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Talking Heads ’77

By Stephen Demorest

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Talking Heads are the last of CBGB’s original Big Four to record (following Patti Smith, the Ramones and Television), and their debut is an absolute triumph. Dressing like a quartet of Young Republicans, playing courteously toned-down music and singing lyrics lauding civil servants, parents and college, Talking Heads are not even remotely punks. Rather, they are the great Ivy League hope of pop music. I can’t recall when I last heard such a vital, imaginatively tuneful album.

David Byrne ‘s music is refreshing, abundantly varied and fun to listen to. He takes the buoyant, post-Beatles singles format of the Sixties — brisk pacing, great hooks, crisp playing, bright production — and impulsively veers off on unexpected tangents that are challenging without becoming inaccessible.

This is the band that had its early critics talking about minimalism and, like Jonathan Richman, Talking Heads do indeed triumph by the economy of their sound. But where the ingenuous Richman is dangerously precious, there is no nonsense about Talking Heads. Byrne’s spare guitar patterns, Jerry Harrison’s modest keyboard fills, Martina Weymouth’s understated bass and Chris Frantz’ efficiently Spartan drumming convey a taut earnestness that’s bursting with energy.

“The Book I Read,” like so many of their songs, burbles with excitement, a feeling of expansion overcoming restraint. “Pulled Up” is the real champ, though, a fiercely exhilarating rush of aural amyl nitrate.

Vocally, Byrne’s live-wired personality vibrates his precise musical framework like a caged tiger rattling its bars. (That he sings in a stiff, reedy, “bad” voice, grasping for higher notes like a drowning man lunging for air, only heightens the drama.) Exploring the logic and disorientation of love, decision making, ambition and the need for selfishness, he gropes for articulation like a metaphysician having difficulty computing emotions.

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Given his relatively unlyrical nature, Byrne’s burgeoning persona is not in the least tentative. “No Compassion” asserts all the impatience of Lou Reed in a bad mood, while “Psycho Killer” pulses with vehemence.

For me, the direct, crisp, jaunty Talking Heads and the abstracted, unrestrained, fiery Television stand as the Beatles and Rolling Stones of the restless, displaced Seventies. Not only is this a great album, it’s also one of the definitive records of the decade.

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I was turned onto the Talking Heads by a classmate of mine in high school. Not only was I instantly a fan, but saw them live several times. Their approach to music is so unique, that the best way to experience them is watching them, either live or on video.

They combine a multitude of instruments and sounds, and with David Byrne, the lead singer, putting forth effort rarely seen by any lead. His voice just has this essence and magical quality to it – almost mystical, but very smooth and calming. All of them, David, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz and Jerry Harrison, works so well together, and combine their unique sounds to put on a great performance.In particular, their live performance of “Burning Down The House” is amazing.

It gets the audience so pumped that you can feel the energy swelling in the venue. They also do many songs from the album Little Creatures with great flair, but without being overly dramatic or dragging them out. They put just enough into their live versions of songs to keep everyone engaged and pumped.

The best song they perform live, by far, is their awesome hit “Wild, Wild Life”, in which they sometimes will have guests perform with them on that song alone. They truly make each show unique, so even fans like myself who have seen them a few times, it is always special and never the same old thing all over again.

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TALKING HEADS 1977 CONCERT TO BE RELEASED

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A Talking Heads performance from 1977, recorded for a radio station in Pennsylvania, will be released on Record Store Day . While parts of the show appeared on the band’s 1983 live album, this is the first time the entire 14-song concert will be available.

Limited to 13,300 copies worldwide,  Talking Heads   Live at WCOZ 77 will be released as a double album exclusively at select independent music retailers on April 20th for $34.98. 

The concert took place just two months after the band released their debut album, Talking Heads ’77 . David Byrne , Chris Frantz , Jerry Harrison , and T ina Weymouth played more than half of the album’s tracks, including the previously unreleased version of “Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town.” 

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Talking Heads 1977 Concert To Be Released

A Talking Heads performance from 1977, recorded for a radio station in Pennsylvania, will be released on Record Store Day . While parts of the show appeared on the band’s 1983 live album, this is the first time the entire 14-song concert will be available.

Limited to 13,300 copies worldwide, Talking Heads Live at WCOZ 77 will be released as a double album exclusively at select independent music retailers on April 20th for $34.98.

The concert took place just two months after the band released their debut album, Talking Heads ’77 . David Byrne , Chris Frantz , Jerry Harrison , and T ina Weymouth played more than half of the album’s tracks, including the previously unreleased version of “Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town.”

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Talking Heads’ seminal live performance recorded for WCOZ-FM in 1977 will be released in full for the first time on Record Store Day 2024. While parts of the show appeared on the band’s 1983 live album, The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads and its subsequent 2004 reissue, this marks the first time the entire 14-song concert will be available.

Limited to 13,300 copies worldwide, LIVE AT WCOZ 77 will be released as a double album exclusively at select independent music retailers on April 20 for $34.98. The LPs were cut at 45 RPM to optimize audio fidelity and sourced from the original two-track tapes, which were recorded and mixed by Ed Stasium. Find a store near you HERE .

Recorded on November 17, 1977, at Northern Studio near Boston and broadcast on WCOZ, this seminal performance took place just two months after the band released its debut, Talking Heads ’77 . At the show, David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, and Tina Weymouth played more than half of the album’s tracks, including the previously unreleased version of “Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town” featured on the upcoming collection.

In addition, the show’s setlist also boasts early renditions of five songs destined for the band’s next album, More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978). All of those recordings have, until now, remained in the vaults, including versions of “Take Me To The River,” “The Good Thing,” and “Thank You For Sending Me An Angel.”

This remarkable live recording captures a pivotal moment in Talking Head’s trajectory as the band embarked on a groundbreaking 11-year journey, one that would produce eight studio albums and two live albums, including the double-platinum masterpiece Stop Making Sense , which celebrated its 40th-anniversary last year. The legendary concert film returned to select theaters across the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. earlier this year. Find a screening near you HERE .

LIVE AT WCOZ 77 LP Track Listing

LP One Side One

1.    “Love Goes To A Building On Fire” *

2.    “Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town” *

3.    “Don’t Worry About The Government”

4.    “Take Me To The River” *

1.    “The Book I Read”

2.    “New Feeling”

3.    “A Clean Break (Let’s Work)”

LP Two Side One

1.    “The Big Country” *

2.    “The Good Thing” *

3.    “Stay Hungry” *

1.    “Thank You For Sending Me An Angel” *

2.    “Who Is It?”

3.    “Psycho Killer”

4.    “Pulled Up”

* previously unreleased

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Talking Heads 1977 Concert To Be Released

A Talking Heads performance from 1977, recorded for a radio station in Pennsylvania, will be released on Record Store Day . While parts of the show appeared on the band’s 1983 live album, this is the first time the entire 14-song concert will be available.

Limited to 13,300 copies worldwide, Talking Heads Live at WCOZ 77 will be released as a double album exclusively at select independent music retailers on April 20th for $34.98.

The concert took place just two months after the band released their debut album, Talking Heads ’77 . David Byrne , Chris Frantz , Jerry Harrison , and T ina Weymouth played more than half of the album’s tracks, including the previously unreleased version of “Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town.”

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Talking Heads 1977 Concert To Be Released

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A Talking Heads performance from 1977, recorded for a radio station in Pennsylvania, will be released on Record Store Day . While parts of the show appeared on the band’s 1983 live album, this is the first time the entire 14-song concert will be available.

Limited to 13,300 copies worldwide, Talking Heads Live at WCOZ 77 will be released as a double album exclusively at select independent music retailers on April 20th for $34.98.

The concert took place just two months after the band released their debut album, Talking Heads ’77 . David Byrne , Chris Frantz , Jerry Harrison , and T ina Weymouth played more than half of the album’s tracks, including the previously unreleased version of “Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town.”

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Talking Heads Outline ‘Live at WCOZ 77,’ Seven Previously Unreleased Recordings

Talking Heads announced the Record Store Day release of its seminal live performance, tracked for WCOZ-FM in 1977. Due on April 20, 2024, and fittingly titled Live at WCOZ 77 , the set expands upon some material first shared on the band’s 1983 LP, The Name of This Band is Talking Heads and its subsequent 2004 reissue. The forthcoming collection represents the first time the entire 14-song concert will be available.

The assemblage of live cuts was recorded at Northern Studios near Boston on Nov. 17, 1977, a mere two months after the band released its debut, Talking Heads ‘77 . During the tracked performance, band members David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison and Tina Weymouth delivered over half the songs off their initial set, in addition to a previously unreleased version of “Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town,” featured on the upcoming collection.

The band’s set also included early renditions of “Take Me To The River,” “The Good Thing,” and “Thank You For Sending Me An Angel,” numbers that would appear on their 1978 sophomore album, More Songs About Buildings and Food . The impending set will present fans of Talking Heads with seven previously unreleased live cuts. A limited number of 13,300 copies of   Live at WCOZ 77 will be released worldwide. The set will be released as a double album exclusively at select independent music retailers on April 20. 

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Tracking List: 

1.    “Love Goes To A Building On Fire” *

2.    “Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town” *

3.    “Don’t Worry About The Government”

4.    “Take Me To The River” *

1.    “The Book I Read”

2.    “New Feeling”

3.    “A Clean Break (Let’s Work)”

1.    “The Big Country” *

2.    “The Good Thing” *

3.    “Stay Hungry” *

1.    “Thank You For Sending Me An Angel” *

2.    “Who Is It?”

3.    “Psycho Killer”

4.    “Pulled Up”

* previously unreleased

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Talking Heads Announce Release of Famed 1977 WCOZ Performance for Record Store Day 2024

Marking the first-ever release of the full 14-song session

Talking Heads are throwing their weight behind Record Store Day 2024 with the release of a new live album that captures their famed 1977 performance for the Massachusetts radio station WCOZ.

Titled LIVE AT WCOZ 77 , the LP features the band’s 14-song live set from the November 1977 recording session. Previously, part of the show was released on their 1983 live album, The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads , but this will mark the first time the performance will be available in its entirety.

