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news: Buy Alabama Shakes' Debut EP

Camille Augarde — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:29:29 +0000

Alabama Shakes’ debut album is out on Rough Trade on 9th April. Until then you can enjoy their self-titled EP, their first ever release. It’s sold out in most places, but we’ve imported a handful of copies which you can buy HERE.

Tracklisting:
1. Hold On
2. I Found You
3. On Your Way
4. You Ain’t Alone

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Books: Aidan Moffat Live At The Rough Trade Books Night

Camille Augarde — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:50:48 +0000

On Wednesday 8th February the former Arab Strap frontman Aidan Moffat is set for a distinctive solo show at Klüb Gütenberg, the monthly night co-hosted by Rough Trade Books and the Quietus website. The evening will feature songs, stories and trademark Scottish salaciousness.

Tickets are £10 on the night and £8 in advance from: HERE

The Old Queen’s Head
44 Essex Road, London N1 8LN
7.30pm to 11pm

Aidan has been a friend of The Quietus since the website was founded in 2008. In the role of Uncle Agony Aidan he dished out solutions for the sexual and emotional troubles of the Quietus audience. But perhaps his most striking Quietus contribution was his close lyrical analysis of Adele’s Someone Like You, which, it’s fair to say, upset some of her more sensitive fans. Aidan is now set to join us direct from Glasgow for a one-off solo performance of tunes and tales. In keeping with Klüb Gütenberg’s usual blend of music and talk, this night will feature Aidan in raconteur mode. Maybe a bit like Scottish football legend Chic Charnley out on the talk-and-Tennants circuit – telling the ancient fable of how he fended off attack by samurai-sword aggressor on the training ground. Only here the narrative will unfold over drinks in north London, not bridies-in-a-basket in Motherwell and Milngavie.

The rest of the February Gütenberg bill is awaiting confirmation, but will feature a speaker in the Klüb tradition of Sheffield University’s Professor Tim Birkhead on duck genitalia and The Word magazine’s Andrew Harrison on the dietary habits of Siouxsie Sioux and Tiny Tempah.

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news: Alabama Shakes Announce Debut Album

Camille Augarde — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:21:07 +0000

Alabama Shakes have announced that their debut album ‘Boys & Girls’ will be released
in the UK and Europe by Rough Trade on 9th April 2012 (ATO Records will release it in North America on 10th April)! Listen to the first track from the album ‘Hold On’ here:

Alabama Shakes are vocalist/guitarist Brittany Howard, guitarist Heath Fogg, drummer Steve Johnson and bassist Zac Cockrell. Ben Tanner assists on keyboards. ‘Boys & Girls’ was recorded at The Bomb Shelter in Nashville, TN, and was produced and mixed by the band members. Tracklisting:

1. Hold On
2. I Found You
3. Hang Loose
4. Rise To The Sun
5. You Ain’t Alone
6. Goin’ To The Party
7. Heartbreaker
8. Boys & Girls
9. Be Mine
10. I Ain’t The Same
11. On Your Way

Meanwhile, Jack White’s Third Man Records has selected Alabama Shakes to kick off its series of live 45 releases. A two-song 7” from the band’s fall 2011 session at Third Man in Nashville, is due out in late January. Tune in to Conan on 7th February to see the band make their television debut!

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Howler: Howler 'America Give Up' Out Today!

Camille Augarde — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:08:33 +0000

Howler’s debut album ‘America Give Up’ is out in the UK and Europe today (US tomorrow)!! It’s available to buy from all good record stores, as well as from the following sites:

Rough Trade Online Store
iTunes
Amazon

Q – ‘Irresistible’ 4/5
NME – ‘An effortlessly brilliant debut from one of the best new guitar bands on the planet’ 8/10
The Observer – ‘Desperate for a real rock band? Howler are just the thing’ (Album of the week)
The Fly – ‘America’s next great guitar group’ 4/5

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Belle and Sebastian: God Help The Girl Film

Camille Augarde — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:01:42 +0000

Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian has written a narrative film called God Help The Girl to accompany the album Rough Trade Records released back in 2009. This film is on track to be filmed (and directed by Stuart) this summer in Glasgow and released 2013. The exciting part is that Stuart wants YOU THE FANS to get involved! Click on the link below to find out how!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/godhelpthegirl/god-help-the-girl-musical-film

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Howler: Hear Howler's Album A Week Early

Camille Augarde — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:23:59 +0000

Howler’s debut album ‘America Give Up’ doesn’t hit the shelves until next Monday, but the band have given it to NPR and NME.com to stream early.

US: Listen HERE on NPR
UK and everywhere else: Listen HERE on NME.com

Enjoy!

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news: Alabama Shakes On XFM

Camille Augarde — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:59:36 +0000

Earlier this week Alabama Shakes’ guitarist Heath Fogg chatted to Mary Anne Hobbs on XFM about how the US group formed and their forthcoming debut album. Listen again to the interview here (8 mins in).

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Howler: Double Covers!

Camille Augarde — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:50:32 +0000

2012 is off to a great start for Howler as they’re currently on the cover of The Fly and NME (in which they come number 1 in the list of ’100 new bands you need to hear now)! Both are great reads, we recommend picking up copies of both if you can.

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storelatest: Happy New Year + Shop Discount

Camille Augarde — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:42:16 +0000

Happy new year one and all! We have lots of exciting things in the pipeline for 2012, which we can’t wait to share with you.

