Record Store Day may know what it’s doing, traditionally scheduling the biggest sales day of the year for independent music retailers on the Saturday after tax day. You are very, very, very confident you’re going to be getting a hefty refund, and that’s why you can blow into your local shop and lay down hundreds of Benjamins on an actual stack of wax, right? Or, you’ve just realized that you’re so far behind on what you owe the IRS, the only momentary relief for your despair is some retail therapy. Whatever the case, it’s time to go tithing in your nearest brick-and-mortar house of musical worship, picking up as many vinyl exclusives as your arms and wallet can handle. Consumerism feels good in a place like this.
The long list of vinyl exclusives (and at least a couple of CDs, too) has something for the proverbial everybody, from youth-skewing Taylor Swift, Katseye and “Kpop Demon Hunters” releases to new entries from dad-rock dynasties like Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd and Neil Young … along with plenty of indie-leaning fare (hello, Dijon) and jazz. We couldn’t cover all 355 releases, but we’ve picked out about a tenth of them to spotlight here as highlights of America’s most crucial holiday. (And for handy reference, we’ve included a full list of every title if you scroll to the end.)
Bruce Springsteen, ‘Live From Asbury Park 2024’
(6050 copies on LP, black vinyl, RSD Exclusive) (3700 copies on compact disc, RSD First)
He’s a prince among No Kings proponents. And now you can relive his 2024 tour, whether or not you’ve been able to make it to the ’26. Previously available only on Nugs and never on a physical format, this captures his homecoming performance in Asbury Park at the 2024 Sea.Hear.Now festival and spans over three hours of a boardwalk-adjacent performance that took place in front of 35,000 people. Some music fans who are still partial to CDs complain that Record Store Day is too exclusively fixated on vinyl, so they should be happy that Springsteen and company have seen fit to release this in both formats for indie stores, spread across 5 LPs or two CDs. By the way, if wrangling five records feels a little unwieldy, each disc does come in its own dust jacket with its own cover photo, encased in a slipcase. (The LP version is marked RSD Exclusive, meaning this is the only pressing that will ever be done; the CD set is RSD First, meaning that it will probably be repressed for a more general release.)
Taylor Swift, ‘Elizabeth Taylor 7″ Vinyl Single’
(unknown quantity, 7-inch violet glitter vinyl, RSD Exclusive)
It’s probably safe to say that a good part of whatever lineup you’re seeing in front of stores has to do with Swiftie interest in RSD, thanks to a colorful 7-inch single that was announced after the initial lineup of exclusives went out. The big mystery is how many are being pressed and released to stores, as Swift’s camp seems to have wanted to keep that under wraps for their recent RSD releases, whereas there’s a specific quantity given for every other limited edition. If we had to hazard a guess, they aren’t releasing a number because it’s a truly massive pressing, as opposed to something that will be an immediate collectors’ item. Our basis for saying that is the release this time last year of a “Fortnight” single, which also didn’t have the quantity revealed, but was so well-stocked in some stores that they didn’t sell out for days or weeks. But if you’re a hardcore fan, do you really want to take a chance that there will be gobs and gobs of these, and sleep in? Of course you don’t. It doesn’t hurt the must-have factor that Swift’s violet disc — so colored after Ms. Taylor’s eyes, of course — is the prettiest colored vinyl product she’s yet put out.
Brandi Carlile, ‘Live At Easy Street Records Vol II’
(8,000 copies, black vinyl, Record Store Day Exclusive)
Who doesn’t love a good sequel? The first in-store live EP that Carlile released, “Live at Easy Street Records,” came out toward the beginning of her career, in 2007 — in CD form only, by the way — and is tough to find. This followup, 19 years later, is also coming out in a single physical format, but it’s vinyl only, as a sign of how things have changed for music retail, as they also have for Carlile’s explosive career. A pressing of 8,000 is not bad, so this may not become quite so much of a collectors’ item as its long-distant predecessor. But you also shouldn’t expect a limited live release from one of America’s most justifiably celebrated concert performers to stick around on shelves terribly long. (Plus, who can be sure that Easy Street, her hometown store in Seattle, didn’t claim a lot of the stock for themselves?)
Neil Young & the Chrome Hearts, ‘As Time Explodes’
(6000 copies, clear vinyl, RSD First)
As semiannual RSD events roll around, Young has done a good job of letting celebrants get a jump on the releases he has coming out, by allowing Record Store Day shoppers to get these albums a week or two before the general market does, and in special limited editions with some sort of different packaging angle. “As Time Explodes,” a brand new double live album recorded last year, will get a general release to all retail on May 1, in both vinyl and CD formats. But besides getting it two weeks before everyone else, RSD customers also get it on clear vinyl with an exclusive lyric poster and gatefold jacket.
Pink Floyd, ‘Live From the Los Angeles Sports Arena, April 26th, 1975’
(15,400 copies, clear vinyl, RSD Exclusive)
This live album first got an official release in December as part of the “Wish You Were Here” 50th anniversary boxed set, but it was controversial at the time for a couple of reasons. One is that, in that hefty collection, it was only included on a Blu-ray component, and not available on vinyl or CD at the time. This stand-alone release of the concert for RSD in both those formats solves that issue. That still leaves the other issue that some fans had: The recording is sourced from an audience tape, captured by a famous bootlegger in the audience. Given the rarity of professionally recorded Floyd shows from the mid-’70s, though, most fans who ever heard it on bootleg back in the day agreed that it was awfully close to soundboard quality, and might be mistaken for it. That was even before it got an audio upgrade from one of the archival wizards fans trust most, Steven Wilson. As with the aforementioned Springsteen release, this is a rare RSD release that has something to satisfy the small contingent of music fans who are holding onto their CD players but couldn’t care less about turntables. (The LP version is RSD Exclusive, meaning it’s kind of now or never; the CD version is RSD First, which means it could stay in print forever.)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, ‘July 16, 1978 – Paradise Theater, Boston, MA‘
(8000 copies, pink and green translucent splatter color vinyl, RSD Exclusive)
The tour behind the Heartbreakers’ second album, “You’re Gonna Get It,” was recorded on 2-track at the Paradise and broadcast by local rock radio station WBCN-FM. While bootlegs have been out there for decades, the estate is finally making the concert officially available, with audio restoration done by the longtime Tom associate everyone trusts with the keys to the Petty vaults, Ryan Ulyate. It’s on 180g pink and green translucent splatter color vinyl — thick and juicy, in other words — and contains a vintage-style tour sticky pass. The plain white die-cut cover has built-in distress marks, to fool you (not really) into believing this really did get the release it deserved in ’78 and has been getting wear and tear on your LP shelf ever since.
