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Analog Africa's Sound City Joburg: South Africa's Township Soul 1969–1981 collects 22 rare recordings that blend soul, funk and disco with Afrobeat, jazz and reggae. The deluxe 2LP comes in a gatefold with a 16-page magazine-size booklet of photographs, newspaper articles and biographies, and is due Dec 4.
Vinyl New music Latin
Craft Recordings and Fania reissued Héctor Lavoe's 1981 album ¡Que Sentimiento!, his sixth solo record and only self-produced one, for its 45th anniversary on Oct 2. The remastered 140-gram LP has lacquers cut from the original master tapes and includes 'El Son', 'Soy Vagabundo' and 'No Hay Quien Te Aguante'.
Vinyl Metal
Mastodon ground up a bag of mastodon teeth they were given about 20 years ago and pressed the powder into vinyl, Troy Sanders' idea. The 'bone dust' Marrow Deep was a 170-copy 2LP manual press with a certificate of authenticity, sold by raffle at $150 to US, Canada and Mexico buyers. Entries closed Oct 12; Loma Vista said copies would ship by Oct 16.
Vinyl New music Rock
Finnish rock band Hanoi Rocks release The Complete Collection 1981–1984 on Nov 13 as 6LP and 6CD box sets, gathering the original band's first five studio albums plus Motorvatin'!!!, a bonus album of rare BBC live sessions and never-before-heard demos. Svart Records' Nordic-only editions are limited to 300 multicolor and 200 black 6LP sets and 500 6CD sets, each with a 36-page photo book.
Vinyl New music Blues
Craft Recordings' Bluesville series reissues Sonny Terry's 1960 album Sonny's Story, with Sticks McGhee on drums, on 180g vinyl shipping the week of Nov 20. It is AAA-remastered from the original tapes, pressed at QRP in partnership with Acoustic Sounds, and housed in a replica tip-on jacket.
Vinyl New music Country & Folk
Bonfire reissues the 1971 album by obscure UK folk-rock group Blue Horizon on vinyl for the first time, for Record Store Day Black Friday on Nov 27. The label points to its female vocal harmonies.
Vinyl Pop
Benson Boone's 2022 debut EP Walk Me Home..., previously available only on CD and streaming, gets its first vinyl release on Warner Records for Record Store Day Black Friday on Nov 27, on black and white galaxy vinyl. The RIAA Gold-certified EP includes 'In The Stars' and 'Ghost Town'.
Marking 60 years of the Austin psychedelic band, Charly and International Artists collect all seven 13th Floor Elevators singles from May 1966 to January 1969, A- and B-sides in chronological order and mastered in mono, on The Mono Singles LP for Record Store Day Black Friday on Nov 27.
Vinyl Hip-Hop & Rap
Charly puts Jadakiss's 2005 London show on vinyl for the first time with Kiss of Death: Tour 2005, a Record Store Day Black Friday LP for Nov 27. It was recorded at the Kentish Town Forum during his sold-out European run.
Bill Withers' 1974 set for the BBC's In Concert series gets its first physical release on Legacy for Record Store Day Black Friday on Nov 27. The stripped-back performance draws on Just As I Am and Still Bill, with 'Ain't No Sunshine', 'Grandma's Hands', 'Use Me' and 'Lean On Me'.
Vinyl Soul, Funk & R&B
ORG Music issues Funkadelic's Live at Meadowbrook 1971 as a 2LP for Record Store Day Black Friday on Nov 27. Recorded on Sept. 12, 1971, shortly after Maggot Brain, it is billed as the only official live recording from the band's classic early era, drawn from soundboard masters and remastered by Dave Gardner.
On the Mountain, a new release from Pere Ubu founding member and synthesizer pioneer Allen Ravenstine, comes out on ORG Music for Record Store Day Black Friday on Nov 27. It grew from synth pieces traded with David Thomas, whose vocal on the title track is among his final recordings, and features Mike Watt, William Blakeney and Robert Wheeler.
Vinyl Electronic & Dance
Fischerspooner's electroclash album #1, which includes 'Emerge', returns for its 25th anniversary on Vivid Hot Pink vinyl from Demon Records for Record Store Day Black Friday on Nov 27. It has been unavailable on vinyl since 2003.
Vinyl Classical
Deutsche Grammophon's Original Source series reissues Claudio Abbado and the London Symphony Orchestra's recording of Stravinsky's Pulcinella on Nov 13. For the first time, Emil Berliner Studios has remastered and cut it from the original 1-inch 8-track tapes, in an all-analog process.
Vinyl Classical
András Schiff's 2003 ECM New Series recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations comes to vinyl for the first time on Nov 13, as a 2LP in a tip-on gatefold with a 12-page booklet. It was his second recording of the work, following a Decca account 20 years earlier.
