Including exclusive releases from Talking Heads, David Bowie, At the Drive-In, South Park, and Siouxsie and the Banshees
Record Store Day 2024
by Scoop Harrison and Eddie Fu
Record store Day has revealed the extensive list of limited edition vinyl, box sets, and other speciality releases that will be available as part of its 2024 edition taking place on Saturday, April 20th, 2024.
This year promises exclusive wax from Talking Heads, David Bowie, At the Drive-In, South Park, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Daft Punk, 100 gecs, Blur, The Replacements, Screaming Trees, Sonic Youth, Gene Clark, Fleet Foxes, and more.
You can find specifics on some of the most notable releases below, and find many more detailed at the Record Store Day website.
A live recording of Talking Heads’ November 1977 performance at WCOZ will be available as a 2xLP collection, featuring seven previously unheard songs from the original two-track tapes.
An early version of David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, dubbed Waiting in the Sky (Before The Starman Came To Earth), will be released on vinyl. This version is taken from the Trident Studio quarter-inch tapes dated December 15th, 1971, and features four songs that didn’t make the final album.
At the Drive-In’s long out-of-print sophomore album, In/Casino/Out, is being repressed on limited-edition purple and green smoke vinyl.
A live recording of South Park: The 25th Anniversary Concert will be available on vinyl for the first time. The 3xLP set is pressed on “Towelie-Blue” vinyl and features the show’s creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, performing alongside Primus and Ween.
Siouxsie and the Banshees will celebrate the 40th anniversary of their live album Nocturne with a 2xLP half-speed reissue featuring a new gatefold sleeve.
Daft Punk’s “Something About Us (Love Theme From Interstella 5555)” will be released on 12-inch vinyl.
Blur are reissuing Parklife on limited-edition zoetrope picture disc.
Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s newly announced album, FU##IN’ UP, will be available as a limited-edition clear double LP.
Pearl Jam’s new album, Dark Matter, will be pressed on exclusive yellow and black ghostly vinyl.
100 gecs will release their Snake Eyes EP on die-cut vinyl that’s shaped like a weed leaf.
A never-before-heard live recording of Nat King Cole’s 1953 residency at the Blue Note Chicago will be released, featuring restored audio from the original tapes.
A 10th anniversary edition of Freddie Gibbs & Madlib’s Piñata will be released with new artwork on half speed-lacquered vinyl.
Not Ready for Prime Time, a limited edition 2xLP recording of The Replacements’ original lineup performing at Chicago’s Cabaret Metro in January 1986, will be released.
George Harrison’s Electronic Sound and Wonderwall Music will be released on zoetrope picture disc to kick off a multi-year initiative to reissue the late Beatles’ entire studio album catalog.
Screaming Trees will release Strange Things Happening – The Ellensburg Demos 1986-88, featuring early recordings captured on guitarist Gary Lee Conner’s four-track machine.
A pair of previously unreleased Sun Ra performances will be unearthed: Sun Ra at the Showcase: Live in Chicago collects live recordings of the jazz musician performing live at Joe Segal’s Jazz Showcase in Chicago in 1976 and 1977, while Inside The Light World: Sun Ra Meets The OVC is a newly discovered session from 1986.
A previously unreleased recording of Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s November 1966 concert at the Grand Theatre in Limoges, France will be released. The 180-gram 2xLP was transferred from the original tape reels.
A career-spanning collection of Sonic Youth songs titled Hits Are for Squares will be reissued on Gold Nugget vinyl, featuring handpicked selections from Eddie Vedder, Flea, Radiohead, Catherine Keener, and Chloe Sevigny.
No Other Sessions (1974-2024: 50 Years of No Other) collects outtakes from Gene Clark’s fourth album, No Other, for the first time.
Sparks’ No. 1 In Heaven is being reissued on white vinyl.
Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros’ debut album, Rock Art and the X-Ray Style, is receiving a pink vinyl reissue for its 25th anniversary.
Death Cab for Cutie will release Live at the Showbox, a 17-track recording of songs performed during a three-night stand at Seattle’s Showbox in late February 2020. It marks the collection’s first-ever physical release.
Fleet Foxes will release Live on Boston Harbor, a 3xLP recording of a two-hour, career-spanning set performed in August 2022.
Sleater-Kinney will release a translucent red 7-inch vinyl containing “This Time” and “Here Today,” two bonus tracks from the original recording sessions for their latest album, Little Rope.
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will release a 7-inch vinyl called Magic Secrets No. 2, featuring their demo tracks for “In a Little While” and “Love Will Tear Us Apart.”
Wilco will release The Whole Love Expanded, a 3xLP box set collection material from their 2011 album including all related single, EP and bonus tracks, plus a selection from The Loft’s archive of live in-studio performances and previously unreleased alternate mixes and demos.
The Doors’ 1968 concerts in Stockholm, Sweden will be collected in a new 2xCD, 3xLP set. The recordings have been mixed and mastered from the original four-track tapes by Bruce Botnick, the band’s longtime engineer and mixer.
The Weeknd will release his first live album, Live at SoFi Stadium, which was recorded during two November 2022 concerts on his “After Hours til Dawn Tour.”
De La Soul will release a recording of their 1996 performance at New York’s famous Tramps nightclub, featuring appearances from the then-unknown rapper FKA Mos Def (now known as Yasiin Bey), Common, and the Jungle Brothers.
Finally, to coincide with Record Store Day falling on 4/20, Cheech and Chong will reissue the soundtrack for their 1978 film Up in Smoke on smoky green vinyl.
First published at Consequence Sound, February 15, 2024
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