LIVE AT WCOZ 77 boasts a tracklist featuring live versions of songs from Talking Heads’ debut album, Talking Heads ‘77 , as well as from their then-unreleased second record, More Songs About Buildings and Food , including “Take Me to the River,” “The Good Thing,” and more. The record will arrive in a limited-edition run of 13,300 double albums, all sold exclusively at independent music retailers on April 20th, 2024. Check out the list of participating vendors .

The original broadcast was recorded and mixed by Ed Stasium, and audiophiles will take pleasure in knowing that the new release was sourced from the original two-track tapes, and is cut at 45 RPm to “optimize audio fidelity.”

Talking Heads reunited last year for a discussion around the 40th anniversary of their seminal concert film, Stop Making Sense . To further celebrate the occasion, A24 has brought the film back to theaters nationwide and will be releasing the tribute album Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense , featuring Lorde, The National, Miley Cyrus, and many more. The lead single — a cover of “Burning Down the House” by Paramore — arrived last month.

LIVE AT WCOZ 77 Artwork:

LIVE AT WCOZ 77 Tracklist: LP One Side One 01. Love Goes to a Building on Fire 02. Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town 03. Don’t Worry About the Government 04. Take Me to the River

Side Two 01. The Book I Read 02. New Feeling 03. A Clean Break (Let’s Work)

LP Two Side One 01. The Big Country 02. The Good Thing 03. Stay Hungry

Side Two 01. Thank You for Sending Me an Angel 02. Who Is It? 03. Psycho Killer 04. Pulled Up

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Talking Heads Announce Release of Famed 1977 WCOZ Performance for Record Store Day 2024

The post Talking Heads Announce Release of Famed 1977 WCOZ Performance for Record Store Day 2024 appeared first on Consequence .

Talking Heads are throwing their weight behind Record Store Day 2024 with the release of a new live album that captures their famed 1977 performance for the Massachusetts radio station WCOZ.

Titled LIVE AT WCOZ 77 , the LP features the band’s 14-song live set from the November 1977 recording session. Previously, part of the show was released on their 1983 live album, The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads , but this will mark the first time the performance will be available in its entirety.

LIVE AT WCOZ 77 boasts a tracklist featuring live versions of songs from Talking Heads’ debut album, Talking Heads ‘77 , as well as from their then-unreleased second record, More Songs About Buildings and Food , including “Take Me to the River,” “The Good Thing,” and more. The record will arrive in a limited-edition run of 13,300 double albums, all sold exclusively at independent music retailers on April 20th, 2024. Check out the list of participating vendors .

The original broadcast was recorded and mixed by Ed Stasium, and audiophiles will take pleasure in knowing that the new release was sourced from the original two-track tapes, and is cut at 45 RPm to “optimize audio fidelity.”

Talking Heads reunited last year for a discussion around the 40th anniversary of their seminal concert film, Stop Making Sense . To further celebrate the occasion, A24 has brought the film back to theaters nationwide and will be releasing the tribute album Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense , featuring Lorde, The National, Miley Cyrus, and many more. The lead single — a cover of “Burning Down the House” by Paramore — arrived last month.

LIVE AT WCOZ 77 Artwork:

LIVE AT WCOZ 77 Tracklist: LP One Side One 01. Love Goes to a Building on Fire 02. Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town 03. Don’t Worry About the Government 04. Take Me to the River

Side Two 01. The Book I Read 02. New Feeling 03. A Clean Break (Let’s Work)

LP Two Side One 01. The Big Country 02. The Good Thing 03. Stay Hungry

Side Two 01. Thank You for Sending Me an Angel 02. Who Is It? 03. Psycho Killer 04. Pulled Up

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Swifties, there's no Record Store Day specials for you like last year, when Swift dropped "folklore: the long pond studio sessions."  But you did just get a extra helping of tunes with her "The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology," which landed early Friday.

However, some lucky buyers of her new album could also get a special printed note "From the Desk of Taylor Swift," in which the artist says: "Happy Record Store Day!! Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for welcoming The Tortured Poets Department into your vinyl collection and your life."

Here's a quick look at some of the most desired Record Store Day releases.

David Bowie: Record Store Day 2024 release predates 'Ziggy'

A special vinyl RSD release, "Waiting in the Sky (Before the Starman Came to Earth)," is an 11-track recreation of an early version of what would eventually become Bowie's 1972 release "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars." Songs included here not on that album are the Chuck Berry cover "Round and Round," Jacque Brel's "Amsterdam," and non-LP favorites "Velvet Goldmine" and "Holy Holy."

Dave Grohl joins Anthrax on special RSD release to help Bad Brains singer

Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian and drummer Charlie Benante were joined by Dave Grohl in the Foo Fighters frontman's studios a cover of the Bad Brain's "The Regulator." Grohl plays drums and sings, while Benante plays bass on the track, proceeds of which will go to help Bad Brains' singer H.R., who has undergone treatment for painful headaches. The flip side of the 7-inch single is etched.

Record Store Day ambassadors Paramore have a special single out

A special 12-inch single has the band's tribute to Talking Heads on one side – a cover of the song "Burning Down the House" – and David Byrne's version of Paramore's “Hard Times” on the other (available starting Saturday, only at participating record stores).

Also available: "Re: This Is Why," remixes of the album that earned the band Grammys in February 2024 for best rock album and best alternative music performance. The remix LP, made with the help of Wet Leg, Bartees Strange, Foals, the Linda Lindas and others, is available as a standalone LP or in a 2-LP set including the original album.

Talking Heads: A full live performance

Speaking of David Byrne , Talking Heads fans can seek out "Live at WCOZ 77," which captures the band's entire radio station performance from Nov. 17, 1977. (Some of the songs appeared on "The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads."

Also available: The Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love 2001 Remixes,' a blue vinyl LP collecting nine remixes of the much-sampled 1981 song from Talking Heads co-founders Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth.

Olivia Rodrigo and Noah Kahan cover RSD 2024 with dual single

Olivia Rodrigo covers the title track from Noah Kahan 's 2022 album "Stick Season," on one side of a special colored vinyl 7-inch single. On the other, Kahan provides a version of Rodrigo's "Lacy" from her 2023 album "Guts."

Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Live in France: The 1966 Concert in Limoges

This gem is a previously unreleased recording of a live solo performance by “The Godmother of Rock n’ Roll," at the Grand Theatre in Limoges, France on November 11, 1966. It comes on two 180-gram vinyl LPs and has an insert with rare photographs, liner notes and tributes from ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, Susan Tedeschi and others.

This fab Beatles mini record player is a Record Store Day 2024 special

Beatlemania continues – mark May 8 on your calendar to stream the movie "Let It Be" on Disney+ . In the meantime, you can come together with this Beatles limited edition mini turntable ($179.99) from Crosley Radio , commemorating the Fab Four's performance in 1964 on The Ed Sullivan Show.

The turntable comes with four 3-inch records of songs the band performed then: "I Want To Hold Your Hand," "Til There Was You," "She Loves You," and "I Saw Her Standing There." (Note: the records are also available individually.)

The Turntable has a built-in speaker, but also connects to external speakers via Bluetooth.

Also available: Ringo Starr 's new four-track EP titled "Crooked Boy," in a special black and white colored vinyl edition, and two George Harrison albums, "Wonderwall Music" and "Electronic Sound," available as picture discs. — w

The Rolling Stones have something old, something new for RSD 2024

The Stones are dropping "Live At Racket, NYC," a 180-gram solid white vinyl release of the seven songs the band played at the October 19, 2023 launch event for "Hackney Diamonds." The tracks include the duet with Lady Gaga on “Sweet Sounds of Heaven."

Also available: a special black and white swirled vinyl version of the band's 1964 U.K. debut album, which comes stamped (6,000 are available) with a lithograph with classic photos of the band.

The Weeknd: 'Live at SoFi Stadium'

The Canadian artist's first live album, recorded during two November 2022 concerts in LA and released digitally last year, becomes available on a physical format (3 LPs).

Wilco: 'The Whole Love' expanded for RSD

An 3-LP version of the band's 2011 album fleshed out with live in-studio performances, bonus tracks, alternate mixes, demos and a version of the song "Cruel To Be Kind" with Nick Lowe.⁠

Dwight Yoakam's 'Beginning' boxed up for RSD 2024

The country artist has a collection called "The Beginning And Then Some," compiling his first three albums – available on vinyl and CD – with an extra disc of '80s rarities.

The singer-songwriter's latest, "Fu##in' Up" is a reimaging of some past Young classics with a Crazy Horse lineup that includes Micah Nelson. The Record Store Day limited edition comes on two clear vinyl LPs with a lithograph of the album cover art.

It will be available in stores and through the Neil Young Archives store (though it appears to be sold out already). Regular versions of the album come out April 26.

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Record Store Day 2024: 10 Exclusives Worth Digging For

This year's event takes place April 20, and features releases from Olivia Rodrigo to The Beatles and beyond.

By Ron Hart

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This year’s Record Store Day — which happens April 20 — boasts approximately 387 different titles that will be made available at participating shops nationwide. And the numbers show there’s a voracious public hungry for physical product, further cementing the importance of owning the music you spend your good money on, as opposed to merely streaming it on a DSP.

According to Luminate, the music industry sold 49.61 million units of vinyl in 2023, an increase of 14.2 percent from the previous year. And here’s the kicker, it was the largest 12-month period for such sales since the Los Angeles-based analytic company began tracking retail data for music back in 1991. And not just for wax, but CDs as well, given the modest increase in sales that format has experienced in recent years.

Linkin Park, Olivia Rodrigo & The Doors Lead Record Store Day Black Friday 2023 Top-Sellers

So what to buy this year? Perusing through the RSD list of the upcoming titles that will be available to varying degrees of scarcity, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the staggering amount of choice available for this year’s music-geek shoppers’ holiday. But fear not, as Billboard has reviewed, researched and revisited a slew of the titles slated for Record Store Day 2024 in an effort to bring you a comprehensive compendium of picks well worth your time and legal tender.

We’re not only talking strictly vinyl here, either, as electronics and, yes, those old compact discs are also fair game this year.

Here’s a list of what we think are most worth the trouble of leaving your home to wait in a long line in hopes the person ahead of you doesn’t snag the last copy of what you’re looking for.

