‘STRANGER THINGS’ VINYL LISTENING PARTY OCT. 28 – WAFFLES, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS AND COSTUME CONTEST!

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stranger-things-bannerAn all-day Stranger Things Vinyl Listening Party will be held on Friday, Oct. 28 at The Record Exchange (1105 W. Idaho St. in Downtown Boise). The vinyl version of the Stranger Things Vol. 1 soundtrack, including an indie-exclusive clear/black smoke version, will be available for purchase!

Come hear the soundtrack and participate in our “Stranger Things” costume contest – come dressed as your favorite character and get entered to win one of three prizes*!

We’ll also have a free Eggo waffle bar and a Dungeon & Dragons game starting at noon.

If you want to join our D&D game, please arrive by 11:30am. The game will be closed once it starts; however, you are welcome to bring your own crew and play your own game any time during the party.

*Winners will be selected by a panel of Record Exchange judges. We’ll take your picture, vote on a winners once the day is over and award prizes the week of Oct. 31.

*Winners will be selected by a panel of Record Exchange judges. We’ll take your picture, vote on a winners once the day is over and award prizes the week of Oct. 31.

TEN BANDS ONE CAUSE BENEFIT PINK VINYL LISTENING PARTY SEPT. 27 – FREE PINK GURU DONUTS ALL DAY LONG!

unnamed-1For the third year in a row, RED Distribution has teamed with an array of artists to offer limited-edition exclusive pink vinyl versions of new and recent albums for the Ten Bands One Cause fundraiser, and The Record Exchange is celebrating with an all-day listening party on Tuesday, Sept. 27!

Join us to hear tracks from the albums and enjoy a free pink donut from our friends at Guru Donuts! The first 10 people to purchase vinyl get a CD of Gilda Radner’s classic 1979 album “Live from New York” free with purchase!

Over the last 2 years, RED has donated over $65,000 to Gilda’s Club NYC by shipping pink vinyl to retailers all over the country during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Named after comedian Gilda Radner, who passed away from the disease at the age of 43 in 1989, Gilda’s Club is an organization that provides community support for both those diagnosed with cancer and their caretakers.

Ten Bands One Cause returns Sept. 27, but this time things are a little different. Cancer impacts all of us, so RED open it up to the industry and WEA answered the call. Seven of the 10 bands are RED acts and 3 are WEA acts. Their goal together is to raise more money this year than RED did in the first two years.

2016 Ten Bands One Cause titles:

AnthraxFor All Kings
Courtney BarnettSometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit
Ed SheeranX
Jim Breuer and the Loud and RowdySongs from the Garage
My Chemical RomanceThree Cheers for Sweet Revenge
NOFXFirst Ditch Effort (available Oct. 7)
OpethSorceress (available Sept. 30)
PixiesHead Carrier (available Sept. 30)
Red Hot Chili Peppers The Getaway
The Black KeysChulahoma

WILCO ‘SCHMILCO’ LISTENING PARTY ON VINYL TUESDAY SEPT. 6 (6PM) – WIN A TEST PRESSING OR OTHER PRIZES!

i-heard-schmilco-1A Wilco Schmilco Listening Party will be held at 6pm on Vinyl Tuesday, Sept. 6 at The Record Exchange (1105 W. Idaho St. in Downtown Boise). The vinyl version of Schmilco will be available for purchase all day long, three days ahead of the CD version!

Vinyl Tuesday is also the first day fans can publicly listen to the album in its entirety, as there will be no pre-release album stream available anywhere!

We’ll play Schmilco in its entirety and raffle several items, including:

  • Limited-edition Schmilco white label pressing with a special commemorative center label.
  • Limited-edition Wilco slipmats.
  • Limited-edition commemorative event poster.

Everyone who attends will receive a special “I heard Schmilco” lapel sticker!

TEGAN & SARA LISTENING PARTY JUNE 3 – ENTER TO WIN A $300 TURNTABLE, PLUS INSTAGRAM HASHTAG CONTEST!

418457415659Tegan & SaraWhite_uTurn9553_Acrylic_OM5E no Arm 1 F release their eighth album Love You to Death on Friday, June 3, and to celebrate we’re holding a listening party at 6pm June 3 and giving away a $300 U-Turn Audio Orbit Plus turntable to one lucky customer!

Three ways to enter to win the turntable:

Show up to the listening party. You will receive one raffle ticket.

Show up to the listening party and purchase Love You to Death on CD*. You will receive three raffle tickets.

Show up to the listening party and purchase Love You to Death on vinyl*. You will receive five raffle tickets.

*In-store purchase only; no returns.

We will draw the winner once we’ve listened to the album. You must be present to win.

We’ll have Tegan & Sara lip-shaped sunglasses to give away free with purchase (CD or LP). Take a picture of yourself in your sunglasses and post it to Instagram with the hashtags #therecordexchange and #teganandsara and the best photo wins a Tegan & Sara prize pack (photo must be posted by midnight Thursday, June 9).

Love You to Death is the follow up to Tegan and Sara’s pop breakthrough album Heartthrob, which featured the singles “Closer” (certified gold in the US) and “I Was a Fool.” The band were featured on the LEGO Movie single “Everything is Awesome” with The Lonely Island and were invited to perform that song as part of the 2015 Oscar telecast.

IDYLTIME ALBUM RELEASE PARTY 5/26!

FullSizeRenderThe Record Exchange (1105 W. Idaho St.) is honored to host the Idyltime “Rimrock Country” Album Release Party at 6pm Thursday, May 26. “Rimrock Country” will be available for purchase at the party. As always, this Record Exchange in-store event is free and all ages.

Rimrock Country, Idyltime’s second album, consists of 11 original and four traditional songs delving into the time and space of love lost and found. Driven by fiddle and banjo, tied together through harmony, and energized by the bass fiddle, Idyltime’s new album is a toe tapping retrospect. It was recorded at AudioLab by Steve Fulton and Pat Storey in December 2015.

ABOUT IDYLTIME

cover onlyMost people can hear a certain song and it will take them back to a prior experience, maybe to a feeling had and relived through a melody. Idyltime is comprised of four souls eternally searching for the source of this nostalgia. People often say that their music takes them back to a memory and reminds them of the good in the world.

Idyltime, a band originally playing bluegrass out of southern Oregon, reformed in 2011 when Beth and Tate Mason moved to Boise, Idaho. There they joined with Dave Daley and Ava Honey, who were hosting the weekly old-time jam at Pengilly’s Saloon. Delving into their common love for acoustic roots music, Idyltime’s sound is at once traditional and original.

Instrumentation:

Ava Honey – Guitar, upright bass and vocals
Beth Mason – Upright bass, guitar and vocals
Dave Daley – Fiddle and vocals
Tate Mason – Banjo, dobro and vocals