The Fat Angel Sings

First ever release for this incredible live concert from Ian Dury and The Blockheads at London’s Dominion Theatre on Christmas Eve 1980, pressed exclusively for Record Store Day on Orange coloured 2LP.

Originally transmitted as a special TV performance for the ‘Old Grey Whistle Test’ on BBC2 TV and for John Peel on BBC Radio 1. Following on from the run of singles “Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3”, “I Want to Be Straight” and “Superman’s Big Sister” 1980 saw the release of new album “Laughter” by Ian Dury and The Blockheads.

The ‘Laughter’ tour took place in December 1980 and on Christmas Eve Ian Dury and The Blockheads performed at London’s Dominion Theatre live on Radio 1 and on TV via BBC2’s ‘Old Grey Whistle Test’ – introduced on TV by Annie Nightingale and on radio by John Peel.

With The Blockheads now featuring former Dr Feelgood frontman, Wilko Johnson on guitar taking the place of the now departed Chaz Jankel the live show also features additional musicians Don Cherry (father of Neneh) and Topper Headon (The Clash) in addition to the Blockheads line up of lan Dury, Davey Payne, John Turnbull, Norman Watt-Roy, Mickey Gallagher and Charlie Charles.

Pink Floyd “Live From the Los Angeles Sports Arena, April 26th, 1975” contains 16 live recordings captured by the renowned bootlegger Mike Millard at the band’s legendary Los Angeles Sports Arena concert on April 26th, 1975.

This live album was released in December as part of the “Wish You Were Here” 50th anniversary box set and was only available on Blu-ray at the time. This will be welcome news for fans who have been hoping for a standalone release.

Pressing details are as follows. On LP, 15,400 copies in the U.S. and 30,000 worldwide.

The audio has been lovingly restored and remastered by acclaimed producer and musician Steven Wilson. This Record Store Day exclusive vinyl version includes 4 LPs printed on clear vinyl.

FORMAT: BOXSET

First time ever vinyl release for this incredible live concert from Rainbow’s debut world tour and documenting one of the band’s first ever shows in Europe, at Cologne’s Kölner Sporthalle on 25th September 1976.

Released on 3LP with each disc pressed in a different colour of the Rainbow (Translucent Red, Yellow and Blue) and Newly Mastered by Andy Pearce & Matt Wortham When Rainbow finally landed in Europe for their debut live shows there, it was on the back of both the albums ‘Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow’ and ‘Rainbow Rising’ having charted, so the band were playing sold out venues, and what a band… with the line up consisting of Ritchie Blackmore, Ronnie James Dio, Cozy Powell, Jimmy Bain and Tony Carey

As one of the cornerstones of British Rock, Rainbow, led by the never-predictable but ever-astonishing guitarist, Ritchie Blackmore, became synonymous with some of the most well regarded and popular charting Rock songs of the seventies and eighties. This show recorded on the bands “Rainbow Rising” tour in 1976 in Cologne Germany, features stone cold classics such as ‘Stargazer’ and ‘Man on the Silver Mountain’.

This live album has only been available on CD pressings originally made 20 years ago, both as a single concert / as part of the Japan only 6-CD Box Set Deutschland Tournee 1976. Now nearly 50 years on from the original concert, the recording makes it’s debut appearance on a vinyl format with the audio Newly mastered by Andy Pearce & Matt Wortham

After 10 years apart, the influential alternative rock band, the Pixies, reunite for an all acoustic set at the Newport Folk Festival.

First time physical audio only release for Pixies unique first ever ‘Acoustic’ live performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 2005. This recording sees the reunited line-up of Frank Black, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and David Lovering give alternate takes on 22 of the biggest Pixies favourites and is released on 2LP colour vinyl (1 x Green, 1 x Yellow LP) exclusively for Record Store Day 2026, twenty years after it’s original release on DVD.

FORMAT: 2xLP

New official XTC bootleg series titled ‘Live Boots’ planned from 2026. The first release “Live Boots” LPs exclusive to Record Store Day

First of the series kicks off with one of the band’s renowned gigs from Emerald City, New Jersey in April 1981, This 2LP set cut by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering and pressed on 200-gram audiophile vinyl Most of this concert appears on the bootleg “Fab Foursome in Philly” (though it actually took place in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA). This is the full WMMR broadcast recording, with the downtime between encores removed.

New notes from all four original band members – Partridge / Moulding / Gregory & Chambers

Listening to this electric performance from April 1981 – for all of its sonic imperfections seems to confirm that status, making it even harder to accept that, within a year, XTC would play its final gigs.

XTC at that time was a performing machine capable of creating megawatts of excitement. Andy Partridge comments that “we were tighter than a firefly’s fundament that night, even more astounding was the adrenaline-soaked speed we took every song at”.

Released exclusively via Record Store Day, this 200-gram heavyweight (double) LP is the first time the concert will be officially available on vinyl and is also the first of a planned series of XTC official bootleg releases titled ‘Live Boots’

& drawn from the band’s archives with minimal audio restoration undertaken by cutting engineer Jason Mitchell working with Andy Partrdige.

