Here's Where You Can Celebrate Record Store Day In Metro Detroit

Numerous music stores around metro Detroit will celebrate Saturday for Record Store Day, which is a one-day celebration of the nation’s nearly 1,400 independently owned brick-and-mortar record stores.

The first Record Store Day was held in 2008, and since then the event has turned into a celebration of record store owners, the artists whose releases are featured and the customers looking for rare titles and hard-to-find 7-inch 45s.

The stores’ promotions are as independent as their businesses are, but with a range of genres and artists to fit any groove.

Here are some locations where you can celebrate Record Store Day in metro Detroit:

• Third Man Records — Detroit
• Rock City Music Company, Livonia
• Dearborn Music, Dearborn and Farmington
• Vinyl People Records, Westland
• Rock Of Ages, Garden City
• Street Corner Music, Oak Park
• Flipside Records, Berkley
• The Detroit Record Club, Royal Oak
• SOLO RECORDS, Royal Oak
• Found Sound, Ferndale
• Paramita Sound, Detroit
• Slick Disc, Trenton
• Village Vinyl, Sterling Heights
• Wazoo Records, Ann Arbor
• Encore Records, Ann Arbor
• UNDERGROUND SOUNDS, Ann Arbor
• Your Media Exchange, Ann Arbor
• Melodies & Memories, Eastpointe
• Ripe Records Detroit, Grosse Pointe
• Blast in the Past, Roseville

The 2026 Record Store Day release list includes new releases and re-releases of old classics, and are available on vinyl, CD or both.

Local Record Store Day celebrations often include performances, cookouts, body painting, meet-and-greets with artists, parades, DJs spinning records and record releases on independent labels.

On the first Record Store Day, Metallica spent hours at Rasputin Music in San Francisco meeting fans. As Record Store Day has grown, thousands of artists, whether internationally famous or from your neighbor’s garage, participate in local events. The first “Record Store Day ambassador” was Jesse “Boots Electric” Hughes (Eagles of Death Metal) in 2009.

Other ambassadors have been Joshua Homme (Eagles of Death Metal, Them Crooked Vultures, Queens of the Stone Age), Ozzy Osbourne, Iggy Pop, Jack White, Chuck D, Dave Grohl, Metallica, St. Vincent, Run The Jewels, Pearl Jam, Brandi Carlile, Fred Armisen and Taylor Swift.