#roughtrade

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ffs_music - june 11 2015: A big thank you to everyone who came to the signing & DJ event at RoughTrade East yesterday!

[wojo4hitz]

I've been gone too long #crybaby #teganandsara #roughtrade (at Rough Trade NYC) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkBsZ9uu1kO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[biigbri]

The expansive and ambitious debut album from the force aka Kokoroko 🙏🏻 the jazz ensemble produce an absolute beauty 🎶👌🏻 #kokoroko #couldwebemore #brownswoodrecordings #limitededition #clearvinyl #exclusive #roughtrade #jazz #funk #soul #afrobeat #fusion #vinyl #vinylcollection #recordcollection #vinyladdict #vinylcollector #vinyljunkie #vinylporn #nowspinning #lp https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnm4NdJNZ-n/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[aptbs]

See Through You which is now at record stores all over the world! We’ve got four variations for you: 1. Dinked Eyeballs Picture Disc with two exclusive Flexi discs of unreleased songs: “Losing Time” & “I Climbed Too High” and exclusive Poster: https://dinkededition.co.uk/shops Including: @residentbrighton @driftrecordshop @davidsmusiclgc @jumborecords @Normanrecs @piccadillyrecords @pieandvinyl @sisterraysoho @vinyltaprecords 2. Rough Trade White Vinyl with Dye Cutout Sleeve (Pre-Order Sold Out) 2. Indie Variant Black with Yellow Marble with Dye Cutout Sleeve  at a Records Store near you (US): https://recordstoreday.com/UPC/634457072398 4., 1. Main Variant Black Vinyl with Dye Cutout Sleeve https://linktr.ee/aptbs We can’t wait for you to have it in your hands! #aptbs #aplacetoburystrangers #seethroughyou #dedstrange #dinkededition #dinked #roughtrade #roughtradeedition #limitedition #vinyl #indieonly (at World) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbKSrBgOoPP/?utm_medium=tumblr

[harleyjquinwrites]

Project File: Wolf Moon – HarleyJQuin

When Derek reports his new substitute teacher for inappropriate behaviour, he had no idea the changes it would bring to himself and the pack.

[indieephemera]

CD longbox for the 1991 reissue of Galaxie 500′s debut album, Today, by U.S. label Rough Trade.

I hereby declare this Longbox Week here on the blog. Why? Because I was one of those weirdos who kept those cardboard sheaths from that short-lived transitional period from LP to CD dominance from the 1980s to early 90s. (My Game Theory longbox post couple of months ago has more on that history.)

I was inspired to post this particular example based on my volunteer activity this past weekend. I was among the music fans, librarians and data nerds helping the Harvard Library (with the Boston Public Library) add data to Wikimedia about The Arthur Freedman Collection, a treasure trove of live recordings by Boston bands from the late 1970s to the early 90s. While I didn’t add any data for Galaxie 500 (alas, not present in that collection), I created an entry for Busted Statues and enhanced the Gigolo Aunts entry with record label info.

As for this longbox itself, my acquisition of it in 1991 with the CD purchase of Galaxie 500′s first album was... a bit anti-climactic. Of course I’d bought the LP in 1988, when it was first released by little Boston label Aurora Records. But then, on a trip the following year to Los Angeles, I spotted in the CD racks of Aron’s Records: a CD version of Today! It had been issued by a European label called Schemer that year. The price was painfully high ($20, IIRC), but—using a trick that I’d later fall for many times over with Japanese CD releases from my favorite bands—this disc included two, non-album bonus tracks. One was “King of Spain,” which I had on the b-side to the “Tugboat” single. But the other track was “Crazy,” a song that I’d never heard. I just had to have it. So I forked over some of my dwindling vacation cash, and the disc was mine.

So when Galaxie 500′s U.S. label, Rough Trade, finally got around to reissuing Today in 1991, I... bought it anyway. They were just one of those bands about which I was a completist. And hey, what a spiffy longbox! Sure, it features a zoomed-in, cropped segment of the LP cover photo on the front that I’m sure violates the original art direction intent. But it’s still worlds better than the crappy, cut-inducing, plastic blister pack that housed my Schemer disc.

[ash-and-ice]

🌍 Rough trade East, London, UK.

[bigjoanie]

HAPPY RELEASE DAY TO @steffimusics!! ‘Why Solange Matters’ is out now in the US, published by @utexaspress - link in bio to grab a copy! 💜 It’ll be released in the UK next month via @faberbooks and you can pre-order from @roughtrade to gain access to Steph’s launch event with your copy (link for this in the bio too)! And check out Steph’s WSM playlist featuring over 8 hours of music from all the crucial artists mentioned in the book. Link for that one in the stories! 💝 . . . . #WhySolangeMatters #Solange #StephaniePhillips #UniversityOfTexasPress #FaberBooks #WhyMusicMatters #RoughTrade https://www.instagram.com/p/CN5fsD8Hv15/?igshid=agkuyvueyy4j