Record Store Day has unveiled the lists of releases making it to independent music houses around the world next month, with an eye-popping raft of specials and exclusives for Australia and other countries being unveiled today.
From a local exclusive perspective, punters can look forward to special-edition releases including a new vinyl release of A.B. Original's AMP-winning Reclaim Australia, pressed into the colours of the Indigenous flag, Totally Unicorn's Horse Hugger, Tom Iansek's Oz-exclusive Small Town Hero, Top Of The Tree, Methyl Ethel's Architecture Lecture/Lagotto Romagnolo,Dirty Three's UFKUKO EP and more.
Also on the plate here and internationally are crowd-pleasers including a panoply of Prince single re-releases (including Batdance, Partyman, Sign 'O' The Times and more), exclusive action from the late David Bowie, the 10th-anniversary re-release of Alexisonfire's seminal Crisis, The Cure's Greatest Hits and Acoustic Hits, Santana's Live At Woodstock, Coheed & Cambria's third album, the ostentatiously titled Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume I: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble's Live At Carnegie Hall, a shaped picture disc of Toto's Africa and Rosanna, Ben Folds and the WA Symphony Orchestra's Live In Perth and even Johnny Cash's The Johnny Cash Children's Album, among a pile of other appealing records.
Also pretty exciting is the news out of the UK that The The will be releasing their first single in 15 years with new cut You Can't Stop What's Coming — casually announced by long-time collaborator Johnny Marr on Twitter — while, notably, American RSD stores will be stocking a vinyl pressing of the Space Jam soundtrack (OK fine, yes, and a bunch of other cool releases).
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Record Store Day 2017 is Saturday 22 April.
Both the UK and US have full lists of their releases available online (here and here, respectively), while Australia's is a little less centralised but still easily searchable via the local Record Store Day website; we've done our best to compile the list as it stands at the time of writing.
In alphabetical order, you'll be able to get your mitts on (probably among several other titles):
2016 Golden Era Cypher
A.B. Original — Reclaim Australia (Indigenous flag-coloured vinyl)
Alexisonfire — Crisis
Alice In Chains — Get Born Again/What The Hell Have I (double 7" single)
Animal Collective — Meeting Of The Waters EP
Anna Calvi — Live At Meltdown
Anni-Frid Lyngstad — Frida
Auli'i Cravalho — How Far I'll Go B/W You're Welcome
Bastille — Comfort Of Strangers
Ben Folds & WASO — Live In Perth
Black Lips — Good Bad Not Evil, 200 Million Thousand, Arabia Mountain and Underneath The Rainbow
Blackstreet — No Diggity
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band — Hammersmith 1975
Catfish & The Bottlemen — The Balcony
Coheed & Cambria — Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. I: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness
Curtis Knight ft. Jimi Hendrix — Live At George's Club 20
Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin — Hard Travelin'
David Bowie — Cracked Actor
Dennis Wilson — Bambu (The Caribou Sessions)
Dirty Three — UFKUKO
Dolly Parton — Puppy Love
Elton John — 17/11/1970
Field Music — Tones Of Town
Filthy Friends — Any Kind Of Crowd
Flat Duo Jets — Wild Wild Love
Follakzoid ft. J Spaceman — London Sessions LP
Gerard Way — Into The Cave We Wander (12" picture disc)
Prince — Little Red Corvette (7" picture disc), Sign 'O' The Times, Batdance, I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man, I Wish U Heaven, Partyman, Pop Life
Procol Harum — A Whiter Shade Of Pale (50th anniversary EP)
Ra Ra Riot — Ra Ra Riot EP
Robert Johnson — The Complete Recordings: The Centennial Collection
Santana — Live At The Woodstock Music & Art Fair, August 16, 1969
Sex Pistols — God Save Sex Pistols
Soul Assassins — Muggs Presents: The Soul Assassins Chapter 1
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble — Live At Carnegie Hall
Sublime — Badfish EP
T Rex — Electric Warrior (gold vinyl)
The Black Angels — Death Song
The Chemical Brothers — C-H-E-M-I-C-A-L
The Cure — Greatest Hits and Acoustic Hits
The Gun Club — Live At Manila Club, Florence, Italy, 26 November 1983
The Lumineers — Seeds 1: Angela & Long Way From Home
The Veldt — Symmetry B/W Slowdown
The Who — Quadrophenia (green vinyl)
Tom Iansek — Small Town Hero, Top Of The Tree
Totally Unicorn — Horse Hugger
Toto — Africa/Rosanna picture disc
Townes Van Zandt — Live At Austin City Limits
Trevor Jones — The Dark Crystal: The Original Soundtrack