Olivia Rodrigo "Stick Season"/Noah Kahan "Lacy" From the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge

7″ single, unknown color vinyl, 15,000 copies (Geffen)

Nothing beats a good old pop switcheroo, especially when it’s two of the country’s hottest stars covering one another’s hit songs. Olivia Rodrigo’s rendition of Noah Kahan’s recent top 10 hit “Stick Season” transforms the song into her own, while Kahan keeps it faithful with his take on “Lacy,” whose origins stem from a poem the pop star wrote for a college class. Both songs were recorded during each artist’s respective appearances on BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge in the fall of 2023.

Meanwhile, Kahan’s second album, 2021’s I Was/I Am , will also be made available this RSD on blue vinyl.

Paramore Re: This Is Why (Remix + Standard)

2 LPs, multiple vinyl colors, 10,000 copies (Atlantic Records)

While declaring the band’s independence from former label Atlantic Records in February, Paramore also revealed that the group would be serving as this year’s official Record Store Day ambassadors. And along with the accolades, the Tennessee band will also see the digital remix edition of its 2023 Grammy-winning Atlantic swan song This Is Why get a physical release. Packaged either as a standalone LP or a double album with the original record, this new version of Re: This Is Why comes in a variety of colors and includes a Jack Antonoff mix of “Sanity,” joining the likes of Foals, Panda Bear, The Linda Lindas, Wet Leg and others in reinterpreting Paramore’s finest work to date.

Fetty Wap, Fetty Wap

2 LPs, opaque violet vinyl, 4,500 copies (Rhino)

The pride and joy of Paterson, N.J., might be in the thick of six-year bid inside a federal prison for drug trafficking. But Fetty’s universally lauded self-titled 2015 debut makes a return to vinyl for the first time since its original street date, pressed on deep violet acetate with three bonus tracks from the Japanese deluxe edition, including the indelible “Let It Bang” and a pair of tracks with his longtime rhyme partner Monty. If you didn’t catch the vibes of Wap’s blend of spitting and songcraft on this album the first time, now is your chance to cop one of the definitive rap records of the 2010s.

Laufey, A Night at the Symphony

2 LPs, 4,200 copies (AWAL)

Who would’ve thought the revival of traditional pop in the 2020s would come courtesy of an Icelandic-American singer whose sound is as informed by Ella Fitzgerald as it is by Taylor Swift? Originally released in digital form between the street dates of her 2022 debut, Everything I Know About Love , and its star-making 2023 follow-up, Bewitched , this live album was recorded in Laufey’s hometown of Reykjavík at Harpa Concert Hall with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, and makes its physical debut this RSD on resplendent black vinyl.

In addition to lush versions of such early originals as “Beautiful Stranger” and “Like the Movies” from her Typical of Me EP, A Night At the Symphony also finds the singer elegantly interpreting Great American Songbook chestnuts such as Hoagy Carmichael’s “The Nearness of You” and the Cole Porter standard “Everytime We Say Goodbye” as well. Stunning.

Wilco, The Whole Love: Expanded Edition

3 LPs, 4,500 copies (dBPM)

Originally released in 2011, Wilco’s eighth album was the first one released on the band’s own label (dBPM Records), and one of the very best studio endeavors in its stacked catalog, serving as a spiritual cousin of sorts to the group’s 1999 pop masterpiece Summerteeth in tone and texture. This RSD edition of The Whole Love expands the album into a three-LP set that contains all of the bonus tracks from the original deluxe edition of the 12-track LP, including their cover of Nick Lowe’s “I Love My Label” and the motorik-esque instrumental “Speak Into the Rose.”

There are also SiriusXM and iTunes session takes of key album tracks, along with a selection of live performances from the group’s famed Chicago studio The Loft, including another Lowe cover in his classic New Wave era hit “Cruel to be Kind” featuring the man himself sitting in.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Live in France: The 1966 Concert in Limoges

2 LPs, black vinyl, 1,800 copies (Deep Digs)

Renowned archivist and “jazz detective” Zev Feldman has no less than 10 new titles he’s produced for this year’s RSD festivities, including previously unreleased performances from such titans as Art Tatum, Cannonball Adderley, Sun Ra and Yusef Lateef, among others. Yet the jewel of this year’s bounty is a newly discovered concert from gospel legend and electric guitar groundbreaker Sister Rosetta Tharpe, lovingly known as The Godmother of Rock n’ Roll.

Discovered by Feldman while he was researching for potential material at the INA France, this concert – recorded at the Grand Theatre in Limoges, France, on Nov. 11, 1966 – finds Sister Rosetta at her soulful best. Armed with only her superhuman guitar skills and powerful, compassionate voice, this gorgeous capture from French television finds Tharpe enrapturing her audience with the strength of a symphony orchestra as she glides through a 21-song set kissed by such Sunday service staples as “This Train,” “Jericho” and “Two Little Fishes, Five Loaves of Bread.”

Vince Guaraldi, It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown – Original Soundtrack Recording

LP, 1,200 copies (Lee Mendelson Productions)

Though not as household a name as A Charlie Brown Christmas or It’s The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown , the sixth animated Peanuts TV special — based on the premise of Charlie Brown and company attending a summer camp with typically hilarious results — remains a low-key favorite for fans of the classic Charles Schulz-created comic strip.

This limited-edition vinyl marks the first time the music of intrepid Peanuts jazz composer Vince Guaraldi from the 1969 CBS program has been made commercially available, comprised of 26 short cues from the show itself along with six other previously unheard alternate tracks from the pianist and his large jazz ensemble. Pressed on Camp Green Vinyl, this short run of the soundtrack includes a 12-inch, four-page insert featuring liner notes offering a track-by-track analysis by Guaraldi biographer Derrick Bang, and essays from Sean and Jason Mendelson, sons of the late Peanuts producer Lee Mendelson.

De La Soul,  Live at Tramps, NYC, 1996

CD and vinyl, run unknown (Chrysalis Records)

Take it from someone who has seen them in concert five times, nobody does live hip-hop better than De La Soul. Which is why the return of this wild 1996 soundboard from the sorely missed New York City music club Tramps for Record Store Day should be priority buying for serious hip-hop heads. This gig, booked less than two months before the release of the classic Stakes Is High LP, was originally derided for its looseness upon its initial release in 2004.

Twenty years later, it comes back into circulation as a gift in the memory of Dave “Trugoy” Joliceur, who died on Super Bowl Sunday 2023. It feels and flows with the energy of an apartment party, especially when friends such as Common, the Jungle Brothers and a young Yasiin Bey (fka Mos Def) roll through to assist Trugoy, Posdnuos and Maseo on a set peppered with such De La faves as “Breakadawn,” “Potholes in my Lawn” and “Itzoweezee (Hot).”

Talking Heads, Live at WCOZ 77

2 LPs, black vinyl, 8,000 copies (Rhino)

Some of the highlights of Talking Heads’ 1982 live LP The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads are the first seven tracks, culled from an ace live session on Nov. 17, 1977, for Boston AOR radio station WCOZ-FM only two months after the release of the group’s debut album Talking Heads ‘77 . For the first time, Rhino presents the complete 14-song concert spread across two records and pressed at 45 RPM for optimum fidelity. Recorded and mixed by longtime studio collaborator Ed Stasium, this set contains previously unreleased live versions of such TH classics as “Thank You for Sending Me an Angel,” their famous cover of Al Green’s “Take Me to the River” and “Stay Hungry,” all of which would later appear on the quartet’s sophomore LP, More Songs About Buildings and Food .

The Beatles, Limited Edition RSD3 Turntable

Turntable with four 3-inch records, 2,300 copies (Apple Records)

It’s truly wild to think that 60 years have passed since The Beatles first arrived in America and captivated audiences nationwide during the band’s iconic appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. To honor the recent anniversary of this moment, Apple Records has collaborated with Crosley to create arguably the coolest find on the RSD list this year. It’s a Beatle-bedazzled, Bluetooth-enabled tiny turntable designed to play 3-inch records of the four songs the Fabs performed on Sullivan, including “She Loves You,” “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” “Til There Was You” and “I Saw Her Standing There.”

The little vinyl is dressed in its own outer box with a picture sleeve and collectable poster, and comes packaged in a neat Beatles carrying case that leaves enough room to hold six more 3-inch records if you choose to grow your collection of miniature wax. It’s a genuine thing.

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Record Store Day 2024’s Most Wanted: Olivia Rodrigo & Noah Kahan, Talking Heads, Laufey, Pearl Jam, Ateez, David Bowie, Beatles, Wilco and More

By Chris Willman

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There’s a certain type of vinyl geek that has all 387 exclusives coming out for Record Store Day 2024 committed to memory — color variants, pressing quantities and prices included. The rest of us may need a bit of guidance, which is where this look at 25 wallet-worthy releases comes in. Obviously, our list represents less than 10% of this year’s RSD population, but you can go to the full list — found here — after you get a start (or a reminder) with our rundown, which includes a mixture of the most obviously commercial titles and an assortment of cred or cult items.

Poring over this list, you may notice that some battles never go away, like Beatles vs. Stones, although this year we can add K-pop sensations Ateez to that eternal battle of the boy bands. Other top titles this year range from contemporary favorites like Noah Kahan (who has two RSD exclusive releases — one by himself, and one with Olivia Rodrigo), the Weeknd and Laufey to the more tested Neil Young, Pearl Jam and Talking Heads.

Buckle up and hold onto your wallet. Following, after a bit of unboxing, is a starter set of credit card bait:

Olivia Rodrigo & Noah Kahan, 'Stick Season/Lacy – From the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge'

(7″ single, color vinyl, 15,000 copies)

On Record Store Day Black Friday last November, Rodrigo and Kahan were in their own friendly battle for who was attracting the most newbies to the RSD lines, with respective releases that flew off the shelves. This time, they’ve teamed up, for a “pop favorites cover each other’s tunes” release. Rodrigo may be a SoCal girl, but she can adapt to “Stick Season,” and Kahan is proving he can be as jealous of the mysterious “Lacy” as much as anybody. Will 15,000 copies be enough to satiate the demand of both fan bases for long? Don’t count on it.

