ROUGH TRADE RECORDS

'Rough Trade Records', now a member of the RIAA[1], began as an independent record label, based in London, England.
The label grew out of the Rough Trade Shop, founded by Geoff Travis in West London in 1976. The record label was set up in 1978 and also went into the distribution business. It became independent from the shop in 1982, then went bankrupt in 1991, ruining quite a few smaller record labels to which money was owed. Rough Trade was relaunched in 2000.
Rough Trade specialised primarily in European post-punk and other alternative rock of the late 1970s and early 1980s. In the late 1980s Rough Trade branched out by issuing an eponymous album by Lucinda Williams. Other early signings included Agitpop, The Raincoats, Young Marble Giants, The Smiths and Scritti Politti (the latter resigned to the label in the mid 2000s). Geoff Travis later launched Blanco y Negro Records in partnership with Warner Bros. Records.
Rough Trade was a independently owned entity — a partnership between Mr. Travis, Jeanette Lee, (a former member of PiL), and minority partners, Sanctuary Records, as a part of the Zomba Music Group until June 11, 2002 when BMG bought out this business. In July of 2007 Sanctuary Records then sold Rough Trade to the Beggars Group making Rough Trade independent once again [2].
Since its re-birth, Rough Trade has released albums by high-charting artists such as The Strokes, The Libertines, Babyshambles, and Belle & Sebastian.
A 192-page illustrated history of Rough Trade, written by Rob Young of The Wire, was published in September 2006 by the UK-based company Black Dog Publishing.

Contents

Artists

See also

External links

Artists

★ 1990s

★ A R Kane

★ Aberfeldy

★ Horace Andy

★ Arcade Fire

★ Aztec Camera

★ Babyshambles

★ The Bats

★ Beat Happening

★ Belle & Sebastian

★ Blue Orchids

★ Brakes

★ British Sea Power

★ Basia Bulat

★ Butthole Surfers

★ Cabaret Voltaire

★ Camper Van Beethoven

★ Chris & Cosey

★ The Clean

★ Jarvis Cocker

★ Colorfinger

★ Ivor Cutler

★ The Del Fuegos

★ Delays

★ Delta 5

★ Cara Dillon

★ Disco Inferno

★ The Dream Syndicate

★ Bill Drummond

★ Easterhouse

★ Essential Logic

★ Tav Falco's Panther Burns

★ The Fall

★ feedtime

★ The Feelies

★ The Fiery Furnaces

★ Galaxie 500

★ Giant Sand

★ The Go-Betweens

★ Vic Godard

★ Albert Hammond, Jr.

★ The Hidden Cameras

★ James

★ Freedy Johnston

★ Richard H. Kirk

★ David Kitt

★ Kleenex

★ Levitation

★ The Libertines

★ LiLiPUT

★ The Long Blondes

★ Cerys Matthews

★ Maxïmo Park

★ Mazzy Star

★ Métal Urbain

★ Microdisney

★ The Mighty Diamonds

★ Miracle Legion

★ The Monochrome Set

★ Opal

★ Pere Ubu

★ The Pop Group

★ Pussy Galore

★ The Raincoats

★ The Red Crayola

★ Jonathan Richman

★ Royal City

★ Arthur Russell

★ Scissors for Lefty

★ Scrawl

★ Scritti Politti

★ Shelleyan Orphan

★ Shrimp Boat

★ The Smiths

★ Soul Asylum

★ Souled American

★ Epic Soundtracks

★ Spizz Energi

★ Spring Heel Jack

★ Stiff Little Fingers

★ Straightjacket Fits

★ The Strokes

★ Subway Sect

★ The Sundays

★ Super Furry Animals

★ Swell Maps

★ Television Personalities

★ They Might Be Giants

★ This Heat

★ Two Nice Girls

★ James "Blood" Ulmer

★ Ultramarine

★ Virgin Prunes

★ The Veils

★ Weekend

★ Lucinda Williams

★ Victoria Williams

★ The Woodentops

★ Robert Wyatt

★ Young Marble Giants

★ Zounds

See also

★ Rough Trade Shop

★ List of record labels

External links

★ Official website