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“It’s clear based on feedback that people viewed this service as inappropriate and saw us as profiteering”: Rough Trade bins Flip vinyl selling service after just two days

Low prices had reportedly been offered for genuinely valuable records

MusicRadar

Swifties queue up for special letter from singer in boost for UK’s Record Store Day

New album The Tortured Poets Department flies off the shelves as Swift breaks record for most Spotify streams in a single day

The Guardian - UK

"I went to Rough Trade: they told me it was the worst record they ever heard in their life. Everybody else that I could get a meeting with told me the same thing": The Undertones' Teenage Kicks wasn't always considered a punk rock masterpiece

Good Vibrations founder/Northern Irish punk legend Terri Hooley recalls how The Undertones were rejected by every British record label

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OPINION - The best things in life are free and never more so than in a great city like London

This spring, I wandered through my east London neighbourhood for some afternoon distraction. It was one of those days when work had started crushing against the brain and I needed some quick stimulus away from the desk. I saw a bunch of downcast sixth formers sitting cross-legged on the floor…

Evening Standard

London’s best independent record shops - and the top turntables to buy right now

With Record Store Day 2025 (April 12th) upon us, we flick through our favourite London record shops and celebrate the unique culture of vinyl

Evening Standard

Soft sandwiches, street fights and surrealism: Marlene Marder’s memoir of Swiss punks Kleenex/Liliput

The guitarist’s diary of their formation and early tours gets its first English translation, offering funny, biting, absorbing insight into the influential band beloved by the likes of Kurt Cobain

The Guardian - UK

Searching for Silver Lake: the radical neighborhood that changed gay America

For decades, these Los Angeles streets have played host to key events in LGBTQ+ history. But gentrification has transformed the area

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Glastonbury acts including Elton John see online shopping surge

Record store Rough Trade said it had seen a huge rise in customers looking to buy music released by artists who performed at the festival in Somerset last weekend

Birmingham Post

‘An astounding rush of real-time creativity’: 40 years of the Smiths’ Peel Sessions

Not everyone finds it easy to listen to the Smiths now, but those early transmissions were utterly formative for this vital new band and their enraptured fans

The Guardian - UK

‘It was bewildering’: The Thrills on famous fans, flash-in-a-pan success and their Morrissey blunder

With fans in Bono and Rod Stewart, the Noughties group were going to be the biggest Irish band since U2 – then they vanished. On the 20th anniversary of their debut, Ed Power speaks with The Thrills and their former manager to chronicle the band’s staggering rise to the top…

The Independent UK

Lewis Capaldi's intimate UK gigs 'sell out in seconds' as he adds additional shows

The singer had to add on additional shows due to the popularity.

Daily Record

Lewis Capaldi announces intimate Bristol gig - full details

The pop singer will be performing in Bristol this month

Bristol Post

Therapy? launch video for new single Poundland Of Hope And Glory

Poundland Of Hope And Glory casts a wry eye on a post-truth world of misinformation, chaos and colonial reinvention, and comes from the band's upcoming Hard Cold Fire album

Louder

Rough Trade Bristol announces Record Store Day 2023 line-up

The event will take place at the independent record store's Nelson Street premises

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The Guardian - UK

‘I’d wear a mac on stage because of all the spitting’: Lora Logic on punk, prayer and Poly Styrene

As Essential Logic release their second album 43 years after their first, their founder talks squats, scary gigs and her tempestuous relationship with her X-Ray Spex bandmate

The Guardian - UK

Gilla Band on their nightmarish new noise album: ‘Reality gets distorted in a dream’

After the influential Dubliners took a hiatus to care for frontman Dara Kiely’s mental health struggles and the pandemic put paid to touring album two, they’re back with a turbulent masterpiece

The Independent UK

Wet Leg, Stormzy, Nova Twins among winners at AIM Independent Music Awards 2022

Stormzy, Mitski, Cleo Sol, Nilüfer Yanya and Rough Trade also take home awards

Nottingham Post

The Nottinghamian: Notts woman wins global song competition and top ten things to do this week

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The Nottinghamian: Rising fares for the city and what's on this week

Bristol Post

Iconic singer Nick Cave to make rare Bristol appearance

The singer/songwriter will be signing copies of his new book at the Rough Trade store

Evening Standard

The Libertines announce London anniversary gig and album for Up The Bracket

The British band are celebrating over two decades of music with a massive gig in London

The Guardian - UK

Thrifty summer: free films, folk and standup – 25 cost-free ways to enjoy arts in the UK

You don’t have to shell out to enjoy the best in music, film, theatre, art and comedy – from a Francis Bacon in Aberdeen to Notting Hill’s unique and spectacular carnival

Nottingham Post

Record Store Day attracts hour-long queues to Nottingham's Rough Trade

The store described it as the 'best time of the year'

Evening Standard

Best online record shops in the UK: Where to buy your vinyl and CDs

Calling all vinyl junkies! Musical nirvana awaits

Nottingham Post

Record Store Day returns with events across Nottingham

"We had people queuing from 10pm the evening before where they camped out overnight to get first in the queue"

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