Laufey, ‘A Matter of Time: Live at Madison Square Garden’
(17,000 copies, Big Apple red vinyl, RSD First)
Here’s another one that, like the Taylor Swift single, was announced after the initial lineup was revealed, so you might’ve missed it if you made your shopping list and didn’t check it twice back in February. A year ago at this time, Laufey gave Record Store Day an exclusive release recorded in concert at the Hollywood Bowl, and now she shows she has no favoritism toward the west coast by putting out a comparable release recorded at MSG. It was captured at the New York arena in October, so feels fairly hot off the presses. Packaging includes a booklet with previously unseen photos and drafts of the tour production. The pressing quantity, 17,000, is a large one, as RSD exclusives go, but her label may believe that her feverish cult will be expanding even more, as the on-sale coincides with the second of her two weekends of Coachella performances. (Speaking of which… maybe they’ll be releasing her Coachella set for RSD 2027?)
Lucy Dacus, ‘Planting Tomatoes’
(2000 copies, 7-inch black vinyl, RSD First)
Dacus’ RSD release was downright secretive at first; when the RSD lineup was first announced in January, this was the only one of hundreds of releases announced that didn’t even have a title. It is a mystery no more. “Planting Tomatoes” is coming out exclusively for RSD via this 7-inch single before it comes out on streaming platforms on April 24. We got a sneak preview of the tune, and it’s terrific — as cheerfully rocking a number as Dacus has ever done, even though its theme is something as gentle as morality and the preciousness of life. As she explained it in a teaser statement: “It’s about trying to stay present and grateful when you know that life ends, for yourself and everyone you love, and how to avoid disenchantment by seeing through as many of your little ideas as possible.” In other words, life is short, and (sorry) so is the supply of this possibly under-pressed record.
Roy Hargrove, ‘Bern’
(2200 copies, black vinyl, RSD Exclusiver)
The jazz world is still mourning — and probably always will be — the untimely loss of the great trumpeter in 2018 at age 49. As long as they can keep finding live sets like this one, the sting of not getting fresh studio recordings may not be quite so harsh. He was known for his appeal to everyone from jazz traditionalists to neo-soul stirrers and hip-hoppers, and it’s evident why in a performance — captured at the Bern Jazz Festival in 2000, when he was still coming in hot, at 30 — that bops in an assortment of grooves. It’s a single LP but comes with the kind of booklet that you’d expect from the more expansive collections so often put together by co-producer Zev Feldman, filled with photos and testimonials as well as liner notes by the celebrated jazz writer Nate Chinen. Feeling the Bern is a must, this RSD. (But if you’re not a vinyl person, CD and download versions will follow a week later, on April 24.)
Crosby, Stills & Nash, ‘The Solo Albums’
(1950 copies, black vinyl, RSD Exclusive)
An ingenious idea for a boxed set: bundling the debut solo albums that were released by David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash in the wake of the CSNY smash “Déjà vu” — with a fourth LP of demos and sessions from all three albums. You can dream about what kind of classic CSN album might have resulted if they’d actually re-teamed for each other’s “Laughing,” “Love the One You”re With” and “Military Madness,” but in truth all the music fans of that era benefited from each member following his own muse at greater length. The bonus discs, marked “Solo Rarities,” is a fun reason to pick this up even if you already own the individual albums, as it alternates between the three. Change partners, indeed.
Talking Heads, ‘The CBS/Columbia Demos’
(7000 copies, black vinyl, RSD Exclusive)
And they were… This is the first vinyl release of demo sessions recorded by the original three-piece lineup of Talking Heads for CBS/Columbia in 1975. Obviously, that relationship did not take, with Byrne and company opting to go Sire. But as a result of their flirtation, we now get to hear these 15 tracks across two LPs at 45rpm. The track list includes “Psycho Killer,” ”Love –> Building On Fire” and “Warning Sign.” It’s a vinyl breakout from the upcoming 3-CD boxed set, “Tentative Decisions: Demos & Live”; their catalog’s overseers have done a nice job over the past few RSD events of giving us all the pieces of that collection in individualized LP editions that have become quickly snapped-up must-haves.
Billy Strings, ‘Tiny Desk’
(7000 copies, white vinyl, RSD Exclusive)
A 12-inch EP on “milky white” vinyl brings Strings’ live set from public radio’s desk to yours, and features the virtuoso and his band taking to the Tiny Desk and getting a big sound out of “Red Daisy,” “My Alice,” “Malfunction Junction” and Gild the Lily.”
Hilary Duff, ‘(Mine)’
(10,000 copies, silver vinyl, RSD Exclusive)
The Duff-assance continues in high fashion with this interesting side project. It features newly re-recorded versions of her greatest hits, including “Come Clean (Mine)” and “What Dreams Are Made Of (Mine),” on silver vinyl. Fans have some familiarity with the concept. as the album already came out recently on streaming. But this is the first physical artifact of Duff using her mature voice to revisit her arguably pre-mature material, letting us decide for ourselves if the child really was mother to the woman.
John Prine, ‘BBC Sessions’ and ‘Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings’
(7100 copies, “BBC Sessions”; 2000 copies, “Found Dogs”; both black vinyl, RSD Exclusive)
The first official release of his BBC sessions from the early ‘70s includes favorites from the legendary artist’s first two albums. It’s one of two Prine releases this RSD. This one is a newly curated archival release celebrating the 30th anniversary of “Lost Dogs & Mixed Blessings,” with alternate versions, acoustic performances, and five previously unreleased tracks. The jacket is foil-stamped and numbered. A few of the tracks have been previously issued on CD deluxe editions, but the last four tracks on side B have been unreleased in any format.
