Rockefeller Center RSD

Rockefeller Center will turn into a daylong Record Store Day festival on Saturday, April 18, with free concerts, DJ sets and exclusive vinyl sales centered on Rough Trade. (rockefellercenter.com) Rockefeller Center says the fifth annual iNDIEPLAZA runs from noon to 9 p.m. at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, while Rough Trade opens at 9 a.m. for shopping before the plaza performances start. (rockefellercenter.com) Time Out New York reported the event is expected to draw tens of thousands of fans and described it as the world’s largest Record Store Day celebration, a claim echoed by Rough Trade on its United States site. (timeout.com) (roughtrade.com) Record Store Day is a one-day push for independent record shops that started in 2008, and the official site says roughly 1,400 independently owned stores in the United States now take part, with thousands more internationally. (recordstoreday.com) The official 2026 rules are the same ones that drive the early lines: Record Store Day says the releases arrive only through participating brick-and-mortar stores on April 18, there are no preorders, and each store chooses its own stock. (recordstoreday.com) The headline titles in New York are part of that official 2026 release list. Record Store Day lists Taylor Swift’s “Elizabeth Taylor” on 7-inch vinyl, Paramore’s “All We Know Is Falling (Deluxe)” as a two-LP set of 7,000 copies, Charli xcx’s “party 4 u” as an 8,000-copy 7-inch, and Weezer’s “1192” as a 3,000-copy “Record Store Day First” LP. (recordstoreday.com 1) (recordstoreday.com 2) (recordstoreday.com 3) (recordstoreday.com 4) Rockefeller Center’s current event page lists a live bill led by Say She She, Incendiary, Hotline TNT, Momma, Winter, Friko, Nuovo Testamento and Weird Nightmare, with DJ sets from Avalon Emerson, Soul in the Horn and Saint Virgil. (rockefellercenter.com) The site also lists food vendors including Ace’s Pizza, FieldTrip, Lobel’s, Madras Dosa Co. and Lil Sweet Treat, turning the plaza into an all-day street fair as much as a record release line. (rockefellercenter.com) For families, Time Out New York reported that TiNY iNDIE runs from 9:30 a.m. to noon with ticketed activities including DIY vinyl-making and tie-dyeing before the main plaza program begins. (timeout.com) By Saturday morning, the center of Record Store Day in Midtown will be a familiar New York scene: a line outside Rough Trade, a plaza full of bands by noon, and shoppers chasing records that the official rules say may never be repressed in the same form. (rockefellercenter.com) (recordstoreday.com)