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rox: ROX's new single My Baby Left Me is released today

Ed — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:39:07 +0000

My Baby Left Me, the new single from Soul chanteuse ROX is released today.

ROX has already had a fantastic start to the year with an appearance on Later With Jools Holland and being featured in the BBC’s Sound Of 2010 Poll.

Pitchfork said of My Baby Left Me: “South London soul singer Rox is one of the latest signees to Rough Trade, who will be releasing the track “My Baby Left Me” as a single come March 15. Built on an insatiably energetic beat, “My Baby” bursts with elastic strings and splashes of keys and guitars, as Rox’s voice alternates between sly and powerful.”

Download My Baby Left Me from iTunes / Buy My Baby Left Me on CD

Watch the video for My Baby Left Me:

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British Sea Power: British Sea Power announce tour

Ed — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:59:23 +0000

British Sea Power are currently mixing their new album, with several on-site sources predicting a theme of Thor getting it together with Lady Saw. But if that doesn’t keep you going until release time, how about some shows live on tour? These include a return to Tan Hill, the highest pub in the whole damn land. Hooray!

The dates are as follows. Please note that the itinerary includes both traditional performances of amplified rock music and also performances of the band’s Man Of Aran soundtrack, live to a screening of the Robert Flaherty’s Man Of Aran film.

APRIL
03 GLASGOW – HINTERLAND FESTIVAL at the ARCHES
25 COLCHESTER ARTS CENTRE
26 MANCHESTER MOHO
27 LONDON ST ANNES CHURCH (LIMEHOUSE) – Man Of Aran and acoustic set
29 SHEFFIELD SENSORIA FILM FESTIVAL – at The SHOWROOM CINEMA – Man of Aran
30 TAN HILL
MAY
01 TAN HILL
03 LEEDS HOLY TRINITY CHURCH
17 BATH KOMEDIA
18 BIRMINGHAM GLEE CLUB
19 LIVERPOOL MASQUE THEATRE
20 LEICESTER Y THEATRE
21 LONDON BLOOMSBURY BALLROOM

The Tan Hill weekend is a mini-festival, to feature a pretty bazzing multi-band bill and other attractions. Ticket details for all shows will follow soon.

*PLEASE NOTE that the London St Annes is NOT fully confirmed right now. More to follow info ASAP.

In the meantime, anyone wanting a reminder of to-the-mooooon British Sea Power live antics, please have a look at the later stages of this footage from Perth, Australia:

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Pantha du Prince: Free download of Pantha Du Prince - Stick To My Side Feat. Panda Bear (Four Tet Remix)

Ed — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:29:38 +0000

Stick To My Side Feat. Panda Bear, the new single from Pantha Du Prince is released this week on 12” and Download.

You can get a free download of the Four Tet Remix here (right click and select ‘save as’.

Alongside the original version, the 12” features remixes from Efdemin, Four Tet and Lawrence and is available to buy from Rough Trade Shops.

All the remixes can also be bought digitally from iTunes.

Watch the video for Stick To My Side Feat. Panda Bear:

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Belle and Sebastian: Belle and Sebastian reveal live plans for 2010

Ed — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:52:21 +0000

Belle and Sebastian are to end their four year hiatus with some festival appearances. The band will play:

July 2010
July 11th TUKU, Ruisrock festival
July 15th TøNSBERG, Slottsfjell Festival
July 17th SOUTHWOLD, Latitude Festival, Henham Park

August 2010
August 1st NAEBA SKI RESORT, Fuji Rock Festival

The band are expected to debut new material at the shows.

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The Hold Steady: The Hold Steady To Release Heaven Is Whenever On Limited Edition Vinyl For Record Store Day

Ed — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:59:51 +0000

The Hold Steady To Release Heaven Is Whenever On Limited Edition Vinyl For Record Store Day

The Hold Steady will release a highly limited number of vinyl copies of their new album Heaven Is Whenever (Rough Trade / Vagrant Records) on April 17 as part of Record Store Day, complete with custom screen printed artwork. The extremely limited run of the album will only be available in independent record stores participating in Record Store Day. Heaven Is Whenever will officially be released on CD, vinyl and digitally on May 3rd.

The album was produced by Dean Baltulonis, who engineered the band’s Almost Killed Me and produced Separation Sunday. Singer Craig Finn says Heaven Is Whenever is about “embracing suffering and understanding its place in a joyful life. The lyrics speak a lot about struggle and reward.” Piano and keys take a backseat to guitar on the new record, which also gets production help from guitarist Tad Kubler.

