The 17 -track CD sampler contains music from some of the years' biggest break-through artists (and some that will be breaking through in 2010) including Phoenix, White Rabbits, Cage The Elephant, The Antlers, Brendan Benson, Passion Pit, an exclusive live and unreleased track from the Black Crowes, and tracks off 2010 releases from Mumford & Sons and The Whigs.
The featured RED Best of 2009 titles you will see at an indie retailer near you are: Black Crowes (DVD): Cabin Fever * Cage The Elephant: Cage The Elephant * Passion Pit: Manners * Phish: Joy * Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix * Rodrigo y Gabriela: 11:11 * White Rabbits: It's Frightening
RED Best of 2009 CD track listing:
1. Brendan Benson "A Whole Lot Better" (from the album My Old, Familiar Friend)
2. Phoenix "1901" (from the album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix)
3. The Temper Trap "Sweet Disposition" (from the album Conditions)
4. Rodrigo y Gabriela "Buster Voodoo" (from the album 11:11)
5. White Rabbits "Percussion Gun" (from the album It's Frightening)
6. Mumford & Sons "Little Lion Man" (from the album Sigh No More � released March 2010)
7. The Dodos "Fables" (from the album Time To Die)
8. Port O'Brien "My Will Is Good" (from the album Threadbare)
9. The Whigs "In The Dark" (from the album In The Dark � released Feb 2010)
10. Cage The Elephant "Tiny Little Robots" (from the album Cage The Elephant)
11. Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons "Born Again" (from the album Death Won't Send A Letter)
12. Dawes "When My Time Comes" (from the album North Hills)
13. Hot Chelle Rae "I Like To Dance" (from the album Lovesick Electric)
14. Passion Pit "The Reeling" (from the album Manners)
15. Mew "Beach" (from the album No More Stories�)
16. The Antlers "Bear" (from the album Hospice)
17. Black Crowes "Good Morning Captain" (Live & Unreleased) (original version from the album Before The Frost)
The promotion is currently running through the end of January 2010.
Participating stores:
52.5 (Charleston, SC)
Backdoor (Cotati, CA)
Barts (Boulder, CO)
Boo Boo Records (San Luis Obispo, CA)
Bull Moose Music (ME, NH)
Cactus (Houstin, TX)
CD Central (Lexington, KY)
CD Connection (Jackson, FL)
CD World (Eugene, OR)
Central Square (Santa Rosa Beach, FL)
Criminal Records (Atlanta, GA)
Culture Clash (Toledo, OH)
Dimple Records (Sacramento area, CA)
Disc Exchange (Louisville, KY)
Earshot (Greenville, SC)
earX-tacy (Louisville, KY)
Easy Street (Seattle, WA)
Electric Fetus (MN)
End of an Ear (Austin, TX)
Exile on Main St (Branford, CT)
Finders Records (Bowling Green, OH)
Fingerprints (Long Beach, CA)
Gallery Of Sound (PA)
Gem City (Dayton, OH)
Good Records (Dallas, TX)
Graywhale CD Exchange (UT)
Grimey's (Nashville, TN)
Guestroom Records (OK)
Homer's (Omaha, NE)
Hot Poop (Walla Walla, WA)
Independent Records (CO)
Indy CD & Vinyl (Indianapolis, IN)
Jackpot Records (Portland, OR)
Keif's (Lawrence, KS)
Lakeshore Record Exchange (Rochester, NY)
Landlocked Music (Bloomington, IN)
Looney Tunes (West Babylon, NY)
Lou's Records (Encinitas, CA)
Luna Music (Indianapolis, IN)
Mad Platter (Riverside, CA)
Magnolia Thunderpussy (Columbus, OH)
Manifest (SC, NC)
M-Theory (San Diego, CA)
Music Millennium (Portland, OR)
Newbury Comics (MA, NH, RI, ME, CT)
Off The Record (Yakima, WA)
Park Avenue CD (Orlando, FL)
Plan 9 (VA)
Pure Pop (Burlington, VT)
Rainbow Books and Music (Newark, DE)
Rasputin Music (CA)
Record & Tape Traders (MD, DE)
Record Archive (Rochester, NY)
Record Exchange (Boise, ID)
Record Exchange/Plan9 (Winston-Salem)
Rhino Records (Claremont, CA)
Rock-a-Billys (Utica, MI)
Rockin' Rudy's (Missoula, MT)
Salzer's (Ventura, CA)
Schoolkids (Raleigh, NC; Athens, GA)
Shake It (Cincinnati, OH)
Silver Platters (WA)
Slow Train (Salt Lake City, UT)
Sonic Boom (Seattle, WA)
Sound Garden (MD, NY)
SpinStreet (Memphis, TN)
Stinkweeds (Phoenix, AZ)
Streetlight (CA)
The Exclusive Company (WI)
Twist and Shout (Denver, CO)
Uncle Sam's (Miami Beach, FL)
Vintage Vinyl (Fords, NJ; St. Louis, MO)
Vinyl Fever (Tampa, FL)
Waterloo Records and Video (Austin, TX)
Zia Record Exchange (AZ, NV)
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