record store day

Listen to "Abducted" from Cults' limited Record Store Day 7" over at NPR.

Sub Pop is releasing a free 2011 label sampler this Saturday for Record Store Day, featuring tracks from Lower Dens, Fleet Foxes, Dum Dum Girls, Memoryhouse, and many more, including this spacey jam from Seattle's Shabazz Palaces, which does not appear on the group's album-of-the-year-contender debut long-player, Black Up: Shabazz Palaces :: Lost Foundling __________ In other Sub Pop/RSD news, l

San Francisco's Ty Segall is set to drop one of Record Store Day's most essential releases on Saturday, April 16, as he rips through 6 Marc Bolan classics on his new T. Rex covers EP, Ty Rex. One of the highlights on the limited 12" is Segall's soulful, fuzzed-out take on "Fist Heart Mighty Dawn Dart," the 1970 psych-folk jammer from a not-yet-quite-fully-glammed-out Bolan... Rea

Download two free songs from Dum Dum Girls, including I Will Be standout "Bhang Bhang, I'm a Burnout," as well as their contribution to the Record Store Day exclusive split 7" with Male Bonding, "Pay for Me." previously: mp3: *******

Our friends at Mexican Summer just sent over a list of their upcoming releases, and in addition to some pretty rad and extremely limited Record Store Day exclusives (see above) that will be available on Saturday, they've also got some great releases planned in the coming months from the Mantles, the Bitters, the Samps (Cole of Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti), Ramases, Dunes, and more...

Taken from Beach House's limited Record Store Day-exclusive Zebra EP, out this weekend on Sub Pop: mp3: EDIT: Stream "The Arrangement," another track from the EP, below: Catch Beach House + Washed Out next week here in Dallas at their sold out show at the Granada Theater...

Of all the outstanding exclusive releases I picked up on Record Store Day, the highlight is without question Neil Young's incredible Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 2xLP, which is available today for the first time on 200g vinyl. Released late last year on cd, the record documents a then-22-year-old Young's first post-Buffalo Springfield solo performances, at the Canterbury House in Ann