Raymond
Sade Soldier of Love
Miranda Lambert Revolution
Keith Urban Get Closer
Zac Brown Band You Get What You Give
Patty Griffin Downtown Church
Mavis Staples You Are Not Alone
Buddy Guy Living Proof
Carolina Chocolate Drops Genuine Negro Jig
Lewis Black Stark Raving Black
John Mayer Battle Studies
Esperanza Spalding Chamber Music Society

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BRIGHT EYES: NEW CD AVAILABLE TUESDAY FOR $9.99 RIGHT PRICE; AUTOGRAPHED LP SCAVENGER HUNT!

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Bright Eyes’ new CD The People’s Key will be available Tuesday at The Record Exchange, and on sale for the $9.99 Right Price for one week only! (Stream the entire album HERE.)

We’ll also have a scavenger hunt for a wicked cool The People’s Key autographed vinyl LP — that’s right, something Conor Oberst held in his own flesh-and-blood hands. We’ll take a picture of the LP “hidden” at the store and post it online; the first person to come to the store and find the LP gets to take it home.

And holy cow, this one is getting some great press. Here’s a snippet of a review from NPR, which is currently streaming the entire album and gushing that it’s the “best record” Conor’s ever put out:

I won’t mince words: This is the best record Bright Eyes has ever made. In fact, it’s the best record the band’s frontman, Conor Oberst, has ever been a part of. Publicists like to say as much any time an artist releases a new album, but in this case, it’s actually true. The People’s Key is a career-defining work of art.

Diehard fans might find it hard to believe that Bright Eyes could produce anything better than 2005’s simultaneously released I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn. But in retrospect, those albums feel less developed than The People’s Key. In earlier recordings such as Fevers and Mirrors and Lifted…, Oberst sounds like a wide-eyed kid who’s still figuring things out. On the new record, he’s older and wiser and more sure of himself. His voice is stronger, the sonic palette is richer and the poetry is more compelling.

The People’s Key starts off as a largely experimental and conceptual record, opening with a strange but fascinating commentary on the expanding universe, time travel, UFOs and the origins of life. “[The aliens] walked like a man but had reptilian features. They had snake-like eyes, a tail and scales. They made slaves of the people. And where they landed in is what The Bible calls the Garden of Eden.” The voice belongs to Denny Brewer, guitarist for the band Refried Icecream and a friend of Oberst’s with some curious views of life on earth.

But this isn’t an overly affected art-rock album that takes itself too seriously. And The People’s Key is Bright Eyes’ most infectious record to date, with captivating melodies and rhythms.

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WE HEART MUSIC @ RECORD EXCHANGE: JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW FOR $10.99!

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Be still my beating Irish heart. James Vincent McMorrow is Ireland’s equivalent to Bon Iver, and like Iver, McMorrow’s soft falsetto and high tenor is heavenly. And, it’s McMorrow’s beguiling voice that seduces the listener as quickly as the opening song on his debut album, Early in the Morning (Vagrant Records). What is more remarkable is this record has been out a year, and is now just making its way to the United States.

Recorded over a five month period in an isolated house by the sea, Early in the Morning was completely self-recorded, creating an intimate feel throughout. The album consists of eleven folk-influenced songs that feature the acoustic guitar, banjo, organ, and McMorrow’s beautiful vocals. Most of the songs start quietly and crescendos throughout the span of the songs. For example, the opening track, “If I Had a Boat,” beings serenely with chamber choir harmonies that are followed by a buzzing organ and a slide guitar which helps build to its intense finish. Its lyrics also summarize the entire theme of Early in the Morning, which was written about transformation and change.

In addition to the theme, the tempos and tone of the songs change. The soft and subdued beauty of “Hear the Noise That Moves so Soft and Low” gives way to the up-tempo banjo-driven “Sparrow & the Wolf.” Some of the tracks have pop appeal, like the tempo-shifting “This Old Dark Machine” and the catchy melody of “Breaking Hearts.” In the latter half of the album, McMorrow shows his darker side with a haunting ballad “Follow You Down to the Red Oak Tree,” the ominous “From the Woods!!” and the foreboding “Down the Burning Ropes.” And then the album closes as quietly as it came in, with a simple pop-influenced ballad “And If My Heart Should Somehow Stop” and the modest folk ode to a love in “Early in the Morning, I’ll Come Calling.” Early in the Morning is a great album in which McMorrow clearly takes the listener with him on his journey of transformation. — Common Folk Music

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ENTER TO WIN NEIL YOUNG’S NEW CD FROM THE RECORD EXCHANGE!