In the mean time, for a limited time we’re offering a huge discount on our 2011 albums (digital only) from the likes of Warpaint, The Strokes and British Sea Power. Buy any five albums for £25 and any ten for £45 from our online store: www.store.roughtraderecords.com

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news: Free Rough Trade 2011 Mixtape

Camille Augarde — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:00:12 +0000

Merry Christmas one and all! To remind you of some of the releases we’ve had this jam-packed year and help you through the holidays we’ve made a free ‘Rough Trade songs from 2011’ mixtape. Enjoy!

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Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros: Edward Sharpe 'At The Old Vic Tunnels' Documentary

Camille Augarde — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:26:11 +0000

Earlier this year Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros played five sold-out nights in the tunnels underneath London’s Old Vic theatre. It was an incredible, 360 degree experience, which this new documentary captures brilliantly:

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news: Rough Trade US Shop Sale

Camille Augarde — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:08:45 +0000

From now until 22nd December our US webstore has a holiday sale! We’re offering 20% off plus free US shipping on orders over $50. Take a look here.

Exclusives:
Warpaint Deluxe CD + 12”
Howler 12”
Roy Wilkinson’s ‘Do It For Your Mum’ book
Alela Diane vinyl bundle
Arthur Russell vinyl
Rough Trade t-shirts + totes

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Howler: Howler 'Back Of Your Neck' Video + New Tracks On Spotify

Camille Augarde — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:32:33 +0000

Check out Howler’s video for their current single ‘Back of Your Neck’ (directed by Robert Semmer). In it our boys take us on a tour of the backstreets, house parties, gigs and supermarkets of their hometown Minneapolis – in all its grainy, Super 8 glory. It premiered on Rolling Stone.com yesterday, whom singer Jordan Gatesmith told: “We made this video with our good friend Rob. He got us drunk, held us in his arms and told us it would be alright. And it was… It was.”

You can now listen to two previously unheard album tracks ‘Back To The Grave’ and ‘America’ on Spotify (US only).

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Warpaint: Warpaint 'Rough Trade Sessions' EP Out Now

Camille Augarde — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:50:10 +0000

After the success of their Rough Trade Session earlier this year (a performance filmed and directed by Beggars’ Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth in an east London studio), Warpaint have released a ‘Rough Trade Sessions’ EP exclusively on iTunes of the live audio recordings.

It is available to buy here in the UK and here in the US

Tracklisting
1. Billie Holiday (live audio)
2. Burgundy (live audio)
3. Majesty (live audio)
4. Composure (live audio)
5. Warpaint (live audio)
6. Warpaint (exclusive live video)

The songs are taken from the band’s 2010 album ‘The Fool’ and 2009 EP ‘Exquisite Corpse’. The group’s performance of ‘Warpaint’ was not released with the initial session videos, so is exclusive to this EP.

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Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros: Edward Sharpe Head Back Into The Studio

Camille Augarde — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:51:10 +0000

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros are back in the studio (or the ‘Ed Shed’ as they fondly refer to it)! They’ll be giving you sneaky peaks into how they’re getting on with a series of clips, beginning here:

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Studio Session 11.29.2011 from Ryan Gall on Vimeo.

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Howler: Tickets To Howler's Old Blue Last Headline Show

Camille Augarde — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:45:09 +0000

Howler will be wrapping up what’s been a brilliant debut UK tour with a special headline show at London’s Old Blue Last next Thursday 8th Dec! Buy tickets here: www.wegottickets.com

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Strange Boys: Strange Boys Interview With Noisevox

Camille Augarde — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:04:15 +0000

Ryan Sambol: “Strange Boys is like Chinese finger trap – it’s cheap, hard to get out of once you’re in, and if you have no sense of humour you’re bound to break it”

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British Sea Power: The Modern Ovens Return!

Camille Augarde — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:15:46 +0000

British Sea Power’s Jonathan Richman tribute band are making a rare London appearance on 5th December at Klüb Gütenberg, the new monthly night of words and music co-hosted by Rough Trade Books and the Quietus website. The Modern Ovens feature members of British Sea Power, the Brakes and The Tenderfoot and are an invigorating salute to the songs, style and ice-cream fixations of Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers.

Klüb Gütenberg
Monday 5 December
The Old Queen’s Head, 44 Essex Road, London N1 8LN
7.30pm to 11pm
Tickets £8 in advance from HERE and £10 on the door.

The bill in full:
The Modern Ovens.
Professor Tim Birkhead with a talk on birds and sex.
Andrew Harrison talking on the rock/food nexus.
Roy Wilkinson reading from his book Do It For Your Mum, out on Rough Trade Books.
Turntable selections from Ian Harrison of MOJO magazine and Earl Brutus.

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Alela Diane: Alela Diane and Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold Cover 'These Days' In Italy

Camille Augarde — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:55:59 +0000

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British Sea Power: British Sea Power Start Brighton Club Night

Camille Augarde — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:52:05 +0000

Exciting news for lovers of excelsior seaside nightlife. The band which brought you the legend of Club Sea Power are now again active on the Brighton party scene. From Friday 6 January, BSP will present their Krankenhaus night in Brighton – a regular club night on the first Friday of every month. Each night will feature a full set from BSP, plus wonderful and varied supporting attractions.

Friday 6th Jan, 7.30pm-3am
The Haunt, 10 Pool Valley (by the coach station), Brighton BN1 1NJ
Featuring:
British Sea Power live
MC Jock Scot and Y Niwl live.
Plus Born Bad DJs and BSP DJs.

Tickets £12.50 in advance. There will also be a limited supply of ‘season tickets’ at £60, which will guarantee entry to all six Krankenhaus nights. Tickets available from Rounder Records and Resident Records in Brighton, and from www.wegottickets.com

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