Cage the Elephant, More Announce RSD Black Friday Titles

While it’s still feeling like summer in Music City, we are a couple weeks into fall, and that fifth little season we have made up called “Holiday” is on the horizon. Record Store Day Black Friday, the annual shopping event organized to steer you toward our wealth of mom-and-pop record shops the day after Thanksgiving, has released its full slate of exclusive titles.

There are some 175 limited-run special editions and “RSD First” titles coming for 2025 (that willl be available at indie stores first and elsewhere later). Some notable titles with Nashville ties include a live record from Kentucky-bred rock outfit Cage the Elephant, a double-LP set descriptively titled Live From The Vic in Chicago. In the wake of her July LP Period, Kesha has a Christmas greeting in the form of a 7-inch featuring her cover of “Holiday Road.” Southern rocker Marcus King recently released his new album Darling Blue, and a collection of bonus tracks called No Room for Blue is among the RSDBF exclusives this year.

Ehhthang Ehhthang, marvelous Memphis MC GloRilla’s gold-certified mixtape, gets a special RSD First release for its vinyl debut. Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes’ sleeper of a solo album In Flight gets its first vinyl repress since the initial release in 1996. The Minstrel Show, a standout 2005 album from hip-hop trio Little Brother, gets a 20th anniversary edition on two discs. A 7-inch of Chappell Roan’s “The Subway” backed with “The Giver” will likely be among the most popular items (note the quantity of 30,000 copies set to be available nationwide). Same goes for a two-picture-disc set with the soundtrack to the forthcoming sequel Wicked for Good (of which 15,000 copies will be available).

There’s plenty more: How about Todd Rundgren’s A Capella, on which he made all the instrument sounds with his mouth? Or British oddballs The Stranglers’ 1977 debut Rattus Norvegicus, subtitled IV in a deliberate attempt to cause confusion? Or a King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard live EP in the shape of a paper airplane? 

See the complete list on the Record Store Day website and mark your calendar for Friday, Nov. 28. And remember: While the holidays are a great time to show some support for the impressive array of indie record stores we have in Nashville, these shops are here for you every other day of the year too!