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Want to win a copy of Neil Young’s latest CD Le Noise? Send us an email with the subject “Neil Young” HERE by midnight Thursday, Feb. 17, to enter. The winner will be selected at random and notified on Friday, Feb. 18. Please include your full name in the body of the email.

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The Record Exchange will never share or sell your email address to a third party. We will, however, add you to our mailing list. That’s a good thing — you’ll receive store event and new release news, exclusive coupons and weekly mirth. No spam, man. Promise.

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RECORD EXCHANGE INDIE STORE EXCLUSIVES: JOSH RITTER ANIMAL YEARS CD WITH BONUS LIVE DISC!

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What is a Record Exchange exclusive? It’s a CD, vinyl LP, 7-inch, DVD or other product you can only find at the RX — no big box, corporate record store chain or uncle’s basement will have it.

NEW EXCLUSIVES:

Josh Ritter The Animal Years CD reissue – includes bonus CD with live acoustic performance of entire album!

OTHER RECENT EXCLUSIVES:

BLACK FRIDAY 2011 EXCLUSIVES – FULL LIST HERE

Hellogoodbye Would It Kill You? vinyl LP
Pearl Jam Live on Ten Legs CD and vinyl LP
Josh Ritter The Animal Years vinyl LP (first time on wax – includes CD with live acoustic performance of entire album!)
Band of Horses/Cee-lo Green split 7-inch (Band of Horses covering Cee-lo, Cee-lo covering Band of Horses)
The Decemberists The King is Dead deluxe box set
Bing Crosby and David Bowie Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth 7-inch (red vinyl)
John Fahey Volume One/Blind Joe Death vinyl LP
John Wesley Harding Sings to a Small Guitar Vol. II CD
The Duke Spirit Kusama CD EP
Os Haxixins Noites Brancas 7-inch
Right Now 7 to 10 7-inch
Right Now Carry Me Home vinyl LP
Carbon Leaf Christmas Child CD
The Knife Seeds 12-inch
Fitz and the Tantrums Santa Stole My Lady 7-inch
The Greenhornes Saying Goodbye 7-inch
Laura Marling Blues Run the Game 7-inch
The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers 180-gram vinyl LP
Dead Weather/Third Man vinyl: Tons of new 7-inches, 12-inches and full-length LPs from Jack White’s label, including six Dead Weather titles as well as new cuts from Jack White, Dex Romweber Duo, Conan O’Brien, Carl Sagan, Dan Sartain, Wanda Jackson, Jon Wayne and Secret Sisters.
Keith Richards Life book
DJ Shadow 4 Track Era vinyl LP
Widespread Panic Johnson City 2001 3CD set
The Shipping News One Less Heartless to Fear CD
The Answering Machine Another City Another Story CD
Scott Miller Christmas Gift CD
Wingless Angels (Keith Richards) Wingless Angels CD EXTREMELY LIMITED!
Wingless Angels (Keith Richards) Volumes I and II CD Box Set
Bad Books Bad Books CD
Bobby Long Stranger Songs vinyl LP
California Guitar Trio Andromeda vinyl LP
The Shipping News One Less Heartless to Fear vinyl LP
Jill Cunniff City Beach vinyl LP, available on red/yellow or orange/pink colored vinyl; both versions come with a bonus 7-inch! Limited to 250 copies (that’s in the entire universe).
Keith Richards Vintage Vinos CD (retrospective from out of print studio albums, plus live tracks)
Matisyahu Shake Off the Dust … ARISE CD (reissue of out-of-print, fan-favorite indie debut!
Biffy Clyro Only Revolutions CD
Broken Spindles Document No. 2 (handmade CD, extremely limited)
Dapose Positive Feedback limited-edition vinyl LP
Touch People Everyone Is Not Alive limited-edition vinyl LP
Brendon Benson Well & Goode 7-inch
Paul McCartney and Wings Band on the Run 7-inch. Taken from the forthcoming Paul McCartney Archive Collection reissue of Band On The Run, this limited-edition, highly-collectible vinyl 7-inch replicates the original U.S. single release that shot to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 back in June of 1974. Housed in a deluxe picture sleeve and digitally re-mastered from the original tapes, this is sure to become a sought after Paul McCartney single release for years to come.
