Record Store Day Archives

The Cure To Release Double-LP Picture Disc of “Show” for Record Store Day

After sixteen years year of celebrating independent music retailers, Record Store Day has consolidated its pandemic-era drops back into one day: April 22. For fans of The Cure, Robert Smith…

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Siouxsie and The Banshees to Release Limited Edtion Vinyl of “A Kiss In The Dreamhouse” for Record Store Day

To celebrate four decades of Siouxsie and the Banshees’ 1982 classic A Kiss In The Dreamhouse, the groundbreaking album will be receiving a new pressing on clear and gold marbled…

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Cocteau Twins’ Elizabeth Fraser Unveils Lyric Video for Sun’s Signature’s “Underwater”

The opening of a window onto rapture Find the world shining in me The senses consciously holy Make love by touching fingertips Ex-Cocteau Twins chanteuse Elizabeth Fraser and her partner,…

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The Cure to Release “Faith” and “Wild Mood Swings” Picture Discs For Record Store Day

The Cure has two special offerings for this year’s official UK Record Store Day Drop on 17th July 2021. For the fortieth anniversary of the band’s third studio album Faith, the…

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News

Ministry Performs Late 80’s and Early 90’s “Wax Trax! Era Set” Last Night in Chicago for Record Store Day

Some who braved long Record Store Day lines yesterday were able to score tickets to attend a special Ministry’s performance in Chicago last night. The promise was that the concert…

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Watch Whispering Sons’ Spellbinding Live Session “On Image”

One of the best releases of 2018 was the full length debut album Image from Belgian post-punk 5 piece Whispering Sons. Today the band are premiering “ON IMAGE”—a live session…

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The Cure to Release New Compilation “Torn Down” and a Reissue of “Mixed Up” for This Year’s Record Store Day

UPDATE: Both Mixed Up and Torn Down confirmed to be released as 2 LP editions of 7000 copies each, with Torn Down being issued as picture discs. Good news Cure…

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Classic Bands

Listen to The The’s ‘We Can’t Stop What’s Coming’, their first single in 10 years—featuring Johnny Marr

The The’s Matt Johnson debuted his first new single under his band’s moniker in a decade. You can listen to it on Steve Lamacq’s BBC 6 Music show. Johnson phoned in to the program…

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Classic Bands

The Smiths to issue unreleased ‘Boy With The Thorn In His Side’ single for Record Store Day

Last year via Morrissey fan-site True to you, it was announced that two previously unreleased alternate versions of The Smiths The Boy With the Thorn in His Side and Rubber Ring were scheduled…

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The Cure are apparently releasing ‘Greatest Hits’ and ‘Acoustic Hits’ vinyl picture discs for Record Store Day

For this year’s Record Store Day The Cure appear to be releasing a pair of remastered vinyl picture-disc reissues. The records are 2001’s Greatest Hits compilation and a standalone issue of the Acoustic Hits disc…

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