Rough Trade Essential: Women in Music

This International Women's Day, we join our community in celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women by highlighting favourite Rough Trade…

On The Rise: Bloomsday

Bloomsday is the tender, cerebral project of the NYC-based Iris James Garrison. Their debut, self-produced record, Place to Land, was released in June 2022 on Bayonet…

On The Rise: Mei Semones

Blending everything that I like together and trying to make something new –that's what feels most natural to me. It’s what feels most…

Label Focus: Jagjaguwar

Jagjaguwar's twenty year history has been filled with collaboration and a familial sense of community between their extensive catalogue of artists. The independent label…

Record Store Day 2024

Browse the list of titles below and make sure to review the guidelines ahead of the celebration. See you in April! BROWSE RECORD STORE DAY 2024…

Shoplifting with Dirt Buyer

Songwriter Joe Sutkowski of Dirt Buyer contemplates the beauty and disaster around him on sophomore album Dirt Buyer II. Dirt Buyer II (their first record on…

Shoplifting w/ They Hate Change

They Hate Change are sonic omnivores, obsessive deep-divers, lovers of rare and radical sounds. photos by Olivia Cummings The Tampa Bay production/rap duo have announced…

Shoplifting with SPRINTS

Dublin garage punk sweethearts, SPRINTS, are turning heads and ready to make their mark on the indie music scene. SPRINTS' debut album Letter to Self…

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…

On The Rise: gglum

As she’s gotten older, Ella Smoker, AKA gglum, has found that her subconscious has been trying to tell her “some pretty wacky stuff” Thoughts will…

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.…

Most Anticipated Albums of 2024

SO many amazing new releases from our favorite bands including The Smile, Yard Act, Kali Uchis, MGMT, and more! From long-awaited returns to debut albums, 2024…

Shoplifting with Slow Pulp

Chicago based indie darlings Slow Pulp stopped by Rough Trade NYC ahead of their in-store performance to chat shoe-gaze and early Coldplay. On their ANTI- Records…

Top 10 In-Stores 2023

From mosh pits to intimate performances by some of the greats, 2023 was a great year for in-stores! Yet again, Rough Trade NYC brought out some…

Shoplifting with Philip Selway

"For me I felt what was important as a drummer was to find that voice and that's what excites me, finding that musical…