Various Artists, ‘KPop Demon Hunters (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film) – HUNTR/X Edition’ and ‘KPop Demon Hunters (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film) – Saja Boys Edition’
(10,000 copies each, splatter vinyl, RSD Exclusive)
Fans of the franchise will be casting their vote for either Huntr/X or Saja Boys, unless they can find and afford both editions — two different “special effect vinyl” versions of the soundtrack featuring original art cover by Marion Bordeyne plus a fold-out poster, sticker sheet, and three snapshot cards. These of course are not the first or only chances to get the “Demon Hunters” soundtrack on vinyl, but these two editions are exclusive to RSD, for anyone determined to achieve some sort of “Golden” standard by collecting ‘em all.
Brian Wilson, ‘On Tour 1999-2007’
(2000 units, marble vinyl, RSD Exclusive)
Oglio, the label that recently brought you a reissue of the classic Brian Wilson album “Live at the Roxy Theatre” as a three-LP boxed set, follows that up with another gem: the first-time issue of “On Tour 1999-2007,” a new single-LP compilation authorized by the estate and produced and engineered by a long-time key figure in the camp, Mark Linett. One look at the track list and you see how this is aimed at the serious Brian aficionado, as it starts off with “This Could Be the Night” (too great a song to have gotten buried with Rodney Bingenheimer’s KROQ show) and, from there, moving on to such solo and Beach Boys cult favorites as “Melt Away,” “The Night Was So Young,” “Marcella,” “Friends” and “Our Prayer/Heroes & Villains,” plus a concluding cover of “She’s Leaving Home.” The gatefold jacket includes photos of Wilson with some of his most beloved band members from these prime touring years. Come on a safari with them, to the land of deeper tracks.
Ahmad Jamal, ‘At the Jazz Showcase: Live in Chicago’
(2000 copies, black vinyl, RSD Exclusive)
Resonance’s all-stars worked to bring this project to light, with Zev Feldman producing and label founder/engineer George Klabin restoring and mastering from the original tapes, recorded in 1976 and previously unreleased. The material ranges from Duke Ellington’s “Prelude to a Kiss” to an Antonio Carlos Jobim bossa nova to the wilder fusion of Herbie Hancock’s “Dolphin Dance” to his take on “Theme From M*A*S*H”… to his own original composition “Ahmad’s Song.” Jazz pianist and Jamal scholar Joe Alterman contributes to Resonance’s usual authoritative liner notes, as the label goes further toward taking up the musician as one of its in-house favorites.
Dijon, ‘How Do You Feel About Getting Married?’
(4400 copies, brick-color vinyl, RSD Exclusive)
Some more excellent Coachella timing, as old and new fans who just caught Dijon Duenas and his big band in Indio or on the livestream will be looking to bulk up on his catalog. The first-ever vinyl issue of this 2020 EP is a good place to start, recorded at a time when he’d just signed to Warner Bros. and already had several independent EPs and singles under his belt yet still hadn’t released a full-length yet. In the past year or two, Dijon’s star has risen so greatly that it’s nice to look back on a time when we weren’t yet betrothed, via this fuzz-rocky origin story.
Robert Plant, ‘Saving Grace: All That Glitters… with Suzi Dian’
(3500 copies, black vinyl, RSD Exclusive)
As an extension of Plant’s and Dian’s “Saving Grace” album, this EP offers four previously unreleased studio recordings: the traditional “Blackest Crow,” Bert Jansch’s “Poison,” Gillian Welch’s “Orphan Girl” and the Ted Daryll/Greg Richards song “She Cried.”
Freddie King, ‘Feelin’ Alright: The Complete 1975 Nancy Pulsations Concert’
(2050 copies, black vinyl, RSD First)
The blues legend performed in front of 50,000 fans at France’s Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival in 1975, the year before he died, captured on recordings unreleased until Zev Feldman brought the tapes to their due justice now, just over a half-century after that triumphant, autumnal moment. As you might guess from the title, King covers Dave Mason’s “Feelin’ Alright” along with standards like “Got My Mojo Workin’,” “Stormy Monday” and “Have You Ever Loved a Woman.” Historian Cary Baker, who was deeply rooted in Chicago blues before becoming a fixture of the L.A. music industry, contributed the absorbing liner notes, and ZZ Top’s Billy F. Gibbons gets a word or two in, too.
Miles Davis, ‘The New Sounds (Mono 10″)’
(2000 copies, black vinyl, RSD Exclusive)
A 75th anniversary reissue of Davis’ first album as a bandleader, this 10-inch, four-song EP was cut AAA from the original mono tapes by Jeff Powell at Take Out Vinyl. “It’s Only a Paper Moon,” goes Davis’ closing song, and the packaging here is “only” a Stoughton tip-on jacket that perfectly reproduces the original package design; that is, you won’t find a bar code or anything that post-dates 1961 anywhere but the shrink-wrap sticker. This sublime revisiting of some of his breakout work is proof that Miles was Miles before he was Miles.
Joni Mitchell, ‘For the Roses’
(3500 copies, rose color vinyl, RSD Exclusive)
For her 1972 album, Mitchell originally had intended the album cover to feature a horse with roses coming out of its hind end, reflecting her view of the music business. Eventually cooler heads (or asses) prevailed, and she compromised and agreed to use the Joel Bernstein photo that was ultimately the album’s cover. But this limited edition for Record Store Day restores her original vision for the cover for the first time, which is actually lovelier than any “horses’s ass” description would suggest. Even loveilier, this special pressing comes on rose-colored vinyl.
Gaby Moreno, ‘Live From KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic’
(1000 copies, black vinyl, RSD Limited Run/Regional Focus)
Gaby Moreno is one of L.A.’s great musical treasures, and it’s fitting that she would be captured for this release as heard on L.A.’s arguably most respected music station, KCRW. Her being an integral part of the SoCal music scene only partly has to do with her status as one of the area’s most accomplished bilingual performers, but that doesn’t hurt; this mostly English-language set ends with the Guatemalan anthem “Luna de Xelaju.” The in-studio set was recorded in early 2024 following the release of her acclaimed “Dusk,” and as it turns out, sunset becomes eclectic, too.
