ALBUM REVIEW: BLACK MIDI – SCHLAGENHEIM

It’s like a rucksack of bricks superglued to your shoulders – hype. Always hard to shake off, and once you’ve been proclaimed as the saviours of new music, and the answer to life, the Universe and everything, it’s like wading through the thickest Glastonbury mud to find some escape. So, casting all the aspersions aside, […]
Aside from football, there are three things that Manchester does incredibly well; music, writing, and festivals. So, it’s no wonder that the UK’s biggest literary celebration, Louder Than Words returns for its sixth year November 9-11. The annual and beloved cultural event brings with it a plethora of knowledgeable music folk who are writing, making […]
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Line-up now confirmed for Louder Than Words

The Louder Than Words Festival of music and writing returns this year for its sixth edition from November 9th to 11th 2018 .  It remains the only festival that interrogates that enduring love affair between music and the written word. This year, the festival will open on the Friday with Radio 1’s Gemma Cairney, followed by the current bass player with […]
Sleaford Mods have announce their self-titled new EP ‘Sleaford Mods’ which is released via Rough Trade Records on September 14th 2018. The EP will be available on 12”, CD & DL. This is the band’s first new music since last year’s top 15 album “English Tapas” The EP was recorded in Spring 2018 in Nottingham, […]

SLEAFORD MODS – HEAR NEW TRACK + NEW EP DETAILS

STARCRAWLER PRESENT ‘USED TO KNOW’ & ‘ANTS’ FROM NEW ROUGH TRADE SESSION – WATCH HERE

LA’s new teenage rockers and recent Rough Trade signing Starcrawler recently found time to record a Rough Trade Session. The first two tracks to be revealed from this are ‘Used To Know’ and the band’s debut single ‘Ants’. Of the day, Starcrawler’s frontwoman Arrow remembers: “It was pissing rain. We recorded these sessions, Henri lost […]
Nadine Shah has shared the title track from her new album Holiday Destination (to be released Friday 25th August 2017). The first song written for the album, ‘Holiday Destination’ led the way for Nadine to open up the deep and affecting dialogue which courses through the LP with polemical anger. She’s also announced that she’ll […]

NADINE SHAH SHARES NEW TRACK ‘HOLIDAY DESTINATION’ ALONGSIDE 2017 UK TOUR DATES

SLEAFORD MODS ON REDIT TONIGHT AT 7PM FOR ASK ME ANYTHING – NOW WATCH THEIR NEW ‘MOPTOP’ VIDEO

Sleaford Mods share their new video for ‘Moptop’ – take a gander at this below. The video which was filmed in a friend’s kitchen, is taken from their new album English Tapas, which recently came out on Rough Trade. According to singer Jason Williamson, the song is “based around the disgusting lie that is Boris Johnson, the wannabe Churchill (We don’t need another one). […]
To celebrate the release of his fifth album, The Boombox Ballads on August 14th through Moshi Moshi, Sweet Baboo (aka. Stephen Black) has  announced a special solo performance at Rough Trade East on release day (full info is here). Sweet Baboo has also unveiled the new video for ‘You Got Me Time Keeping’. The song is Black’s attempt to write a song like Scott Walker’s The Electrician, although […]

Sweet Baboo announces Rough Trade East in-store performance

SOAK PREMIERES NEW SINGLE TAKEN FROM DEBUT ALBUM

SOAK has shared a new video for Sea Creatures, a track taken from her forthcoming debut album. SOAK, which is the alias of 16-year-old singer songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson, will release her debut Before We Forgot How To Dream, on June 1, with Sea Creatures preceding it on March 16 through Rough Trade. The video featuring […]