The Hold Steady have added an appearance at Summer Fest in Milwaukee on July 1 to their touring schedule. Full list of confirmed tour dates are here.

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Antony and the Johnsons: Antony and the Johnsons talks about his new album plans on Stereogum

Ed — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:28:58 +0000

As part of Stereogum’s Progress Report feature Antony Hegarty has spoken about his plans for his 4th album and wrapping up The Crying Light with two recent shows in Tokyo. Speaking of the Tokyo shows Antony said:

“We were invited to come to Tokyo and collaborate on an evening with Kazuo Ohno Studio. They were familiar with my work because I featured the images of Kazuo on my last two releases and had spoken so extensively in the press about his influence on me since my teens. I brought William [Basinski] and Johanna [Constantine] with me because they are so close to me personally and aesthetically and I wanted to share our world with Ohno studio. Though not drawing from the same fountain, there are parallels in Billy’s work and Johanna’s work to some of the tenets of Butoh that were great to notice. These were my first concerts in Japan so it was really a dream…”

Read the full piece on Stereogum

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news: Rough Trade at SXSW!

Ed — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:41:35 +0000

As usual a few lucky people from Rough Trade are heading to the prestigious SXSW Texan music festival. This year we’re hosting a showcase on Wednesday March 17th of March at Emo’s JR (the inside room separate from the main outdoor venue).

Listen to all the bands that are playing on this widget, it’s embeddable so feel free to put it on your blog or website:

The first 200 people who attend will receive a RT gift bag with a fanzine and cassette tape. The fanzine has contributions from our showcasing bands. The A-Side of the cassette has songs from the widget. The B-side has a song chosen by each of our showcasing bands from our catalogue. For example, Warpaint have chosen Little Joy’s The Next Time Around for the B-side.

Check out the Facebook event

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The Morning Benders: Listen to the new Morning Benders album 'Big Echo'

Ed — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:12:42 +0000

The Morning Benders have a new album called BIG ECHO coming out next week on March 9th in the US.

For the next week leading up to the release we will be streaming BIG ECHO in its entirety on the widget below:

The band have put a lot of love into this album and we’d love for you to listen to it as it was intended to be heard, as an album, from start to finish. You’ll notice that the music player on our site can be shared and embedded, so please feel free to share it with your friends, put it on your blog, etc.

BIG ECHO is available March 9 on Vinyl, CD, and digitally. You can pre-order the album now through Insound (with an exclusive free 7” of non-album track “Go Grab A Stranger”), Amazon, or directly from the Beggars site. You will be able to download the album instantaneously from Itunes on March 9 (with a non-album bonus track called “Oh, Annie”).

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Wilder: Introducing WILDER

Ed — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:19:46 +0000

WILDER are Bec (drums), Joe (bass), Jay (synths) and Sam (vox and guitar), named after 40s film noir legend Billy Wilder.

Think Friendly Fires, The Whip, The Rapture and The Gossip and add the digital squirm of Boy 8 Bit, some Talking Heads, some of Neu’s Kraut-groove, Captain Beefheart, the Velvets and some of that foxy art-school thing Roxy Music do and you get the idea. There’s even some Little Richard in there. At least that’s what people tell us.

They’ve toured with The Strokes’ frontman Julian Casablancas and played with the Maccabees and I Blame Coco. And that’s their story so far…

Sign up to the mailing list to receive downloads of ‘Girls Vs Boys‘ and ‘TBT‘, you’ll also receive a collectible hand-stamped CD through the post:

SIGN-UP TO THE MAILING LIST HERE

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news: Rough Trade sign Dylan LeBlanc

Ed — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:37:53 +0000

Rough Trade are extremely proud to announce the signing of 19 year old Dylan LeBlanc.

Dylan was born in the Parish of Caddo in northwest Louisiana and was exposed to a wide variety of music whilst growing up in Shreveport-Bossier City, Louisiana and Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

Inspired by Willis Alan Ramsey, Neil Young, Townes Van Zandt and Tennessee Williams, he joined the House of Fame as a writer at 18. Dylan’s approach to music is to write and sing about things that are real, that convey humanity, so all can relate. His inspiration comes from experience, and watching, listening, and absorbing everyday life around him. Dylan is currently finishing mixing his debut album with Grammy award winning engineer Trina Shoemaker in Nashville.

