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Mojo Magazine | August 2026

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15 minute preview of Bunch of Kunst, a film about Sleaford Mods directed by Christine Franz

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Secrets of the man who signed the Smiths, the Strokes and the Libertines

As Rough Trade turns 50, its founder, Geoff Travis, reveals how he signed so many big acts while Jarvis Cocker explains why he always wanted

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The History Of Rock 1979 Rough Trade Records & Geoff Travis, page 30-31.

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Paint a vulgar picture | The Smiths

1987 Un attimo prima di separarsi litigando – o un attimo dopo, insomma, nei loro ultimi giorni da Smiths – Johnny Marr e Morrissey confezionano quest’atto d’accusa contro lo sfruttamento degli artisti – vivi e soprattutto morti – da parte dell’industria discografica. Compilation, best of, edizioni deluxe. Quando Morrissey scrive Paint a vulgar picture pensa a quello che hanno fatto in…

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In Episode 77 of the Rock’s Backpages podast, we welcome legendary Rough Trade founder Geoff Travis (top right, with lockdown Rick Rubin beard) into RBP's virtual cupboard. Averse to nostalgia though he is, Geoff looks back on the musical odyssey that took him from suburban north London to San Francisco's City Lights bookstore – and then back to Notting Hill Gate, where the Rough Trade story started in 1976. Mark & Barney ask him about the label's many remarkable artists (from the Fall to the Smiths), the Cartel distribution network he set up, and the company's second coming via the early Noughties signings of the Strokes and the Libertines.

A timely segue takes us into discussion of early Rough Trade postpunks Scritti Politti, whose frontman Green Gartside is heard in clips from a 2006 audio interview by Adam Sweeting. Geoff shares his memories of – and deep respect for – Green, answering questions about the singer's return to Rough Trade with the Mercury-nominated White Bread Black Beer after Scritti's major-label successes of the '80s and '90s.

After a passing nod to pieces by RBP's featured writer of the week Pat Blashill – author/photographer of the splendid new Texas is the Reason – Mark leads us gently through his highlights of the week's library additions. Most pleasingly, he welcomes the work of the late Lillian Roxon to RBP in the form of her 1967 report on the new creatures dubbed "Hippies". Other pieces picked out include Isaac Hayes talking about Shaft in 1971 and a 1977 live review of Sylvester performing at San Francisco's Old Waldorf club. Jasper brings the episode to a conclusion by quoting from newly-added articles on Corinne Bailey Rae (2006) and North Carolina's electronic duo Sylvan Esso (2017) before a final clip of Mr Gartside in full flow takes us out…

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This week's home page on RBP: a Rough Trade special on Geoff Travis' shop & label + Scritti's Green in the week's new audio interview. Plus Pat Blashill on the Beasties + Texas punk...

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New audio for RBP subscribers

THE WORD BOY — Pop boffin Green Gartside speaks to Adam Sweeting about Scritti Politti… from the group's early Rough Trade days to his return to Geoff Travis' label with the acclaimed White Bread Black Beer (2006).

Jimi Hendrix to Kate Bush: the complete RBP Audio library