Rough Trade

Rough Trade Records is an independent record label, based in London, United Kingdom. It was started in 1978 by Geoff Travis.

http://www.roughtraderecords.com/


Rough Trade specialised primarily in European post-punk and other alternative rock in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Then 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 re-signed to the label in the mid 2000s). Geoff Travis later launched Blanco y Negro Records in partnership with Warner Bros. Records.