ROUGH
TRADE COMPILATION...
The July issue of Plan B magazine will
feature a special, collectable, limited edition ‘Rough
Trade’ covermount CD featuring some great new,
unreleased and exclusive tracks. Plan B is on sale from 2nd July.
There are lots
of new, and old videos on our youtube page, have a look here: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=RoughTradeRecordsUK
For regular
updates keep an eye on our myspace page: www.myspace.com/roughtraderecords
BASIA
BULAT
Basia Bulat
hails from the forest city of London, Ontario, where she found her
songs and stories dangling from the trees. Her debut album Oh,
My Darling was engineered and produced by Howard Bilerman
(Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Arcade Fire, upcoming British
Sea Power), and is available now.
Upcoming Shows:
31 May 2007 Glee Club, Birmingham
1 Jun 2007 Fly Bar, London
3 Jun 2007 HOMEFIRES, London
8 Jul 2007 Ottawa Bluesfest, Ottawa
JARVIS
COCKER
Jarvis will be the subject of the South Bank Show on 10/6/07. More
details here: http://www.itv.com/page.asp?partid=2399
Jarvis Cocker
has been announced as the Artistic Director of the annual Meltdown
festival. The bespectacled icon will curate nine days of multi artform
events across all the spaces and venues of Southbank Centre.
JARVIS
COCKER, fourteenth director of Meltdown said:
''Cunts may be running the world but a cock will be controlling
the South Bank for one week in June. Jarvis Branson Cocker is honoured,
proud and excited to announce that he will be curating this year's
Meltdown Festival. Your cultural life is in my hands. I can't wait."
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/meltdown/
Jarvis’
next single Fat Children will be released
in August.
Upcoming Shows
23 Jun 2007 Royal Festival Hall (Meltdown Festival) London
13 Jul 2007 Summercase Festival - Boadilla del Monte Madrid
14 Jul 2007 Summercase Festival - Parc del Forum Barcelona
15 Jul 2007 Latitude Festival Henham Park
18 Aug 2007 V Festival Chemlsford
19 Aug 2007 V Festival Stafford
25 Aug 2007 Rock En Seine Festival Paris
31 Aug 2007 Connect Music Festival Inveraray
1 Sep 2007 Electric Picnic Festival County Laois
DESTROYER
Destroyer is effectively Vancouver’s Dan Bejar and Destroyers
Rubies is his seventh full-length release under the
moniker Destroyer. If there has been any precedent set or pattern
developed over the previous six recordings in the Destroyer canon,
it’s that Bejar holds little regard for convention or expectations.
Never one to rest on laurels, each successive Destroyer release
always explores new sonic territories and ideas.
Destroyers
Rubies is released on 18th June.
A singular,
rhapsodic triumph.
Uncut 4/5
It feels like an event: grand, sumptuous, sometimes seductive.
The New York Times 8/10
Encapsulating and elevating the best of Destroyer's back catalog,
Destroyer's Rubies serves as a potent reminder that the intelligence
of Bejar's songs has never obfuscated their emotional weight.
Pitchfork 8.5/10
Destroyer's Rubies is an inadvertent Guide To Destroyer - every
defining quirk, every 70's pop nod and ill-advised but forgivable
falsetto is condensed and framed, only without becoming something
fans of Bejar will have all heard before.
Drowned In Sound 8/10
SUNSET
RUBDOWN
Sunset Rubdown is largely the work of Spencer Krug who hails from
Montreal, Canada. Spencer also writes songs, plays keyboards and
sings in Wolf Parade. Wolf Parade’s debut full-length on Sub
Pop, Apologies to the Queen Mary, has been enjoying widespread critical
and commercial success.
Sunset Rubdown
started as a solo project of Spencer’s home recordings. Canadian
micro-indie Global Symphonic, released the project’s first
album, Snake's Got A Leg, in June 2005 and a 5-song self-titled
EP in January 2006.
On this new
album, Shut Up I Am Dreaming, Sunset Rubdown
has evolved into a full-fledged band, abandoning the idiosyncrasies
of lo-fi solo work yet still eschewing the allure of a polished,
glossy production. Joined by Jordan Robson Cramer, Mike Doerksen
and Camilla Wynn Ingr, Spencer has transformed Sunset Rubdown into
a force of nature and crafted an enormous record. Rough and expansive
like a thunderstorm or the whole of a canyon, Shut Up
I Am Dreaming rollicks and rages in broad, sweeping
gestures and tiny messages. It rolls towards oblivion like a cathedral
on wheels, a shaky blur of crumbling grandeur, a miracle or a wreck
of color and divinity.