Noah Kahan, 'I Was/I Am'

(LP, blue vinyl, 15,000 copies)

It’s Noah Kahan’s world, and we’re just living in it. OK, Taylor Swift and Beyonce gets to share it, too. But Kahan’s “Stick Season” has stuck around the top 10 of the Billboard 200 like practically nothing that doesn’t have Swift’s or Morgan Wallen’s name on the spine. Naturally, newbie fans are relishing his lesser known back catalog. On RSD Black Friday five months back, a re-release of his out-of-print “Cape Elizabeth” EP soared out the door, its 5,000 copies doing a quick disappearing act. For a followup release — a vinyl reissue of Kahan’s 2021 debut album —his label has determined not to leave quite so much money on the table, and the pressing number for this one has been tripled, from 5K to 15,000. It likely still won’t last the day in a lot of stores.

Talking Heads, 'Live at WCOZ 77'

(2 LPs, black vinyl, 8000 copies)

Talk to very many music fans of a certain age and it’s clear that one of the most sought-after titles this Record Store day is a never-before-released (in full) Talking Heads live set. Seven tracks from this 1977 live-in-studio show for a Massachusetts radio station were originally included on the “The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads” concert compilation. That means the other seven tracks never were, and make their debut here. The double LP was pressed at 45 rpm, for higher fidelity and, probably, maximum bass response. Tina thanks you.

The 1975, 'The 1975 Live at Gorilla' 

 (2 LPs, white vinyl, 7500 copies)

Well, somebody’s been in the headlines, hasn’t he? What a remarkable publicity campaign for this project Matty Healy managed to pull off this week. But even without that little news boost, this would be a key RSD release. Last year, The 1975 put out a live album for RSD that went so quickly, I can vouch that it was the only title I could not find at all in the wild, even after visiting multiple stores in the morning hours. This one has a higher pressing quantity, so the odds are a bit better. It’s a celebration of the band’s debut album 10 years later, which is to say, recorded in the year of our lord 2023. It has already been out in some form — specifically, packaged with the original debut release as a double-CD — but that could only be obtained at the time a direct-to-consumer exclusive on the group’s website, so it barely counted. This marks the first appearance of the concert in question on LP, as also the first chance to walk into a store and find it.

David Bowie, 'Waiting in the Sky (Before the Starman Came to Earth)' 

(LP, black vinyl, 8000 copies)

Here’s an alternate version of the “Ziggy Stardust” album, assembled in late 1971, that was pulled by Bowie before it had a chance to be pressed, so that he could rethink it for 1972 as what turned out to be a classic for the ages. It’s a good thing he had a second thought, because he hadn’t yet recorded “Starman,” “Suffragette City” and “Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide” when he took this first stab at a tracklist. Songs that show up instead include “Velvet Goldmine” and covers of Chuck Berry and Jacques Brel songs. Of course, it’s still a hell of an album with some substitutions, and fun to listen to as a might-have-been alternate-reality release for Bowie.

Ateez, 'THE WORLD EP.FIN : WILL (X Ver.)'

(2 discs, 12″/7″ combo, clear vinyl or black ice vinyl, 15,000 copies)

Ateez has been named Record Store Day’s first K-pop artist of the year, and the group is celebrating with an edition of its latest album with different artwork in two randomly distributed color vinyl variants, along with a bonus 7-inch single containing two previously unreleased songs. If there’s anything that’s likely to get a different demographic in line for RSD, the way that Swift and Rodrigo exclusives did in the past couple of years, it’d be this title.

Rolling Stones, 'Live at Racket NYC' and 'The Rolling Stones (UK)'

(‘Racket’: 7000 copies, LP, white vinyl) (‘Rolling Stones (UK)’: 6000 copies, LP, black/blue swirled)

Stones fans have a choice of the 1964 version of the band, as heard in a 60th anniversary edition of their self-titled album of mostly R&B classic covers (“I Just Want to Make Love to You”), or the 2023 version, which saw the group doing a short and fairly intimate show in NYC to promote its latest album, with Lady Gaga in tow. Sixty years passing have not put a dent in their making a racket.

Sparks/Noël, 'No. 1 Song in Heaven/Is There More to Life Than Dancing?' 

(2 LPs, white and green vinyl, 1500 copies)

This is the kind of unexpected, well-packaged release that makes Record Store Day special. It’s a two-fer combining two concurrently released albums from 1979 that no one previously thought to package together. Well, one of them has been out of print pretty much since that year, entirely. But first, let’s mention the main attraction, “Number One in Heaven,” one of Sparks’ most legendary (and, in Europe), successful efforts, produced to influential neo-disco perfection by Giorgio Moroder production. The companion album here, “Is There More to Life Than Dancing?,” was in a similar sonic vein but found Ron and Russell Mael themselves in the producers’ chairs. The muse for their Svengali-dom at the time was a female singer named Noël, subsequently so obscure that some wondered if the Maels somehow just made her up. (Apparently not; she did release one subsequent album without them.) The two albums come together inside a thick plastic pull-out sleeve, bound even when you pull them out by a printed cardboard strip. But, of course, if it’s only one album and not both you plan to keep out for company, they’re easily stored separately as well. The quantity on this is very low; get it before it dances off to heaven.

The Beatles, 'The Beatles Limited Edition RSD3 Turntable'

(turntable and 3” single bundle) Plus: The Beatles: “Til There Was You”   (3” single, 1500 copies) , The Beatles: “She Loves You”   (3” single, 1500 copies) , The Beatles: “I Want To Hold Your Hand”  (3” single, 1500 copies) , The Beatles” “I Saw Her Standing There”   (3” single, 1500 copies)

Things like this are the kind of stuff that people cite as reasons they hate Record Store Day — or love it. Does anyone need a Beatles-branded turntable that only plays three-inch records (a fairly recent, not altogether necessary invention)? Possibly not. Will you want one so that you can pull out your vintage Beatles dolls and pretend that they are playing these tiny records? I think I can speak for everyone in saying: Absolutely. If you already have a three-inch record turntable — doesn’t everyone by now? — you can buy the four singles separately apart from the bundle. Happy Ed Sullivan anniversary year.

John Lennon, 'Mind Games EP'

(EP, black vinyl or glow-in-the-dark vinyl)

The “Ultimate Mix” treatment has been given to Lennon’s first two post-Beatles solo albums, “Imagine” and “Plastic Ono Band,” and at some point this year it will have a third volume in the form of a sonic upgrade to the 1973 album “Mind Games.” This EP offers RSD shoppers will offer a four-track teaser of that work — including the famous title track, but also, intriguing a non-album track, “I’m the Greatest,” that Lennon wrote and demo-ed for a Ringo Starr album around that time, with George Harrison and Klaus Voorman joining in to nearly form a Beatles reunion. A rougher version of this demo was was released in 1998 on the “John Lennon Anthology” boxed set, so it’ll be interesting to see if the mixing tech bumps it up to a track on the same par with the version Starr cut to lead off “Ringo” in ’73. Note: this EP is available in two types of vinyl, basic black for the purists and a glow-in-the-dark shade for nocturnal thrillseekers.

Pearl Jam, 'Dark Matter'

(LP, yellow-and-black vinyl, 15,000 copies)

Pearl Jam rarely misses a chance to release something for Record Store Day’s semiannual events, although obviously they usually go archival with that. This RSD release, though, is a brand new album, released to the masses on black vinyl on Friday but available in a yellow-and-black variant for indie store shoppers the following day, for anyone who can wait an extra 24 hours to get the Andrew Watt-produced effort.

Wilco, 'The Whole Love Expanded'

Now here’s a beautiful box. The “Whole Love” album from the early 2010s has been lovingly packaged and updated as a three-LP set, with the original album spread across the first two discs, followed by alternate and live takes on the third. The big news may be the eye-catching packaging, which includes a peekaboo slipcover that contains the separately jacketed individual discs, plus a full-sized softcover booklet that includes not just lyrics but more of the kind of abstract art found in the various covers. With the outtakes, some come from SiriusXM or iTunes sessions around that time, But there’s also a fun collaboration with Nick Lowe, recorded for “Austin City Limites” in 2012 and previously available only on a late-teens RSD 7-inch single that quickly sold out. They are trying to break your budget with such an elaborately put-together set, but there won’t be much cause for regret.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, 'Live in France: The 1966 Concert in Limoges' 

“Jazz detective” Zev Feldman’s efforts at uncovering never-before-released efforts usually fall in the jazz genre, but he steps outside it a bit with this commemoration of a 1966 concert by the woman some consider the first queen of rock ‘n’ roll, the gospel-singing, electric-guitar-slinging Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Most of the world now knows, via Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” movie, how influential she was on Presley, although she’s always been a heroine to the cognoscenti. As good as Yola was in her brief appearance in the recent film, anyone who loves early rock owes it to themselves to hear the real Thorpe rip it up, while she was still in her prime. Feldman’s efforts always include great, copious liner notes, and with this set, Tharpe’s respective American and French biographers both make substantial contributions, with additional testimonials from figures as diverse as Henry Rollins, Susan Tedeschi and Billy Gibbons.

The Weeknd, 'Live At SoFi Stadium'

(3 LPs, 7500 copies) The first live album ever from the Super Bowl headliner of a couple years back was recorded as the Canadian superstar closed out his stadium tour at L.A.’s SoFi Stadium around Thanksgiving time in 2022. Spread across three LPs, the set runs to 26 tracks. (If that sounds like more side-flipping than you asked for, the album will likely come out later in other formats, as it’s marked as an “RSD First” release, not an “RSD Exclusive.”)

Dwight Yoakam, 'The Beginning and Then Some: The Albums of the ’80s'

(4 CDs, 5000 copies; 4 LPs, 3500 copies )

The minds that control what used to be the Warner Bros./Atlantic catalog have done a wonderful job of boxing up a few artists’ classic albums of the ’70s and ’80s for the occasional Record Store Day extravaganza, including boxes devoted to Randy Newman’s and John Prine’s work. This year, they’ve got two, with a distinct country-rock twist, devoted to Dwight Yoakam and Linda Ronstadt. The Dwight package includes four LPs, devoted to his first three Warner albums from the ’80s plus a fourth disc devoted to rarities, primarily 1981 demos. If you’re in the market for CDs instead of vinyl, there’s also a compact disc iteration of this particular set.

Linda Ronstadt, 'The Asylum Albums (1973-1977)'

( 4 LPs, 3500 copies )

Hasten down our hearts. It doesn’t matter if you already own pristine, perfect copies of the four mid-’70s albums enclosed in this box. (But you don’t, we can almost guarantee.) You may need to have this boxed set in your collection just for the slipcover of Ronstadt in her country-rock prime. The packaging of the four individual LPs within is also primo, including the vintage embossing recreated for the “Prisoner in Disguise” jacket. This one has no bells or whistles — which is to say, no rarities bonus disc like the aforementioned Yoakam set — but it really doesn’t need to give you any extra incentives to get closer.