Vinyl Punk & Indie
Royel Otis's Live at The Greek, recorded at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, arrives on soda-pop-colored vinyl from EMI for Record Store Day Black Friday on Nov 27. It includes 'Sofa King', 'Oysters in My Pocket' and 'who's your boyfriend'.
Portland punk band Poison Idea's 1983 debut Pick Your King, 13 songs in 16 minutes, returns on American Leather Records as a picture disc limited to 1,000 copies for Record Store Day Black Friday on Nov 27. It is the first in a series of Poison Idea picture-disc reissues.
Vinyl Punk & Indie
Rhino's Ramones Subterranean Jungle Demos, out Nov 27 for Record Store Day Black Friday, collects 14 demos recorded in 1982 for the band's seventh album, their last for a while with Marky Ramone on drums. Every track is a vinyl debut and 11 are previously unreleased, on a single colored LP.
Vinyl Soundtracks & Scores
The soundtrack to Netflix's KPop Demon Hunters is a Record Store Day Black Friday exclusive LP on Republic for Nov 27, according to RSD's US list. Rough Trade lists a 'Derpy Sussie Splatter' pressing with holographic cover art, a triple gatefold, mini inserts, a sticker sheet and an oversized poster.
Vinyl Soundtracks & Scores
Laced Records has opened pre-orders for a deluxe double LP of Lorien Testard's Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 game soundtrack. It holds 20 tracks sequenced by Testard on black heavyweight vinyl, with artwork by the game's art director, Nicholas Maxson-Francombe. Laced estimates shipping in December 2026.
Vinyl Soundtracks & Scores
Lakeshore Records is releasing Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein's complete score to all five seasons of Stranger Things as a 17LP set on red and orange 'Vecna's Gate' vinyl, with gatefold jackets and full-color inner sleeves. Lakeshore says it ships around Oct 27 and reaches stores Oct 30.
Vinyl New music World & Global
Music On Vinyl reissues Cesaria Evora's 1999 album Café Atlantico as a black-vinyl 2LP on Oct 30, with a lyrics insert and bonus tracks 'Sodade' and 'Luiza'. On the record, the Cape Verdean morna singer leans into Cuban and Brazilian music.
Strut releases Orchestra Baobab's Made in Senegal on Oct 23 on vinyl LP and CD, plus a Strut-exclusive expanded 2LP. The Dakar band formed more than 50 years ago as the resident group at the Baobab Club, blending Afro-Cuban rhythms, Wolof griot traditions, mbalax, Congolese rumba and jazz.
Vinyl Reggae & Dub
A Serious Thing, a Gorgon Records 2LP that VP Records lists for Sept. 25, collects 20 Horace Andy tracks produced by Bunny Lee and mixed at King Tubby's. It includes 'Skylarking', 'Money Money' and the original 'You Are My Angel', later reworked with Massive Attack on Mezzanine.
Vinyl Reggae & Dub
Augustus Pablo's In Roots Vibes, out Oct 2 on Culture Press, comes to vinyl for the first time as a remastered 30th anniversary LP. It gathers 14 instrumental and dub recordings from 1972 to 1992 produced by Bunny 'Striker' Lee, with The Aggrovators and mixes by King Tubby, Prince Jammy, Phillip Smart and Pat Kelly.
Vinyl Reggae & Dub
Soul Jazz Records' Studio One Dub Vol. 2 appears on Record Store Day's US Black Friday list as a 2LP, marked as an RSD First release, and goes on sale in participating independent record shops on Nov 27.
Vinyl Electronic & Dance
After a new UK chart peak of No. 4, sparked by its use in the film Apex, The Chemical Brothers' "Go" gets a limited pink-vinyl 12-inch for Record Store Day Black Friday on Nov 27. It adds Claude VonStroke and Special Request remixes, both on vinyl for the first time, and is on the UK and US lists.
Vinyl Country & Folk
Performances from Richard & Linda Thompson's final tour in 1982, behind their album Shoot Out the Lights, arrive on vinyl for the first time as a 2LP for Record Store Day Black Friday on Nov 27. The release is on both the UK and US lists.
Vinyl Country & Folk
Joni Mitchell's 1972 concert at Carnegie Hall, her second solo show there and previously part of Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 3, comes to vinyl for the first time as a 2LP for Record Store Day Black Friday on Nov 27. It appears on both the UK and US lists.
Vibraphonist Cal Tjader's 1954 Latin-jazz album Plays Afro Cuban returns on translucent yellow vinyl for Record Store Day Black Friday in the UK and Ireland on Nov 27. The record pairs Tjader's vibraphone with Afro-Cuban rhythms and includes "Mambo Inn" and "Ritmo Caliente."