Listen to Dylan’s music at Myspace

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Pantha du Prince: Pantha Du Prince - Stick To My Side Video

Ed — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:38:33 +0000

Stunning video for Stick To My Side by Pantha Du Prince, set in the Black Forest in Germany and taken from his third album Black Noise.

Stick To My Side features Noah Lennox from Animal Collective on vocals.

Stick To My Side will be released on the 8th of March, the 12” will feature a remix by Four Tet.

The critically acclaimed Black Noise is available to download on iTunes or available to buy on CD/LP from Rough Trade Shops

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The Hold Steady: The Hold Steady announce new album and UK tour dates

Ed — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:59:31 +0000

  “Listening again to everything The Hold Steady recorded. Is this the greatest American band now? They just got me through a rough month.” –  BRETT EASTON ELLIS, Twitter Nov 2009  

The Hold Steady are rightly lauded by fans, critics and other creative minds for the scope, depth, truth and heart that they bring to chronicling the American rock myth. And for just plain rocking out loud. They have recently put the finishing touches on Heaven Is Whenever their new album set for release May 3 on Rough Trade in the UK (and May 4 in the USA on Vagrant Records.)

  The album was produced by Dean Baltulonis, who engineered the band’s debut Almost Killed Me and produced their second album Separation Sunday. Heaven Is Whenever was recorded at Dreamland Recording Studios in upstate NY and Wild Arctic Studios in Queens, NY, with mixing also happening at Wild Arctic.  

Singer Craig Finn says Heaven Is Whenever is about “embracing suffering and finding reward in our everyday lives”. Piano and keys, though still present, take a backseat to guitar on the new record, which also gets production help from lead guitarist Tad Kubler.

 Recorded in several smaller sessions spread out over a long period of time, the songs on Heaven Is Whenever received the benefit of being road-tested on the band’s recent tours including the UK shows last September. As Finn says this allowed them to “see what was working and what wasn’t. I believe this record benefits from us working at a more deliberate pace.”

Following the release of 2008’s critically acclaimed Stay Positive which gave the band it’s highest Billboard chart position to date, and a Top 15 album in the UK, The Hold Steady toured relentlessly, playing to some of their biggest audiences to date.

  The Hold Steady is: Craig Finn, Tad Kubler, Galen Polivka and Bobby Drake.  

Heaven Is Whenever tracklisting:

  1. The Sweet Part Of The City
2. Soft In The Center
3. The Weekenders
4. The Smidge
5. Rock Problems
6. We Can Get Together
7. Hurricane
 8. Barely Breathing
9. Our Whole Lives 
10. A Slight Discomfort 

The Hold Steady Confirmed European tour dates:

 Sat June 12th – Isle of Wright Festival, Newport, UK
 Mon Jun 14 – Fleche D’Or, Paris, FR
 Mon Jun 21 – Melkveg, Amsterdam, NL
Tue Jun 22 – HMV Forum , London, UK
Sat Jun 26 – Academy 2 , Manchester, UK

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Warpaint: WARPAINT announce UK Shows

Ed — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:06:32 +0000

We are excited to announce that the first UK shows by new signings Warpaint are now scheduled for May 2010!

Warpaint are an all girl quartet from Los Angeles. They weave intricate guitar lines, hypnotic vocals, and driving post-punk rhythms into gorgeous, sprawling songs that skirt the line between the soundscapes of psychedelia and intimacy.

The band are currently on the road in the US with Akron/Family, Warpaint have begun work in the studio recording their first full-length album, which is due out on Rough Trade Records later this year.

Warpaint is Emily Kokal (vocals/guitar), Theresa Wayman (guitar/vocals), Jenny Lee Lindberg (bass/vocals), and Stella Mozgawa (drums).

Debut UK shows:

May 12th – London, Luminaire
May 13th – Tunbridge Wells, Forum
May 14th – Brighton, Levi’s One To Watch @ Audio

To see a full list of their US tour dates please visit their myspace

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Strange Boys: The Strange Boys release Be Brave and announce UK Tour

Ed — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:26:07 +0000

This week sees the release of Be Brave the new album from Texan Garage Rock group The Strange Boys.

Be Brave follows on from their eponymous debut album The Strange Boys and Girls Club which was released last year, since then the band signed with Rough Trade, toured relentlessly and added Tim Presley (of Darker My Love) and Jenna Thornhill-DeWitt (of Mika Mako) to their line-up.

