Record Store Day, the annual celebration of independent record stores, takes place this Saturday, April 18, and included among the special limited-edition releases on that day are recordings from artists familiar to readers of the Nonesuch Journal: Robert Plant, Steve Reich, and Buena Vista Social Club.

Nonesuch/Warner Bros. releases a Record Store Day exclusive EP by Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters. Entitled More Roar, the record features three tracks on black 10” vinyl recorded live during the group’s lullaby and... Ceaseless Roar World Tour 2014: Side A is "Turn It Up" / "Arbaden," and side B is “Poor Howard” and “Whole Lotta Love (Medley).” The EP will be limited to 10,000 copies. To find a store in the US that may have it in stock on Saturday, click here. 

Nonesuch re-issues the landmark Steve Reich piece Music for 18 Musicians, performed by Steve Reich and Musicians, on two 180-gram vinyl LPs. The album was pressed at Pallas Manufacturing in Diepholz, Germany, and is packaged in a vintage-style double pocket gatefold jacket with poly sleeves. The original 1998 recording, which was released on CD and earned a Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance, has been mastered for vinyl by Robert C. Ludwig. Each limited-edition record will be individually numbered. Find a US shop that may carry it on Record Store Day, click here.

World Circuit releases a 7" vinyl of the song "Chan Chan," famously featured on the Grammy Award-winning original Buena Vista Social Club album with a flip-side of "Macusa," from Lost and Found, the recently released collection of previously unreleased tracks from the Buena Vista all-star cast of Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén González, Cachaíto López, Guajiro Mirabal, Eliades Ochoa, Omara Portuondo, and Compay Segundo. Find a participating store here.

Record Store Day, now in its eighth year, celebrates the unique culture surrounding over 1,000 independently owned record stores in the USA, and hundreds of similar stores internationally. To find out what special releases will be available at a participating local retailer near you, head to recordstoreday.com in the US and recordstoreday.co.uk in the UK.