Laufey, 'A Night at the Symphony'

(2 LPs, 4200 copies)

In a way, Laufey is following in a classy modern tradition established by Ronstadt when she did her “What’s New” album of standards. But what’s new about Laufey is that she writes all her own material (with a few Great American Songbook exceptions), in a classic style. The Icelandic-American Grammy winner couldn’t be hotter, but there was a literally cool setting back home for this live album, which was recorded in Reykjavík with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. It came out digitally after her 2022 debut album but never got a physical release till now. Aside from original selections from Laufey’s first album and EP (it was recorded before her most recent release, “Bewitched”), this set is notable for having among its 14 tracks a few classics she’s only performed live, like Cole Porter’s “Everytime We Say Goodbye.” She has a “Goddess Edition” of “Bewitched” very shortly on the way, for a wider retail audience, but this palate cleanser will likely be snatched up incredibly quickly by her avid fan base.

Chet Baker/Jack Sheldon, 'In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Album'

This collaboration between two star singer-trumpeters, Chet Baker and Jack Sheldon, has a pretty interesting providence. Famed Hollywood film producer Frank Marshall’s father was a jazz guitarist who played on the project and had it recorded at his Tustin, Calif. studio, but when the senior Marshall died not long after it was recorded, the tape ended up in a drawer. Baker, who had been off the scene for years when this was recorded in the late ’60s, finally managed a comeback a few years later, and whatever the plans were for this joint studio album, they were forgotten. The younger Marshall always remembered there was a tape kicking around in a box somewhere, and he finally got hooked up with Zev Feldman to do something about it, including the necessary clean-up work. The result is a real kick to hear after all these decades of languishing.

The Replacements, 'Not Ready for Prime Time: Live At The Cabaret Metro, Chicago, IL, January 11, 1986'

(2 LPs, 6000 copies)

There’s been a great tradition established with the Replacements in recent years: Rhino puts out a fantastic boxed set commemorating one of the group’s classic ’80s or ’90s albums — in this case, “Tim” — and then a live show from the period that is included on CD as part of that box gets its own breakout release for Record Store Day. That custom continues with this fantastic show from early 1986, recorded at the very end of the period the mercurial guitarist Bob Stinson was still in the band. It went down right before the ‘Placemats did their legendarily shambolic “Saturday Night Live” appearance, which explains the album title. As always, band biographer Bob Mehr’s liner notes are worth the price of admission. Your money? Lay it down, clown.

The Tragically Hip, 'Live At CBGB's – January 14, 1993'

In Canada, the Tragically Hip are like the Beatles, Stones and Who put together. This early ’90s set from CBGB’s is a good indication of what the fuss was about and what some of us in the lower 50 missed out on. The remaining group members have assembled to be this year’s Canadian Record Store Day ambassadors, and they get the archival release they deserve… complete with a photo of CBGB’s fabled, frightening urinals on the rear sleeve. The translucent vinyl is much, much prettier, and there’s a nice bonus besides: a branded turntable mat that’s thin enough to fit nicely into the album jacket along with the disc.

Willie Nelson & Various Artists, 'Long Story Short: Willie Nelson 90 — Live At The Hollywood Bowl Volume II'

(2 LPs, black vinyl, 4500 copies)

There have been a lot of different formats and configurations for the commemoration of the two-night Willie Nelson 90th birthday tribute at the Hollywood Bowl last April. I was there both nights, which were long enough that I can attest no one medium could easily contain all the all-star material. This RSD double-album is the second vinyl release of material from this show, and it has some of the essentials among its 19 tracks, like a Snoop Dogg/Willie duet. It also includes a half-dozen tracks that were left off the much longer CD version (though they did come out as part of the streaming version already). So this is your one chance to have a physical version of Lyle Lovett’s “My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys,” Margo Price and Nathanial Rateliff doing a saucy duet of “I Can Get Off On You,” Sheryl Crow’s “Crazy” and a few other gems.

Willie Nelson, 'Phases and Stages'

(2 LPs, 4500 copies)

Not enough Willie for you, that recent all-star salute? Of course it isn’t. Last year, RSD brought a two-LP set that expanded the “Shotgun Willie” semi-concept album with a second disc of alternate takes. This follows along the same lines, but it commemorates an even better album. “Phases and Stages” is one of the most famous concept albums of the ’70s, with one side of the original LP devoted to the man’s “side” in a divorce and the other to the woman’s. The second disc adds different versions of these songs, which were previously released in an Atlantic boxed set in the 2000s but never directly paired with the original album in a distinct package like this. With the concept of the album being two sides to the same story, it’s kind of cool to have an LP package that offers two versions of a lot of the same numbers.

Nas, 'Illmatic: Remixes & Rarities'

(LP, black vinyl, 2500 copies)

Nas has become a Sony focus for RSD of late; for RSD Black Friday a few months back, “I Am… Autobiography” rounded up an initial set of Nas rarities. This fast followup marks a 30th anniversary for Nas’ “Illmatic,” in an addendum to one of the classic hip-hop albums of all time.

Neil Young with Crazy Horse, 'Fuckin’ Up'

(2 LPs, clear vinyl, 5000 copies)

Record Store Day devotees definitely won’t think Neil Young is effin’ up by giving fans a crack at his new live album a week ahead of the rest of the world. Pearl Jam timed their new album to come out in stores one day before a special RSD edition, but Young went them one better, pushing his general release of his album back to six days after Record Store Day. Along with rights on being an early bird, you get clear vinyl, versus the opacity to come for next weekend’s customers. The set was recorded at a private party in Toronto in November, where Young and his band did the “Ragged Glory” album almost in its entirety.

Ringo Starr, 'Crooked Boy'

(EP, marble vinyl, 2000 copies)

It’s quite a Beatlefest at this Record Store Day, with only Paul McCartney sitting it out this time. There’s the aforementioned Beatles turntable and 3-inch set; the also aforementioned Lennon “Mind Games” EP; and a reissuing of the two more experimental solo albums George Harrison made prior to “All Things Must Pass.” But new material from a Beatle for RSD? That has fallen strictly to Ringo, whose latest EP, for this occasion, is a set of four Linda Perry-written and -produced tracks. If you’re thinking Pink or Christina when you think Linda Perry, don’t be dissuaded; this has the coolest rock feel of anything Starr has done in a while. (The featured guitarist is the Strokes’ Nick Valensi, if that’s any indication.) If you’re in the L.A. area, Amoebe also has a store-specific 7-inch red single culled from this EP.

What else should you be on the lookout for? Consider releases from Gorillaz, Paramore, U2, Fleet Foxes, Television, Sabrina Carpenter, Death Cab for Cutie, Chappell Roan, Maisie Peters, Remi Wolf, Summer Walker and a few hundred others.

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Election Updates: Democrats retake full control in Michigan; Biden campaigns in Pennsylvania.

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Neil Vigdor

Lee Chatfield, Michigan’s Republican House speaker in 2019 and 2020, is facing 13 criminal charges stemming from his use of political dark money on vacations and luxury goods, the state’s attorney general, Dana Nessel, a Democrat, said on Tuesday. But investigators did not find enough evidence to pursue charges on a separate sexual assault claim, she said. He has denied all wrongdoing.

Michael Gold

Donald Trump, outside a bodega in Harlem after leaving court, vowed to “make a big play for New York,” a heavily Democratic state, adding that his court schedule meant he could campaign locally. As he left, he shook hands with supporters and posed for photos with a number of New York police officers.

Maggie Astor

Nicole Shanahan, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, posted an anti-vaccine message on social media on Tuesday, suggesting that she regretted taking Moderna’s Covid vaccine and saying that it was unsafe and should be recalled. But studies of the vaccine show that serious side effects are rare, and are lower than the risk of complications from a Covid infection.

Donald Trump will make a campaign stop after court today at a bodega in Harlem where in 2022 a clerk fatally stabbed a man who shoved him . Manhattan’s district attorney drew criticism over charging the man, and the charges were eventually dropped. Trump is expected to discuss crime and inflation here.

Nicholas Nehamas

Crowds of well-wishers on the sidewalks greeted President Biden’s motorcade as it drove through Scranton, his hometown, on his way to his childhood home. But down the block from where Biden grew up, a crowd of Gaza protesters are chanting and waving Palestinian flags. A small pro-Biden crowd is countering with “Four more years!”

Chris Cameron

Xochitl Gomez, the Marvel actress and "Dancing with the Stars," winner, appeared alongside Vice President Kamala Harris in a video encouraging young people to register to vote. "Turning 18’s scary," Gomez, 17, said to her 2.7 million followers on Instagram. "To celebrate, I am getting all my friends to join me to register to vote."

Even in his hometown, President Biden could not avoid the anger that many Democrats feel over his support for Israel during its war in Gaza. “Biden, Biden, you can’t hide,” a crowd of several dozen people outside a Scranton cultural center chanted in a call and response. “We charge you with genocide.”

President Biden just wrapped up his speech in Scranton on the tax code. He spent much more of it attacking former President Donald J. Trump than talking about his own agenda. He has more campaign events scheduled here in his hometown today.

President Biden spent a great deal of time in this speech attacking former President Donald J. Trump. Before wrapping up with a discussion of the values he learned growing up here in Scranton, Biden took another shot attacking Trump’s economic policies: “He’s coming for your money, your health care and your social security.”

President Biden’s attacks on Donald J. Trump have touched on the former president’s wealthy upbringing, his friendships with billionaires and his tax policy. After several minutes of that, Biden has now moved on to his own vision for the tax code, including raising rates on the very wealthy and corporations and using the money to grow the economy and benefit working families.

In his speech in Scranton, President Biden is arguing that former President Donald J. Trump’s economic policies were a failure. “Trickle down economics failed the middle class,” he said, before taking a shot at Trump’s handling of the pandemic, including Trump's musings about bleach being a cure.

President Biden is giving a speech on the tax code here in Scranton, his hometown. He is talking about the lessons of hard work and fairness that he says he learned growing up here. Former President Donald J. Trump, he says, learned different lessons. “He learned the best way to get rich is to inherit it,” Biden said.