Shut
Up I Am Dreaming is released on 25th June.
MIRACLE
FORTRESS
The album Five Roses is released on 30th
July.
Read some reviews
here:
http://www.prefixmag.com/reviews/cds/M/miracle-fortress/five-roses/3016
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/42972-think-about-lifes-van-pelt-builds-miracle-fortress
http://www.eyeweekly.com/eye/issue/issue_05.10.07/music/discovery.php
http://www.thestar.com/artsentertainment/article/211799
http://www.montrealmirror.com/2007/051007/music5.html
LAVENDER
DIAMOND
Lavender Diamond released their debut album Imagine
Our Love in the UK on Rough Trade Records on May 7th
– an album comprised of pristine pocket symphonies that combine
the best of the early ‘70s Brit-folk boom with gorgeous arrangements
and an overwhelming sense of sheer heartbroken wonder.
Read some reviews
here:
http://www.planetnotion.com/albums/imagine_our_love_lavender_diamond_rough_trade.html
http://www.inthenews.co.uk/entertainment/reviews/music/rockindie/lavender-diamond-imagine-our-love-$1083123.htm
http://www.highvoltage.org.uk/displaydemoreview.asp?num=2642&band=1599
Watch the video
for Open Your Heart here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYUwoOMCMxg
GRUFF
RHYS
Gruff Rhys’ second solo album CANDYLION
is available now.
Upcoming Shows
3 Jun 2007 Brazil,Sao Paulo, Studio SP Sao Paulo
9 Jun 2007 Lynton and Lynmouth Festival, Devon
30 Jun 2007 Acceletaror - Stockholm Sweden
27 Jul 2007 TrocaBrahamaUK, Picket Liverpool
28 Jul 2007 TrocaBrahamaUK, Fruit Market Glasgow
29 Jul 2007 TrocaBrahamaUK, Koko London
11 Aug 2007 Field Day Festival, London
12 Aug 2007 Summer Sundae Festival, Leicester
12 Aug 2007 Summer Sundae, Leicester
19 Aug 2007 Green Man Festival, Brecon
SUPER
FURRY ANIMALS
News on the forthcoming new album Hey Venus
here http://www.nme.com/news//28548
The single Show
Your Hands will precede the album in July.
Upcoming Shows:
14 Jul 2007 20:00 Godiva Festival, Coventry Coventry
21 Jul 2007 0:00 LOVEBOX Festival, London and Dublin
25 Aug 2007 8:00 Get Loaded in the Park, Coopers Field Cardiff
31 Aug 2007 20:00 Connect, Glasgow Glasgow
15 Sep 2007 13:00 End of The Road Festival
THE
LONG BLONDES
So I'm in the Tate, and I'm looking at Hockney...
From today
you can hear our bespoke song for Tate Modern, 'The Unbearable Lightness
of Buildings', inspired by Jannis Kounellis's 'Untitled' (1979).
