1. Let’s Go Out Tonight, Curtis Stigers
2. Blunderbuss, Jack White
3. Boys & Girls, The Alabama Shakes
4. Slipstream, Bonnie Raitt
5. Benchwarmers, Finn Riggins (Record Store Day exclusive)
6. Port of Morrow, The Shins
7. Making Mirrors, Gotye
8. Heady Fwends, The Flaming Lips (Record Store Day exclusive)
9. Stars & Satellites, Trampled By Turtles
10. My Head is An Animal, Of Monsters and Men
11. A Wasteland Companion, M. Ward
12. Hillfolk Noir Radio Hour, Hillfolk Noir
13. Live at Amoeba, The Civil Wars (Record Store Day exclusive)
14. The Lumineers, The Lumineers
15. Revelator EP, Tedeschi Trucks Band
16. El Camino, The Black Keys
17. This Machine, The Dandy Warhols
18. Locked Down, Dr. John
19. Long Gone Daddy, Hank Williams III
20. Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation), Counting Crows
RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 20 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING APRIL 22)
1. Benchwarmers, Finn Riggins (Record Store Day exclusive)
2. Slipstream, Bonnie Raitt
3. Boys & Girls, The Alabama Shakes
4. Live at Amoeba, The Civil Wars (Record Store Day exclusive)
5. Making Mirrors, Gotye
6. Hand Springs/Red Death at 6.14, The White Stripes (Record Store Day exclusive)
7. Cemetery Skyline Rose, Bill Coffey
8. Transverse Temporal Gyrus, Animal Collective (Record Store Day exclusive)
9. Port of Morrow, The Shins
10. Live from the Legendary Sun Studio, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals (Record Store Day exclusive)
11. My Head is An Animal, Of Monsters and Men
12. Walk Among Us, Misfits (Record Store Day exclusive)
13. Record Store Day Vinyl Picture Disc, Atmosphere and the Uncluded (Record Store Day exclusive)
14. Endgame, Rise Against
15. Mirror, M83 (Record Store Day exclusive)
16. A Commotion/Black Tongue, Mastodon/Feist (Record Store Day exclusive)
17. A Spoonful Weighs a Ton, The Flaming Lips/Mastodon (Record Store Day exclusive)
18. Stars & Satellites, Trampled By Turtles
19. Love is a Four Letter Word, Jason Mraz
20. Junta, Phish (Record Store Day exclusive)
FINN RIGGINS RECORD STORE DAY KICKOFF/EP RELEASE PARTY APRIL 20!
The Record Exchange and Go Listen Boise present the Finn Riggins Record Store Day Kickoff/EP Release Party at 8 p.m. Friday, April 20, at the Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St. in Downtown Boise’s Linen District. $7 at the door. Pontiak (Thrill Jockey), Red Hands Black Feet open. All ages, full bar, Pie Hole pizza.
Boise’s Finn Riggins is releasing the new Benchwarmers EP on 10-inch red vinyl for Record Store Day via Tender Loving Empire. Benchwarmers finds the band in top form, making experimental rock jams you can dance to. NYLON premiered the title track in March, saying “this song is so good, it makes us totally reconsider the benchwarmer bad rap.”
BENCHWARMERS TRACK LIST:
1. Benchwarmers (listen/download HERE)
2. Plural
3. Big News
4. Arrow
5. Parkour
Over the past several years, Finn Riggins has been making a name for itself around the Western and greater United States as road warriors from the oft-overlooked state of Idaho. Since the release of their debut album on Portland’s beloved mom-and-pop label Tender Loving Empire in 2007, the band has averaged close to 200 shows a year in 43 states, including playing support for fellow Idahoans Built To Spill on three separate tours.
The collaborative brainchild of three music school graduates from the University of Idaho — Cameron Bouiss, Eric Gilbert and Lisa Simpson — Finn Riggins relocated to Boise in 2009 where they’ve become key players in the young music and art scene of Idaho’s largest population center. Eric Gilbert is the festival director and talent buyer for Boise’s Treefort Music Fest, which made its debut March 22-25 and put a spotlight on the town as a destination for music and the arts while raising money for independent station Radio Boise.