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Can You Recycle Vinyl Records?

For decades, vinyl enjoyed its reign as the most popular way to listen to music. But with the emergence of CDs and then digital media, it…

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Record Store Day UK 2023

Everything you need to know about Record Store Day at Rough Trade... We're back to do it all over again in 2023, one of the best…

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Staff Picks: Best of 2022

"It could have been etched into stone or written in the stars and it would still feel like it was delicately crafted just for me." Glorious…

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UK Compilations and Reissues of the Year 2022

Take a voyage into Caribbean sound system culture, explore punk through a feminist lens or revisit the seminal skinny tie pop of the Lemonheads. It's been…

Albums of the Year

UK Albums of the Year 2022

Through hundreds of outstanding albums to satiate our thirst for new music, we’ve learnt, grown, applauded and fallen in love all over again. Because a…

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Rough Trade Soho

New standalone store to open in London's epicentre offering an exciting hybrid space that unites the worlds of fashion and music. With existing Rough Trade stores…

We've made some changes...

You might have noticed things are a bit different over on roughtrade.com [http://www.roughtrade.com/us]... * To emulate our fantastic stores we’ve added…

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We've made some changes...

You might have noticed things are a bit different over on roughtrade.com... * To emulate our fantastic stores we’ve added more products to our homepage…

Your Guide to indieplaza 2022

We are so excited to debut our free festival indieplaza, co-presented by Rockefeller Center, in New York City. The weather is promising to be wonderful on…

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Albums of the Year So Far 2022

ICYMI the last six months has produced another goddamn goldmine of new albums. From big, beautiful returns [https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/mitski/laurel-hell/lp-plus], to…