Record Store Day 2021: Black Friday releases revealed

RSD returns this Black Friday - 26 November - with a showcase of special releases

Author: Alastair SteelPublished 16th Sep 2021
Last updated 25th Nov 2021

Record Store Day UK has released all of the exclusive records which will be hitting independent record stores on Black Friday 2021 (26 November).

For the event, over one hundred artists have come together to create and release limited edition vinyl records that will only be available from independent record stores in the UK - a reaction to the mass consumption of "Black Friday" culture.

See some of the releases we're excited about below...

Jazz FM's abridged RSD Black Friday 2021 release list:

Bill Evans - You Must Believe In Spring Craft Recordings

Chick Corea & Lionel Hampton - Live at Midem (Remastered) Reel Music

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Paris 1967 Sony CMG

Louis Armstrong - Original Grooves: A Gift To Pops Verve Records

Miles Davis - Live - Evil__ Song CMG

Sons of Kemet - African Cosmology Impulse! Records

The Staple Singers - The Twenty-Fifth Day Of December Craft Recordings

Tank & the Bangas - The BIG outside Verve Records

Thelonious Monk - Monk's Music (Stereo mix, remastered) Reel Music

Thundercat - The Golden Age of Apocalypse (Ten Year Anniversary Edition) Ninja Tune

Various - _Tickets For Doomsday: Heavy Psychedelic Funk, Soul, Ballads & Dirges 1970-1975_** Now-Again-Records

Various - You Got The Power: Cameo Parkway Northern Soul 1964-1967__ UMC

RSD Black Friday 2021 full list:

You can see the full list of releases here.

When is RSD Black Friday 2021?

RSD Black Friday 2021 will take place on the 26th of November 2021.

What is Record Store Day?

Typically, Record Store Day is the one day of the year when over 240 independent record shops all across the UK come together to celebrate their unique culture, beginning in 2007.

Special vinyl releases are made exclusively for the day and many shops and cities host artist performances and events to mark the occasion. Thousands of more shops celebrate the day around the globe in what’s become one of the biggest annual events on the music calendar.