US record store owners have launched The Record Store Day Adapter Prize to recognise significant releases on the day.

Modelled loosely on the UK's Mercury Prize and Canada's Polaris Prize, the award is based in four categories and determined by record store staff and customers.

"There are a lot of prizes and awards being handed out these days," said the organisation, "but we thought there was definitely room for one more, especially when the folks deciding who got the glory definitely ...