Bill Evans, ‘At The BBC: The Complete 1965 London Sets’
(3500 copies, black vinyl, RSD Exclusive)
Bill Evans is nearly synonymous with RSD, at least to a certain subset of jazz aficionados who reliably look forward to the releases that come from the vault and his estate. This two-LP set is the first official release taken from two Bill Evans Trio shows at the BBC Television Theatre in 1965, originally performed for the program “Jazz 625,” with bassist Chuck Israels and drummer Larry Bunker completing his trio. An extensive booklet includes photographs from the show and liner notes by Evans authority Marc Myers along with interviews with Israels and James Pearson, a pianist and the director of London’s Ronnie Scott’s jazz club. It’s “jazz detective” Zev Feldman’s 15th production in association with the Evans estate, taking material that had previously been relegated to laserdisc back in the day and remastering it for the highest quality pure audio. “We were damn near perfect at the BBC,” Israels says with pride in the booklet, 61 years later, and who would take up the dare to disagree? (The 2-LP set can also be bought on CD and digital download on April 24.)
Katseye, ‘Touch / Gabriela – Tour Arrangements & Acapella Versions‘
(8000 copies, pink and red splatter vinyl, RSD First)
What’s the matter, Kat’s got your dollar? They will if you or your loved ones have to have a record that includes “Touch” and “Gabriela,” each heard in both “tour” and a cappella versions on one side of a 12-inch disc, pressed on pink-and-red splatter vinyl, with an etching on the B-side.
Joe Henderson, ‘Consonance: Live at the Jazz Showcase’
(2000 copies, black vinyl, RSD Exclusive)
Resonance Records is taking on the audio archives of the Jazz Showcase club in Chicago, and this three-LP set represents the first release in what looks to be a long and fruitful dip into that unexplored vault. The recordings of the sax great date to 1978, as he led a quartet that included bassist Steve Rodby (pre-Pat Metheny), drummer Danny Spencer and pianist Joanne Brackeen, all of them ready to go fast and furious. (A 2-CD set will follow on April 24, for the non-turntable-inclined.)
John Lennon, ‘Love Meditation Mixes’
(4500 copies, iridescent pearl arctic vinyl, RSD First)
Are you ready for a three-LP set that is based entirely on one song? You might be if you are a fan of the Lennon-Ono family, or just deeply curious about the myriad ambient ways one tune can be turned. Sean Ono Lennon has gone way beyond what we would normally call remixing in his approach to his father’s song “Love” from the 1970 “Plastic Ono Band” album, with nine “re-imagined Meditation Mixes” spread across six sides. As an additional novelty, the official description notes: “Side B on LP3 features nine unique 1.8 second mantras that play continuously in the vinyl’s run out grooves to create infinite loops.” Ono Lennon has been up to this before, having similarly done nine Meditation Mixes of “Mind Games” last year. The scion says there’s some science to this: “Four of the tracks are presented as Binaural Beat versions that each focus on different types of brain waves: Beta, Delta, Gamma, and Theta. … these tracks feature a Binaural Beat, an auditory illusion created within the brain when the left and right ears hear two slightly different frequencies whose difference is perceived as a new frequency which can activate different brain patterns for scientifically proven therapeutic effects.” Turn on your mind, detox and float upstream?
Runt w/ Todd Rundgren, ‘The Necessary Cosmic Frenzy’
(3000 copies, transparent light blue vinyl, RSD Exclusive)
Rhino has been good about rifling through Todd Rundgren’s Bearsville catalog for color-vinyl reissues of his classic studio albums for RSD, but some of us have been patiently waiting for rarer material. Now we’re getting it. When Rundgren laid down this live performance for Philadelphia’s WMMR from the city’s Sigma Sound Studios on June 30th, 1971, it was under his fading band moniker, Runt. But this release calls it “the first-ever solo Todd Rundgren performance,” which they’re able to qualify as such by the fact that he was taking up a new cast of players at this point, including future Utopia keyboardist Mark “Moogy” Klingman. Not many of these Runt-era songs survived into later Todd setlists — mainly “Broke Down and Busted” and his enduring soul man cover of “Ooh Baby Baby” — so it’s a treat to hear the then-baby-faced star already in his prime but not yet primed to have to do “Hello, It’s Me.” Preeminent Rundgren scholar Paul Myers again puts it all in context in savvy liner notes.
Cecil Taylor Unit, ‘Fragments: The Complete1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts’
(1550 copies, black vinyl, RSD Exclusive)
The avant-garde pianist is heard in this three-LP set in a collection of previously unreleased performances from 1969, with a band he formed that lasted only a year (with tenor sax player/flutist Sam Rivers grafted onto a trio Taylor had going with alto sax player Jimmy Lyons and drummer Andrew Cyrille). The band’s sets then “consisted of a single marathon piece, created anew each time they took the stage,” in varying length — hence full-side tracks here labeled as “Fragments of a Dedication to Duke Ellington” (versions 1 and 2). Cyrille, last survivng member of the quartet, speaks up in the liner notes, along with admirers like Jack DeJohnette. 1969 was a heady year in many genres, but no one was doing music any more mind-bending.
The Who, ‘A Quick One’
(5000 units, color vinyl, RSD First)
Part of a series of deluxe RSD reissues from the Who’s catalog, “A Quick One” comes as a double-LP featuring the original mono mix on one disc and an LP of alternate versions and B-sides, on color vinyl.
Steely Dan, ‘Alive in America’
(4000 copies, black vinyl, RSD Exclusive)
An official Steely Dan album that has never been available on vinyl, until now? Hard to believe but true. This two-LP set marks what the label calls “an audiophile-grade document” of the duo’s first reunion tour in the mid-1990s.
The dB’s, ‘Cycles Per Second: US Tour 2024’
(1500 copies, black vinyl, RSD Frist)
After being dormant for a dozen years, the dB’s reunited two years ago for a short but celebrated club tour, focused largely but not entirely on material from their first two early ’80s albums, which had just been freshly reissued on vinyl. That happy occasion is commemorated in a 13-track album that is the band’s first-ever live release, compiled and mixed by Chris Stamey, that includes fan favorites such as “Black and White,” “Amplifier” and “Love Is for Lovers.” On “firework” splatter vinyl.
