Rough Trade Essential: Women in Music
On International Women's Day, we join our community in celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women by highlighting favourite Rough Trade…
US Compilations and Reissues of the Year 2021
There's a time to look to the future of music, and a time to look at its past - perhaps even earlier than the…
Rough Trade x Stella McCartney
In the spirit of the release of the new documentary, we at Rough Trade have partnered with Stella McCartney for a giveaway celebrating her stunning The…
Black Friday 2021 US
Black Friday is just around the corner, here is everything you need to know! On Friday, November 26th, we'll celebrate Black Friday RSD 2021…
US Albums of The Year 2021
It goes by faster every year. Once we get around this time, that phrase gets used like clockwork. The passing of time is elastic, slipping by…
Albums of the Year 2021 | Rough Trade UK
We could write a lengthy, overly-gushy intro about how much music has meant to us this past year, but we'll leave that for the…
On The Rise: Silas Short
A vivid, raw and inspiriting indie-soul debut and the catalyst to your long-term love affair with Chicago's newest R&B luminary. Silas Short…
UK Books of the Year 2021
Spanning folk, acid house, punk, rock and roll, noise, art, chewing gum and covid across stories, essays, unpublished photos, meditations and an abundance of brilliant new…
US Books of the Year 2021
2021 has been a year of reflection. As we look around, watching our world slowly return to as it was before (or totally change its course)…
Recounting: Monument by Portico Quartet
"We created this record in a hopeful frame of mind. Perhaps we even used it as a way to daydream a little, to imagine a…
Shoplifting With Snail Mail.
"Jazz records inspire me the most and at any time of day, but especially in the morning with coffee." In our latest instalment of…
Album of The Month - November 2021
Nation of Language - A Way Forward PIAS Following on from debut album, Introduction, Presence (2020), the Brooklyn trio return with their magical synth pop formula,…
US Gift Guide 2021
The holiday season is upon us and, as always, finding the right gift is going to be a challenge. Scavenging through past conversations, racking our brains…
UK Gift Guide 2021
Whose stocking will you Trump this Christmas? Is your budget Crosley or Technics? Are Barbie or Ken looking for a significant other? Or is shopping for…
Home Is Everything: Support Shelter at Rough Trade
Home is a human right. With our stores situated in central city locations, the often desperate situation of homelessness is never far from our door. Never…