NEW ALBUM ‘MOONSHINE FREEZE’ DETAILS FROM THIS IS THE KIT ALONGSIDE ITS ROUGH TRADE SESSIONS VIDEO

Recent Rough Trade signings This Is The Kit will release their new album Moonshine Freeze on Friday 7th July 2017. This Is The Kit’s new album and Rough Trade debut, Moonshine Freeze, produced by John Parish (PJ Harvey, M Ward, Perfume Genius), began in the immediate wake of its predecessor, Bashed Out, when days after coming off tour […]
Starcrawler have recently announced their debut single ‘Ants’, which will be coming out on Rough Trade Records on Friday 12th May 2017. The single will be backed by B-side ‘Used to Know’ and will be released on limited edition blood splattered white vinyl 7” – 500 only world wide. The band are also set to play their […]

NEW ROUGH TRADE SIGNEES STARCRAWLER RELEASE DEBUT SINGLE & VIDEO FOR ‘ANTS’

HINDS ANNOUNCE UK TOUR AND SHARE NEW VIDEO

Hinds offer fans another glimpse into world, in the form of a double music video/ short film for their cover of Thee Headcoatees’ ‘Davey Crockett’ and The Parrots’ cover of ‘All My Loving’, which was released earlier this year for Record Store Day as a split 7 inch single. Hinds and The Parrots spoke to Pitchfork about the making of […]
Palma Violets complete their amazing year with a massive 14 date headline UK tour. Since the release their debut album 180’ back in February, the London four-piece have toured America, supported the likes of Alabama Shakes, Django Django and Savages, and appeared on Jools Holland and Late Night with Jimmy Kimmel.  Plus they received accolades […]

NEWS: PALMA VIOLETS – UK TOUR DATES

VIDEO: PALMA VIOLETS – ‘BEST OF FRIENDS’

Up until now Rough Trade’s Palma Violets have had minimum online presence and no songs recorded, instead preferring for people to come and experience their raucous live shows at their Lambeth art studio / squat Studio 180, and then later on a UK co-headline tour with Savages. As of today, the London four-piece’s debut single ‘Best Of Friends’ is available to buy from iTunes. […]
This year marks the 15th anniversary of the birth of Bella Union Records, and to celebrate they have teamed up with Rough Trade Shops to compile 145 minutes and 52 seconds minutes of music, old and new, that reflects fondly on the beginnings of the label and looks towards the prospects of the future. As […]

NEWS: BELLA UNION – 15TH ANNIVERSARY COMPILATION WITH ROUGH TRADE

NEWS: EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS – NEW ALBUM ‘HERE’ + MAKING OF VIDEO

Edward Shape & the Magnetic Zeros will release their second studio album ‘HERE’ on 28th May via Rough Trade Records. The album, which is the follow-up to the LA group’s 2009 debut ‘Up From Below’, was self-produced and recorded in Bogalusa, LA and in their studio in Ojai, CA. Of the new album, frontman Alex Ebert says: “The making of this album has […]
The London-based label has unleashed it’s annual hardware upgrade of all things electronic and this year features everything from Nicolas Jaar to Rustie to the already legendary collab between Flying Lotus and Thom Yorke, but also the likes of Solar Bears, Ayshay, Modeselektor and Hercules & LoveAffair. For specifics you can find the track listing […]

Rough Trade Shops – Electronic 11

NEWS: ROUGH TRADE SHOPS ELECTRONIC 11 CD

22 tracks, full sleevenotes. Exclusive ltd. edition varnished sleeve available from Rough Trade Shops only. The new Rough Trade Shops compilation CD is aimed squarely at the New Year. Shiny, fresh, clean and minimal electronic music in your earphones provide the perfect soundtrack for the cold and frosty early January. Rough Trade Shops Electronic 01 […]
The way Jeffrey Lewis churns out near identical album one after the other leaves little room for innovative description. Musically, A Turn In The Dream Songs is pretty much the same as ‘Ere Are I. But then, in a Dylan-esque way, the music is incidental to Lewis’ appeal. It is merely a vehicle for Lewis’ […]

Album Review: Jeffrey Lewis – A Turn In The Dream Songs