10 Essential Record Store Day Releases

Not featured: The tortured poet.by Dave SegalRecord Store Day, one of the most contentious of retail traditions, returns on April 20. We've gone over this manufactured holiday's pros and cons many times before (here's one explication; here's another), so let's just say this: every year, RSD yields about 10%-15% crucial titles out of its hundreds. But which 10%-15%, you ask? Well, that varies, obviously, as musical taste is subjective.
However, as I have spent too many decades crate-digging and r