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

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

See also

• List of record labels
• Post-punk