**AJJ** will be appearing in person at Rough Trade NYC on Monday May 29th, performing and signing store-purchased copies of their new album *Disposable Everything.*

- Please bring your smartphone with you to display the ticket on entry.
- You will be given your album in order for them to be signed AFTER you check-in.

Phoenix-based indie punk band, AJJ, is back with their 10th studio album and their first on independent powerhouse Hopeless Records, Disposable Everything, the follow up to their 2020 album - aptly-titled, Good Luck Everybody. After years of cult-like indie success and underground fandom, the band found themselves with a viral TikTok hit with the quirky and irreverent "Body Terror Song," and a new audience of fans that connected with the trademark witty, incisive lyricism AJJ is known for. With Disposable Everything, the band hit their fully-realized form with an album that juxtaposes apocalyptic despair with the warm comfort of an electric blanket. Sonically, the album hits fans with an equal amount of rousing punk anthems and acoustic balladry that truly captures the simultaneous terror and wonder of being alive. With help from some friends (Laura Stevenson does guest vocals on "The Baby Panda" and Jeff Rosenstock plays saxophone on "Candles Of Love"), AJJ has produced their strongest album to date and one that will be sung loudly at shows for years to come.

This is an all ages event.

Rough Trade NYC

Rockefeller Center

AJJ Performance + Signing

AJJ - Dissonance

Gigs

New York

**Incendiary** will be appearing in person at Rough Trade NYC on Tuesday May 30th, performing in support of their new album *Change The Way You Think About Pain.*

- Your RSVP provides entry to the performance event and Incendiary's new album on Rough Trade exclusive Silver/Red Mix w/ Black Splatter vinyl.
- Performance will begin prompty at 7p.
- Please bring your smartphone with you to display the ticket on entry.
- You will be given your album AFTER the performance, as you leave.
- Professional cameras are only allowed with a photo pass issued - please do not reach out.

Armed with crushing metallic riffs, instantly both fresh and familiar, Incendiary populate each of their four full-length albums with irresistibly energized rhythms and adrenalized urgency. Change The Way You Think About Pain is their leanest and unapologetically meanest yet.

This is an all ages event.

Incendiary In-Store Performance

Incendiary - Bite The Hook

Incendiary

Rough Trade NYC is very excited to present a book talk + signing with Allyson MCabe and Vernon Reid on Thursday, June 1st at 6pm.

This unique event celebrates the release of Allyson's new book 'Why Sinéad O'Connor Matters' released on May 9th via University of Texas Press.

**Your ticket provides free entry to the book talk.**

Talk will begin promptly at 6pm, please arrive a few minutes early.

- Please bring your smartphone with you to display the ticket on entry.
- On arrival, the purchase of relevent items will be necessary in order for it to be signed.
- We recommend arriving early for available seating. The rest will be standing room only.

In 1990, Sinéad O’Connor’s video for “Nothing Compares 2 U” turned her into a superstar. Two years later, an appearance on Saturday Night Live turned her into a scandal. For many people—including, for years, the author—what they knew of O’Connor stopped there. Allyson McCabe believes it’s time to reassess our old judgments about Sinéad O’Connor and to expose the machinery that built her up and knocked her down.

Addressing triumph and struggle, sound and story, Why Sinéad O’Connor Matters argues that its subject has been repeatedly manipulated and misunderstood by a culture that is often hostile to women who speak their minds (in O’Connor’s case, by shaving her head, championing rappers, and tearing up a picture of the pope on live television). McCabe details O’Connor’s childhood abuse, her initial success, and the backlash against her radical politics without shying away from the difficult issues her career raises.

This is an all ages event.

'Why Sinéad O'Connor Matters' Book Talk + Signing

Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U

Vernon Reid

talks

Talk

**Leith Ross** will be appearing in person at Rough Trade NYC on Monday June 5th at 6p, performing and signing store-purchased copies of their new album *To Learn.*

- Please bring your smartphone with you to display the ticket on entry.
- You will be given your album in order for them to be signed AFTER you check-in.

Leith Ross is a Canadian singer/songwriter who embraced music at a young age, channeling emotional confessions through softly strummed chords.

This is an all ages event.

Leith Ross Performance + Signing

Leith Ross - We'll Never Have Sex

Leith Ross

**Alex Lahey** will be appearing in person at Rough Trade NYC, performing and signing store-purchased copies of her new album *The Answer Is Always Yes*.