Here's some
more info about the project:
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/tatetracks/longblondes_kounellis/
And a link to hear the song online:
http://flash.tatetracks.org.uk/08_longblondes/broad.htm
Upcoming Shows:
2 Jun 2007 Primavera Sound, Barcelona Barcelona
3 Jun 2007 Rock im Park, Nuremberg, Germany Nuremberg
6 Jun 2007 Luna Lounge Brooklyn, NY, New York
7 Jun 2007 Rock 'n' roll Hotel Washington DC, Virginia
8 Jun 2007 Great Scott Boston, MA, Massachusetts
9 Jun 2007 Bowery Ballroom New York, NY , New York
11 Jun 2007 Lee's Palace Toronto, ONT, Ontario
12 Jun 2007 Magic Stick Detroit, MI , Michigan
13 Jun 2007 Subterranean Chicago, IL, Illinois
15 Jun 2007 The Echo Los Angeles, CA, California
16 Jun 2007 330 Ritch/Popscene San Francisco, CA, California
23 Jun 2007 Glastonbury, Other Stage Glastonbury
29 Jun 2007 Hove festival Norway
30 Jun 2007 Accelerator Festival Stockholm
2 Jul 2007 Radar Live Festival, Istanbul, Turkey Istanbul
7 Jul 2007 T in the Park, Scotland (King Tuts Tent) Scotland
8 Jul 2007 Oxegen, Ireland (Green Room) Ireland
9 Jul 2007 Gagarin Open Air Festival, Athens, Greece Athens
3 Aug 2007 The Zoo, Brisbane Brisbane
4 Aug 2007 Metro, Sydney Sydney
5 Aug 2007 The Hi Fi, Melbourne Melbourne
7 Aug 2007 Capitol, Perth Perth
8 Aug 2007 Fowlers, Adelaide Adelaide
11 Aug 2007 Summer Sonic Tokyo
12 Aug 2007 Summer Sonic Osaka
24 Aug 2007 Carling Weekend, Reading (Main stage) Reading
25 Aug 2007 Carling Weekend, Leeds (Main stage) Leeds
BRAKES
(Or Brakesbrakesbrakes to our US readers)
The glorious album ‘The beatific Visions’ is now available
in the US. To celebrate the release the band are touring:
30 May 2007 Spaceland, Los Angeles, CA
31 May 2007 Popscene, San Fransisco. Playing the ‘Scissors
For Lefty’ US album launch show
2 Jun 2007 Dantes, Portland, OR
3 Jun 2007 Media Club, Vancouver, BC
4 Jun 2007 Chop Suey, Seattle Seattle, WA
6 Jun 2007 Kilby Court, Salt Lake City Salt Lake City, UT
7 Jun 2007 Hi Dive, Denver Denver, CO
8 Jun 2007 Waiting Room, Omaha Omaha, NE
9 Jun 2007 400 Bar Minneapolis, MN
10 Jun 2007 Empty Bottle, Chicago Chicago, IL
12 Jun 2007 Lee's Palace, Toronto Toronto, ON
13 Jun 2007 Club Lambi, Montreal Montreal, QB
14 Jun 2007 TT The Bears, Cambridge MA Cambridge, MA
15 Jun 2007 Maxwells, Hoboken NJ Hoboken, NJ
16 Jun 2007 Mercury Lounge, NY New York, NY
17 Jun 2007 Mercury Lounge, NY New York, NY
21 Jun 2007 Brighton Concorde - benefit show for UNISON Brighton
23 Jun 2007 Glastonbury Festival, Other stage Shepton Mallet
29 Jun 2007 Kent Music Festival Kent
2 Jul 2007 Radar Live Festival Istanbul, Turkey
15 Jul 2007 Worlds Smallest Festival @ Cargo London
28 Jul 2007 Ben & Jerry's Festival London
3 Aug 2007 Haldern Festival Haldern
25 Aug 2007 Reading Festival - NME/Radio 1 stage Reading
26 Aug 2007 Leeds Festival - NME/Radio 1 stage Leeds
1 Sep 2007 MACS Festival, West Wales Carmarthen
14 Sep 2007 End Of The Road Festival (day TBC) Dorset
"Crunching
chords and mighty powerful lyrics about God, whisky and catastrophe.
Unstoppable." - The Sun
"With
swirling Weezer-esque guitar loops, silo-sized reverberations and
big-hearted clichés, Beatific Visions is as American as apple
pie, as Southern as Faulkner." - Paper
Thin Walls
1990s
Cookies available now.
