Record Store Day: Legends & Live Sets
With Record Store Day on April 18 just over a week away, Robert Plant was named a Record Store Legend and his project Saving Grace — featuring singer Suzi Dian — will release a four‑track EP called Saving Grace: All That Glitters this year; meanwhile, the event will include live in‑store performances in Australia from acts like Hermitude and Kee’ahn. ( )
Robert Plant is getting a new honor from Record Store Day just as the event heads into its April 18, 2026 edition, and the tribute comes with new music attached instead of just a plaque. Record Store Day named Plant its latest “Record Store Legend,” and his current project Saving Grace is releasing a four-track vinyl EP called *Saving Grace: All That Glitters… with Suzi Dian*. (recordstoreday.com, recordstoreday.com) That award is not handed out every year to just anyone. Record Store Day says Elton John was the first recipient in 2017, Johnny Marr received it in 2025, and the 2026 honor is a joint recognition from the United States and United Kingdom arms of the event. (recordstoreday.co.uk, everettpost.com) The release itself is built like the kind of record-store find that makes people line up before opening time. The official Record Store Day listing says the EP contains four new studio recordings: “Blackest Crow,” “Poison,” “Orphan Girl,” and “She Cried.” (recordstoreday.com, recordstoreday.com) Saving Grace is not a reunion act or a one-off side project. Record Store Day describes it as a continuation of Plant’s 2025 *Saving Grace* album, made with singer Suzi Dian and a band of musicians from the English countryside around Plant’s home. (recordstoreday.co.uk, thatericalper.com) That helps explain why this Record Store Day story feels different from a standard catalog reissue. Plant is being honored for a long career, but the exclusive item tied to the award points to his current roots-and-folk direction with Suzi Dian rather than to Led Zeppelin-era nostalgia. (recordstoreday.co.uk, recordstoreday.com) Record Store Day itself is still built around independent shops, not arena stages. The Australian organizers say the event returns on Saturday, April 18, 2026, as part of a global celebration centered on independently owned record stores and the local communities around them. (recordstoreday.com.au, recordstoreday.com.au) In Australia, that local-store idea is turning into a full day of in-person sets inside the shops. Record Store Day Australia’s event listings include live appearances from acts such as Hermitude at Bondi Records in Sydney and Kee’ahn at Dutch Vinyl in Melbourne, alongside giveaways, disc jockey sets, and exclusive vinyl drops. (recordstoreday.com.au, bluntmag.com.au) The Bondi Records listing shows how these events work on the ground. On April 18 at 9:00 a.m., the store is advertising more than 350 exclusive Record Store Day titles plus performances by Hermitude, Egoism, and in-store disc jockeys, which turns a retail queue into something closer to a one-day mini festival. (recordstoreday.com.au, recordstoreday.com.au) So the 2026 picture is two stories meeting in the same aisle. One side is Robert Plant being folded into Record Store Day’s small list of “Legend” honorees, and the other is the event doubling down on the reason it exists at all: getting people into independent shops for records, performances, and discoveries they cannot stream from a phone. (recordstoreday.com, recordstoreday.com.au)
