Record Store Day 2026 Spotlights Reggae Vinyl Alongside Hip-Hop, Soul, R&B Releases

Tuff Gong, Trojan Records, and Soul Jazz Records are among the labels bringing reggae weight to Record Store Day 2026 on April 18, with Ziggy Marley, U-Roy, and Leslie Butler all landing on the official release list for the global independent store event.

Ziggy Marley's Brightside gets the full RSD treatment from Tuff Gong in two formats: a translucent orange vinyl LP and a CD edition. The orange pressing is the one that will move fast at the counter. U-Roy's Feel Jah Spirit: U-Roy Meets The Aggrovators arrives as a standard LP through the Sound System imprint, bringing the toasting legend's meeting with the Aggrovators back to wax. Trojan Records carries Leslie Butler's Ja-Gan on LP, rounding out a solid reggae showing across three distinct label homes.

Soul Jazz Records doubles down with two colored-vinyl compilations. Studio One Sound lands as a transparent green 2LP, and Power Pop! gets a transparent red LP pressing. Both appear without stated pressing limits in the current listings, so treating them as limited is the safe move.

The deepest reggae dig on the RSD 2026 list may be I-Roy's Crisis Time, reissued on Charly and remastered with liner notes by reggae writer John Masouri. The original appeared on Virgin's Front Line series in 1976, part of the label's effort to bring Jamaican artists to the British market. Crisis Time documents the collision of toasting and dub at a precise moment when the form was still crystallizing, years before dancehall codified what I-Roy and the Aggrovators were already doing with voice and rhythm. I-Roy died in 1999, homeless and impoverished, in Kingston. The Charly reissue gives that legacy a proper physical home fifty years on, though whether this reissue is a confirmed RSD exclusive or a broader release timed to the event has not been confirmed from current listings.

Beyond the reggae selections, the April 18 lineup is heavy with collectible pressings across genres. Cam'ron's Killa Season makes its first-ever vinyl appearance as a limited 2LP red pressing, featuring production from The Heatmakerz, Alchemist, Ty Fyffe, and Charlemagne alongside guest appearances from Lil Wayne, Jim Jones, Juelz Santana, and Max B. Stax: Killer B's gets its vinyl debut on red smoke vinyl, pressed to 3,700 copies worldwide via Craft Recordings, with Side A running from The Bar-Kays through Booker T. & The M.G.'s, Johnnie Taylor, and The Soul Children. A salsa rarity makes the cut too: Markolino's Brujería, produced by Harvey Averne, Larry Harlow, and Johnny Pacheco, returns to vinyl for the first time in more than 50 years on 180-gram, all-analog mastered wax limited to 1,500 copies worldwide.

The breadth of the April 18 list confirms what reggae heads already know about Record Store Day: the genre rarely dominates the headlines, but the right titles buried in the full catalogue make the queue worth joining.