Tommy Keene, ‘Songs From The Film – The 1984 Reflection Sessions’
(1000 copies, black vinyl, RSD Limited Run/Regional Focus)
Everybody loves the story of a good “lost” album, right? Especially when the lost artifact in question was co-produced by T Bone Burnett and Don Dixon, before yet somehow cooler (or hotter?) record company heads prevailed and the whole thing was scrapped. Coming off of an EP that had had some press and college radio success in the mid-’80s, power pop hero Keene recorded what was to be his first full-length LP with Burnett and Dixon at the helm for an indie label. But when Geffen signed him away, they nixed this completed project and sent him back to the drawing board with producer Geoff Emerick instead. Now the original mix and sequence are finally restored, and aficionados of Keene and the era can finally decide who among the shifting producers wore it better.
Muse, ‘Muscle Museum’ and ‘Muse’
(2500 copies each; electric teal and neon red vinyl, respectively; RSD Exclusive)
Muse is putting out two 12-inch EPs from early in the band’s career that had never been out on vinyl before. “Muscle Museum,” from 1999, has four songs that later appeared on “Showbiz,” in earlier, different versions, plus a B-side. It’s on “electric teal” vinyl. “Muse,” from 1998, is on neon-red vinyl and also includes songs that ended up in different form on “Showbiz,” plus a B-side.
Elton John, ‘Positiva Presents: Elton John – The Remixes’
(7500 copies, glow in the dark vinyl, RSD First)
Sir Elton often puts out deluxe editions of his classic albums for Record Store Day, but he took a break from that this time to curate an eight-track collection of dance mixes of some of his biggest hits. The collection begins with the Blessed Madonna’s spin on the Dua Lipa collab “Cold Heart” and ends with a KDME remix of “Rocket Man,” with stops along the way like a Shep Pettibone-mixed “I Don’t Wanna Go On With You Like That.” The vinyl is glow-in-the-dark, perhaps all the illumination you’ll need for your private EJ rave.
Paramore, ‘All We Know is Falling (Deluxe)’
(7000 copies, black vinyl, RSD Exclusive)
Putting the more in Paramore, this deluxe edition of the band’s debut album has that release joined by as a bonus LP featuring the first-ever vinyl release of the rare “The Summer Tic EP,” originally released in 2006.
The Blasters, ‘Rare Blasts: Studio Outtakes And Movie Music 1979-1985’
(1200 copies, cobalt blue vinyl, RSD Exclusive)
A year ago, a Blasters boxed set was issued for TSD, in such limited quanties, it pretty much sold out everywhere in a day. Thankfully, the label has subsequently been individually reissuing each one of the Blasters’ original records, which made up the bulk of that set. Now, perhaps the biggest prize is the separate release of the rarities disc that rounded out the box, which fans will want to pick up even if they were content to hold onto their original 1980s copies of the other LPs. Chris Morris, the band’s all-but-official scrivener and scholar, again contributes liner notes that do justice to the band’s considerable and lasting legacy. It was a blast while it lasted.
All 355 RSD 2026 titles, alphabetically:
a-ha – Analogue 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition 2LP
Bryan Adams – Tough Town LP
Against Me! – New Wave B-Sides 12-inch
Jhene Aiko – Trip 2LP picture disc
Air – Moon Safari: The Athens Concert LP
Zeni Geva and Steve Albini – Superunit: Maximum Implosion 2LP
Alcatrazz – No Parole From Rock ‘N’ Roll 2LP
All Time Low – Fool’s Gold 7-inch
Amble – Hand Me Downs 12-inch
Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks – TRUE 2LP
Angel of Man – RONIN: CYBERPUNK 2077 LP
April March – Villerville LP
Ólafur Arnalds and Loreen – SAGES 12-inch
Art of Noise – The Seduction of Claude Debussy 2LP
Roy Ayers – Daddy Bug LP
BABYMETAL – Live at the O2 Arena: Highlights 12-inch
Bad Brains – Live LP
Chet Baker – Live in Japan 1987 Fukui Vol. 1 LP
Chet Baker – Live in Japan 1987 Fukui, Vol. 2 LP
Bat For Lashes – A Fleet of Bats: Early Demos LP
Tony Bennett – MTV Unplugged 2LP
Big Sean – Detroit 2LP
Black Sabbath Featuring Tony Iommi – Seventh Star LP
The Blasters – Rare Blasts: Studio Outtakes and Movie Music 1979-1985 LP
Johnny Blue Skies and the Dark Clouds – Castaways 7-inch picture disc
Bluey – Up Here zoetrope picture disc LP
Blur – Live at the Budokan 2LP
David Bowie – Hallo Spaceboy LP
David Bowie – Excerpts From Outside LP
Bob Brady and the Con Chords – Love-In: The Chariot Records Recordings LP
Bring Me the Horizon – Lo-files 2LP
Danny Brown – Grown Up 7-inch
Bruford – Feels Good to Me LP
The Bucketheads – All in the Mind: The Expanded Edition 2LP
Jeff Buckley – Live À L’Olympia 2LP and CD
Leslie Butler – Ja-Gan LP
Kaitlin Butts – Yeehaw Sessions LP
Caamp – Caamp 10th Anniversary Edition 2LP
Camper Van Beethoven – Tusk 2LP
Cam’ron – Killa Season 2LP
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band – Lick My Decals Off, Baby Deluxe Edition 2LP
Brandi Carlile – Live at Easy Street Records Vol. II LP
The Cars – Heartbeat City Live 2LP
James Carter, Cyrus Chestnut, Ali Jackson and Reginald Veal – Gold Soundz: A Jazz Tribute to Pavement 2LP
Neko Case – Cool Boys 7-inch
Mama Cass – Dream a Little Dream Expanded Edition LP
