Record Store Day in Recife, Brazil
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 Recife, Brazil
Independent record shops open in Recife, Brazil 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.
- Bolacha Discos & Coisas
British-pub-style vinyl, CD and t-shirt shop in Graças run by musician Victor Serak, with a bar serving coffee and craft beer and a luthier workshop upstairs.
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- Casa do Vinil
Downtown Recife record store on the ground floor of the Edifício Continental, with an inventory of around 20,000 records spanning romantic, rock, pop, samba and reggae.
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- Fernando Vinil Discos
Espinheiro dealer curating quality-condition used vinyl, with in-store listening before purchase.
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- Flowers Records
Long-running Boa Vista record store selling LPs, CDs and accessories -- described in reviews as one of the few full-line record shops left in Recife.
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- MM Vinil
Santana neighborhood vinyl dealer carrying national and international classics.
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- Pulga Mercado de Discos
Espinheiro record shop selling LPs and CDs of varied genres alongside band t-shirts, registered as Pulga Mercado de Discos (CNPJ 41.139.531/0001-47).
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- R Vinil e CDs
Vinyl and CD stall inside the Mercado da Encruzilhada, ships nationwide.
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- Taberna do Vinil
Espinheiro record shop shipping nationwide, in the same Rua Quarenta e Oito record-shop row as Fernando Vinil Discos and Pulga Mercado de Discos.
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- Vinil Alternativo
Downtown Recife shop trading since 1990 -- LPs, CDs and DVDs alongside clothing, jewelry and skate gear, at Mercado da Encruzilhada-adjacent Boa Vista.
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See the full record store listing for Recife, Brazil.