This Tuesday December 6th the New Black Keys record “El Camino” is due out. We are going to preview the new album on white vinyl at 4PM. We have lots of goodies to give away including, the white vinyl LP…an autographed 14″ X 14″ poster, and an entire backcatalog of Black Keys CDs!! You just have to drop by the store to take a listen to the new album and put your name in a hat and the winner will be picked after the album is over!! There will be baked goodies , cupcakes, cookies and muffins, to eat while you hang out and listen top the album. So come on by on Tuesday…oh and the first 25 people to purchase the CD or LP  will get a poster.

So Black Friday is coming, and that means there is another Record Store Day coming too!!  A smaller, but just as exciting Record Store Day event is happening on November 25th, (day after Thanksgiving). We will be open at 10 AM and ready to sell some awesome limited edition titles. Just click on the link  http://download.recordstoreday.com/free/2011_BLACK_FRIDAY_RELEASES_PUB.pdf  and look at all the great new releases. Then if you see something you must have email me at   lisa@unclesamsmusic.com  and let me know what you have to have. I can’t promise anything, but I will do my best to make sure you get the titles you are looking and hoping for!! But get to me soon, as always Record Store Day releases are VERY limited!!

Tis the season…no not The Holidays, but the crazy concert going season….all we can say is WOWZA!!  There are some really cool little venues now doing shows as well as the tried and true, so hold on to your hats… as of today (9/24/11), these are the shows I know about.  If you hear of any others that I missed please let me know!! These Concerts are all in the Broward/Dade counties.. Here goes:

September~

9/29-Bryan Ferry at Fillmore Miami Beach

9/29& 30-Cut Copy at Grand Central

October-

10/4- Marc Broussard at Culture Rom

10/5-Chris Brown, Bow Wow, T-Pain and Tyga

10/6- Il Volo at Fillmore Miami Beach

10/7- Script at Fillmore Miami Beach

10/7- Thrice at Revolution

10/8- Yuck at Bardot

10/8- Arctic Monkeys & Smith Westerns at Revolution

10/8- Mord Fustang at Grand Central

10/9- Das Racist at Grand Central

10/12- Sounds at Culture Room

10/13- Dirtyheads & Gym Class Heroes at Revolution

10/14- Adele at AAA

10/15- Ladytron at Grand Central

10/16- New Found Glory at Revolution

10/17- Rapture at Grand Central

10/20- School Of Seven Bells at Bardot

10/22- Little Dragon at Grand Central

10/22- Enrique Iglesias at AAA

10/25- TV n The Radio at Fillmore Miami Beach

10/27- Battles at Grand Central

10/28- Drums at Grand Central

10/29- Guns N Roses at AAA

10/30- Ted Leo & The Pharmacists and Pujol at Churchills Pub

10/31- Oddfuture at Fillmore Miami Beach

NOVEMBER

11/1- Fitz And The Tantrums at Culture Room

11/2- Anthrax, Testament and Death Angel at Revolution

11/2- Butch Walker at Culture Room

11/4- Between the Buried and Me at Revolution

11/4- Social Distortion at Revolution

11/6- Chris Cornell at Fillmore Miami Beach

11/8- Bayside & Saves The Day & more at Revolution

11/10- She Wants Revenge & Peter Murphy at Revolution

11/11- Architechture in Helsinki at Grand Central

11/11- Queensryche at Revlution

11/12- Sting at Fillmore Miami Beach

11/12- Los Lonely Boys at Culture Room

11/13- Sting at Fillmore Miami Beach

11/13- Taylor Swift at AAA

11/15- Kanye West & Jay-z at AAA

11’17- Sondre Lerche at Culture Room

11/17- Alesana and more at Revolution

11/18- Misfits at Culture Room

11/18- Mayday Parade, The InCrowd and more at Revolution

11/20- Mac Miller at Fillmore Miami Beach

11/21- Manchester Orchestra & White Denim at Revolution

11/22- Bassnectar at Fillmore Miami Beach

DECEMBER

12/1- Neon Indian at Bardot

12/3- Devil Wears Prada At Revolution

12/17- Skrillex at Fillmore Miami Beach

12/20- Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band

So far that’s what we got…let us know if we are missing anything on our list!! Enjoy all the shows you may go to…and keep looking at our FaceBook page(  https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Uncle-Sams-Music/80608321686)   for free ticket giveaways to a bunch of these shows!!

