New Arrivals SINCE 4/8/2009

Sorry it's been awhile, here's what we've gotten in: Compact Discs Bob Dylan - Together Through Life Beck - One Foot In the Grave (Reissue w/ lotsa bonus tracks) Booker T. - Potato Hole Cage the Elephant - S/T Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career Comet Gain - Broken Record Prayers Crocodiles - Summer of Hate Cryptacize - Mythmania Death Cab For Cutie - Open Door EP Dengue Fever - Sleepwalking Through the Mekong Depeche Mode- Sounds of the Universe Devil Makes Three - Do Wrong Right DJ Premier - Vol. 2- Rare Play John Doe & the Sadies - Country Club Dukes of the Stratosphear (XTC) - 25 o'Clock & Psonic Psunspot (reissues) Various Artists - Eccentric Soul : Smart's Palace (the best eccentric soul comp. since the kids one) Melody Gardot - My One & Only Thrill Grand Duchy (Frank Black & his wife) - Petits Fours Grouch & Eligh - Say G&E! John Hammond - Rough & Tough High Ceiling - Illusions Ben Lee - Rebirth of Venus Thomas Mapfumo - two Water reissues V/A - Marvelous Boy: Calypso From West Africa (Honest Jon's) Medeski, Martin, & Wood - Radiolarians II Metric - Fantasies Micachu & the Shapes - Jewellery Moby Grape - Place & the Time (rarities from the 60's) Mr. Lif - I Heard It Today Mulatu Astatke/Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information 3 NoFX - Coaster Pet Shop Boys - Yes Prefuse 73 - Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian Prince Buster - Sings His Hit Song Ten Commandments (reissue) Rick Ross - Deeper Than Rap Pete Seeger - Vol. 1-5 American Favorite Ballads Silversun Pickups - Swoon Simon & Garfunkel - Live 1969 V/A - Soul Jazz Records Singles 2008-2009 Strawberry Window - S/T (unreleased 60's SF psych) Thee Oh Sees - Help Themselves - Free Houdini Allen Toussaint - Bright Mississippi Derek Trucks Band - Already Live EP Two Fingers - S/T (Amon Tobin) Vinyl Some of these we already sold, but will try to restock: Appleton/Cherry - Human Music Big Star - Cheap reissues of 1st two LPS Dock Boggs - False Hearted Lover's Blues (quality reissue from new label Monk) Gui Boratto - Take My Breath Away Breeders - Fate Fatal (ltd. vinyl-only EP) Bob Dylan - Together Through Life Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle Crocodiles - Summer of Hate Cryptacize - Mythmania Dan Deacon - Bromst Flipper - Album- Generic Flipper (4Men) George-Edwards Group - 38:38 (Galactic Zoo, probably out for now) Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes (nice 180 gram reissue) Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking & Ritual De Lo Habitual (180 Gram) Junior Kimbrough - First Recordings V/A - Local Customs - Downriver Revival (Numero Group) V/A - Marvelous Boy: Calypso From West Africa (Honest Jon's) Moby Grape - Place & the Time (rarities from the 60's) Mulatu Astatke/Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information 3 NoFX - Coaster Tara Jane O'neil - Ways Away Charley Patton - Electrically Recorded... (quality reissue from new label Monk) Pavement - Live in Germany (only one copy left) Peter Bjorn & John - Living Thing Charlie Poole - Husband & Wife Were Angry One Night (quality reissue from new label Monk) V/A - Pop Ambient 2009 (Kompakt) Prefuse 73 - Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian Rats - Intermittent Signals (Fred & Toody, Mississippi, so limited, almost out...) Jack Rose - Black Dirt Sessions Arthur Russell - Love is Overtaking Me (a few left) Silversun Pickups - Swoon Thee Oh Sees - Help Tosca - No Hassle Townes Van Zandt - Live at the Old Quarter Wooden Shjips - Dos Wooden Wand - Born Bad Zerfas - S/T (70's Acid Archives-style classic) DVD Rentals Time Crimes The Reader Frost/Nixon The Wrestler Quantum of Solace JCVD Leonard Cohen: Live in London Bride Wars Stranded Seven Pounds

New & Recent Releases For The Week of 4/8/2009

CDs PJ Harvey & John Parish - Woman A Man Walked By Neil Young - Fork In The Road Leonard Cohen - Live In London Circus Devils - Gringo Eat Skull - Wild And Inside Juan MacLean - Future Will Come Papercuts - You Can Have What You Want V/A - Spiritual Jazz 1968-1977 V/A - Up From The Grave: Northern Cali Garage Venetian Snares - Filth Wooden Shjips - Dos Dan Deacon - Bromst Felice Brothers - Yonder Is The Clock The Thermals - Now We Can See John Scofield - Piety Street Bob Mould - Life & Times Alison Brown - The Company You Keep Cassandra Wilson - Closer To You Ramblin' Jack Elliott - A Stranger Here Tragically Hip - We Are The Same Peter Bjorn & John - Living Thing LPs Circus Devils - Gringo Handsome Family - Honey Moon Flying Lotus - 1983 Kurt Vile - Constant Hitmaker Venetian Snares - Filth V/A - School Me Vol. 1 1968 (compilation of jazz/funk stage bands) Fever Ray - S/T Wipers - Over The Edge Betty Padgett - S/T Recent DVD Arrivals Doubt Slumdog Millionaire Revisiting "Father" Yod & The Source Family Chris & Don: A Love Story Tell No One Happy-Go-Lucky Synecdoche NY Twilight Let The Right One In MST3k boxset Battle In Seattle

Rainy Day celebrates Record Store Day 2009!

Rainy Day Records invites you to celebrate national Record Store Day with us, the entire week of April 18th through the 26th (Arts Walk)! For the entire week we'll be having a store-wide sale, with selected items marked down 10%-50%. On April 18th, we'll be having a ticket drawing for the upcoming Leo Kottke concert at the Washington Center, free stuff, and live music including Congratulations. Also stop by during Arts Walk (April 24th) to see Ben Kamen & The Hot New Ringtones, plus more bands soon to-be-announced.