Elvis Costello This Year’s Model 180-gram half-speed master vinyl LP (only 5,000 made!)
Elvis Costello Armed Forces 180-gram half-speed master vinyl LP (only 5,000 made!)
Pixies Bossanova 180-gram half-speed master vinyl LP (only 5,000 made!)
Klaxons Surfing the Void CD
Puscifer “C” is for … vinyl LP
Wingless Angels (Keith Richards) Volume I and II
Shadow Shadow Shade Shadow Shadow Shade CD
Soundgarden Telephantasm 3LP vinyl version. Read more HERE.
Amy Correia You Go Your Way CD
Darden Smith Marathon CD
Fever Ray Mercy Street 7-inch
Lloyd Cole Broken Record CD
Nicole Atkins Vultures 7-inch
Cee Lo F**k You CD single, only 99 cents! Read more HERE
Maroon 5 Hands All Over Indie Store Version with bonus tracks
Weezer Raditude Photos 144-page color photo book
Puscifer Sound Into Blood Into Wine CD
Puscifer “C” is For … CD
Sea Wolf Turn the Dirt Over 7-inch
Hayley Taylor One Foot in Front of the Other CD
Mason Jennings Live at First Ave. CD
Brad Best Friends? vinyl LP
Corinne Bailey Rae The Sea vinyl LP
Paper Bird When the River Took Flight CD
Record Store Days book
Coconut Records Nighttiming vinyl LP
Crooked Fingers Forfeit/Fortune vinyl LP
Josh Ritter Golden Age of Radio CD
Josh Ritter S/T CD
Patton Oswalt 222 CD
Right Away, Great Captain! The Eventually Home CD
Warren Haynes The Lone EP
William Fitzsimmons Derivatives CD
Brad Best Friends? CD
The Coral Butterfly House standard/deluxe CD
The Damnwells Golden Days DVD
John Wesley Harding Sings to a Small Guitar Vol. 1 CD
Kristin Hersh Crooked CD
Neu! Vinyl Box Set
Earl Greyhound Suspicious Package CD
Shonen Knife Live at Mowawk Place 2009 DVD
Donavon Frankenreiter Revisited vinyl LP
Various Artists Eat, Pray, Love soundtrack CD
Beck Sea Change half-speed master vinyl LP
Cowboy Junkies Whites Off Earth Now! half-speed master vinyl LP
Elvis Costello My Aim Is True half-speed master vinyl LP
Faith No More Angel Dust half-speed master vinyl LP
Megadeth Countdown to Extinction half-speed master vinyl LP
Pixies Surfer Rosa half-speed master vinyl LP
Pixies Doolittle half-speed master vinyl LP
Bad Brains Live at CBGB 1982 vinyl LP
Builders and the Butchers Where the Roots All Grow CD
Earl Greyhound Soft Targets CD
Filter Inevitable Relapse 7-inch
Junip (Jose Gonzalez) Rope and Summit vinyl LP
Matthew Ryan Dear Lover Acoustic Version CD
Via Audio Animalore CD and vinyl LP
William Fitzsimmons Derivatives CD
Donavon Frankenreiter Revisited CD
Guggenheim Grotto Universe is Laughing CD
Hurricane Bells Tonight is the Ghost CD
I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody’s Business The World We Know CD
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds The Mercy Seat 12-inch (limited edition white vinyl!)
STS9 Ad Explorata vinyl LP
The Glitch Mob Drink the Sea CD
Mz Streamz It’s Alive CD
Shannon McNally Coldwater CD
Snow and Voices Anything That Moves CD
Toots and the Maytals Flip and Twist CD
Record Store Day exclusives. We still have limited quantities left of select titles!
Nirvana In Utero 180-gram yellow colored vinyl LP
Nirvana MTV Unplugged 180-gram red colored vinyl LP
Nirvana Nevermind colored vinyl LP
Slacktone Warning: Reverb Instrumentals CD
Randall Bramlett The Meantime CD
Lou Reed Satellite Of Love 7-inch
The Replacements I’ll Be You 7-inch
The Ramones California Sun 7-inch
Kate Nash My Best Friend is You Indie Store Version with bonus track.
The Ravenna Colt Slight Spell CD and vinyl LP.
Vampire Weekend Contra indie-store version bundled with a limited-edition bonus CD featuring three exclusive tracks!
BlakRoc BlakRoc CD and vinyl LP, ONLY VERSION WITH LUDACRIS/ODB TRACK “COOCHIE” and it’s going quickly! Get it while you can — very limited quantities remaining of this first pressing!
Old Crow Medicine Show Greetings From Wawa limited-edition CD reissue.
DJ Shadow In L.A. 10-31-09 CD
Jack Johnson Brushfire Fairytales limited-edition CD
Josh Ritter Hello Starling vinyl/double CD reissue
The Beatles Abbey Road vinyl box (w/ t-shirt and poster)
Zac Brown Band Live From Bonnaroo CD EP

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