Record Store Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Two dates to know: Record Store Day Black Friday is Friday, November 29, 2026, and the next main Record Store Day is Saturday, April 17, 2027.
What is Record Store Day?
Record Store Day is an annual event built around independent record stores. The main event traditionally lands on the third Saturday of April each year; Record Store Day Black Friday is traditionally held the day after US Thanksgiving. Both days bring exclusive, limited-run vinyl and CD releases sold only at participating independent shops — not big-box retailers, and not mail order until the in-store exclusives sell through. Because pressings are limited, popular titles can sell out within the first hour, which is why a line-early culture has grown up around the day even at shops that are otherwise quiet on a weekday morning.
Tips for the day
- Arrive early. At busy shops, lines for popular titles can start well before opening.
- Bring cash. A cash line often moves faster than card on a shop's highest-volume day of the year.
- Check each shop's own site or Instagram in the week before the date — participating shops post their own opening time, line policy, and which exclusive titles they've ordered in.
- Release lists are first-come, first-served and vary store to store. A title in stock at one shop may not show up at another, even across town.
- Expect one-per-customer or per-household limits on the most in-demand titles.
- Not every independent record store participates every year, and allocations vary shop to shop — confirm directly with the shop rather than assuming based on a past year.
Shops to check in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Independent record shops open in Dhaka, Bangladesh right now. We don't yet track which specific shops participate in Record Store Day or what they've ordered in for a given year — check each shop's own site or Instagram close to the date for their exclusive-release list, opening time, and line policy.
- Gears For Ears
Dhanmondi hi-fi and audiophile gear shop (est. 2016) with an in-store Experience Center for demos. Alongside headphones, amps, DACs and turntables, stocks a frequently updated selection of new vinyl records and CDs.
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- Geetika Recording Centre
One of Dhaka's last surviving cassette-and-vinyl shops, running in Old Dhaka's Nurul Haque Market (Patuatuli) since the 1970s under owner Santosh Kumar Roy. Sells cassettes, CDs and vinyl records, plus tape/video-to-digital transfer services.
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- Multimedia Kingdom
Long-running New Elephant Road electronics/gadget store with a large vinyl LP catalogue (160+ titles, mostly vintage Bollywood and Bengali film soundtracks) alongside turntables and hi-fi audio gear.
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- Rainbow
Dhaka's oldest Western-music record shop, in an alley off New Elephant Road since 1982. Founder Abdul Kadir Murad and the late 'Kabir bhai' influenced a generation of Bangladeshi rock and metal musicians (Warfaze, Rockstrata). Still stocks CDs and a smaller run of vinyl LPs.
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- Vinyl Madness BD
Invite-only vinyl listening den and vintage-audio archive in a Dhanmondi apartment, run by collector Saadi Manzoorul Huq. Hundreds of records, cassettes and CDs alongside vintage amps and turntables, plus informal jam sessions. Message ahead -- not a walk-in storefront.
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See the full record store listing for Dhaka, Bangladesh.