Rough Trade Essential: Jazz
"Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around." Miles Davis Originating in New Orleans' African-American communities in the late 1800s,…
Albums of the Year So Far 2021
At the moment, it all feels so uncertain. The world is still in a period of transition yet it feels like the light at the end…
Recounting: Get up Sequences Part One by The Go! Team
"People often talk about the positivity of The Go! Team music and I think surrounding myself in this everyday was useful... It’s strange how…
Recounting: Silk For The Starving by The Lounge Society
"In what was a bleak period of time we found ourselves in the studio with the producer we had idolised, recording songs that we adore.…
Albums of the Year So Far 2021 | Rough Trade UK
It's going to be a tough feat, to prize the word uncertain from the firm grip of the pandemic's vocabulary, so long…
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…
Dorothy
We’ve fallen in love... and their name is Dorothy. Oh, but Dorothy isn’t a person, she’s multiple persons, none of whom are actually…
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…
Rough Trade NYC - Photo Gallery
Yep, New York, we're now open... Despite being finally open, we've still plenty more to add to the space and offer -…
Ta da... ! ROUGH TRADE NYC's Grand Opening Giveaway
In celebration of our grand NYC re-opening, we are excited to announce a monumental Rough Trade giveaway... Like so many projects in life, the creation of…
NYC Sneak Peek #6 - HADES
When it comes to the fashion of rock music, knitwear is probably not the first thing to come to mind. T-shirts have long-held a monopoly on…