I’m in Scranton, Pa., where President Biden is set to take the stage shortly to deliver a campaign address on the tax code and economic fairness. He is expected to attack Donald Trump, who is standing trial today in Manhattan, as a friend of billionaires, not the middle class.

President Biden is spotlighting his Pennsylvania upbringing in a new digital ad called “Scranton,” which his campaign released on Tuesday in the battleground state ahead of his return to his childhood hometown. It features a cousin and a childhood friend, both of whom seek to cast Biden as a sympathetic ear to the middle-class.

Jonathan Weisman

In addition to Senators Sherrod Brown and Jon Tester, the $79 million in ad spending from the Senate Democrats' campaign arm will benefit candidates in swing states like Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Some advertising will be reserved to go on offense against Republican Senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Rick Scott of Florida, though the committee pointedly did not say how much.

The Senate Democrats’ official campaign arm announced Tuesday it will commit $79 million to television, digital and radio advertising to defend the party’s narrow majority in a 2024 campaign season that has Democrats defending seats in two solidly Republican states — in Ohio, Sherrod Brown, and in Montana, Jon Tester.

California’s attorney general and secretary of state on Monday sued the city of Huntington Beach near Los Angeles over a voter ID requirement that narrowly passed during a referendum in March. State officials said that the measure, which was placed on the ballot by the Republican-controlled City Council, conflicts with California law and was based on vague statements that falsely sow doubts about election integrity.

Maine will be the 17th state to join an effort to make sure the winner of the national popular vote is elected president. Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat, said she would let the bill become law without her signature. States that join the compact agree to award their Electoral College votes to the national popular vote winner, but only if states totaling 270 electoral votes sign on. Maine makes 209.

Former President Donald J. Trump returned to a courtroom in lower Manhattan on Tuesday for the second day in his sex scandal cover-up case. He has continued to use social media to attack the judge in the case and the legal system, defying a gag order and upending the norms of conduct.

Two statehouse districts in Michigan are holding special elections today to fill seats vacated by Democrats who were elected to mayorships. The races will determine control of the statehouse, which is currently tied. Both seats are Democratic-leaning, and if the party wins both, they would regain a majority and have full control of the state government. The polls are open until 8 p.m.

Reporting from Scranton, Pa.

Biden bashes Trump as a pawn of billionaires as he lays out his tax plan.

Biden digs at trump during his pennsylvania hometown visit, in a speech about his tax plan, president biden compared scranton, pa., to trump’s mar-a-lago to highlight the different economic and social values between america’s middle class and its wealthy..

We’re not asking anything as unusual. Under my plan, nobody earning less than $400,000 will pay an additional penny. I hope you’re all able to make $400,000. I never did. You know, I have to say, if Trump’s stock in Truth Social — his company — drops any lower, he might do better under my tax plan than his. [laughter] No billionaire should pay a lower tax rate than a teacher, a nurse, a sanitation worker. Folks, where we come from matters. When I look at the economy, I don’t see it through the eyes of Mar-a-Lago. I see it through the eyes of Scranton. And that’s not hyperbole, that’s a fact. Donald Trump looks at the world differently than you and me. He wakes up in the morning in Mar-a-Lago thinking about himself. How he can help his billionaire friends gain power and control, and force their extreme agenda on the rest of us.

President Biden delivered a flurry of attacks on former President Donald J. Trump during a Tuesday speech in Pennsylvania about taxes and economic policy, painting his Republican rival as a puppet of plutocrats who had ignored the working class.

Visiting his hometown, Scranton, in a top battleground state that he has visited more often than any other, Mr. Biden laid out his vision for a fairer tax code, including raising rates on the wealthy and corporations and using the money to expand the economy and help working families.

But in a speech that signaled the Biden campaign’s intention to make the 2024 election a referendum on his polarizing Republican opponent, the president returned again and again to Mr. Trump. His jabs at his predecessor took aim at the former president’s wealthy upbringing, his friendships with billionaires and his 2017 tax cuts that disproportionately benefited America’s upper crust .

“Donald Trump looks at the world differently than you and me,” Mr. Biden told a crowd of more than a hundred supporters at a cultural center in Scranton. “He wakes up in the morning at Mar-a-Lago thinking about himself. How he can help his billionaire friends gain power and control, and force their extreme agenda on the rest of us.”

Aiming for a clear contrast, Mr. Biden laid out his proposals: Expanding the child tax credit. Providing a $10,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers. Raising the minimum tax rate for billionaires and corporations.

“We know the best way to build an economy is from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down,” Mr. Biden said. “Because when you do that, the poor have a ladder up and the middle class does well and the wealthy still do very well. We all do well.”

Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, disputed that Mr. Biden’s plan would benefit Americans.

“President Trump proudly passed the largest tax CUTS in history,” she said in a statement. “Joe Biden is proposing the largest tax HIKE ever.”

Throughout his speech, Mr. Biden wove in criticism of Mr. Trump — including a needling joke about the falling shares in the former president’s social media company.

“If Trump’s stock in Truth Social — his company — drops any lower, he might do better under my tax plan than his,” Mr. Biden said.

The president’s speech kicked off a three-day swing through Pennsylvania, with appearances scheduled in Pittsburgh on Wednesday and Philadelphia on Thursday. The trip came as Mr. Trump appeared in court in Manhattan for the second straight day as his first criminal trial begins — a striking split screen welcomed by the Biden campaign.

Since Mr. Biden delivered his State of the Union address last month, his campaign has shifted into general election mode, after a far quieter start to the year. In recent weeks, he has visited every major battleground state. His campaign has opened more than 100 field offices around the nation in coordination with state Democratic parties, spent $30 million in an advertising blitz and built a significant fund-raising advantage over Mr. Trump. An Arizona court decision that upheld a near-total abortion ban dating to 1864 has also energized Democrats .

As those efforts have taken place, Mr. Biden’s depressed poll numbers have improved, with a survey this month by The New York Times and Siena College finding that he had nearly erased Mr. Trump’s lead nationwide. The president had trailed Mr. Trump by five percentage points in the previous survey. Much of Mr. Biden’s recovery came from his improved standing among traditional Democratic voters, a signal that his campaign’s messaging efforts may be having an effect.

Still, Mr. Biden faces an uphill battle in convincing Americans that he is a better steward of the nation’s economy than Mr. Trump. In the latest Times/Siena poll, 64 percent of voters said they approved of how Mr. Trump had handled the economy while in office. Only 34 percent said the same of Mr. Biden, the poll found.

The tax cuts that Mr. Trump signed into law in 2017 have proved unpopular with voters. And while they increased investment in the U.S. economy and delivered a modest pay bump for workers, they fell short of Republican promises and are adding greatly to the national debt, one academic study found. Many parts of those tax cuts are set to expire next year.

Mr. Biden pledged in his speech that under his plan, nobody earning less than $400,000 would see their taxes go up.

“I hope you’re able to make $400,000,” he told the crowd. “I never did.”

As Mr. Biden spoke, Mr. Trump was seated in a Manhattan courtroom roughly two hours away, watching the selection of the first jurors in his trial. Mr. Biden has generally refrained from mentioning the charges Mr. Trump faces in four criminal cases, but his campaign did troll the former president on social media for appearing to fall asleep during proceedings on Monday.

Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, did not answer when asked if Mr. Biden was watching the Trump trial or being briefed on it.

“His focus is on the American people,” she said during a briefing with reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Scranton.

But even in his hometown, Mr. Biden could not avoid the anger that many Democrats feel over his support for Israel during its war in Gaza. As Mr. Biden walked up the steps of his childhood home, a crowd of protesters down the block waved Palestinian flags and chanted “Genocide Joe has got to go” through a loudspeaker.

Mr. Biden is set to speak on Wednesday at the headquarters of the United Steelworkers union in Pittsburgh before visiting Philadelphia on Thursday. He narrowly defeated Mr. Trump in Pennsylvania in 2020, and winning the state is crucial to his re-election strategy.

Democratic allies of Mr. Biden said they thought his message on economic fairness would resonate in Pennsylvania.

“Scranton versus Fifth Avenue was one of the most successful frames from the 2020 campaign,” said Representative Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania, referring to the location of Trump Tower in Manhattan. “You’re going to see more of it in this campaign.”

Mitch Smith

Michigan Democrats reclaim full control of Statehouse with special election victories.

Michigan Democrats started 2023 with full control of state government for the first time since the 1980s. They ended the year in a political bind after two House members left to become mayors of suburbs, leaving that chamber with an even partisan split and making it impossible for Democrats to pass bills without Republican support.

On Tuesday, five months after their House majority evaporated, Democrats won two special elections to reclaim those seats and full control at the Michigan Capitol. The Associated Press said the Democrats Mai Xiong, a Macomb County commissioner, and Peter Herzberg, a Westland City Council member, defeated their Republican opponents.

The results of the special elections had never been in great doubt. Both districts, situated in the Detroit area, are liberal strongholds that Democratic candidates had carried by large margins in 2022. But the details of scheduling and running special elections meant a long, slow winter for Democratic lawmakers in Lansing while the House was evenly divided between the two parties. Michigan’s governor, Gretchen Whitmer , is a Democrat, and her party has a majority in the State Senate.

Republicans hope the Democrats’ renewed House majority is short-lived. Michigan, long a swing state, is expected to be a pivotal presidential battleground again this year. President Biden is working to rebuild a coalition that helped him win the state in 2020, but early polling has been favorable to former President Donald J. Trump. Republicans see an opening to deliver Michigan for Mr. Trump in November and to win control of the Michigan House, a goal that could be helped by newly redrawn legislative maps in the Detroit area. All 110 Michigan House seats are up for election in November, including the two seats that were contested on Tuesday.

Before losing their House majority last year, Michigan Democrats raced through a list of longstanding policy goals that had been stymied during decades of divided government or Republican control of the state. In the span of several months in 2023, Ms. Whitmer and legislative Democrats enacted new gun laws , codified civil rights for L.G.B.T.Q. people , solidified abortion rights and undid Republican laws that they said weakened labor unions.

Those efforts slowed in November after one House member, Kevin Coleman, was elected mayor of Westland and another, Lori M. Stone, was elected mayor of Warren. Under Michigan law, Mr. Coleman and Ms. Stone had to resign from the Legislature when they became mayor.

