ENTER TO WIN A ROUGH GUIDE TEE – TWO NEW COMPS AVAILABLE ON RSD!

The popular Rough Guide series is back with two new vinyl compilations for Record Store Day: The Rough Guide to Delta Blues and The Rough Guide to Bollywood: The Psychedelic Years, available Saturday, April 22!

To celebrate, Rough Guide sent us a few T-shirts to give away in advance of the big day.

To enter the drawing, send an email* with the subject “Rough Guide” HERE by midnight Thursday, April 20. We will draw a name and notify the winner on Friday, April 21.

* One entry per person, NOT per email address. If you have 16 email addresses and you enter with each address, we’ll just delete 15 of them. We have the technology. To be eligible to win, you must live in the Boise metro area and be able to pick up your prize at the store.

NEW RELEASE FRIDAY: FATHER JOHN MISTY, JOEY BADA$$, FUTURE ISLANDS, NEW PORNOGRAPHERS AND MORE!

Here’s a quick look at the bright and shiny new releases this week at The Record Exchange!

CD:

Father John Misty – Pure Comedy
Joey Bada$$ – All-Amerikkkan Badass
Future Islands – Far Field
The New Pornographers – Whiteout Conditions
Cold War Kids – La Divine
Western Daughter – Driftwood Songs
Deep Purple – Infinite (deluxe edition available)
Mike and the Mechanics – Let Me Fly
Arca – Arca
Clark – Death Peak
Gonjasufi – Mandela Effect
Tech N9ne – Dominion (deluxe edition available)
Migos – Culture
K. Flay – Every Where is Some Where
The Weeks – Easy
Timber Timbre – Sincerely Future Pollution
The Wild Reeds – The World We Built
Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer – Bach Trios
Jeb Loy Nichols – Country Hustle
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes – Rake It In: The Greatestest Hits
Various Artists – Resistance Radio: The Man in the High Castle Album
Various Artists – Outlaw: Celebrating the Music of Waylon Jennings
The Flatliners – Inviting Light
San Fermin – Belong
Falling in Reverse – Coming Home
Andrew Combs – Canyons of My Mind
Michelle Branch – Hopeless Romantic
Sun Ra – Thunder of the Gods
Royal Thunder – Wick
White Reaper – The World’s Best American Band
Diet Cig – Swear I’m Good at This
Ecstatic Vision – Raw Rock Fury
Sean Rowe – New Lore
Porcupine Tree – Voyage 34
The Obsessed – Sacred
Krokus – Big Rocks

VINYL:

Father John Misty – Pure Comedy (deluxe edition available)
Future Islands – Far Field
The New Pornographers – Whiteout Conditions
Cold War Kids – La Divine
Joey Bada$$ – All-Amerikkkan Badass
Elliott Smith – Figure 8
Elliott Smith – XO
Rihanna – Various Reissues
Strfkr – Vault 1
Clark – Death Peak
Gonjasufi – Mandela Effect
Various Artists – Gimme Danger Soundtrack
Timber Timbre – Sincerely Future Pollution
Woods of Ypres – Woods 5: Grey Skies and Electric Light
Stevie Wonder – Fulfillingness’ First Finale
Stevie Wonder – Hotter Than July
Hauschka – What If
The Flatliners – Inviting Light
Wire – Silver/Lead
? and the Mysterians – 96 Tears
X-Ray Spex – Germfree Adolescents
50 Cent – The Best Of
Royal Thunder – Wick
Angel Witch – Angel Witch
The Wild Reeds – The World We Built
Loreena McKennitt – Book of Secrets

RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 10 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING APRIL 6, 2017)

1. Emperor of Sand, Mastodon
2. Mental Illness, Aimee Mann
3. Close Ties, Rodney Crowell
4. Triplicate, Bob Dylan
5. Hot Thoughts, Spoon
6. Divide, Ed Sheeran
7. One More for the Road, Curtis Stigers
8. Heartworms, The Shins
9. Live from the Fox Oakland, Tedeschi Trucks Band
10. This is Steve, Delicate Steve

SUN BLOOD STORIES ALL AGES RSD17 ALBUM RELEASE PARTY FRIDAY, APRIL 21

In celebration of the release of “It Runs Around the Room With Us,” Sun Blood Stories will perform a special all-ages Record Store Day Eve album release set at 7:30pm Friday, April 21, at The Record Exchange (1105 W. Idaho St.). As always, this Record Exchange in-store event is free and all ages.

“It Runs Around the Room With Us” will be available for purchase at the event (CD, vinyl and cassette). Sun Blood Stories’ official album release party is Saturday, April 22 at Neurolux and we have tickets for sale at the store.

“It Runs Around the Room with Us” is the third album from Sun Blood Stories. It’s a collage of echo fuzz feedback melodies; super chunk forever drums; sometimes pretty songs too.

Sun Blood Stories appears in trio form while still maintaining full orchestral textures that guide you on a journey through that space between wake and sleep. Alternating between ghostly, heavy and goofy, this album creates a solid vision from the opening note to the ending laughter.

ABOUT SUN BLOOD STORIES

Sun Blood Stories is a mass of harmonic noise distilled into occasionally delicate, but always haunting songs. The band is comprised of three equal members: Amber Pollard, Ben Kirby and Jon Fust; this current arrangement is the realization of a sedulous refining process that has guided them into trio form.

Sun Blood Stories has been called “high desert psychedelia” (thanks, Wolvserpent), sonically compared to early Pink Floyd (thanks, random patron at Hogan’s) and flatteringly referred to as “Neil Young in a cave on acid” (thanks, Talkative).

Sun Blood Stories is dreamy, aware, personal, open, fuzzed out, and loud af.

TOY ZOO/SICK WISH SPLIT 7-INCH RELEASE PARTY THURSDAY, APRIL 20

The Record Exchange will kick off Record Store Day Weekend with a Toy Zoo/Sick Wish Release Party at 6pm Thursday, April 20. As always, this Record Exchange in-store event is free and all ages.

Toy Zoo and Sick Wish will perform back-to-back sets in celebration of the release of their split 7-inch on Hi-Fi Mantra. The limited-edition 7-inch will be available for purchase at the release party!

ABOUT TOY ZOO:

Toy Zoo is a doom pop band hailing from Boise, Idaho. Combining a love of synth-driven new wave with distorted punk music, Toy Zoo brings a raucous party to their live shows. Consisting of a vocalist, a synth player, two bassists and a drummer; their sound can veer in scope from raw post-punk to synthesized bliss to heavy, rollicking doom-influenced punk. Having released their self-titled record last year, Toy Zoo is busy recording their second record.

ABOUT SICK WISH:

Sick Wish was formed in 2014 by Boise musicians Brett Nelson (Built To Spill), Cory Hentrup (Toy Zoo), Jonah Nelson (Standing Stupid) and Marty Chase Martin (Sleepy Seeds). Their sound has been described as new wave/post punk in the vein of Joy Division. Having just wrapped up their recording debut “Riddelvoid,” they are planning to tour to support its release throughout the U.S. this spring and summer.