The Libertines' Pete Doherty and Carl Barât's legendary east London party flat on sale for £850k The band held guerrilla gigs in the flat’s front room, and nicknamed the property ‘the Albion Rooms’ Evening Standard · Mar 17, 2025
John Lewis gets into vinyl as sales of turntables soar John Lewis has teamed up with Rough Trade to offer selected vinyl LPs in store and online T3 · Feb 18, 2025
John Lewis to start selling vinyl records this month – and it has pretty great taste In partnership with Rough Trade What Hi-Fi? · Feb 14, 2025
Sound investment: John Lewis teams up with Rough Trade to sell vinyl Decision to stock records in some stores and also sell online dovetails with rising demand for turntables in its shops The Guardian - UK · Feb 14, 2025
Rough Trade to expand New York store as music fans seek ‘experiences’, owner says British record store chain to triple size of Rockefeller Center location with 300-capacity room featuring built-in stage The Guardian - US · Jan 23, 2025
The Book of Goldikus Vol 1 review: a treasure trove for the British raver If you look back over the decades, it is easy to pick out seminal record labels that set the tone for the music they championed. From the infamous 1960s Motown RB and Soul label, to punk rock and new waves Stiff in the 70s; followed by London’s own Rough Trade… Evening Standard · Jan 15, 2025
The Darkness launch self-loathing new single I Hate Myself I Hate Myself comes from The Darkness's upcoming eighth album Dreams On Toast Louder · Dec 10, 2024
The Darkness release new single I Hate Myself The Darkness have released their new single 'I Hate Myself', the second track to be taken from their forthcoming album 'Dreams on Toast'. BANG Premier · Dec 10, 2024
Rough Trade to open record shop in Denmark Street, home of the British music industry Long known as Tin Pan Alley the street off Charing Cross Road has been integral to the UK’s pop and rock scene Evening Standard · Sep 11, 2024
“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 · Aug 5, 2024
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 · Apr 21, 2024
"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 Louder · Jan 3, 2024
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 · Nov 24, 2023
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 · Nov 3, 2023
The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2023 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 - US · Jul 2, 2023 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
Birmingham Post · Jun 29, 2023 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
The Guardian - UK · May 31, 2023 ‘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 Independent UK · May 24, 2023 ‘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…
Daily Record · May 5, 2023 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.
Bristol Post · May 3, 2023 Lewis Capaldi announces intimate Bristol gig - full details The pop singer will be performing in Bristol this month
Louder · Apr 5, 2023 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
Bristol Post · Apr 5, 2023 Rough Trade Bristol announces Record Store Day 2023 line-up The event will take place at the independent record store's Nelson Street premises
The Guardian - UK · Nov 28, 2022 ‘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 · Oct 6, 2022 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