Ray Charles – Ray Charles Live 2LP
Charli XCX – party 4 u 7-inch
Don Cherry – Blue Lake 2LP
Tyler Childers – Live From Dinosaur World 7-inch
Collective Soul – Touch and Go LP
John Coltrane – The Tiberi Tapes: A Preview of the Mythic Recordings LP
John Coltrane Quartet – France 1965: The Complete Concerts 4LP
Alice Cooper – The Revenge of Alice Cooper 2LP picture disc
Stewart Copeland – The Rhythmatist LP
Cream – Wheels of Fire: Live at the Fillmore Auditorium and Winterland Ballroom 3LP
Marshall Crenshaw – The Bootleg Sounds of Marshall Crenshaw: 1984-87 LP
King Crimson – Live: Penn State University 29 June 1974 2LP
Crosby, Stills and Nash – The Solo Albums 4LP
The Cult – Weapon of Choice LP
The Cure – Greatest Hits 2LP
The Cure – Acoustic Hits 2LP
Lucy Dacus – New Song 7-inch
Dada – El Subliminoso 2LP
The Darkness – One Way Ticket to Birmingham: Live at the NEC 2LP
Skeeter Davis – The End of the World: The Navy Hoedown Sessions LP
Miles Davis – The New Sounds 10-inch
The dB’s – Cycles Per Second: US Tour 2024 LP
Dead or Alive – The Youthquake Tour 2LP
Deafheaven – KEXP Sessions 12-inch
Olivia Dean – BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge 7-inch
Def Leppard – Slang 2LP
Iris DeMent – The Way I Should 30th Anniversary LP
Dr. Demento – Get Demented 12-inch
Alabaster DePlume – Dear Children of Our Children, I Knew / Cremisan 12-inch
Dijon – How Do You Feel About Getting Married? 12-inch
Markolino Dimond – Brujeria LP
Dinosaur Jr – Live in Hollywood 1991: The Green Mind Tour LP
Dr. Feelgood – Oil City Confidential Soundtrack 2LP
Doctor Who – The Rescue LP
Dog’s Eye View – Happy Nowhere 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition 2LP
The Doors – Strange Days 1967: A Work in Progress Part 2 LP
doPE (John Densmore and Chuck D) – No Country for Old Men LP
The Dream Syndicate – Sketches for Medicine Show LP
Dropkick Murphys and The Outlets – Knock Me Down 7-inch
Drum Corpse – Drum Corpse Volume 1: Resistance Drums LP
Hilary Duff – (Mine) LP
Ian Dury and the Blockheads – Live in London 1980 2LP
Electronic – 1996 Remixes 1999 12-inch
Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Read My Lips 25th Anniversary Edition 2LP
Elzhi – Lead Poison 10th Anniversary 2LP
Empire of the Sun – Walking on a Dream Collectors Edition 2LP
En Vogue – EV3 2LP
English Teacher – Nearly Daffodils / Nearly Daffodils (Matt Maltese Rework) 7-inch
Ethel Cain – Inbred 12-inch
Euphoria – A Gift From Euphoria LP
Bill Evans – At the BBC: The Complete 1965 London Sets 2LP
Fall Out Boy – So Much For (2our) Dust: Live at Madison Square Garden 3LP
Fear Factory – Digimortal 2LP
Flat Duo Jets – Boogie On Your Head! LP
Flying Lotus – 1983 LP
For Squirrels – Baypath Road LP
Foreigner – Foreigner 4 Live Tour 1981-82 2LP
Jackson C. Frank – Jackson C. Frank 2LP
Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Radio One Sessions 1982-1983 LP
FREEMAN – FREEMAN LP
John Frusciante – To Only Record Water for Ten Days 2LP
Gabby’s Dollhouse – A-Meow-Zing Music! LP
Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer 12-inch
Jerry Garcia – Reflections 50th Anniversary 3LP
Ghost Funk Orchestra – Live in Europe LP
Ghost-Note – Swagism 2LP
The Gits – Etcetera LP
Goatsnake – Dog Days LP
Goblin – The Singles Collection 1975-1979 LP
Selena Gomez – Droplets 12-inch
Gong – Flying Teapot LP
Dallas Good and Richard Reed Parry – Were “The Watchtowers” LP
Good Kid – Can We Hang Out Sometime? LP
Gotan Project – Best Of 2LP
Ariana Grande/Cynthia Erivo – Wicked: One Wonderful Night (Live) The Soundtrack 2LP
Grateful Dead – Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA 6/11/76 5LP
Grateful Dead – On a Back Porch Vol. 3 LP
Violet Grohl – What’s Heaven Without You / Swallowtail 7-inch
Vince Guaraldi – It’s Arbor Day, Charlie Brown / Charlie Brown’s All Stars! (Original Soundtrack Recordings) 2LP shaped vinyl
HAIM – Relationships 12-inch
John Wesley Harding – Here Comes the Groom Deluxe 2LP
Françoise Hardy – Françoise Hardy in English LP + 7-inch
Roy Hargrove – Bern LP
George Harrison – Dark Horse zoetrope picture disc LP
George Harrison – Extra Texture zoetrope picture disc LP
Wendell Harrison and Tribe – A Tribute to Pharoah Sanders LP
Hello Kitty – Hello Kitty Handmade by Robots Collectible Vinyl Figure
hemlocke springs – going…going…GONE! 12-inch
Joe Henderson – Consonance: Live at the Jazz Showcase 3LP
Niall Horan – Flicker Featuring the RTE Concert Orchestra (Live) LP
Jade – Jade to the Max LP
Ahmad Jamal – At the Jazz Showcase: Live in Chicago 2LP
The Jayhawks – 2 Meter Sessions LP
Waylon Jennings and the Waylors – The Balladeer Meets the Dukes of Hazzard LP
Carly Rae Jepsen – Disco Darling 7-inch
The Jesus and Mary Chain – Some Candy Talking EP 12-inch
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts – Live at the Ritz NYC 1981 LP
Elton John – Positiva Presents Elton John: The Remixes LP
Johnboy – Pistol Swing and Claim Dedications Discography 2LP
Jack Johnson and Hermanos Gutiérrez – Hold On to the Light 7-inch
George Jones – Cold Hard Truth LP
Judas Priest – Live in Los Angeles ’90 LP
Junkie XL – Saturday Teenage Kick (Remastered, Expanded) 2LP
Jurassic 5 – Quality Control 25th Anniversary Edition 2LP
Meiko Kaji – Urami Bushi / The Flower of Carnage 12-inch