Vinyl Hip-Hop & Rap
2Pac's Pac's Life, first released on Nov 21, 2006, returns as a 20th-anniversary 2LP for Record Store Day Black Friday on Nov 27, with new packaging and "Organic Earth Brown" vinyl. The album features T.I., Ashanti, Snoop Dogg, Ludacris and Keyshia Cole, and it appears on both the UK and US lists.
Lomax Archive is releasing R.L. Burnside's "Jumper on the Line," recorded by Alan Lomax at Burnside's farm in Mississippi, as a 7-inch single for Record Store Day Black Friday on Nov 27. It is an exclusive on the US list and also appears on the UK and Ireland list.
Vinyl Metal
Carcass's fifth studio album, Swansong, turns 30 with a Record Store Day Black Friday LP on Nov 27, pressed on limited sunburst vinyl with an alternate artwork sleeve. It is on both the UK and US Black Friday lists, sold only at participating independent record shops.
Vinyl Metal
German thrash band Kreator's 1986 album Pleasure to Kill gets a 40th-anniversary LP with new cover artwork for Record Store Day Black Friday on Nov 27. It appears on both the UK and US Black Friday lists, on Noise Records, and is sold only through participating independent record shops.
Reissue label Panorama's next Discos Panorama 7-inch (PAN016) returns to Colombia, pairing "La Pava Congona" by accordionist Andrés Landero y Su Conjunto, a cumbia classic, with Afrosound's Colombian version of Manu Dibango's "Soul Makossa." Its distributor lists a release date of Oct 23.
Chess Records is reissuing Chuck Berry's 1970 album Back Home, which marked his return to the label, on Oct 23 in its Chess Acoustic Sounds Series. Like the rest of the series, it is remastered from the original analog tapes, pressed on 180-gram vinyl and packaged in a tip-on gatefold sleeve. Berry wrote every track, including "Tulane" and "Have Mercy Judge."
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Record Store Day has released its US list for Black Friday, Friday, Nov 27: exclusive, limited and first-release titles sold only at physical record stores, not on the RSD website. The list includes Miles Davis's Copenhagen Live 1969, Joni Mitchell's Live at Carnegie Hall 1972, a 30th-anniversary edition of Barenaked Ladies' Born on a Pirate Ship and a Beatles Rubber Soul LP.
Vinyl Soul, Funk & R&B
Record Store Day says participating US record stores will hold listening events on Sunday, Oct 18, offering an early listen to John Legend's new album MUSE, made with producer Pharrell Williams. The album reaches record stores on Oct 23 on CD and vinyl, plus a limited colored-vinyl edition sold only at record stores.
The Rotondes cultural centre in Luxembourg-Bonnevoie hosts its Foire aux Disques record fair on Sunday, Oct 18, from 10:00 to 18:00, with free entry. Around 50 record dealers from France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands are expected, selling vinyl, CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays and turntables.
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VOD Music's record fair returns to the Daniel Owen Centre in Mold, North Wales, on Saturday, Oct 24, from 10am to 4pm, with 19 dealer stalls and free entry. The fair started in 2006, runs three times a year, and rotates its dealers at every event.
Los Angeles label Stones Throw, founded by Peanut Butter Wolf in 1996, celebrated 30 years with Stones Throw 30, a three-day outdoor festival in Highland Park on Oct 16–18 featuring label artists past and present. NPR marked the anniversary with an oral history tracing the label from DJ battle records to releases by Madlib, MF DOOM and J Dilla.
Vinyl Jazz
Saxophonist Jan Garbarek's 1998 double album Rites came out on vinyl for the first time on Oct 16, as a 2LP in ECM's Luminessence series. The set comes in a tip-on gatefold sleeve with a booklet of lyrics, photos and the original CD material, and features Rainer Brüninghaus, Eberhard Weber, Marilyn Mazur and Bugge Wesseltoft.
Vinyl Pop
Legacy Recordings is marking 40 years of Cyndi Lauper's True Colors with an expanded 2LP on limited rainbow-sprinkle vinyl, shipping around Dec 4. It adds the previously unreleased song "The River Cried" and live tracks from her March 12, 1987 concert at Le Zénith in Paris, plus rare photos from the original album shoot.
Record Store Day UK has published its Black Friday list. Exclusive and limited releases go on sale at participating independent shops in the UK and Ireland from 8am on Friday, Nov 27. Titles include chamber versions of Florence + The Machine tracks, the first vinyl release of Sombr's In Another Life EP, and Vince Guaraldi Trio's A Charlie Brown Christmas in an advent-calendar sleeve.
Vinyl Classical
To mark Steve Reich's 90th birthday in October, Deutsche Grammophon reissued his landmark 1974 recording of Drumming on Oct 2 in its original three-LP format, in the Original Source Series. Recorded in Hamburg in January 1974, the set also includes Six Pianos and Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ, in a numbered limited box with a 32-page booklet.
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