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Well, either mom-and-pop record shops are bouncing back, thanks to the extinction of big-box CD spots, or the entire music-retail biz realizes this is the last chance to move product. Whatever the reason, the third annual Record Store Day on Saturday 18 brings together more than 700 independently owned stores around the globe, where you can buy more than 70 one-time-only releases. Frankly, it’s a little overwhelming. Everyone from old dogs Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen to hip newcomers like Obits and the Gaslight Anthem put out 7"s and exclusive LPs, available that day only. Here’s what you’ll want to hunt down. Oh, and get a turntable while you’re at it. You’ll need it.

Akron/Family
“Everyone Is Guilty” 7"
Akron/Family’s upcoming Set ’Em Wild, Set ’Em Free is stellar. The blend of computers, strings, brass and Appalachia is Brooklyn’s answer to Wilco, but this opening track gets seriously funky with some redneck Afro-pop.

Camera Obscura
“French Navy” 7"
The mopey, twee Scots serve up a lovable slice of lush girl-group pop for bookworms.

The Flaming Lips and the Black Keys
“Borderline” / “Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles” split 7"
Oklahoma’s cartoon-psych heroes tackle Madonna, circa 1984, with surprisingly heavy results. Ohio roadhouse duo the Black Keys files the jagged edges off Captain Beefheart.

Lykke Li and El Perro Del Mar
“After Laughter (Comes Tears)” / “At Your Best (You Are Love)” split 7"
Two Swedish ingenues go old-school soul. Li gets weepy on Wendy Rene’s 1964 cult-classic Stax single, while EPDM lowers the light for the Isley Brothers’ 1976 baby-makin’ slow-jam.

Modest Mouse
“Satellite Skin” 7"
Get a nibble of all-new maritime-themed steampunk from Isaac Brock and crew. This one is sure to go fast.

My Morning Jacket
Celebración de la Ciudad Natal 2x10"
This live album captures the shaggy Louisville jam-rockers ripping through hits in their hometown.

Pavement
Live in Germany 1998
College rock that could help pay for your kid’s college: Matador Records is printing only 2,500 copies of this rare snapshot of the legendary slackers on the road in Hamburg.

Radiohead
10" EP series
Capitol Records continues to milk the catalog of its departed workhorse with 12 EPs from the Oxford arena-fillers. Snatch My Iron Lung, Paranoid Android and Pyramid Song for brilliant nonalbum cuts like “The Trickster” and “Polyethylene.”

Sonic Youth and Beck
“Pay No Mind” / “Green Light” split 7"
Here’s the true gem of the audiophile holiday, with Sonic Youth and Beck taking a crack at one another’s disparate sound. L.A.’s funky-folk Scientologist digs up a droning no-wave nugget from EVOL, while the NYC noise-rockers rework Mr. Hansen’s lovely surrealist downer anthem.

Various Artists
This LP Crashes Hard Drives
The cream of the crate-digging labels teams up for a compilation of rare grooves and outsider rock. Chicago’s Numero Group unearths some eerie mid-’70s hippie dub from überobscure Rockford, Illinois, act Pisces. Like-minded imprints such as Finders Keepers, Vampi Soul and Light in the Attic toss in tracks, too.

Wilco
Ashes of American Flags DVD
Chicago’s alt-country titans trek across eastern America in this somber, stirring road doc. The camera trains in on the band’s hardworking ethic and the desolate settings. It’s hard to say what’s tougher—drummer Glenn Kotche icing down his bloody knuckles after each gig or shots of Middle America through a dusty bus window.

Other releases of note include Dylan, New Order, Depeche Mode, Springsteen, the Breeders, Elvis Costello and Jenny Lewis, Flight of the Conchords, the Jesus Lizard and more.

Most local shops are taking part. Visit recordstoreday.com for a complete list of participating stores and releases.

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