A Rough Guide To: Contemporary Irish Alternative Music
"Nobel prize-winning poets and writers, world-conquering rock bands, and artists who seemingly invented genres of music, and all that was just in the last 100…
Album of the Month - July 2021
Snapped Ankles Forest Of Your Problems The Leaf Label Buy now Rough Trade Exclusive blue/black splatter vinyl + bonus disc Snapped Ankles hack away at the…
Rough Trade Edit Podcast 32 with Hiatus Kaiyote
"...let’s just make weird quirky things that we love and less of the internal voices that tell you you’re not good enough… All…
Movin' On Up
Expansion of our UK warehouse and fulfilment space. We wanted to let you know of improvements to our warehouse and fulfilment space which helps ensure we…
In Profile: Britpop '96
"I have almost no photographic evidence I was ever there, pre-mobile, pre-internet, NOBODY took a camera out with them as it would have been the…
Rough Trade Edit Podcast 31 with Marina Allen
"I think of my songs as my little friends… they’re just a way to cope with how hard it is to be a person…
Album of the Month - June 2021
Wolf Alice A big slice of melancholy pie, capable of making the most callous out there shed a tear. Record Store Day UK Blue Weekend indie…
Recounting: Terrain by Portico Quartet
"It’s a world of changing landscapes and experiences that we traversed through June-November 2020, both emotionally and physically... It’s also a dialogue between…
Rough Trade Edit Podcast 30 with Sons of Raphael
"It’s all about not compromising on things and our attitude was we have a vision and we are going to realise it no matter…
In Profile: William Onyeabor
"He always made sure he got the outcome he wanted, whether it was by asking something outright, or by playing these invisible chess moves. It…
Album of the Month - May 2021
Squid As much as they wipe the slate clean ahead of every new project they conceive, the five-piece's particular brand of musicality is always…
Music Making Music: The TMA-2 Ninja Tune Edition
"For Ninja Tune as a label, we are keen to not only celebrate the past but also mark our intentions going forward both sonically and…
Recounting: Second Line by Dawn Richard
"We were in the middle of finishing the album when the pandemic hit. I remember feeling like maybe it was a sign for me to…
A Rough Guide To: Slacker Rock
...Just mere lazy lizards, sunning themselves in the Californian sun (no doubt the most slacker of all the suns out there). A genre which is very…
In Profile: Prince
“Bring friends, bring Ur children, and bring foot spray, because … it’s gonna B funky.” A truly self made and independent genius of modern music with…