The annual event will be held on April 20th
Organizers of Record Store Day, the largest single-day music event in the world that celebrates brick-and-mortar indie record stores worldwide, have released The List for 2024. The titles on the RSD 2024 Official List will be released at participating record stores as part of their celebration of Record Store Day on Saturday, April 20th.
We have shared some highlights of this year’s List below, which include titles by Ateez, The Beatles, The Black Crowes, David Bowie, Dwight Yoakam, Eric Church, The Doors, Fleetwood Mac, Garbage, Grateful Dead, Elton John, Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Willie Nelson, Paramore, Pearl Jam, Queen, The Rolling Stones, U2, and many others.
Ateez is the Record Store Day K-Pop Artist of the Year and will release a special edition of The World EP: Fin: Will (X Version). on clear vinyl or black ice vinyl version, distributed at random. The package includes a photo ticket (one image out of eight, distributed at random), three postcards and one poster as well as a bonus 7-inch single with two bonus songs.
Apple will celebrate The Beatles’ 60th anniversary of appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show by releasing “She Loves You,” “Till There Was You,” “I Want To Hold Your Hand,” and “I Saw Her Standing There” recorded on the program in 1964. Each of the singles, released independently as 3-inch records, will be housed in an outer box with a picture sleeve and poster, and be limited to 1,500 each. A Beatles-branded 3-inch turntable with carrying case will also be offered in limited quantities.
The Black Crowes’ first album in 15 years will be released on March 15th. For RSD the band is bringing a 7-inch containing the album’s first single, “Wanting and Waiting” and a previously unreleased song from the recording session entitled “Morsels for Mongrels.” The package is limited to 2,000 copies.
David Bowie fans can pick up Waiting in the Sky (Before The Starman Came To Earth) on limited edition vinyl. The album is taken from the Trident Studios 1/4-inch stereo tapes dated 15th December 1971, which were created for the then-provisional track listing of what would become The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars album. The track listing runs differently from the Ziggy Stardust album and features four songs that didn’t make the final album. The set is limited to 8,000 copies globally.
Dwight Yoakam will issue The Beginning And Then Some box which includes the prolific singer, songwriter, and accomplished musician’s debut album Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., alongside his other successful 1980s releases and an exclusive full disc of rarities from the decade. Available on both vinyl and CD for Record Store Day 2024 and limited to 5,000 copies.
Country outlaw Eric Church will issue Caldwell County, a four-track EP of rare tracks Church released digitally in 2011. Previously unreleased in any physical format, Caldwell County will be available as a 7-inch EP Record Store Day 2024 as an RSD First Release limited to 9,000 copies.
The Doors will release Live at Konserthuset, Stockholm which features a live radio broadcast from September 20, 1968, which has never before received an official release. The comprehensive set includes rare live performances of “Mack The Knife,” “Love Street,” and “You’re Lost Little Girl.” It’s a great-sounding recording of a great performance of The Doors during their infamous 1968 European Tour with Jefferson Airplane. The package will be available as a 3 LP box set and 2 CD set.
Fleetwood Mac’s 21x platinum-certified 1977 album Rumours will be released on picture disc for the very first time! Rumours became the band’s most celebrated album and one of the best-selling albums of all time. Featuring the hit singles “Dreams,” “The Chain,” “Go Your Own Way” & “Don’t Stop,” 7,500 copies will be pressed.
Garbe will issue Lie To Me, featuring four new unreleased tracks from the highly influential alternative rock band. The set will be pressed on limited transparent lime-colored vinyl with 2,500 copies available. The EP features a stunning cover of This Mortal Coil’s “Song To The Siren” and a new remix of their classic hit “Bad Boyfriend” featuring Dave Grohl, as well as two more unheard tracks.
Deadheads beware! The Grateful Dead will release Nightfall of Diamonds, a complete show from 10/16/89, available for the first time on 180-gram 4 LP with an eighth-side etching in a worldwide limited edition of 10,000. Featuring “Dark Star,” “Attics Of My Life,” Uncle John’s Band” and more, the set was mixed from the 24-track analog tapes and newly mastered by Jeffrey Norman, and produced for release by David Lemieux.