Mr. Coleman said in November that some fellow Democrats, including members of Ms. Whitmer’s staff and Speaker of the House Joe Tate, expressed concerns to him about his mayoral run. But none of them, he said, did anything to undermine his campaign for mayor.

Once Ms. Xiong and Mr. Herzberg are sworn in, Democrats will have the numbers to resume their legislative push. With the general election only months away, it is uncertain how aggressively lawmakers will move.

Ms. Xiong, who was elected to the Macomb County Board of Commissioners in 2020, has worked as an interpreter. She is of Hmong descent and said on her campaign website that she immigrated to the United States as a child after being born in a refugee camp in Thailand. Mr. Herzberg, who has a finance background, has been a member of the City Council in Westland, his hometown, since 2016.

Trump leaves his trial to rail against crime and jab at the prosecutor in his case.

In his first campaign stop since his criminal trial in Manhattan began, former President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday visited a bodega in Harlem where he made a pointed attack on the district attorney prosecuting him and portrayed himself as tough on crime, a central theme of his 2024 run.

His visit to the store — the site of a case that prompted political controversy for Manhattan’s district attorney when an employee was charged after fatally stabbing a man after a confrontation — made for a striking juxtaposition.

After spending much of the day in a Manhattan courtroom as a criminal defendant, Mr. Trump immediately traveled uptown both to criticize the district attorney, Alvin Bragg, for being too lenient on crime and to play up his “law and order” message.

Mr. Trump has for months tried to draw a distinction between his frequently expressed tough-on-crime stance and the felony charges he faces in four separate cases. Outside the bodega, he again tried to dismiss his charges as political persecution, arguing that Mr. Bragg was too focused on Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign sex scandal cover-up trial and was ignoring crime in the city.

“It’s Alvin Bragg’s fault,” Mr. Trump said. “Alvin Bragg does nothing.”

Though Mr. Trump is prevented by a gag order from attacking witnesses, prosecutors and jurors in his New York case, the order does not cover Mr. Bragg or the judge overseeing his trial.

Before he arrived at the bodega, his campaign attacked Mr. Bragg over his handling of the 2022 incident, in which Jose Alba, a clerk, was charged with second-degree murder after stabbing a man, Austin Simon, in an altercation.

Mr. Bragg and his office were criticized at the time for charging Mr. Alba, as surveillance video showed Mr. Simon shoving Mr. Alba, raising questions about whether Mr. Alba had acted in self-defense. Prosecutors eventually dropped the case , saying they would be unable to “prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was not justified in his use of deadly physical force.”

In a statement, a spokesman for Mr. Bragg’s office said that the Alba case “was resolved nearly two years ago, and the charges were dismissed after a thorough investigation.” On social media, Mr. Bragg’s office pointed to statistics showing large declines in homicides and shootings in Manhattan over the last two years and a more modest decrease in robberies.

At the bodega on Tuesday evening, Mr. Trump briefly met with the store’s owner and Mr. Alba’s lawyer. He also spoke with Francisco Marte, the founder of the Bodega and Small Business Association, which represents bodegas in New York and which has attacked Mr. Bragg over the case.

After their conversation, Mr. Trump repeated criticisms about liberal politicians that have become standard campaign lines, depicting Democratic-run cities as being riddled with crime and attacking their leaders for being overly lax and opposed to law and order.

Before he left, Mr. Trump shook hands and posed for a photo with a group of uniformed New York police officers, an atypical move for many criminal defendants. He often takes photos with police officers at political stops after they have helped guard his motorcade.

And he again repeated his criticism of President Biden’s handling of the surge of migrants of the border, arguing that the crisis was harming people of color because migrants were taking their jobs.

That message resonated with some of his supporters, who had come to catch a glimpse of the former president.

“This is the worst city for all these migrants,” Lesandra Carrion, 47, said. She said that she believed the border had been more secure when Mr. Trump was in office and that she did not believe Mr. Biden “did anything for this country.”

And Mr. Trump’s criminal charges, she said, did not worry her, adding that he would win in 2024.

“He’s going to beat that,” Ms. Carrion said. “It’s all allegations.”

Mr. Trump was greeted by a large crowd when he arrived outside the store, and the surrounding blocks in Harlem were lined with people standing behind police barricades hoping to catch a glimpse.

As might be expected given that Mr. Trump lost overwhelmingly in New York, his former home state, in 2016 and 2020, his reception was not all positive. A group of protesters also arrived to jeer him, shouting, “Dump Trump” and waving signs before his arrival.

Other passers-by cursed in frustration because police barricades stretched for a city block, breaking easy access to sidewalks, their apartments or the store.

Still, despite the mixed response, Mr. Trump promised to “make a big play for New York,” suggesting he would make more campaign stops after his courtroom appearances and could easily campaign locally.

Lacretia McNeil, 40, whose daughter sat on her shoulder while she recorded the appearance, said Mr. Trump’s decision to visit Harlem was a smart effort “to rally up the votes.” Her daughter wondered aloud about the point of visiting a store.

Mr. Trump will be present in the courtroom when his trial is in session, and it is expected to last at least six weeks. But he is expected to hold more events like Tuesday’s bodega stop on evenings after court.

Campaign aides have also explored planning rallies on Wednesdays, when the trial is expected to pause each week, and he will most likely continue to hold rallies on weekends.

Bernard Mokam contributed reporting.

Emily Cochrane

Emily Cochrane covers the American South and has reported on the redistricting effort in Alabama.

Alabama runoff elections set the field for a newly competitive House district.

Shomari Figures, a Democrat who worked in the Justice Department, will face Caroleene Dobson, a lawyer and Republican political newcomer, this November for the seat in Alabama’s Second Congressional District, according to The Associated Press.

The two candidates won primary runoff elections on Tuesday in the district, which was redrawn after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that the state had illegally diluted the power of Black voters.

Now that the district has more Black voters, who historically have largely supported Democrats, political analysts see the race for it as one of the most competitive in the South. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report ranks it as a likely Democratic seat. (The district’s current representative, Barry Moore, is expected to remain in Congress after winning the Republican primary in the neighboring First Congressional District.)

The Second District now stretches across the state, encompassing much of Mobile; Montgomery, the Alabama capital; and several counties in the Black Belt, where rich soil once fueled plantations worked by enslaved people.

In the Republican primary, Ms. Dobson faced Dick Brewbaker, a former state senator. Mr. Brewbaker repeatedly pointed to his experience in the State Legislature, while Ms. Dobson argued that it was time for a newer political voice in Washington.

In the Democratic runoff, Mr. Figures’s opponent was State Representative Anthony Daniels, the House Democratic leader.

Mr. Figures’s family has a long political legacy in Alabama: He is the son of Michael Figures and Vivian Davis Figures, who have both served in the State Senate, with Ms. Davis Figures winning her husband’s seat after his death in 1996. Shomari Figures moved back to Alabama after working in the Justice Department and the Obama administration.

Mr. Daniels does not live in the district — a point of contention in the race, though residency is not a requirement — but grew up there. He argued that his leadership position in the State House had shown that he could deliver for Alabama residents.

The November elections could result in Alabama sending two Black representatives to Washington for the first time in its history if Mr. Figures were to win and if Representative Terri Sewell, the Democrat in the Sixth Congressional District, wins re-election, as analysts widely expect.

Chris Cameron and Kellen Browning

Chris Cameron reported from Washington, and Kellen Browning reported from Lake Havasu City, Ariz.

Kari Lake urges supporters to ‘strap on a Glock’ in preparation for the election.

Kari Lake, a top ally of Donald J. Trump who is running for a Senate seat in Arizona, called on her supporters on Sunday to arm themselves ahead of an “intense” period leading up to the election, urging them to “strap on a Glock,” referring to a brand of firearm.

“The next six months is going to be intense,” Ms. Lake said during a rally in Lake Havasu City. “We’re going to strap on our seatbelt. We’re going to put on our helmet — or your Kari Lake ball cap. We are going to put on the armor of God. And maybe strap on a Glock on the side of us just in case.”

The crowd roared its approval, and she continued, “You can put one here,” gesturing to the side of her hip, “and one in the back or one in the front. Whatever you guys decide. Because we’re not going to be the victims of crime. We’re not going to have our Second Amendment taken away. We’re certainly not going to have our First Amendment taken away by these tyrants.”

When asked about Ms. Lake’s remarks on Tuesday, Alex Nicoll, a representative of the campaign, said that “Kari Lake is clearly talking about the Second Amendment right for Arizonans to defend themselves.”

It is not the first time Ms. Lake has alluded to armed conflict with her and her supporters. Last year, she said: “If you want to get to President Trump, you are going to have go through me, and you are going to have to go through 75 million Americans just like me. And I’m going to tell you, most of us are card-carrying members of the N.R.A.,” referring to the National Rifle Association. She added, “That’s not a threat — that’s a public service announcement.”

Her voice is just one in a rising chorus of violent, authoritarian or otherwise aggressive political rhetoric from Mr. Trump and his allies. The former president shared a video late last month featuring an image of President Biden, his Democratic rival, hogtied. He has also said that migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country” and described his political opponents last year as “vermin” who needed to be “rooted out.”

And Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, on Monday urged people whose routes were blocked by pro-Palestinian demonstrators to “take matters into your own hands” and confront the offenders, endorsing the use of physical force against peaceful protesters.

Jazmine Ulloa

A wealthy Democratic congressman is among the top self-funders in Senate primary history.

Representative David Trone, a Democrat who apologized for using a racial slur during a recent House committee meeting, has poured nearly $42 million from his personal fortune into his Senate bid in Maryland, according to the latest federal quarter filings, putting him among the top self-funders in Senate primary history.

Mr. Trone, who founded and owns a lucrative wine and liquor retailer alongside his brother, invested $18.5 million of his own money from January to March alone, ending last month with $1 million on hand. He drew only about $216,100 from other donors in that time, according to the filings .

Mr. Trone is seeking to make up ground in his hotly contested Democratic primary against Angela Alsobrooks, the prominent executive of Prince George’s County, and a slate of lesser known candidates. Now in his third term in the House of Representatives, Mr. Trone has picked up endorsements from top House Democrats. But his use of the slur has drawn criticism.