Buy Be Brave on CD & LP from Rough Trade Shops

Download Be Brave from iTunes

The album is currently Rough Trade Shops’ Album Of The Week

‘(Be Brave has) the ragged, blues rock ‘n’ roll of early Stones’ – Esquire

‘Be Brave is one of the ace-est singles we’ve heard so far this year’ – Sunday Express

Watch the video for lead track Be Brave here (not advisable for vegetarians).

The band have just announced a UK tour and the dates are as follows:

APRIL

Thursday 15th – Nation of Shopkeepers, Leeds
Friday 16th – Nice ‘n’ Sleazy’s, Glasgow
Saturday 17th – Deaf Institute, Manchester
Sunday 18th – Academy 2, Birmingham
Wednesday 21st – ICA, London
Thursday 22nd – Freebutt, Brighton
Friday 23rd – Louisiana, Bristol
Saturday 24th – Lennon’s Club, Southampton

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Strange Boys: Listen to The Strange Boys new album 'Be Brave'

Ed — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:57:18 +0000

You can now listen to The Strange Boys new album Be Brave using the album player below.

Be Brave is released on CD, Download and LP next week.

Pre-order from Rough Trade Shop.

The band have just announced a UK tour for April. They will bring their riotous live show to:

Thursday 15th – Nation of Shopkeepers, Leeds
Friday 16th – Nice ‘n’ Sleazy’s, Glasgow
Saturday 17th – Deaf Institute, Manchester
Sunday 18th – Academy 2, Birmingham
Wednesday 21st – ICA, London
Thursday 22nd – Freebutt, Brighton
Friday 23rd – Louisiana, Bristol
Saturday 24th – Lennon’s Club, Southampton

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Little Joy: Crafts For A Cause

Ed — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:14:05 +0000

Little Joy’s Binki Shapiro is starting an auction to help Artists For Peace and Justice raise money for the Haiti Disaster.

So far Devendra Banhart, Cedric Bixler, Conor Oberst, Jenny Lewis, No Doubt, The Strokes, Norah Jones, Fleet Foxes, Regina Spektor, Vampire Weekend, Adam Green and Natalie Portman have all donated personalised items which will be auctioned off on Monday.

You can read more about the auction and see what the artist’s have donated over on Binki’s blog Crafts For A Cause.

Follow Binki on Twitter for the latest additions to the auction:

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Pantha du Prince: Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise - Out Now

Ed — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:28:11 +0000

Today sees the release of Black Noise, the third album by Pantha Du Prince and his first album for Rough Trade.

On his new album, Pantha Du Prince, who lives in Berlin and Paris, claims: music slumbers in all matter; any sound, even silence, is already music. The mission, then, must be to render audible what is unheard and unheard of: black noise, a frequency that is inaudible to man. Black noise often presages natural disasters, earthquakes or floods; only some animals perceive this “calm before the storm.” Black noise is something archaic and earthy. The music on Black Noise balances precariously on the slippery threshold between art and nature, between techno and folklore, which lends it a certain spectral and intangible aspect.

Black Noise also features a couple of special guests – Noah Lennox of Animal Collective sings on “Stick to my side” and Tyler Pope of !!! and LCD Soundsystem plays bass on “The Splendour”

“When taken in all its sprawling glory, the record is intense and rewarding, and when it stops the silence becomes grandoise – if you let it Black Noise might just change the way you listen to the world. – 9/10 – Drownedinsound.com

“…Evokes those moments when we experience nature not cerebrally, but sensually, creating music that crackles like static in a sky burdened with storm (The Splendour), then glitters like a rain-soaked landscape illuminated by sun (Welt am Draht).” – 4/5 – The Guardian

You can listen to the album here:

Buy from Rough Trade Shop (in the UK)

Buy from Beggars US Store

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Strange Boys: Watch the new video for Be Brave by The Strange Boys

Ed — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:16:07 +0000

Watch the new video for Be Brave by The Strange Boys.

The Strange Boys release their second album Be Brave on the 22nd of February.

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Jarvis Cocker: Listen to Jarvis Cocker's show on BBC 6Music

Ed — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:40:08 +0000

The lovely people at BBC 6 Music have created a widget so that you can listen to Jarvis’ latest radio shows:

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Pantha du Prince: Listen to Black Noise by Pantha Du Prince

Ed — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:07:04 +0000

You can listen to Black Noise, the highly-anticipated new album from Pantha Du Prince, a week before it’s released via the player below:

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