Rough Trade Records - Definition and Overview

Rough Trade Records was a British record company. It was started by Geoff Travis as a West London record shop in 1976, but evolved in 1978 into a record label. Rough Trade specialized primarily in European post-punk and otherwise 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. Geoff Travis later launched Blanco y Negro Records in partnership with Warner Bros. Records. In the early nineties Rough Trade's fortunes began to fade and in the late nineties Zomba Records acquired the label, while the Rough trade catalogue was acquired by One Little Indian Records.

Artists previously on Rough Trade

• Augustus Pablo
• Cabaret Voltaire
• Delta 5
• Essential Logic
• The Fall
• Kleenex
• Miracle Legion
• The Pop Group
• The Raincoats
• Scritti Politti
• The Slits
• The Smiths
• Spizz Energi
• Stiff Little Fingers
• Swell Maps
• T.V. Personalities
• Lucinda Williams
• Robert Wyatt
• Young Marble Giants

Artists currently on Rough Trade

• Belle & Sebastian
• British Sea Power
• The Libertines
• The Strokes
• The Fiery Furnaces
• The Moldy Peaches
• Kathryn Williams
• Delays
• The Hidden Cameras
• The Tyde
• The Kills
• A.R.E Weapons
• Eastern Lane
• The Veils
• Adam Green
• Jefferey Lewis

See also

• List of record labels
• Post-punk