RSD releases to watch
Goldmine published a buyer’s list of 10 Record Store Day releases to target and separately reported that producer Zev Feldman is behind 11 RSD 2026 releases — 10 archival titles and one rare reissue across jazz and blues. Both pieces ran as part of pre‑RSD coverage outlining collector priorities. ( )
Record Store Day’s April 18 drop is shaping up as a split market: mass-audience exclusives for line-waiters, and a deep bench of jazz-and-blues archival sets for collectors chasing scarcity. (recordstoreday.com) Record Store Day said its 2026 official list includes more than 350 special titles at participating stores, and Goldmine published a 10-release buyer’s guide on April 13, five days before the event. (recordstoreday.com, goldminemag.com) Goldmine’s list pulled from headline names including Bruce Springsteen, Robert Plant, Ethel Cain and Brandi Carlile, the same kind of artist mix that has made the annual list a queue-building event for independent shops. (goldminemag.com, goldminemag.com) A second Goldmine feature, also published April 13, said producer Zev Feldman is attached to 11 Record Store Day 2026 releases: 10 archival titles and one rare reissue. (goldminemag.com) That matters on Record Store Day because the event runs on limited pressing counts and one-day retail traffic, while archival jazz titles often compete on different terms: previously unreleased tapes, estate cooperation, new mastering and deluxe booklets. (recordstoreday.com, recordstoreday.com, recordstoreday.com) Record Store Day said the event began in 2008 after being conceived in 2007 as a celebration of independent record stores, and the official site now lists roughly 1,400 participating stores in the United States plus thousands more internationally. (recordstoreday.com, recordstoreday.com) Feldman’s 2026 slate spans multiple labels and estates rather than one branded series. Record Store Day release pages tie him to projects including Chet Baker and Jack Sheldon, Mal Waldron and Steve Lacy, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Yusef Lateef and B.B. King. (recordstoreday.com, recordstoreday.com, recordstoreday.com, recordstoreday.com, recordstoreday.com) Several of those releases are built around unreleased or hard-to-access recordings. The Mal Waldron and Steve Lacy set is described by Record Store Day as previously unreleased, and the B.B. King set is listed as a previously unissued 1977 live recording from France. (recordstoreday.com, recordstoreday.com) Packaging is part of the pitch. Record Store Day descriptions for Feldman-linked releases repeatedly cite 180-gram vinyl, restoration from original tape reels, new mastering and inserts or booklets with essays, interviews and rare photos. (recordstoreday.com, recordstoreday.com, recordstoreday.com) For buyers, that leaves two practical questions before Saturday: which mainstream exclusives will disappear first, and which archival titles have the smallest runs and the strongest provenance. Goldmine’s coverage answers both by treating the 2026 list as a hunt, not just a catalog. (goldminemag.com, goldminemag.com)
