A Rough Guide To: Why Is My Vinyl Record Skipping?
It’s a horrible feeling. You go to spin your brand new vinyl record – or even a classic from your collection – and it starts skipping. Right…
Most Anticipated Albums of 2023
Paramore, Tennis, Shame, and Gorillaz are only a few of the artists set to release new albums in 2023. Our most anticipated albums of 2023 consist…
Winter Sale 2023
Our biggest sale ever! Great savings on thousands of titles. Featuring albums of the year, Rough Trade Exclusives, limited edition colored vinyl, merch and many more.…
Shoplifting with Randall Poster and Lee Ranaldo
In celebration of the release of the new 20 LP box set For the Birds: The Birdsong Projec [https://www.roughtrade.com/us/product/various-artists/for-the-birds-the-birdsong-project-1]…
Staff Picks 2022
Our amazing staff tell us all about their favorite albums of 2022 featuring titles from our Vinyl Albums of the Year list [https://blog.roughtrade.com/…
Shoplifting with POND
POND are known for their psych-pop grandiosity, but their newest album ‘9’ was created with more than just their psychedelic sound in mind. Photos by Olivia…
Shoplifting with Rayland Baxter
From Mac Miller to Leonard Cohen, Rayland Baxter walks us through the inspiration behind his fourth album 'If I Were a Butterfly' Photos by…
US Vinyl Albums of the Year 2022
Our 2022 list is a reflection of the past 12 months in music, focusing on those releases available on the vinyl format, informed by the discerning…
US Books of the Year 2022
During a year of bumpy restarts, where our feet feel a bit closer to the ground and our heads starting to look skyward, the stories we…
5 Essentials: Queens of the Stone Age
If there’s a rock band whose sound has become synonymous with the iconography of American desert, it is Queens of the Stone Age. Since emerging…