Boise’s RSD Eve Party
The Record Exchange in Boise is promoting Record Store Day on April 18 and is staging a Record Store Day Eve listening party on April 17 tied to an AKA BELLE advance listen and a Moon Ruins Records / Boise Brewing event. The store is positioning the Friday night event as a lead‑in to the Saturday drops. (therecordexchange.com)
Boise’s The Record Exchange is turning Record Store Day into a four-day push, starting with a Friday, April 17 listening party before the Saturday, April 18 vinyl rush. (therecordexchange.com) The downtown Boise store says its main Record Store Day event will run from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on April 18, with 350 exclusive Record Store Day releases available that day. Record Store Day’s official site lists April 18, 2026, as this year’s event date. (therecordexchange.com) (recordstoreday.com) The warmup comes the night before at 6 p.m. on April 17, when The Record Exchange and Moon Ruins Records host an advance listen for AKA Belle’s forthcoming album. Boise Brewing is presenting the event, and the store says guests 21 and older can get free cans of beer with valid identification. (therecordexchange.com) The album at the center of the event is *All Time is Now / Now is All You Have* plus *The Time for Love is Always Now*, which Moon Ruins describes as a double album limited to 300 copies on marbled vinyl. AKA Belle’s site lists the official release party for April 24 at Realms Arcade in Boise. (moonruins.com) (akabelle.org) Record Store Day was created in 2007 by independent record store owners and employees, and the first one was held on April 19, 2008. The Record Exchange is listed by the organizers as a participating store and says it has operated in Boise since 1977. (recordstoreday.com) That local framing helps explain the Friday event: it ties a national retail promotion to a Boise label, a Boise band, and a Boise brewery in the same room. The store is also using the weekend format to stretch activity from April 17 through April 20 instead of limiting it to one Saturday. (therecordexchange.com 1) (therecordexchange.com 2) The Record Exchange says anyone who preorders the AKA Belle album or buys another Moon Ruins release at the listening party will get a free ticket to the April 24 release show. That gives the April 17 event a sales hook as well as a preview function ahead of the Record Store Day crowd on April 18. (therecordexchange.com) For Boise vinyl shoppers, the sequence is now set: preview party on Friday night, limited-edition Record Store Day titles on Saturday morning, and a local album release show the following Friday. (therecordexchange.com 1) (therecordexchange.com 2)