KATSEYE – Touch / Gabriela Tour Arrangements and Acapella Versions 12-inch
Kaytranada – AIN’T NO DAMN WAY LP
Tommy Keene – Songs From the Film The 1984 Reflection Sessions LP
Chaka Khan – Naughty LP
Khruangbin – White Gloves ii / M. Blanc 7-inch
Freddie King – Feelin’ Alright: The Complete 1975 Nancy Pulsations Concert 3LP
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Big Fig Wasp 12-inch shaped vinyl
KISS – A Special KISS Tour Album 12-inch
Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris – All the Roadrunning 2LP
Bruce Kulick From KISS – Transformer LP and CD
Mark Lanegan – Bubblegum (Original Draft) 2LP
The Last Dinner Party – The Scythe (Live From the Pyre) 7-inch
Yusef Lateef – Alight Upon the Lake: Live at the Jazz Showcase 3LP
Laufey – A Matter of Time: Live at Madison Square Garden 2LP
Adrianne Lenker – Live at Revolution Hall 3LP
John Lennon – Love Meditation Mixes 3LP
Les Nubians – Makeda Remix 12-inch
James Brandon Lewis – These Are Soulful Days LP
Lil Peep – crybaby 10 Year Anniversary RSD Edition LP
Abbey Lincoln – That’s Him LP
Little Feat – Little Feat Deluxe Edition 2LP
Living Legends – The Gathering LP
The Locustz – Buzzkill LP
London Suede – Coming Up at the BBC LP
Look Outside Your Window – Look Outside Your Window LP
Demi Lovato – Frequency 7-inch
Lunachicks – We Can Be Worster LP
Madonna – The Confessions Tour Live From London 2LP
Ziggy Marley – Brightside LP and CD
Laura Marling Live at Albert Hall, Manchester 2LP
Marc Maron – Panicked 2LP
Bruno Mars – Collaborations LP
Matchbook Romance – Visions 7-inch
Mayday Parade – Tales Told by Dead Friends 10-inch
MC 900 Ft. Jesus – Welcome to My Dream 35th Anniversary Expanded Edition 2LP
Freddie McGregor – Showcase LP
John McLaughlin – Music From Abandoned Heights LP
Tate McRae – Hung Up on You 7-inch
Megadeth – Hidden Treasures LP
Melanie B – Hot LP picture disc
Meshuggah – Destroy Erase Improve: Remastered Anniversary Edition 2LP
Meshuggah – Catch Thirtythree: Remastered Anniversary Edition 2LP
The Meteors – From Zorch With Love: The Very Best of the Meteors 1981-1997 LP
Misfits – Famous Monsters LP
Joni Mitchell – For the Roses LP
The Modern Lovers – The Modern Lovers LP picture disc
Momma – Welcome to My Blue Sky (The Heart Charm) 12-inch
The Mooney Suzuki – People Get Ready 25th Anniversary 2LP
Gaby Moreno – Live From KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic LP
Mötley Crüe – Live Wire EP 45th Anniversary 12-inch
Motorhead – On Parole Steve Wilson Remix LP
Motorhead – The Lost Tapes Vol. 7: Lemmy’s 50th Birthday Live in West Hollywood, 1995 2LP
Bob Mould – Body of Song 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition 2LP
The Muffs – Live at Fort Apache LP
Muse – Muscle Museum 12-inch
Muse – Muse 12-inch
Mutemath – Mutemath 2LP
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult – Sinister Whisperz: The Wax Trax! Remixes 2LP
R. Carlos Nakai – Canyon Trilogy 2LP
Deb Never – Hellooo / Radio Alice 7-inch
New York Dolls – One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This 2LP
Ngozi Family – Gate Crash ’78 LP
Klaus Nomi – Remixes Bundle 2LP
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Archive Vol. 1 (1981-1990) 2LP
Ozzy Osbourne – Ozzy Osbourne Handmade by Robots Collectible Vinyl Figure
Anderson.Paak – Malibu 10 Year Anniversary 7″ Box Set 7-inch box set
Panda Bear and Sonic Boom – Graveyard / Lucky Charm 7-inch
Paper Route Illuminati – Paper Route Illuminati 2LP
Paramore – All We Know is Falling Deluxe 2LP
Charlie Patton – Primeval Blues, Rags and Gospel Songs LP
Pavement – Perfect Sound Forever 10-inch
Peaches – No Lube So Rude LP picture disc
Pepper – Give’n It LP
Gigi Perez – Live From VEVO DSCVR 7-inch
Mike Peters of The Alarm – Feel Free LP
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – July 16, 1978 Paradise Theater, Boston, MA LP
Phoenix – United LP
Phoenix – Alphabetical LP
Phonte and Eric Roberson – Tigallerro LP
Pink Floyd – Live From the Los Angeles Sports Arena, April 26th, 1975 4LP and 2CD
Pink Pantheress – Girl Like Me 7-inch
Pixies – Live in Newport 2LP
Robert Plant – Saving Grace: All That Glitters… with Suzi Dian 12-inch
Polo G – Hall of Fame LP
Porcupine Tree – We Lost the Skyline LP
The Power Station – Raw Power: Live at the Spectrum, Philadelphia 3LP
Primal Scream – 1987 EPs LP
Prince Buster – The Blue Beat Label Presents Prince Buster on Tour LP
John Prine – Found Dogs LP
John Prine – BBC Sessions LP
Professor Longhair – Mardi Gras in Baton Rouge 2LP
Puscifer – Normal Isn’t (Live) 2LP
The Radha Krishna Temple London – The Radha Krishna Temple London LP
Corinne Bailey Rae – Live in New York LP
Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow – Live From Koln 1976 3LP
Ma Rainey – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom LP
Ramones – Live in San Francisco 2LP
The Rolling Stones – Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) Japanese Edition LP
The Rolling Stones – The Rolling Stones RSD3 Mini-Turntable 3-inch turntable package
The Rolling Stones – Get Off of My Cloud 3-inch
The Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Women 3-inch
The Rolling Stones – Play With Fire 3-inch
The Rolling Stones – Heart of Stone 3-inch
