Record Store Day‘s lineup of releases for its annual adjunct Black Friday occasion has been introduced, with greater than 150 titles introduced — most of them limited-edition vinyl exclusives — from artists together with Noah Kahan, U2, Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish, Kacey Musgaves, the Beatles and Pearl Jam.
Other releases on the lineup embrace vinyl from an array of acts starting from Anitta to Joni Mitchell… Teddy Swims to Jimi Hendrix… Rage Against the Machine to the Bill Evans Trio… and Ghostface Killah to Tegan and Sara.
The massive day is, in fact, Nov. 29, the day after Thanksgiving. While Black Friday lineups have largely gone away as big-box retailers have transitioned to placing their gross sales on-line, RSF-BF stays one remaining likelihood to line up on a cold late-November morning … however the conversations in these traces are a lot higher than they was once at Target and Best Buy.
The full record of titles might be discovered on the RSD website.
Noah Kahan, Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo have already had massively wanted titles in different Record Store Day occasions within the final couple years. That will proceed this time as Kahan releases an LP assortment of the all-star duets that had been launched as digital add-ons to his breakout album. Rodrigo is releasing a variant on “Guts Spilled,” a two-LP set that mixes her “Guts” album with bonus tracks. Eilish will give followers the primary bodily version of a vocals-only model of her newest album, beforehand solely out there for obtain on her web site in a short window.
And, as introduced earlier, U2 will probably be placing out a companion album to “How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb” consisting of bonus and unreleased tracks from these periods, which can solely be out there as a singular, stand-alone launch by way of this restricted RSD version (though it'll even be included in a forthcoming “Atomic Bomb” boxed set).
Classic rock releases from artists courting again to the ’60s and ’70s are approaching Black Friday from the likes of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Joni Mitchell, Van Halen, the Doors, Santana, the Byrds/Buffalo Springfield (a mixed stay assortment), the Allman Brothers Band, the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, T. Rex, Cat Stevens, Leon Russell, Jimi Hendrix, Big Brother & the Holding Company, the Ramones, Todd Rundgren’s Utopia, Yes, War and Dickey Betts, amongst others.
The extra trendy aspect of rock will probably be represented by the aforementioned U2 title plus Pearl Jam, Jungle, Rage Against the Machine, Modest Mouse, the Warning, Jane’s Addiction, Engine Kid, Grouplove, Motley Crue, Gaslight Anthem, Garbage, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Lamb of God, Morphine, Stone Temple Pilots, the Veronicas, Helmet and extra.
Hip-hop releases embrace titles from Ghostface Killah, Cypress Hill, Snoop Dogg, Too $hort, Raekwon and MF Doom.
Jazz, as all the time, will probably be well-represented, with names together with perennial RSD favourite the Bill Evans Trio plus Cecil Taylor, Julian Lage, Sun Ra, Max Roach, Herbie Hancock and others.
As regular, it’s pretty mindboggling for an omnivorous music fan to instantly soak up all the 150-plus choices listed by Record Store Day on Wednesday morning (though it’s straightforward compared to absorbing the much more staggering lineup that's unveiled for RSD’s greater, mothership occasion every April, when the variety of releases reaches the 350-title realm). Here are 20 that stand out, on preliminary look, with particulars about codecs, contents and portions.
Noah Kahan: “Town Hall (Stick Season Collaborations)”
(15,000 copies on “tiger eye brown” vinyl)
This LP comprises all eight tracks that had been launched as duet-enhanced digital bonuses to his smash album “Stick Season (We’ll All Be Here Forever)”: “Dial Drunk” with Post Malone, “Call Your Mom” with Lizzy McAlpine, “She Calls Me Back” with Kacey Musgraves, “Northern Attitude” with Hozier, “Everywhere, Everything” with Gracie Abrams, “Homesick” with Sam Fender, “You’re Gonna Go Far” with Brandi Carlile, and “Paul Revere” with Gregory Alan Isakov.
U2: “How to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb”
(20,000 copies on black-and-red marble vinyl)
U2 already broke the information earlier of this “shadow album,” a group of 10 songs taken from the unique recording periods for the 20-year-old “How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb,” some beforehand launched and some newly discovered within the vault, all in fact being launched for the primary time as a standalone album. This stand-alone LP will solely be out there for RSD, however you may as well discover it as a part of a nine-LP set popping out on Nov. 22.
Billie Eilish: “Hit Me Hard And Soft (Isolated Vocals)”
(25,000 copies)
Hope you want — actually, actually like — Eilish’s voice… however who doesn’t?… as this alternate model of her newest album consists of nothing however. Hardcore followers might already personal this as a digital obtain that was briefly offered completely on her D2C retailer, however that is the primary and solely bodily version, completely for RSD Black Friday. You’ll be capable of distinguish it from the unique album launch in your assortment with its inverted model of the album cowl.
Olivia Rodrigo: “Guts Spilled”
(30,000 copies, on red-and-purple marble vinyl)
This two-LP set already got here out in a special vinyl shade and packaging by way of her webstore, however this would be the first likelihood for many followers to select it up. It combines the unique “Guts” album with the bonus tracks that initially solely appeared secretly on completely different variants. The RSD model will probably be in a gatefold jacket with a purple sleeve, pressed on purple and purple vinyl. A subsequent version is anticipated to be launched to retail subsequent yr, however with completely different packaging.