Caribou, Elton John’s fourth album to claim the top spot on the charts in the US and his third in the UK, showcases hits like “Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me” and “The Bitch Is Back.” In honor of the 50th anniversary of its release, a Record Store Day release awaits enthusiasts: a vivid double blue-sky-vinyl edition, with LP 2 housing session demos and rarities. The set is limited to 3,000 copies as an RSD First Release.
Willie Nelson fans can pick up Long Story Short: Willie Nelson 90 — Live At The Hollywood Bowl Volume II featuring highlights from his 90th birthday celebration last year in Hollywood. Artists performing songs from every era of his unparalleled seven-decade career include Willie plus The Avett Brothers, Edie Brickell, Rosanne Cash, Sheryl Crow, Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris, Warren Haynes, Daniel Lanois, Lyle Lovett, Shooter Jennings, Jack Johnson, Jamey Johnson, Booker T. Jones, Kris Kristofferson, Lukas Nelson, Particle Kid, Orville Peck, Margo Price, Nathanial Rateliff, Keith Richards, Charlie Sexton, Snoop Dogg, George Strait, Billy Strings and Dwight Yoakam. The 2 LP set will be an RSD Exclusive with 4,500 copies available.
Nelson’s 1974 classic, Phases and Stages, is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2024 with a 2 LP RSD Exclusive of 4,500 copies. If Shotgun Willie played a bit like a concept album, Phases and Stages was full-blown, tracing the dissolution of a marriage and devoting one side to the wife’s perspective, the second to the husband’s…. Phases and Stages is easily the equal of its remarkable predecessor, a wonderful set of music that resonates deeply, as deeply as the words.
Paramore is sharing a pair of releases with Re:This is Why and Re: This Is Why (Remix). The set makes its physical debut with contributions by indie darlings Bartees Strange, Claud and Wet Leg, Paramore touring partners Foals, The Linda Lindas and Remi Wolf, jazz geniuses DOMi & JD Beck, and alternative electronic wizards Panda Bear, Romy and Zane Lowe. The album also includes Paramore’s demo of the album track “Sanity.” The deluxe package contains both the original This Is Why album, and Re: This Is Why and celebrates Paramore serving as Record Store Day 2024 Ambassadors.
More than four decades after it first appeared on Queen’s tenth studio album, Hot Space, “Cool Cat” is being released as a limited edition 7-inch pink vinyl single, exclusively for Record Store Day 2024. Making its debut as an A-side, this marks the seventh single from the 1982 album. The B-side features a new, previously unreleased instrumental mix of the track. “Cool Cat” was co-written by bassist John Deacon and singer Freddie Mercury and includes a rare falsetto lead vocal performance from the flamboyant frontman. Only 2,000 copies will be pressed.
The Rolling Stones will release a pair of discs for RSD 2024. To celebrate 60 years since its original release, The Rolling Stones UK edition is being released in a special bespoke package exclusively for the event. The remarkable, groundbreaking album arrives like a jet-fueled rush of white-hot R&B – just like a night down at The Crawdaddy Club in 1963, as the band stamped their mark on a series of classics such as “Route 66,” “Carol,” and “Can I Get A Witness.” Pressed on 180-gram blue/black swirled vinyl, this limited edition release includes a lithograph with images by Terry O’Neill and stamp-numbering on the jacket.
The group will also release Live At Racket, NYC, featuring seven tracks the band performed at the intimate launch event on October 19, 2023, with debut live performances of “Angry,” “Bite My Head Off,” “Whole Wide World,” and “Sweet Sounds of Heaven (with Lady Gaga).” Previously only available as a bonus disc on the 2 CD Live Edition of Hackney Diamonds, the band’s first studio album of new material since 2005. Available on 180-gram heavyweight solid white vinyl for Record Store Day 2024 and limited to 7,000 copies.
U2 will commemorate its globally acclaimed 40-date run of its pioneering show U2:UV Achtung Baby Live At Sphere in Las Vegas with Atomic City (U2/UV Live at Sphere, Las Vegas). Featuring a new live performance recording of “Atomic City” captured at the world’s most cutting-edge venue, alongside a remix by Mike WiLL Made-It, available for the first time physically. Pressed on a 10-inch transparent red vinyl with a poster included, the limited edition set is an RSD First release with 3,000 available.