Last month, while praising President Biden’s tax proposals at a congressional budget hearing, Mr. Trone dropped a derogatory term used to caricature Black people. He later apologized, adding that he misspoke and meant to say “bugaboo.” “Regardless of what I meant to say, I shouldn’t have used that language, and I apologize,” he said at the time.

Five Black Democrats in the House then endorsed Ms. Alsobrooks, who is Black, though they made no mention of the slur. She ended the latest quarter with nearly $3.2 million cash on hand, according to federal filings. The primary is on May 14.

The winner is likely to face Larry Hogan, a popular former governor of the state who is seeking the Republican nomination, in what is expected to be a competitive general election . While Maryland has not elected a Republican senator in more than 40 years, it elected Mr. Hogan as governor twice.

In the Democratic Senate primary, Mr. Trone has sought to stake out a position to the left of Ms. Alsobrooks on issues such as addiction and criminal justice, and to emphasize his humble origins growing up on a farm in Pennsylvania and building a fortune as the founder of his company, Total Wine & More. He has pitched his ability to self-fund as a bulwark against the influence of political action committees, lobbyists and corporations.

In a statement, Joe Bowen, his campaign’s communications director, pointed to Mr. Trone’s self-funding as evidence that “he’s prepared to do whatever it takes to beat Larry Hogan in November and protect the Democratic Senate majority.”

Before his Senate run, Mr. Trone spent more than $43 million of his own money on his House races dating back to 2016, when he lost in a neighboring district, and he already had the distinction of being the top self-funder in House history , said Jacob Rubashkin, an analyst with Inside Elections , a nonpartisan newsletter that analyzes congressional races. Mr. Rubashkin said in an interview that Mr. Trone made most of his latest investment last quarter before his misstep at the hearing.

Mr. Rubashkin said Mr. Trone had entered the race with some disadvantages and was facing stiff competition. “He had a lot of ground to make up, and the money was his way of doing that,” Mr. Rubashkin said.

Rebecca Davis O’Brien

Trailing Biden in cash, Trump relies on big donors to try to catch up.

Former President Donald J. Trump leaned heavily on major Republican donors in March as his campaign and the Republican Party sought to close the financial gap separating him from President Biden, new federal filings showed on Monday.

For much of the race, Mr. Trump has relied on small donors — in particular, those giving less than $200 online — to sustain his campaign. Most big donors steered clear.

But in recent weeks, as Mr. Trump finished trouncing his primary opponents and Mr. Biden and the Democrats gathered fund-raising steam, these donors have opened their checkbooks to the former president.

In the last two weeks of March alone, one committee backing Mr. Trump raised nearly $18 million, nearly all from six-figure contributions. Mr. Trump and the Republican Party finished the month with $93 million on hand between all their committees, his campaign has said , having raised more than $65 million in March.

Still, Republicans are lagging behind. In the first three months of the year, Mr. Biden and the Democratic Party together raised more than $187 million, his campaign has said , including $90 million in March, ending the month with $192 million on hand.

Mr. Trump’s campaign has not provided a full account of its first-quarter fund-raising. The two committees that filed on Monday reported raising nearly $90 million combined since January, but that does not include money raised directly by the campaign or the Republican National Committee.

The filings on Monday with the Federal Election Commission were the first detailed look this year at the joint fund-raising committees through which Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden have raised the majority of their money. These committees, some of which can raise more than $800,000 from individual donors in concert with the candidates’ parties, transfer funds to the campaigns themselves and also build out national campaign operations.

(The campaigns and parties themselves have been filing monthly reports, which do not include details on the individual donors.)

Biden Victory Fund, the president’s main joint fund-raising committee with the party reported raising $121.3 million in the first three months of the year.

Top donors included Seth MacFarlane, the creator of “Family Guy”; the billionaire entrepreneur Reid Hoffman; and the lawyer George Conway, a vocal Trump critic who until last year was married to Kellyanne Conway, a top Trump adviser.

The reporting period included Mr. Biden’s March 28 fund-raiser at Radio City Music Hall, which campaign aides said brought in $25 million.

Trump 47 Committee Inc. — Mr. Trump’s new joint fund-raising committee with the Republican National Committee — was formally set up with the F.E.C. on Jan. 31. It reported raising $23.6 million in the quarter, including $17.8 million in the second half of March alone, largely from six-figure contributions.

Those gifts included $814,399 dated March 25 from Robert Mercer, the hedge fund billionaire who was a vital supporter of Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign but was less engaged with his 2020 run. Mr. Trump had been courting Mr. Mercer and other donors in recent weeks.

Mr. Trump’s joint fund-raising agreement with the R.N.C. directs a portion of the contributions to Trump 47 Committee Inc. to a political action committee that has been paying his costly legal bills. The first $6,600 given goes to Mr. Trump’s campaign, and the next $5,000 goes to his Save America PAC, which last year spent more than $50 million on his legal expenses. The R.N.C. and state parties receive the remaining amount.

Other top-dollar donors to Trump 47 included Roger William Norman, a Nevada real-estate developer who gave nearly half a million dollars last year to a super PAC backing Mr. Trump, and Robert T. Bigelow, the Las Vegas aerospace mogul, who gave $5 million to the Trump super PAC in February.

Jeffrey C. Sprecher, the chief executive of Intercontinental Exchange, which owns the New York Stock Exchange, also gave more than $800,000, as did his wife, Kelly Loeffler, who briefly served as a Republican senator from Georgia.

Joe Ricketts, the chairman of TD Ameritrade, also gave the maximum amount. Other major donors included Linda McMahon, the former pro-wrestling entrepreneur; Phil Ruffin, the casino magnate; and Woody Johnson, the owner of the New York Jets. All three also gave at least $1 million to the pro-Trump super PAC last year.

Mr. Trump’s Save America joint fund-raising committee — which had served as his main fund-raising vehicle during the primary campaign — raised $65.8 million in the first quarter of 2024, and ended March with $13.7 million on hand.

Reporting from Washington

Under pressure from Trump, Arizona Republicans weigh a response to the state’s 1864 abortion ban.

Facing mounting pressure to strike down a near-total abortion ban revived last week by Arizona’s Supreme Court, Republican state legislators are considering efforts to undermine a planned ballot measure this fall that would enshrine abortion rights in the Arizona Constitution, according to a presentation obtained by The New York Times.

The 1864 law that is set to take effect in the coming weeks bans nearly all abortions and mandates prison sentences of two to five years for providing abortion care. The proposed ballot measure on abortion rights, known as the Arizona Abortion Access Act, would enshrine the right to an abortion before viability , or about 24 weeks. Supporters of the measure say they have already gathered enough signatures to put the question on the ballot ahead of a July 3 filing deadline.

Republicans in the Legislature are under tremendous pressure to overturn, or at least amend, the 1864 ban. Former President Donald J. Trump, the national standard-bearer of the Republican Party, directly intervened on Friday, calling on Republican legislators, in a frantically worded post online, to “act immediately” to change the law. A top Trump ally in Arizona who is running for the Senate, Kari Lake, has also called for the overturning of the 1864 law , which she had once praised.

Abortion rights have been a winning message for Democrats since the Supreme Court, with three justices appointed by Mr. Trump, overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. And even though it is an objectively unpopular aspect of his White House legacy, Mr. Trump has repeatedly bragged that he is personally responsible for overturning Roe.

Republicans in Arizona, however, have already resisted efforts to repeal the 160-year-old law and are bracing for the potential for another floor battle on the ban that is looming for the Legislature, which is set to convene on Wednesday. The plans that circulated among Republican legislators suggest the caucus is considering other measures that would turn attention away from the 1864 law.

The presentation to Republican state legislators, written by Linley Wilson, the general counsel for the Republican majority in the Arizona State Legislature, proposed several ways in which the Republican-controlled Legislature could undermine the ballot measure, known as A.A.A., by placing competing constitutional amendments on the ballot that would limit the right to abortion even if the proposed ballot measure succeeded.

The plan, the document said, “Changes narrative — Republicans have a plan!” adding that the plan “puts Democrats in a defensive position to argue against partial birth abortions, discriminatory abortions, and other basic protections.”

One proposal would have the Legislature send to voters two other ballot initiatives that would “conflict with” and “pull votes from” the A.A.A. ballot measure. Ballot measures for a constitutional amendment can be proposed through a petition, as with the A.A.A. ballot measure, or through the State Legislature , and the document suggests that voters could read the Republican ballot measures first on the ballot if they are filed before the A.A.A. ballot measure.

One of the Republican ballot initiatives outlined in the presentation would enact an abortion ban after the fifth week of pregnancy, with exceptions for rape, incest and medical necessity. The other ballot option would propose a ban after the 14th week of pregnancy. The language of the measures would be intentionally written to mislead voters on when exactly an abortion would become illegal, according to the presentation.

The second option, for example, would be known as the “Fifteen Week Reproductive Care and Abortion Act.” But “in reality,” according to the presentation, “It’s a 14-week law disguised as a 15-week law because it would only allow abortion until the beginning of the 15th week.” Similarly, the wording of the five-week abortion ban would make abortion illegal “after the sixth week of pregnancy begins.”

An alternative to those two options would be to put forward a ballot measure that would take effect only if the A.A.A. ballot measure also passes. That plan, known as “conditional enactment,” would insert language in the state Constitution declaring that the right to an abortion in the A.A.A. ballot measure “is not absolute and shall not be interpreted to prevent the Legislature from” regulating abortion in the future. It would also include language used by anti-abortion activists, referring to “the preservation of prenatal life” and “mitigation of fetal pain.”

Ben Toma, the speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, confirmed the authenticity of the document and said in a statement that it “presents ideas drafted for internal discussion and consideration within the caucus. I’ve publicly stated that we are looking at options to address this subject, and this is simply part of that.”

State Senator Anna Hernandez said in a statement that she and fellow Democrats would continue to push to repeal the 1864 law and that the Republicans’ proposals were “intentionally drafted to confuse voters” with policies “based in arbitrary numbers of weeks that have no factual grounding in science or health care.”

Dawn Penich, a spokeswoman for Arizona for Abortion Access, the liberal coalition organizing the A.A.A. ballot measure, said in a statement that the Republican presentation “shows yet again why Arizonans can’t leave our most basic and personal rights in the hands of politicians.”

Kate Zernike contributed reporting from New York.

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