We have hit the CRAZY part of the year!! Concerts are plentiful and new releases are streaming through the doors!! We have a plethora of stuff to give you!! Starting with concert tickets, we have 3 pair of PASSION PIT tickets on October 23 at Hollywood ArtsPark , 1 pair ANDREW BIRD (Tickets and Meet and greet) on October 8 at Fillmore Miami Beach,  1 pair for METRIC (tickets and meet and greet) on September 28 at Fillmore Miami Beach, MATT & KIM for October 14 at Fillmore Miami Beach, PRETTY LIGHTS (October 2) at Fillmore Miami Beach and that’s just the FREE  tickets!! As for the FREE goodies….well all you have to do is purchase the new LP or CD from any of the following artists and look what you will get!!

GREEN DAY- Limited edition lithographs and sticker pack

The Whigs- patch

As I Lay Dying- patch

Imagine Dragons- Pint Glass

Down- Drink Koozie

Mumford & Sons- AMAZING limited edition lithograph

The Heavy- limited 7″ vinyl

Aimee Mann- limited 7″ vinyl

Fresh & Onlys- limited 7″ vinyl

Two Door Cinema Club- limited 7″ vinyl

Avett Brothers- limited 7″ vinyl

Neil Halstead- limited 7″ vinyl

Soft Pack- limited 7″ vinyl

Animal Collective- Limited edition foil poster/sticker

Frank Ocean- car air freshener

Dan Deacon- scenic tapestry

So How you ask, do you get to win these tickets?? Well, just go to our Facebook page :

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Uncle-Sams-Music/80608321686?ref=hl

Like Us and then watch the page. Tickets will be given away within the next few weeks,  I will be putting them up as we get closer to each show. We work very closely with many of the local promoters, so you have to keep checking our page to enter to win.  We also post sales and anything we give away on our page!! Also follow us on twitter (@unclesamsmusic). We look forward to having you join us on all our social media sites!!

What can be more exciting than hearing the new Beach House and Best Coast Albums??  Being able to win a prize pack after hearing both these new albums at Uncle Sams Music!!  Stop by the store on Tuesday May 15th at 3PM to listen to both albums then after you hear how incredible they are you can purchase either the CD or LP and get some really cool goodies!!  If you purchase the Beach House expect to get a limited edition Art Print and if you purchase the Best Coast you get a limited edition 7″.  We will also have an enter to win for these super rare prizes:

1-Best Coast autographed poster

1-Beach House exclusive glow-in-the-dark vinyl

1-Sub Pop Swag Bag

As at all our parties there will be an assortment of baked goods to munch on while you are listening to the albums…So keep the date in mind…May 15th at 3 PM…we’ll look forward to seeing you there!!

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!!

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!!!

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”!!

So the last few weeks have been full of great new release and we have alot of limited edition lithographs to give away for free with the purchase of the CD. Coming this Tuesday is the new ROME CD.  Dangermouse and Daniele Luppi present this new CD with the likes of Jack White and Norah Jones gracing this CD/LP. Ben Harper is another biggie next Tuesday, and there are some amazing lithographs for that release as well. From the past few weeks, we still have a few limited edition lithos from Radiohead, Fleet Foxes, Rise Against, and Decemberists.  There will be a re-release of the Radiohead 12′ that was only available in the UK on Record Store Day…look for that in the next few weeks.

Don’t forget we are still giving away 3 pair of tickets for the Deftones show on May 22 at the Sunset Cove Ampitheatre in Boca Raton, and 3 pair of tickets for the Children Of Bodom show on July 10th at Revolution in Fort Lauderdale and 2 pair of tickets for Face To Face on May 28th at Revolution in Fort Lauderdale.

Whew!! That’s alot of free stuff to be giving away!! So get your butt in the store soon and grab the goodies while they are still available!! Go onto our contact us page on the website and drop us an email with the name of the band in the subject line that you would like to win tickets to see….next week we will pull the winners for Deftones tickets and Face to Face ticket winners will  be pulled a few days later!!

And, if you stop by and tell us you saw this post on our website, you get to go through our BOX O’ POSTERS and grab what you want!! That’s right, no purchase necessary! Just go to the front counter and say, “I saw your post on unclesamsmusic.com and would love to look through the BOX O’ POSTERS”!! You will get to decorate your room/apartment/office space with some great cool new posters!! So stop in and see us soon!

If you stop into the store next Tuesday May 3rd at 4PM, you can check out the new Fleet Foxes CD and have some treats to eat!! WEA will be giving us some pizza to chow down on and there will be all kinds of cupcakes and cookies. If you purchase the CD or LP on Tuesday, you can get one limited edition silkscreened poster like the one  shown. There will be a SPECIAL limited edition copy of the Fleet Foxes -Helplessness Blues on WHITE vinyl LP hidden somewhere in the store….there are only 100 made. So when WE say special, We mean it!! We will also be giving away a great Sub Pop prize pack with various goodies especially chosen for the winner!! So put it in you calendars…set your alarms…and meet us out at Uncle Sams Music on Tuesday May 3rd at 4PM!! See you here!!

Well, normally black Friday doesn’t mean a whole lot to Uncle Sams Music or the retailers on South Beach because we aren’t having massive sales…But this year, things are different!! Record Store Day has teamed up with all the cool indie record stores in the country to put out some of the coolest LIMITED releases since Record Store Day in April!!  Some of the biggest names in music are putting out some really cool, very limited pieces. Names like Metallica, U2, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, MGMT, Black Keys, Iron & Wine, Tom Petty, Ting Tings, Slayer and more.  Most of the releases are on vinyl,  but there are a few CDs as well. We will be opening on November 26th at our regular 10 AM.  Just remember these items are super limited and are first come first served!! We ordered tons, but we are not assured to get everything we ordered.  So come in on Black Friday, there won’t be the mall crowds, and visit us!! Hope to see you there!