Just a heads up – Rainbow will be closed on Monday, May 31st for Memorial Day. See you in June!

Diego Paulo just dropped off another shipment of Cafe Con Leche for anyone who was asking for it this morning when we were out! Come and get ‘em!

Our friends over at WXPN are having their spring membership drive right now! Head over there and check out all the cool gifts they’re offering to anyone who makes a pledge, like passes to the XPoNential Festival or a copy of Band of Horses’ Infinite Arms, to name a few. You can also enter to win their Exile On Main St. Weekend contest – no pledge required.

We’ve taken in quite a few used books in the last few weeks. If you’re looking for something to read in the sun this summer we’ve got you covered. Here are just a few of the noteworthy titles we have in stock used right now:

Kurt Vonnegut – Player Piano
Malcolm Gladwell – Blink
Truman Capote – In Cold Blood
Hunter S. Thompson – Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
Oscar Wilde – The Portable Oscar Wilde
Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner & A Thousand Splendid Suns
Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
Nicholas Sparks – A Bend In The Road & Dear John
Stephanie Meyer – Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse & Breaking Dawn
Neil Gaiman – Stardust & American Gods
Douglas Adams – The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide
Stephen King – Under The Dome & select titles from the Dark Tower series
Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Umberto Eco – The Name of the Rose & Foucault’s Pendulum
Gregory Maguire – Wicked
Yann Martel – Life of Pi
Carl Hiassen – select titles

….. and, I don’t know, maybe about a bajillion other books to choose from.

Today is the day, The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main St. reissues are here! There are 4 different options for you:

- The regular CD reissue, which is the remastered album without bonus tracks for $11.99.
- The Deluxe CD reissue, which has the remastered album with 10 previously unreleased tracks and a 12-page booklet for $22.99.
- The vinyl reissue, which is the same as the regular CD, but on two 180-gram LPs in a gatefold package for $29.99.
- And the box set, which has the vinyl, the deluxe CD, a DVD, limited-edition postcards and a collector’s booklet for $159.99.

NPR has a full album stream of the new Sleigh Bells album, Treat. It drops in the physical form on June 22nd.

Did anyone else know that Derek Miller was in Poison The Well???? Weeeeeird.

We did a little spring cleaning yesterday. In the process we found a bunch of old stickers and patches. There’s all kind of stuff, from Hendrix and The Dead, to Puff Daddy (before he was just Diddy) and even some N*Sync. So, if you’re looking for some ironic nostalgia, or maybe a cheap gift for your little sister, we got you covered! We’re selling the stickers for 25 cents and the patches for 50 cents! It’s grab bag style. Just come in and dig through.

Spend some time with this list of The 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Samples Of All Time, presented by Kon & Amir over at Complex.

Every song is accompanied by a full stream of the track, along with a quick rundown by Kon & Amir, and a full stream of one essential hip-hop song that uses that track as a main sample.

I’m on #50 right now. It’s David Axelrod’s “Holy Thursday,” which was sampled by Swizz Beatz on “Dr. Carter.” It’s gonna be a long night… where’s my Wax Poetics??

We mentioned before that the new Band of Horses album, Infinite Arms would be available for $7.99 next week. Now the new Black Keys album, Brothers, has been added to the list as well! So that’s two awesome Right Price titles for next week! The Black Keys will be sale priced at $9.99. You can listen to Infinite Arms here and Brothers is streaming at NPR! It’s gonna be a good week.

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That Record Store Day 7″ was just a teaser. On May 18th The Rolling Stones will reissue their 1972 classic, Exile On Main St. in four versions – CD, Deluxe CD, 180-gram vinyl, and a box set that includes limited-edition postcards, a collector’s booklet, 2 LPs, 2 CDs and a DVD. The deluxe CD and box set also feature 10 previously unreleased Stones tracks from the Exile era. You can hear a few of those unreleased tracks right now at NPR!