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,…
Incoming! Rough Trade Transmissions
#RoughTradeTX Dear friends and music lovers, As the music industry and the entire globe battles with the effects and constraints of the coronavirus, we want to…
Rough Trade Edit Podcast 6 with Baxter Dury
Baxter Dury Emily is flying solo in a makeshift studio this week (hashtag working from home). The unprecedented change we are all experiencing only makes us…
Label Focus: XL Recordings
XL has been the avant-garde of British and American music for the past 30 years. Every artist that has spent time under the label has been…
Rough Trade & Virus Measures
UPDATE: ALL STORES ARE NOW CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. As in so many walks of life, the coronavirus has become dominant in our thoughts, impacting both…
Rough Trade Edit Podcast 5 with Disq
Disq Emily and Nigel discuss new albums by Honey Harper, Caribou, Soccer Mommy, Heliocentrics and Cornershop, with some early ) Special guests this week are Disq, the…
Wide Awake Festival: "A gender equal billing should not be a cause for celebration, it should just be considered the baseline."
Wide Awake's Keith Miller, Tash Cutts and Jamal Guthrie chat music, diversity, equality and the positive initiatives they are embracing to drive conversation and…
Opinion: The Heliocentrics' time-honored dexterity and panache
Ed Zed, Rough Trade NYC office "Superb from start to finish." Sun Ra-esque jazz excursions and musique concrète, lashed together with threads of hip…
Album of the Month - March 2020
Who Dan Snaith, the legendary music maestro behind the Caribou moniker, is back with his first new album in five years. What Unpredictable, the tracks'…
Rough Trade West: Westrospective
Music's local record store. If you've visited our oldest and most beloved store on Talbot Road, London in recent times, you'…
Rough Trade Edit Podcast 4 with Porridge Radio
Dana This week Emily and Nigel discuss new albums by Tame Impala, Eyelids, Agnes Obel, Mush and Lanterns on the Lake - all available at roughtrade.…
Opinion: [Habibi] gives you that "sh*t I should start a band too!" feeling.
Review by Cam, Rough Trade NYC "To put it simply, this record is a great, no frills rock n' roll album." debut. Their…
Opinion: Khruangbin and Leon Bridges create divine harmony
Rough Trade office "It is comforting and courageous to find two things that have no inherent connection, but once married together, it is hard to…
Buy One Get One Tree
Over the next few weeks, Rough Trade paper bags will become available to buy with any in-store purchase. Contrary to popular (mis)perception, paper bags actually…
Opinion: It's interesting to listen to a band (Nada Surf) almost 20 years apart in records.
Nada Surf - Never Not Together Review by Dima, Rough Trade NYC "This album is produced to satisfy a lonesome rainy day repeat listen. It…