XTC – “Live at Emerald City, Cherry Hill New Jersey”, 17th April 1981

FORMAT: 2xLP

Released at the end of the initial period of Wire’s 3rd act – after Send and before the band’s post-Bruce Gilbert re-invention – “Read & Burn 03” never quite got the attention it deserved. However the opening track “23 Years Too Late”, with its tour narrative text and motorik rhythm stands as one of the band’s finest achievements of any era in the view of both core fans & the band (a rare point of agreement!).

The original EP, 3rd in the “Read & Burn” series and the one not compiled on to the “Send” album, was the last non-historic release by the original Wire line up of Colin Newman, Graham Lewis, Bruce Gilbert & Robert Grey and has never been properly released on vinyl.

The 2026 version brings the original 4 tracks and adds 3 more. While some of the tracks originated as part of the 2001-2002 sessions that gave forth “Send”, others have a more storied history. “23 Years Too Late” actually started life as a highly transformed cover of the 70’s Wire single “Dot Dash” – performed under the name Dip Flash as part of Iain Sinclair’s London Orbital, a night at the Barbican London on 25th October 2002, celebrating London’s M25 motorway (AKA The Orbital).

The never previously released piece in its original form is included as an additional track. Meanwhile “Desert Diving” actually started life as a version of the “Chairs Missing” track “Heartbeat” as performed live at the Garage, London during Wire’s series of concerts there in May 2000. The original version of “Our Time and an alternate mix of “Desert Diving” are the other additional tracks.

The CD & digital versions will add the 3:17 edit of “23 Years Too Late” which will also serve as the lead track for promo purposes.

Witness the monumental tour that brought Yes’s most ambitious work to life with this limited 3xLP vinyl breakout of the legendary live performances from the 1973-74 tour of “Tales From Topographic Oceans” era. This set captures the raw, metamorphic energy of the band pushing the edges of the known world, featuring full, soaring live versions of all four epic album sides, including a rare take on “The Remembering“.

When the album came out, it took time for some fans and critics to catch up with the band, as writer Syd Schwartz of Jazz & Coffee recalls in the set’s liner notes. “Consensus was never the point,” he says. “Tales from Topographic Oceans” will continue to be debated, dismissed, defended, and rediscovered. Its resistance to easy categorization is not a failure—it’s the reason it endures. It’s a vast, unknowable ocean of sound and spirit. And it still hasn’t finished revealing itself.”

Schwartz also notes the album would be a turning point for the future Rock and Roll Hall of Fame® inductees and GRAMMY® winners: “Without Tales, there’s no Relayer. No pivot to leaner, sharper structures in the later ’70s. No map gets drawn without first pushing the edges of the known world — and Tales is where YES did exactly that.”

Don’t miss this chance to own a document of the band’s demanding material and live moments of discovery.

FORMAT: LP BOXSET

Fresh off the media and college radio success of his debut EP “Places That Are Gone” in 1984, Tommy Keene took his band back into the studio for his follow-up full-length album. Funded by North Carolina independent label Dolphin Records, Keene enlisted emerging production stars T-Bone Burnett and Don Dixon to record the tracks at Reflection Sound Studios in Charlotte – recently the home of R.E.M. for their “Murmur” and “Reckoning” sessions.

The resulting completed album is presented here for the first time in it’s intended mixes and sequencing. Geffen Records picked up Tommy’s contract (and this album) in 1985, and subsequently shelved these versions and re-recorded the whole project with Geoff Emerick producing.

Released in 1986, that was the only version of “Songs From The Film” available – until now. So, forty years later and for the first time on vinyl, a hidden power pop classic makes it’s debut on Record Store Day 2026.

By the dawn of the 1990’s The Verlaines had parted company with long-time New Zealand indie label Flying Nun. Looking to increase their profile in the Northern Hemisphere (where their previous albums had made an impact through the likes of U.S. College Radio), they signed with Los Angeles based Slash Records.

“Ready To Fly”, was the first of two releases with the label, appearing in 1991. Recorded in Sydney, Australia, Trouser Press praised the albums 12 songs, saying “… throw in Downes’ strongest bunch of guitar-pop tunes and you’ve got the Verlaines’ best LP to date.

Indeed, some of the band’s most enduring material can be found on “Ready To Fly”, in particular “War In My Head”, “Gloom Junky” and the titular track with it’s grand orchestration.

Released for Record Store Day 2026 for the very first time on Blue Jay Opaque coloured vinyl on with remastering by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road Studios.

This is a 2026 Record Store Day Release.

Hear Joan Jett & the Blackhearts blaze through a set of hits at one of the most exciting times in the band’s career. This New Years Eve show celebrated the totality of 1981- a year that saw the release of Joan Jett & the Blackhearts’ explosive intro record ‘Bad Reputation’ and their unstoppable follow-up ‘I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll.’

Performed live at an East Village staple of concerts and nightlife, experience all these influential no-frills rock’n’roll gems including Bad Reputation,” “Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah),” “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll” and “Crimson and Clover.” RSD 2026 Exclusive Black Vinyl

“LIVE AT THE RITZ NYC 1981”