Starting today, December 26th, all of our used CDs, DVDs, Books and Vinyl are 25% off! We’re trying to make room in our racks for even more great stuff we’ve got stored away. This sale will run through the end of the year, so make sure to stop by and pick up some great deals!

Do you like music?

Yeah?

Do you like free stuff?

Oh, yeah?

Well…you might want to stop in and take a look through our Blue Tag CD Sale. We’ve got a large and ever-expanding selection of catalog and newer albums, all priced $7.99 to $9.99. When you buy any of these blue-tagged CDs, you’ll get one of our nifty stamp cards to keep track of your purchases — once you buy 5, you’ll get any blue-tag CD for free!

In celebration of our birthday, Rainbow is having a one day sale next Saturday, August 6th! Our entire selection of used CDs, DVDs, books and vinyl will be 25% off, and because no birthday is official without cake, we’ll have free cupcakes as well (while they last!!). So stop by (we’ll be open 10-8), eat some sweets and browse our seriously stocked selection of used product! Just one thing: no birthday punches.

Record Store Day Weekend starts TODAY with a sweet little sale! 15% off all NEW Vinyl! 25% off all USED Vinyl, CDs, DVDs, and Books! TODAY ONLY!

At 7PM Mean Lady will be performing in the store! They have let us know that their new T-shirts are done and they will have them to sell at the show. Pre-order their new (and first) 7-inch today and it will be a numbered, personalized, signed copy!

Most of the RSD releases have arrived (a few stragglers will be arriving today) so if you want to LOOK at something in particular we can pull it out to show it to you. Nothing will be for sale until we open our doors tomorrow morning at 10AM. We can/will not hold ANY release for ANY body.

The wait is almost over…Record Store Day is just one week away! We’ve got an entire weekend full of great stuff for you to check out….here’s our schedule so far:

FRIDAY APRIL 15th:
Stop in and preview Saturday’s releases (the full list is on recordstoreday.com), shop our storewide sale (15% off New vinyl and 25% off all Used product), and come back at 7pm for an instore performance from Mean Lady and pre-order their upcoming 45!

SATURDAY APRIL 16th:
We’ll be open 10a-8p. All the RSD releases will be for sale, but please keep in mind that this year we have set a limit of ONE of each item per person. Everything will be first come, first serve! Saturday we will also have our limited edition Rainbow Record Store Day T-Shirts for sale! (Scroll down to view the two winning designs)
Make sure to stop by Switch to watch the premiere of the Deerhunter 3-D Pitchfork Session and enter to win a pair of Aerial 7 headphones!

SUNDAY APRIL 17th:
If the weather agrees, we’ll be bringing down 7,500 pieces of vinyl plus tons of CDs and books for our $1 Sidewalk Sale! We’ll keep you posted if we reschedule.

It’s going to be a great weekend and we hope you can join us!

Thanks to all who entered our first ever T-Shirt Contest! We really enjoyed seeing your designs, and in the end we settled on two designs which will be hand-screened and made available for sale on Record Store Day Weekend. We are doing very limited runs of each design, so get them while you can!!

You can preview the designs from our two winners, Theresa Monaco and Alex Rosenfield, below:

Theresa Monaco

Alex Rosenfield

If we could choose one word to characterize the past few months for Rainbow Records, it would undoubtedly be “new”, and in that spirit, we’ve decided to try out something else new! Rainbow is excited to announce its very first T-Shirt Design Contest, which will run until the end of March. Anyone can make a submission, and after the deadline we will choose a couple of our favorite designs to print on shirts which will be made available for sale on Record Store Day (April 16th)!

Before you enter your design into the contest, please be sure to read the specifications so that meets the requirements! You can view the PDF here or stop in to pick up a flyer for all the details.

The deadline is March 31st, and you can drop off your design at the store during hours of operation or send it to us via email (found in the PDF above…we’d list it here, but we’re not crazy about getting spam emails!).

Have fun, and we can’t wait to see your designs!

Just got in a shipment of great vinyl, including a limited number of new titles from Mississippi Records:

Marisa Anderson – The Golden Hour
Solo instrumental improvisational blues guitar & lapsteel recordings from Portland, OR, released in 2009. A store favorite!

Abner Jay – True Story of Abner Jay
Gritty blues & folk music from the 60s/70s

Abner Jay – Last Ole Minstrel Man
10″ EP of his last recordings

Various Artists – Brass Pins and Match Heads
International 78s from the 1930s to the 1950s that includes artists of the likes of Django Reinhardt and Jelly Roll Morton, as well as music from Spain, Iran, New Orleans and Omaha

Various Artists – Ishilan N’Tenere (Guitar Music from the Western Sahel)
Contemporary recordings from West Africa

Kleenex/LiLiPUT (4-LP Box Set)
All-girl punk/postpunk group from Switzerland circa late 70s/early 80s

We’ve also recently put out a ton of great used books, so if you’re down on Main St., stop by and browse our shelves!

Hello all! It seems we were so busy during our move that we forgot to mention one important thing…..we have reopened! If you haven’t already come by to see the new space, our new entrance can be found in the same building (54 E. Main St.) except that we are now down the driveway on the left-hand side.
Here’s a picture of us now….

…..and one in relation to our old entrance:

While we may look a little different, we are back to business as usual. Our hours have remained the same, and we’re accepting trade-ins and doing special orders on music, books and movies!

We hope to see you soon!