Rough Trade

Pumping: Rough Trade — Weapons

When you look at the cover of this album, with all it's boobies and sweaty, taut body parts, it really makes you feel like you missed out on something if you didn't grow up in the fast-livin' '80s.
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True North Shows Its Pride In Carole Pope's Latest Disc

Infamous Rough Trade vocalist Carole Pope is finding a new musical life on True North Records. After having that band's 1983 album, Weapons, reissued on CD for the first time earlier this year by their longtime label, Pope's new Transcend solo effort will come out the same way on Tuesday. The nine-song Transcend includes "Johnny Marr,...
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Rough Trade To Enter Indies Hall Of Fame

Rough Trade, who blazed a trail for gay bands while racking up a number of hits in the early '80s, will be inducted into the Indies Hall Of Fame at the seventh annual Independent Music Awards in Toronto on March 7. Singer Carol Pope and songwriting partner/guitarist Kevan Staples first got together under the name O in 1969. They kept that...
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