Rough Trade Essential: Pop
Memorable melodies, accessible anthems, music consumed on mass appeal. Pop music has always been music of the moment. It's hard to pin down what…
Rough Trade Essential: Funk and Soul
"It’s albums like this which gave artists a cornerstone with which to hone their talents and produce some of the most engaging and beautifully…
Rough Trade Essential: Greatest Guitar Albums
"Replace the generic cliches with genuinely raw lyrics, the pristine, over-the-top production, with grit and power, and the trite, self-indulgent guitar solos, with a style…
Rough Trade Essential: Shoegaze
One of indie-rock's finest subgenres. With warm waves of distortion, limitless guitar texture and the most ethereal vocals - shoegaze is music for dreamers.…
Rough Trade Essential: Folk
"Whatever it is you define as folk, one thing is universally agreed – Simply put, folk music is music for the people by the people."…
Rough Trade Essential: Hip Hop
"Biggie's raps play out before your eyes in wide-screen. He embodies characters and relays stories with a flow that bounces over the beat…
Rough Trade Essential: Soundtracks
"Music is the true accompaniment to film, so salt your popcorn, perch on the edge of the seat, and prepare to be encapsulated in all…
Rough Trade Essential: Post-Punk
"We were not aware that punk was going to happen. We were aware that what we wanted to do was commit some act of violence…
Rough Trade Essential: Electronic
“…it might rely heavily on electronics, tapes. I can kind of envision one person with a lot of machines, tapes and electronics set up singing or…
In Profile: De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising
"De La Soul told you the nineties were going to be very different to the eighties." Bob Stanley Psychedelic, undeniably funky and underpinned by…