Rainbow has partnered with our sister indie record store in Austin TX, Waterloo Records, to web stream their 30+ exclusive live in-store performances this Wed-Sat on our website with a 4 camera hi-def video and stereo audio feed. Please log on and join us. Here is the lineup…(all times are local Austin time)

Tuesday 3/13
5pm Delta Spirit (inside) (During SXSW Interactive)

Wednesday 3/14
12pm Tribes
1pm Foxy Shazam
2pm Bass Drum Of Death
3pm Spoek Mathambo
4pm Trivium
4:30pm Ricky Jean Francois (inside)
5pm Fun.
6pm Howler

Thursday 3/15
12pm Blitzen Trapper
1pm Little Willies (featuring Norah Jones)
2pm Icky Blossoms
3pm Oberhofer
4pm Honeyhoney
4:30pm Ruthie Foster (inside)
5pm Hospitality
6pm Lucero

Friday 3/16
12pm Say Anything
1pm Talib Kweli
2pm Jimmy Cliff
3pm Of Montreal
4pm Howlin’ Rain
4:30pm Father John Misty (inside)
5pm Gary Clark Jr.

Saturday 3/17
12pm Youth Lagoon
1pm Nada Surf
2pm Kid Congo
3pm Strange Boys
4pm Blouse
4:30pm Chuck Ragan (inside)
5pm Chuck Prophet
6pm Love Inks

The Decemberists – We All Raise Our Voices To The Air: Live Songs 4.11.08

Say Anything – Anarchy, My Dear

The Ting-Tings – Sounds From Nowheresville

Lucero – Women & Work

Next Week:

The Shins – Port of Morrow

Esperanza Spalding – Radio Music Society

Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s – Rot Gut, Domestic

Lee Ranaldo – Between The Time and Tides

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.

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.

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!