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Steven Wilson's The Overview at No. 1 in the midweek chart

Steven Wilson will make a series of record store signings this week in Nottingham, Bristol, Southampton, Brighton and London

Louder

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

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

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John Lewis to start selling vinyl records this month – and it has pretty great taste

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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

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

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…

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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

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'.

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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

“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

Louder

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…

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

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

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

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The Guardian - UK

‘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

‘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

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

Lewis Capaldi announces intimate Bristol gig - full details

The pop singer will be performing in Bristol this month

Louder

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

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

‘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

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