Kacey Musgraves: “Deeper Into the Well”
(5000 copies, on inexperienced vinyl)
This RSD unique vinyl urgent consists of the seven bonus tracks that had been launched in August on a deluxe digital version of her “Deeper Well” album — plus, tantalizingly, a “20-minute woodland sound experience.” These songs are usually not in any other case out there in a bodily format. The packaging consists of “green eco-vinyl and clear slip-sleeve packaging made of recycled materials.” The recent tune titles:
Ruthless, Little Sister, Flower Child, Superbloom, Perfection, Arm’s Length and Irish Goodbye.
Pearl Jam: RSD Song Of The Year “Waiting RSD Song Of The Year – For Stevie (Live)” b/w “Wreckage (Live)”
(12,000 copies)
Pearl Jam, bless their hearts, are patron saints of RSD who don’t let a single semi-annual occasion go by with out an unique launch. This 12-inch on black vinyl features a fold-out poster to enhance two 2024 stay tracks beforehand unavailable in any bodily format.
The Beatles: “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” b/w “I Saw Her Standing There”
(10,000 copies in U.S.)
The sixtieth anniversary of the British Invasion just isn't going uncommemorated. This is a reissue of a single rush-released within the U.S. in January 1964 that went No. 1 the next month. It’s “cut from the original U.S. version of the master tapes by Kevin Reeves in Nashville, using all-analog cutting process and on the 1970 lathe that was in Capitol and has been used on many classic album cuts over the years.” These are the identical masters getting used for the upcoming boxed set of 1964 U.S. Beatles LPs.
The Beatles: The Beatles restricted 3″ carrying case with 3″ “All My Loving” single
(2,500 copies in U.S.)
Obviously aimed on the hardcore Beatles collector, this limited-edition 3-inch urgent comes with a limited-edition poster, 3-inch file, and a carrying case for all of your different 3-inch information (you have amassed fairly a group of these, proper?).
Joni Mitchell: “Hejira Demos”
(5000 copies, on black vinyl)
As Rhino is susceptible to do, they’ve damaged out a part of a celebrated boxed set to be its personal stand-alone LP launch. This one comes from the “Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 4” set and places Mitchell’s March 1976 solo demos for one among her biggest albums in a single vinyl place.
Tegan and Sera: “So Jealous (20th Anniversary)”
(3000 copies)
A two-decade, two-LP anniversary version consists of the unique 2004 album plus a second LP of demos from that period making their debut on vinyl.
Teddy Swims: “I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 1.5)”
(5,000 copies, on “baby blue” vinyl)
This enhanced version of Swims’ hit debut album provides 4 songs that had been launched digitally again on April however are being placed on vinyl for the primary time right here.
Rage Against the Machine: “Democratic National Convention 2000”
(4,000 copies, on clear vinyl)
Here’s a uncommon instance of a Record Store Day restricted version getting a re-release, however with a special shade variant, so technically the primary version from RSD 2018 nonetheless holds its unique standing.
Jane’s Addiction: “Imminent Redemption”
(2,500 copies, on black vinyl)
Will the 2 tracks that Jane’s launched so removed from its reunion periods be the one tracks from that would-be album to ever come out, now that the band has apparently damaged up? Who is aware of, however you may take what we bought of the reunion on this 12″ with an interior sleeve containing artwork and handwritten lyrics. “Some copies are signed by various band members,” presumably inked in a pre-fisticuffs period.
The Byrds / Buffalo Springfield: “Live at the Monterey International Pop Festival”
(3,000 copies)
A two-LP set of two completely different performances from Monterey Pop with one commonality: the late David Crosby. Only one tune from the Buffalo Springfield set has ever been launched, “For What It’s Worth.” All however one tune from the Byrds’ set has been beforehand launched, however by no means on vinyl, as these tracks had been solely a part of a boxed set within the ’90s.
Anitta: “Funk Generation”
(1,000 copies, on “lemonade” vinyl)
No uncommon or unreleased materials right here among the many 15 tracks, however the truth that the Brazilian famous person’s newest album is being launched on vinyl for the primary and solely time in a 1,000-copy restricted version only for RSD is notable.
Bill Evans Trio: “Live at Kongsberg 1970”
(4,500 copies, on black vinyl)
It would hardly be Record Store Day or its November cousin and not using a beforehand unissued Bill Evans set, and this one is claimed to have wonderful sound high quality, regardless of by no means having been unearthed till only in the near past. The recording was discovered within the Kongsberg Jazz Festival archives — after it was lengthy believed that the present had not even been recorded, not to mention preserved. As all the time with Elemental releases, count on an in depth booklet with freshly penned essays and never-before-published images.
Whitney Houston: “LOVE IS Live From South Africa”
(2,000 copies)
This vinyl options the debut of the unreleased monitor “Love Is,” after three a long time. Several variations are included: a stay rehearsal, an a cappella rendition, and a remix by Carvin Winans, plus two bonus tracks recorded stay at Kings Park Stadium in Durban, South Africa, in 1994.
Jimi Hendrix: “Songs for Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts”
(4,500 copies, on blue-and-violet swirl vinyl)
An LP with highlights from the debut live shows by Hendrix’s newly assembled Band of Gypsys at New York’s Fillmore East on New Years Eve 1969 and New Year’s Day 1970. Mastered by engineer Bernie Grundman, these recordings acquire among the greatest cuts from a 2019 boxed set that included 4 full performances.
Grateful Dead: “Veterans Memorial Coliseum, New Haven, CT 5/5/77”
(4,500 copies in U.S.)
The opening night time of a legendary 1977 run is captured on a four-LP set mastered by Jeffrey Norman from the unique analog tapes.
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