ENTER TO WIN JAMES TAYLOR TICKETS!

418456510718James Taylor is playing Taco Bell Arena on July 20, and The Record Exchange has a pair of tickets to give away to one lucky customer!

To enter the drawing, send an email with the subject “James Taylor” HERE by midnight Thursday, July 14. We will draw a name at random and notify the winner on July 15.

James Taylor‘s latest album Before This World is in stock on CD, deluxe CD and vinyl!

* 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.

ENTER TO WIN AIR VINYL OR CD COMP!

air_ad_9_(950x950)French electronic duo Air is celebrating two decades of music making with a tour and compilation Twentyears, and The Record Exchange has a copy of Twentyears on vinyl and double CD to give away!

To enter the drawing, send an email with the subject “Air” HERE by midnight Thursday, July 14. We will draw names and notify the winners on July 15.

* 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.

VINYL TUESDAY: MADONNA REISSUES, PLUS $5 IN FREE USED VINYL!

It’s Vinyl Tuesday! Record Exchange customers receive up to $5 in used vinyl with every $25 in new vinyl purchased and have access to early and exclusive releases. This week’s releases:

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MADONNALIKE A PRAYER LP

Limited 180-gram vinyl LP reissue of this 1989 album from the award-winning, multi-platinum selling, trend-setting pop/dance diva, featuring “Express Yourself,” “Cherish,” “Like a Prayer” and more.

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MADONNATRUE BLUE LP

Limited 180-gram vinyl pressing of the 1986 album that gave us the hits “Papa Don’t Preach,” “Live to Tell,” and “Open Your Heart.”

RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 10 SELLERS (WEEK ENDING JULY 7, 2016)

4184574601631. California, Blink-182
2. Along the Shadow, Saosin
3. True Sadness, The Avett Brothers
4. A Moon Shaped Pool, Radiohead
5. Why Are You OK, Band of Horses
6. The Getaway, Red Hot Chili Peppers
7. Cleopatra, The Lumineers
8. Blurryface, Twenty One Pilots
9. Strangers, Marissa Nadler
10. The Bride, Bat for Lashes

NEW RELEASE FRIDAY: AVALANCHES, CAR SEAT HEADREST, APHEX TWIN, HEART, GONE IS GONE AND MORE!

new release fridayHere’s a quick look at the bright and shiny new releases this week at The Record Exchange:

CD

The Avalanches – Wildflower

Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial

Aphex Twin – Cheetah

Heart – Beautiful Broken

Gone is Gone – Gone is Gone

Switchfoot – Where the Light Shines Through (deluxe edition also available)

Inter Arma – Paradise Gallows

Frankie Lee – American Dreamer

Larkin Poe – Reskinned

Roisin Murphy – Take Her Up to Monto

The Julie Ruin – Hit Reset

Spellcaster – Night Hides the World

David Bowie – Hours

David Bowie – Outside

Yung Verb – Just Getting Started

Frameworks – Smother

Nonpoint – Poison Red

Boris – Pink

J Dilla – Diary Instrumentals

Big Business – Command Your Weather

PWR BTTM – Ugly Cherries

Masked Intruder – Love and Other Crimes

Vanna – All Hell

Chevelle – North Corridor

Sarathy Korwar – Day to Day

Mark Chesnutt – Tradition Lives

Various Artists – Cafe Society Soundtrack

TTNG – Disappointment Island

Nine Days – Snapshots

Radio Moscow – Live in California

Biffy Clyro – Ellipsis

Bernz – See You on the Other Side

Boys Night Out – Black Dogs

Miroslav Vitous – Music from Weather Report

Kenny Garrett – Do Your Dance

Porcupine Tree – Signify

Jon Anderson and Roine Stolt – Invention of Knowledge

Circa – Valley of the Windmill

VINYL

Aphex Twin – Cheetah

The Avalanches – Wildflower

Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial

The Julie Ruin – Hit Reset

Badbadnotgood – IV

Minus the Bear – Interpretaciones del Oso

Boris – Pink

Frameworks – Smother

Gone is Gone – Gone is Gone

Modest Mouse/764-Hero – Whenever You See Fit

Misfits – Friday the 13th

Whitechapel – Mark of the Blade

Masked Intruder – Love and Other Crimes

Kaytranada – 99.9

Soren Juul – This Moment

Cibo Matto – Stereotype A

Miles Davis – Miles Ahead Soundtrack

Dead Can Dance – Dead Can Dance

Dead Can Dance – Into the Labyrinth

Dead Can Dance – Spleen and Ideal

Rogue Wave – Descended Like Vultures

All-American Rejects – When the World Comes Down

John Lee Hooker – Great

Lightnin’ Hopkins – Lightnin’ and the Blues

Lightnin’ Hopkins – Sings the Blues

Brownie McGhee – Back Country Blues

Leann Rimes – Blue 20th Anniversary Edition

The Honorary Title – Anything Else But the Truth

Direct Hit – Wasted Mind

Radio Moscow – Live in California

Roo Panes – Little Giant

Chevelle – North Corridor