Rough Trade East

Stone The Crowes!: It’s The Magpie Salute

By Every Record Tells A Story on August 11, 2018 • ( 1 )

The Black Crowes are long gone. It has been three years since they split, ten years since their last album Warpaint and more than twenty years since their commercial peak when despite everyone else playing grunge or Britpop The Black… Read More ›

Five Things I Saw & Heard This Week

By Every Record Tells A Story on August 10, 2018 • ( 0 )

For the kids who Snapchat photos of themselves with a dog’s nose and ears superimposed, or who Instagram their every (doubtless avocado-based) meal, blogging about music may feel about as unfashionable as, well, Facebook. * Although very much the best… Read More ›

Jen Cloher: An Album Of The Year…

By Every Record Tells A Story on February 14, 2018 • ( 4 )

Album of the year lists are both a blessing and curse. As a way to demonstrate your discerning taste there are few better ways to impress your friends. On the other hand, there are fewer more effective ways for your… Read More ›

New Sounds From This Is The Kit: at Rough Trade East

By Every Record Tells A Story on July 14, 2017 • ( 3 )

There are many things to like about This Is The Kit. There’s the relaxed and easy way singer and songwriter Kate Stables has with the audience and her band members, typified by the way she walks onstage in a Jeremy… Read More ›

Parquet Courts – Human Performance at Rough Trade East

By Every Record Tells A Story on June 13, 2016 • ( 0 )

It was in the sedate-sounding surroundings of The University of North Texas at a record listening club that one of New York’s noisiest exports was first spawned. Andrew Savage was the host at the grandly titled “Knights of the Round… Read More ›

Why You Should Hear The New Courtney Barnett LP…

By Every Record Tells A Story on March 25, 2015 • ( 5 )

2015 looks like being a big year for Australian singer songwriter Courtney Barnett, with her laconic, grungy, stream-of-consciousness style attracting strong reviews with debut album “Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit”. Barnett brought a three piece… Read More ›