Record Store Day: Black Friday 2025 is Around the Corner
Here are some titles from this year's Black Friday release line up that caught our attention
For Black Friday, the organization behind Record Store Day issues a smaller round of exclusive vinyl titles. Just like Record Store Day in April, we will receive exclusive titles for this day: unique colour pressings, first-time releases, special editions, and limited runs you won’t find anywhere else.
Sam Fender & Olivia Dean contribute Black Friday with a limited 7″ built around a newly re-worked version of Rein Me In, originally from Fender’s No. 1 album People Watching, now featuring a fresh verse and vocal arrangement by Dean, plus the live duet recorded at London Stadium in front of 80,000 people. Two significant catalog titles accompany it. Prince and The Revolution’s Around the World in a Day returns as a limited Black Friday box-set of five colored 7″ singles, marking the album’s 40th anniversary with a format that highlights its kaleidoscopic singles and artwork. Bob Dylan – The Original Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan presents the album in its early, unreleased configuration, restoring four tracks removed before the 1963 release, offering a rare view into the record’s original shape and the version Dylan and the studio assembled before last-minute changes.
More Black Friday specials! Faithless mark three decades of Insomnia with a 12″ zoetrope Black Friday edition that replicates the original 1995 tracklist and the iconic Cheeky Records die-cut sleeve. Ween’s Shinola Vol. 1 returns for its 20th anniversary. The compilation features a collection of demos, b-sides, and oddities recorded between 1990 and 2003, reissued as a color-vinyl exclusive. Miles Davis’ Live at the Plugged Nickel: December 23, 1965 – Set Two features a standalone 2×LP pulled from the full Plugged Nickel box, featurting one of Miles Davis's most iconic recordings. Must have for Jazz lovers!
Billie Eilish – Live brings together recordings from Amazon’s Songline sessions — material never before available on a physical format Talking Heads – Tentative Decisions: Demos & Live brings together newly uncovered recordings from the band’s earliest years, including the 1974 demo tape Byrne and Frantz made while still at RISD, plus additional trio-era demos and live cuts from 1975–76 with Tina Weymouth—early versions of “Psycho Killer” and “Warning Sign” showing the group in its formative state. The Doors – Live in Copenhagen, 1968 surfaces for the first time in full for RSD Black Friday 2025, capturing both sets from their September 17 performance at the Falkoner Center, restored across two clear LPs and featuring peak-era renditions of “Break On Through,” “Light My Fire,” and “Hello, I Love You.”
GloRilla’s Ehhthang Ehhthang receives its first vinyl release as a neon-yellow RSD Black Friday edition, collecting the breakout singles “Yeah Glo!,” “All Dere,” and the “Wanna Be” remix with Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B. Son Volt’s Trace (30th Anniversary Black Friday Edition) returns with its first U.S. pressing in a decade, expanding the landmark 1995 alt-country album with a second LP of bonus tracks. Wicked for Good: The Soundtrack, a Picture Disc 2LP Black Friday exclusive featuring alternate artwork, printed inner sleeves, and a poster. The collection brings together performances from Universal’s upcoming Wicked: For Good film.
Post Malone – Long Bed appears on vinyl for the first time in occasion of Black Friday, gathering nine tracks from the digital deluxe edition of F-1 Trillion and pressed on neon-orange vinyl for the occasion. Dbpm 15, a Wilco-affiliated LP collecting B-sides and rarities from across fifteen years of the band’s label — a compact look at side material from Wilco, Jeff Tweedy, Daniel Johnston, and related projects. And one of many projects on Strata-East spearheaded by bassist, composer, and arranger Bill Lee (legendary director Spike Lee’s father), The Descendants of Mike and Phoebe’s only album, A Spirit Speaks, enlists Lee’s brother and sisters - Cliff Lee, Grace Lee Mims, and Consuela Lee Moorhead - to form a group named in tribute to their enslaved ancestors. Combining elements of jazz, gospel, soul, and blues, among other influences, A Spirit Speaks has become one of the most sought-after albums from the catalog.