Originally published by The Vinyl Factory.

Over 500 good, bad and ugly editions.

Following the rumored list, Record Store Day has now officially announced its vinyl exclusives for 2017.

Highlights include Alice Coltrane’s harp experiments, a Blade Runner picture disc, Wiley’s new Godfather album, a string of Bowie releases, Sun Ra circa. 1973, Danny Brown’s Atrocity Exhibition cut ‘Ain’t It Funny’ and a white vinyl edition of Joe Meek’s I Hear A New World.

The list of compilations isn’t too shabby either with Now-Again’s survey of black and brown American rock, a collection of Nigerian country music songs, a box set of 6 Ethiopian 7″ reissues, and a number of Soul Jazz editions up for grabs.

On the whole, this year’s haul is an improvement on previous years which have been characterised by needless picture discs and shelves upon shelves of “heavyweight” vinyl. It’s good news for the increasingly contentious organisation which turns 10 this year.

That said, with over 500 releases, you can bet your left dust cover that there are some unnecessary additions on the slate too. Christopher Lee’s heavy metal jams on 10″, anyone? Or how about a die-cut Africa shaped picture disc of Toto’s ‘Africa’?

The releases – see the full list below – will be available from UK independent record shops on Saturday, April 22.

See the full list of UK releases here and the full list of US releases here.