So the New Releases have been filling up our racks and shelves in the store over the last month or so, and with that come free goodies!! If you go like us on FaceBook (https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Uncle-Sams-Music/80608321686) you can see our recent posts with pictures of  all the freebies you can get , but to give you an idea of some of the items :

Buy Ladytron “Gravity The Seducer” CD or LP and get a free flexi 7″ and a limited edition DVD

Buy Mumford & Sons “Sigh No More” CD or LP and get a free limited edition lithograph (amazing!)

Buy Nirvana 20th anniversary remastered CD/LP get a set of mini posters

Buy Umphrey’s McGee “Death By Stereo” get a  Rare covers EP..They cover Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, Radiohead and Rolling Stones

Buy Dum Dum Girls “Only In Dreams” CD get a free limited edition 7″

Buy the new Kasabian “Velociraptor” and get a limited edition lithograph~very cool with red foil tongues…

Buy J. Cole “Cole World-The Sideline Story” and get a lyric book

And that’s just a taste!!  Come in the store anytime and when you buy something you get a chance to go through ourFREE poster bin!!  So stop in and see us sometime!! If you don’t live close by just drop us an email, tell us what you need and we can ship it anywhere in the world!! If the US Post Office ships there, so do we!!

Used CDs are always $5.00 per disc! We have a huge selection of new and used vinyl, and you can always hear anything in the store. We still do special orders and can get you whatever CD you didn’t ever think you would see again! We go to the ends of the earth in search of your elusive CD…try us, we dare you!!

So you want to see Pepper, Expendables and Ballyhoo, but you say you have no money?? Well then all you have to do is  send me an email at lisa@unclesamsmusic.com and let me know why you want to see the bands!! So easy!! We have 3 pair of tickets to give away!! The show is on September 25that the Hollywood Artspark Ampitheatre, so don’t dawdle. Send me your email by Thursday so I can get you your tickets in time for the show!! If you aren’t one of the lucky ones to win tickets you can still buy them at any ticketmaster outlet or ticketmaster.com.  It’s the perfect time of year to go see an outdoor show!!

On September 13th the new Ladytron-Gravity The Seducer CD and LP will be released. On Monday September 12th at 3PM, we will be having a listening party for the new CD/LP…we have lots of goodies to give away!! We will have some limited edition 7″ flexi discs for the first 5 people that stop in  after 3PM that day. We will also be giving away an entire CD collection from Ladytron and some other goodies as well. There will also be some munchies you can eat while you listen to the new CD from Ladytron!! So stop in on Monday 9/12 and take a listen to one of the hottest records of 2011!!!

Here’s the deal, we want the biggest Goo Goo Doll fan to be able to go see them with Michelle Branch and Parachute at the Pompano Beach Ampitheatre on August 5, 2011. All you have to do is send us a video to our website or Facebook page that is 1 minute or less (nothing objectionable) telling us why YOU are the biggest Goo Goo Dolls fan!  Then we will pick a winner and that person and a friend will get a chance to meet and see the band!! Simple contest…great reward! So get going and we will pick a winner on August 1st!! See you on the videos!

There is an amazing new Buddy Holly tribute out “Rave On Buddy Holly”, it has some great covers of his music done by artists such as : Black Keys, Fiona Apple, Paul McCartney, Florence & The Machine, Cee-Lo, Karen Elson, Julian Casablancas, Jenny O., Justin Townes Earle, She & Him, Nick Lowe, Patti Smith, My Morning Jacket, Modest Mouse, Kid Rock and more. If you click on the special orders button up above , put your name and info in and put Buddy Holly in the subject line you may win the Vinyl version of this great new release!! Stop in and ask for a listen to the CD next time you come to the beach!!

Here’s another fun little contest…really easy!! Stop in the store and buy the new Black Dahlia Murder LP “Ritual”..open it in front of the store clerk and see if you get the autographed copy. If you are the lucky one, you will get a pair of tickets to see them at the Summer Slaughter tour at Revolution in Fort Lauderdale on August 17th. You will also be entered to win a guitar signed by the band!! Pretty cool huh? The tour this year consists of :The Black Dahlia Murder, Whitechapel, Darkest Hour, Six Feed Under, Dying Fetus, As Blood Runs Black, Oceano, Fleshgod Apocalypse and Within the Ruins.

So hurry in and “be the one”!!