Thursday, February 15, 2024

Record Store Day: Malfunkshun and Yellow Dark Matter


We already knew that Pearl Jam was planning on releasing an Indie Exclusive variant of Dark Matter for Record Store Day, April 20th, the day after the albums official release.  Now, we know a few more details.  We know that Pearl Jam will be releasing 15,000 "ghostly yellow and black" Dark Matter vinyls on RSD2024.

Record Store Day's website has announced that the label, Southern Lord, will be releasing Olympus Awaits, a vinyl collection of all Malfunkshun recordings.  Malfunkshun was the first band of Andrew Wood, who went on to form Mother Love Bone with Stone and Jeff upon their break-up.  The album, Return to Olympus, was eventually release on Stone Gossard's Loosegroove Records, but this will be the first release on vinyl, and includes early demo recordings as well.

Only 1,300 copies of this 2-LP set are going to be released, so make sure you line up early on April 20th.