Preview: My Life In the Sunshine
With his new memoir, My Life In the Sunshine, Nabil Ayers looks backwards with clear eyes and brilliance as he recounts his bi-racial upbringing in Salt…
Spring Equinox Books and Music
'When we lose our connection to nature We lose our spirit, our humanity, our sense of self' -  Cassandra Jenkins, Hard Drive It’s…
Preview: Ten Thousand Apologies
Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure A music book that barely features any music, a biography as literary as any novel, and a confessional…
New Year Revolutions
Is there a better way than veganism to solve the climate crisis? What does "feminism" mean today? How has unconcious bias affected technology? Looking…
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Spanning folk, acid house, punk, rock and roll, noise, art, chewing gum and covid across stories, essays, unpublished photos, meditations and an abundance of brilliant new…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)…
Phenomena-l Books: Best of the Occult
What is the difference between a ghost and a ghoul? Which spirits roam the natural world? Did psychedelics play a part in human evolution? This Halloween,…
UK Books of the Year 2020
As with music [https://blog.roughtrade.com/albums-of-the-year-2020/], reading has also been a crucial tonic for this troubled year. It's been an incredible 12…
End of the Needle with David Keenan
> "Marx is so unsexy. Except when McCarthy do it." David Keenan EOTN explores the records that have influenced, motivated, shaped, altered or augmented…
End of the Needle with Paul Morley
> "It makes more sense the older you get, and can take you away a little from Iggy and the Stooges, as divine as that…