Since 2002, the Rough Trade Shops Counter Culture series has been among the first to champion many artists that have since gone on to wider and well deserved success. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Kills, the Earlies, Devendra Banhart, Sufjan Stevens, Dizzee Rascal, the Fiery Furnaces, Franz Ferdinand, Futureheads, CocoRosie, the Go! Team, Bloc Party, Brakes and Death from Above 1979 to name but a few. A listen to the latest 2 CD set will bring you the first chance for many of you to check out tomorrow's heroes today, from artists such as the Spinto Band, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Modlang, Good Shoes and Milburn. Add a selection from a few Rough Trade faves like Boards of Canada, Low, Ana da Silva, Daniel Johnston, Nurse with Wound, Franz Ferdinand, the Fall, Lightning Bolt and Sleater-Kinney alongside some humdingers that came out of nowhere by Katzenjammers, Albert Kuvezin and Yat-Kha. V2. 2006.
1) Constants Are Changing - Boards of Canada (Disc 01)
2) Nancy Sings - Jandek
3) Words for Two - Six Organs of Admittance
4) Meadow - Espers
5) Paper Cuts - Boy Least Likely to
6) Direct to Helmet - the Spinto Band
7) Details of the War - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
8) New York City Fuck Off - Matson Jones
9) Valvoline - Scout Niblett
10) California - Low
11) Drive Me Home the Lonely Nights - Serena Maneesh
12) Slaughtered By the Sun - Modlang
13) Klutz - King Creosote
14) It Hurts to See You Dance So Well - Pipettes
15) Disco Ball - Ana Da Silva
16) Contre Temps - Asja Auf Capri
17) God's Money V - Gang Gang Dance
18) Celebrity - Matthew Herbert
19) My Machine - Princess Superstar
20) Rad - Smoosh
21) Gang Fight - Street Gangland Rhythms Band 1
22) Lufuala Ndonga Edit - Konono N1
23) My Mood Swings Ft. Elvis Costello - Brodsky Quartet Feat. Elvis Costello
24) The Beatles - Daniel Johnston
25) Cars - Katzenjammers
26) Don'ts - David Shrigley
27) June 15 - Nurse with Wound (Disc 02)
28) The Wild Mountain Thyme - Albert Kuvezin ; Yat-Kha
29) I Feel Space (M.A.N.D.Y. Remix) Edit - Lindstrom
30) No Sex - Green Velvet
31) Munchausen - No Bra
32) Do You Want to (Erol Alkan's Glam Packet) - Franz Ferdinand
33) Cubis (I Love You) - Data Panik
34) Small Town Girl - Good Shoes
35) Circle. Square. Triangle. - Test Icicles
36) Showroom - Milburn
37) Speak to Me - Cdoass
38) Clasp Hands - the Fall
39) Heard About Your Band - Brakes
40) Lust in the Movies - the Long Blondes
41) Counter Stroke - 101Ec6
42) A + Cannibal - Death Sentence: Panda!
43) Have Love Will Travel - the Thing
44) The March of the White Barbarians - Jack Too Jack
45) Station Id / Pearl Snaps - Attack Formation
46) Attack Form - Snow White
47) Riff Wraiths - Lightning Bolt
48) Clara Bow - 50FT Wave
49) Modern Girl - Sleater-Kinney
50) Untitled - Harry Walker-Wright