On Record Store Day in collaboration with Pitchfork, 4AD and Deerhunter, The Record Exchange is one of several RSD stores that will premiere Deerhunter‘s new Pitchfork 3D video!
The RX will be screening the video on repeat throughout the day and will have 3D glasses available. Pitchfork 3D is a new 3D music series in the spirit of the sci-fi and B-movie golden age of Stereoscopic 3D. Fab!
Ozzy Osbourne is the official ambassador for Record Store Day 2011, and this ain’t some token appearance to drum up some publicity (like he needs any).
No, Ozzy is releasing three Record Store Day exclusives (Blizzard of Oz vinyl LP, Dairy of a Madman vinyl LP, Flyin’ High/I Don’t Know 7-inch), and The Record Exchange has a quantity of limited-edition Ozzy RSD posters to give away with purchase of any Ozzy RSD title!
There’s a reason Sub Pop is one of our favorite record labels. Well, there are many reasons, and one of which is the way these cats celebrate Record Store Day.
Among the 200+ exclusive releases available Saturday, April 16, are some fresh Sub Pop platters from Fleet Foxes, Blitzen Trapper, Lower Dens and The Head and the Heart. And to sweeten the deal — as if new releases from these bands aren’t sweet enough — the Sub Poppers sent us a quantity of bitchin’ CD samplers to give away with purchase of any Sub Pop RSD title.
Terminal Sales Vol. 4: Please to Enjoy, the 2011 Sub Pop label sampler, comes housed in an embossed, die-cut package and includes 18 art prints with information about each of the artists and a folded poster. (Preview the tracks HERE.)
The track listing is as follows:
1. Daniel Martin Moore “Dark Road” from the album In the Cool of the Day (SP860), available January 2011
2. Aurelio “Tio Sam” from the album Laru Beya (NXA002), available on Next Ambiance January 2011
3. The Twilight Singers “On the Corner” from the album Dynamite Steps (SP844), available February 2011
4. Mogwai “Slight Domestic” from the “Mexican Grand Prix” 7″ single on Rock Action Records, available February 2011
5. Papercuts “Do What You Will” from the album Fading Parade (SP885), available February 2011
6. Dum Dum Girls “Wrong Feels Right” from the He Gets Me High EP (SP917), available March 2011
7. J Mascis “Not Enough” from the album Several Shades of Why (SP859), available March 2011
8. Obits “You Gotta Lose” from the album Moody, Standard and Poor (SP857) available March 2011
9. Low “Try to Sleep” from the album C’mon (SP905), available April 2011
10. The Head and the Heart “No One to Let You Down,” previously unreleased. The album The Head and the Heart (SP915) is available for Record Store Day, April 16, 2011
11. Blitzen Trapper “Maybe Baby” from the “Maybe Baby” 7″ single (SP929), available for Record Store Day, April 16, 2011
12. Lower Dens “Deer Knives” from the “Deer Knives” 7″ single (SP927), available for Record Store Day, April 16, 2011
13. Fleet Foxes “Helplessness Blues” from the album Helplessness Blues (SP888), available May 2011
14. Chad VanGaalen “Peace on the Rise” from the album Diaper Island (SP871), available May 2011
15. Shabazz Palaces “lost foundling.” This Shabazz Palaces track is not from the album Black Up (SP900), available May 2011
16. Memoryhouse “Sleep Patterns” from The Years EP (SP925), available at some as-yet-undetermined point in 2011
17. Mister Heavenly “Mister Heavenly” from the as-yet-untitled Mister Heavenly debut album (SP926), available August 2011
18. Niki and the Dove “The Fox” From “The Fox” 12″ single (SP930), available June 2011
19. Blouse “Shadow” From the “Shadow” 7″ single (SP939), available May 2011
Want to win a $100 gift card and go nuts on Record Store Day? Then change your Facebook profile picture to your favorite album cover and get entered to win a $100 American Express Gift Card from your friends at The Record Exchange!
HOW TO ENTER:
1. Change your Facebook profile picture to your favorite album cover.
2. Send an email to chad[at]therecordexchange.com with the subject “Record Store Day” and a link to your Facebook profile so we can enter you in the contest. [NOTE: If you change your profile picture but forget to email us, we won’t know you changed your picture and thus you won’t be entered. And if you’re not entered, you definitely won’t win.]
Deadline to enter is midnight Thursday, April 14. The winner will be draw at random and notified on Friday, April 15. Then on Saturday, April 16, said winner can use the $100 gift card to go hog-wild buying some of the 200+ exclusive CDs and vinyl LPs available at The Record Exchange on Record Store Day.
Finn Riggins and Hillfolk Noir will kick off the fourth annual Record Store Day (recordstoreday.com) at The Record Exchange (1105 W. Idaho St., Boise) with an in-store and RSD release party at 6 p.m. Friday, April 15. As always, this Record Exchange in-store event is free and all ages.
The split 7-inch, released through Tender Loving Empire (tenderlovingempire.com) exclusively for Record Store Day, features new, previously-unreleased songs. The limited-edition release will be available for the first time worldwide at the RSD kickoff event. Artwork for the 7-inch was created by Kelly Knopp (knoppart.blogspot.com).
TRACK LISTING:
A. Hillfolk Noir — “Indie Rock Song Blues”
B. Finn Riggins — “Some Are Knightz”
The event will include live performances by both bands.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Experimental indie-pop trio Finn Riggins (finnriggins.com) is the result of a longtime collaboration between Cameron Bouiss, Eric Gilbert and Lisa Simpson. Having met while completing their music degrees at the University of Idaho, the trio began playing music together in 2000, an endeavor that would ultimately culminate in what is now Finn Riggins. Finn Riggins has released four albums, with the latest, Vs. Wilderness (Tender Loving Empire), earning heaps of critical praise and providing the catalyst for extensive national touring, including opening slots for Built to Spill.
Fronted by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Travis Ward, Hillfolk Noir (petometz.com) has been described as a dark, country-tinged, swampy-swingin’, hillbilly-delta-blues-ragtime word machine. The band calls it Junkerdash, but no matter the descriptor, you’ll find Hillfolk Noir’s psychedelic swamp-shack rags equally spooky and toe-tapping. Hillfolk Noir released a pair of critically-acclaimed albums, Live at the Old Idaho Penitentiary and Skinny Mammy’s Revenge, in 2010.
For more information on Record Store Day (April 16) at The Record Exchange, including in-store events and the release of more than 200 exclusive CD and vinyl titles, visit therecordexchange.com/recordstoreday.