Upcoming
Shows
26 May 2007 19:00 Barfly Ancona
27 May 2007 19:00 Zoobar Rome
1 Jun 2007 8:00 London Calling Goes Glasgow @ Paradiso Amsterdam
9 Jun 2007 2:00 Rock Ness Inverness
10 Jun 2007 20:00 Leeds Uni Leeds
17 Jun 2007 20:00 O2 Wireless Festival London
21 Jun 2007 20:00 New Slang @ The Works Kingston
22 Jun 2007 20:00 Royal Festival Hall London
28 Jun 2007 20:00 TBC Venlo
29 Jun 2007 20:00 Hovefestivalen Norway
30 Jun 2007 20:00 Ekko Utrecht
1 Jul 2007 20:00 Metropolis Festival Rotterdam
13 Jul 2007 20:00 Summercase Barcelona/Madrid
28 Jul 2007 20:00 Neapols Festival Naples
29 Jul 2007 8:00 Dunstaffnage Festival Oban
10 Aug 2007 14:00 Belladrum Festival Beauly
11 Aug 2007 20:00 Field Day London
1 Sep 2007 14:00 Connect Festival Inverary
ALBERT
HAMMOND JUNIOR
Upcoming Shows
13 Jun 2007 20:00 Pearl Street Nightclub Northampton, Massachusetts
14 Jun 2007 20:00 Paradise Rock Club Boston, Massachusetts
15 Jun 2007 20:00 Stone Pony Asbury Park, New Jersey
18 Jun 2007 20:00 Webster Hall New York, New York
7 Jul 2007 16:00 T In The Park Kinross, UK
8 Jul 2007 16:00 Oxegen Festival Nass, IE
9 Jul 2007 20:00 Spring & Airbrake Belfast, N.Ireland
13 Jul 2007 19:00 Lattitude Festival Suffolk, UK
15 Jul 2007 20:00 Manufaktur Schorndorf
16 Jul 2007 20:00 Karlstorbahnhof Heidelberg
17 Jul 2007 20:00 Flex Vienna
18 Jul 2007 20:00 Atomic Cafe Munich
21 Jul 2007 17:00 Festival Internacional de Benicássim Benicássim,
ES
10 Aug 2007 20:00 Way Out West Goteborg
11 Aug 2007 20:00 John Dee Oslo
13 Aug 2007 20:00 Vega Copenhagen
14 Aug 2007 20:00 KB Malmo
15 Aug 2007 20:00 Aarhus Theatre Voxhall
18 Aug 2007 17:00 Pukkelpop Festival Hasselt, BE
24 Aug 2007 20:00 Rock En Seine Paris, FR
25 Aug 2007 20:00 Reading Festival Reading, UK
26 Aug 2007 20:00 Leeds Festival Leeds, UK
THE
VEILS
The album Nux Vomica is now available
in the US.
Have a look at the wonderful new video for Calliope here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24rEZS4pD3s
Upcoming Shows
31 May 2007 Joiners Southampton
2 Jun 2007 "Howdy Do" The Borderline London
7 Jun 2007 Mercury Lounge New York, New York
7 Jun 2007 Mercury Lounge New York, New York
8 Jun 2007 Union Hall Brooklyn, New York
9 Jun 2007 Great Scott Boston, Massachusetts
11 Jun 2007 DC 9 Washington DC
12 Jun 2007 The Khyber Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
14 Jun 2007 El Mocambo Toronto, Ontario
16 Jun 2007 Shelter at St Andrews Detroit, Michigan
17 Jun 2007 Empty Bottle Chicago, Illinois
18 Jun 2007 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, Minnesota
19 Jun 2007 Grand Emporium Kansas City, Missouri
21 Jun 2007 Larimer Lounge Denver, Colorado
24 Jun 2007 Plaza Club Vancouver, British Columbia
25 Jun 2007 Crocodile Cafe Seattle, Washington
26 Jun 2007 Doug Fir Portland, Oregon
28 Jun 2007 Cafe Du Nord San Francisco, California
29 Jun 2007 Spaceland Los Angeles, California
JEFFREY
LEWIS
21 Jun 2007 Jarvis Cocker's Meltdown Festival at Queen Elizabeth
Hall (w/ Cornershop) London
23 Jun 2007 Milk @ Tap N Tin (w/ Kid Harpoon) Chatham
24 Jun 2007 Norwich Arts Center (with Kimya Dawson & Rory Mcvicar)
Norwich
30 Jun 2007 La Tryptique (w/ Lisa Li-Lund & the Wave Pictures)
Paris, FR
1 Jul 2007 Farm du Biereau, Louvain-la-Neuve outside Bruxelles
2 Jul 2007 Festsaal Kreuzberg (w/ Freschard and Stanley Brinks)
Berlin
3 Jul 2007 The Garage, (w/ Freschard & Stanley Brinks) Bergen
5 Jul 2007 Egersund ViseFestival Egersund, Norway
7 Jul 2007 Egersund ViseFestival Egersund, Norway
14 Sep 2007 End of the Road Festival UK
DETROIT
COBRAS
Interview with Mary on the Plan B website: http://www.planbmag.com/content/view/532/42/
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