Rough Trade

By Photocritic.org This Saturday is Record Store Day, an excuse for the surviving independent record shops of the world to hold a little party. Not the ones to miss out such an occasion, a number of London’s indie shops are marking the event with some …

We’re partial to a bit of Yo La Tengo and if you missed out on the Roundhouse gig or don’t have tickets for All Tomorrow’s Parties this weekend, we recommend you get yourself to Rough Trade East in Brick Lane tonight for an intimate instore …

Intrepid music journalists that we are, just over a year ago we tipped a hot, unsigned South London talent called Rox. Since then her music has been featured on a Rimmel advert, she’s been signed up by the mighty Rough Trade and has prepared an …

A treat for West London on Wednesday when Jarvis Cocker bought the kind of evening only he can to the Shepherds Bush Empire, to celebrate Rough Trade’s 30th birthday. Jarvis promised a combination of a lecture, gig and disco and certainly delivered, hopping from Wogan …

Anti-folk [anti]hero Jeffrey Lewis and his band took the stage at Scala last night armed with energy, good humour, and cartoons. The packed room was dead silent for finger-picked acoustic melodies while the floor heaved during fuzzed out rock stomps (including a cover of a …

We are very excited about this year’s Nationwide Mercury Music Prize nominations. Not only did we personally manage to guess 9 out of 12 correctly, but some Londonist favourites are nicely sitting in the mix with the unnervingly young Laura Marling, the mighty Elbow, dazzling …

The reward for the extensive queuing outside of Rough Trade East last night was a set of deliciously dirty tunes by London-based duo the Kills. Their equipment wasn’t on their side, and a finicky drum machine meant we didn’t get to hear more than the …

You don’t need us to remind you that the weather on Monday was terrible. The whole day off work and not the smallest bit of sun to be seen. We had it all planned out to stay tucked in bed listening to Spiritualized records until …

It’s officially Spring and by Pisces it’s lovely out there in the sunshine. Crocuses have been spotted in Highbury Fields so our biggest recommendation for expenditure light trips this week is get to the parks and into the gardens and witness the miracles of the …

Having treated audiences at the May 2007 All Tomorrow’s Parties’ “ATP vs. The Fans” festival to her gentle brand of Northern Californian folk, Mariee Sioux returns to the UK this week to play a series of London gigs. A childhood friend of Rough Trade favourite …