The Rolling Stones – Mother’s Little Helper 3-inch
The Rolling Stones – Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow? 3-inch
Romeo Void – Live ’81-’85 2LP
The Mighty Rootsmen – Strike Back! (Volume 2) LP
Ruel – What It Sounds Like 12-inch
RUNT w/ Todd Rundgren – The Necessary Cosmic Frenzy LP
RZA and the Juice Crew – Bobby Digital Presents: The Juice Crew LP
RZA and Various Artists – The Man With the Iron Fists Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 2LP
St Germain – St Germain 10th Anniversary African Project Remixes 2LP
Ryuichi Sakamoto + Danceries – The End of Asia LP
Adam Sandler – They’re All Gonna Laugh At You! LP
Michael Schenker Group – Best of Live MSG 1980-1984 LP
Gil Scott-Heron – Reflections LP and CD
Sex Pistols – Jubilee 25th Anniversary Edition LP
Labi Siffre – Crying Laughing Loving Lying Expanded Edition 2LP
The Sisters of Mercy – First and Last and Always: The Japanese Edition LP
Sleep Token – Caramel 12-inch
Slint – untitled (albini rough mixes) 12-inch
Snarky Puppy – Live at GroundUP Music Festival LP
Son Volt – Sound Signal Serenades LP
Sonic Youth – Diamond Seas 12-inch
Spacey Jane – Live at the Hordern Pavilion 2025 2LP
Bruce Springsteen – Live From Asbury Park 2024 5LP
Billy Squier – Tell the Truth Deluxe 2LP
Squirrel Nut Zippers – Roasted Right: Expanded Edition 12-inch
SRC – Milestones LP
Stalk-Forest Group – St. Cecilia: The Elektra Recordings 2LP
Starcrawler – Starcrawler Sings Elvis Presley 7-inch
Steely Dan – Alive in America 2LP
Rod Stewart – Alternate Atlantic Crossing LP
Stone Temple Pilots – Live at Rolling Rock 2001 2LP
The Stranglers – Rarities LP
Stray Cats – Rumble in Brixton (Live) 2LP
Billy Strings – tiny desk 12-inch
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros – Global A Go-Go 2LP
Sugar – File Under Easy Listening: The Singles Collection 3 x 12-inch
Swamp Dogg – Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted LP
Taylor Swift – Elizabeth Taylor 7-inch
The Sword – Three Songs 12-inch
Masayoshi Takanaka – All of Me 2LP
Masayoshi Takanaka – On Guitar LP
Talking Heads – The CBS/Columbia Demos 2LP
Cecil Taylor Unit – Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts 3LP
The Tears – Here Come the Tears LP
Teenage Fanclub and Jad Fair – Words of Wisdom and Hope LP + 7-inch
Thievery Corporation – Culture of Fear 2LP
Thin Lizzy – Live in Cleveland 1976 2LP
Third Eye Blind – Rarities and First Drafts LP
13th Floor Elevators – We Are Not Live LP
Charles Tolliver All Stars – Right Now…And Then LP
T. Rex – Songs From “Marc” LP
TV Girl – The Night in Question: French Exit Outtakes LP
McCoy Tyner – The Seeker 2LP
U-Roy – Feel Jah Spirit: U-Roy Meets the Aggrovators LP
Ultravox – The Re-Mixes LP
Van Halen – Live in New Haven 1986 2LP
Various Artists – Cuban Classics Boxset Curated By DJ Koco aka Shimokita 5 x 7-inch box set
Various Artists – Jazz Dispensary: Magia Brasileira LP
Various Artists – Just Tell Me That You Want Me: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac 2LP
Various Artists – KPop Demon Hunters: Soundtrack From the Netflix Film HUNTR/X Edition LP
Various Artists – KPop Demon Hunters: Soundtrack From the Netflix Film Saja Boys Edition LP
Various Artists – Metal Machine Music: Power to Consume Vol. 2 2LP
Various Artists – My Soul is Lost: Unknown and Forgotten Rural American Musicians LP
Various Artists – Operation Irie 2LP
Various Artists – Panama Latin Treasures LP
Various Artists – Rock and Roll Doctor: Lowell George Tribute Album 2LP
Various Artists – Salad Days: Music From the Documentary Film LP
Various Artists – Soul Jazz Records Presents POWER POP! American Power Pop for the Now Generation 1977-81 LP
Various Artists – Soul Jazz Records Presents Studio One Sound 2LP
Various Artists – Stax: Killer B’s LP
Various Artists – The Westbound Sound: Single Minded (Westbound Records Curated by Record Store Day Vol. 3) LP
Various Artists – You’ll Never Eat Fast Food Again 2LP
Various Artists from Curaga Records and Chill Ghost Records – Video Game LoFi: Sleepy Pokémon Beats LP
Various Artists from Monstercat and Firaga Records – UNDERTALE 10-Year Anniversary Remixes LP
The Verlaines – Ready to Fly LP
Violent Femmes – The Blind Leading the Naked LP
Mal Waldron – Stardust and Starlight: Live at the Jazz Showcase 2LP
The Walker Brothers – Nite Flights LP
Jerry Jeff Walker – Navajo Rug 35th Anniversary LP
Ween – Europe “90” 3LP
Weezer – 1192 LP
Scott Weiland – Live LP
Paul Weller – When Your Garden’s Overgrown / Boy About Town (Weller at the BBC Vol. 2) 7-inch
Ike White – Changin’ Times LP
The Who – A Quick One 2LP
Buster Williams – Pinnacle LP
Brian Wilson – On Tour LP
Brian Wilson – Imagination LP
Wire – Read and Burn 03 LP
Wisp – If Not Winter: The Demos/Live Version 12-inch
Wiz Khalifa – Khalifa 10th Anniversary LP
Wolf Alice – Spotify Live Room 7-inch
Cory Wong – Cory Wong and the Green Screen Band LP
Donovan Woods – Not a Greatest Hits Vol. II LP
Xmal Deutschland – Peel Sessions 2LP
XTC – Live Boots: Live at Emerald City 1981 2LP
Xzibit – Restless 2LP
Yes – Tales From Topographic Tours 3LP
Christopher Young – Sinister Original Motion Picture Soundtrack LP
Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts – The Live Album 2LP
ZEROBASEONE – Never Say Never LP