**Your ticket provides free entry to the event.**

Performance will begin promptly at 6pm, please arrive a few minutes early.

- Please bring your smartphone with you to display the ticket on entry.
- On arrival, the purchase of relevant items will be necessary in order for them to be signed.

As a queer person and a daughter of migrants, Alex Lahey learned how to adapt to a world that wasn’t made for her. With The Answer Is Always Yes, Lahey’s fun-loving rock found new vessels: finding comfort in the discomfort, reveling in absurdity, and turning towards exploration. “With this record, I wanted to get weird because the world is weird, & it’s even weirder when you realize you don’t fit into it all the time.”

This is an all ages event.

Alex Lahey Performance + Signing

Alex Lahey - You'll Never Get Your Money Back

Alex Lahey

**deem spencer** will be appearing in person at Rough Trade NYC, performing and signing store-purchased copies of his new album *adultSW!M*.

**Your ticket provides free entry to the event.**

Performance will begin promptly at 7pm, please arrive a few minutes early.

- Please bring your smartphone with you to display the ticket on entry.
- On arrival, the purchase of relevant items will be necessary in order for them to be signed.

As deem spencer gets into the flow of his purpose, that is being a provider, he’s cautioned by overarching worries of impending doom. The 27-year-old emcee has heard that in the next lifetime, New York City could be underwater – but even in these current tides of chaos, the native reflects and retraces his upbringing while wading towards a hopeful future on his third album, adultSW!M.

This is an all ages event.

deem spencer Performance + Signing

deem spencer - I Will Die On Your Hill (feat. Orion Sun)

deem spencer - I will die on your hill

**Deer Tick** will be appearing in person at Rough Trade NYC on Monday June 12th, performing and signing store-purchased copies of their new album *Emotional Contracts.*

- Please bring your smartphone with you to display the ticket on entry.
- You will be given your album in order for them to be signed AFTER you check-in.

Deer Tick’s first new album since 2017, Emotional Contracts, is their most collaborative to date and sees them operating at peak songwriting power.Produced by Dave Fridmann, the 10-song set features guest artists Steve Berlin (Los Lobos), Courtney Marie Andrews, Vanessa Carlton, Kam Franklin, Angela Miller and Sheree Smith. Deer Tick’s ATO Records debut adds an even greater vitality to their feverish collection of timeless rock n’ roll.

This is an all ages event.

Deer Tick Performance + Signing

Deer Tick - Forgiving Ties

Deer Tick

**Lontalius** will be appearing in person at Rough Trade NYC, performing and signing store-purchased copies of his new album *Life On The Edge Of You*.

**Your ticket provides free entry to the event.**

Performance will begin promptly at 6pm, please arrive a few minutes early.

- Please bring your smartphone with you to display the ticket on entry.
- On arrival, the purchase of relevant items will be necessary in order for them to be signed.

Produced by Jeff Kleinman (Beyoncé, Frank Ocean, FKA Twigs), Life on the Edge of You finds Lontalius aka Eddie Johnston elevating his intimate, confessional indie-folk songwriting across a new musical landscape. The pair had worked briefly in Los Angeles in 2017, then over the pandemic took to trading files from opposite ends of the word, building tracks in a surprisingly fruitful collaboration melding alt-indie with flavors of hip-hop and Raised in Wellington, New Zealand, Lontalius embraced making music since getting his first guitar at the age of eight, and spent his preteen years honing his craft in his bedroom with all the resources of the internet at his disposal.

This is an all ages event.

Lontalius Performance + Signing

Lontalius - Tangerine

Lontalius

**Billie Marten** will be appearing in person at Rough Trade NYC on Wednesday June 21st, performing and signing store-purchased copies of her new album *Drop Cherries.*

- Please bring your smartphone with you to display the ticket on entry.
- You will be given your album in order for them to be signed AFTER you check-in.

Recorded entirely on tape in Somerset and Wales late last summer, Drop Cherries marks the first time that Billie Marten has both written and co-produced (with Dom Monks) one of her records; following the critically lauded album Flora Fauna (2021), Feeding Seahorses by Hand (2019), and Writing of Blues and Yellows (2016).

This is an all ages event.

Billie Marten Performance + Signing

Billie Marten - Drop Cherries

Billie Marten

Rough Trade NYC is very excited to present a book talk + signing with Antonia Tricarico, Don Zientara, Joe Lally (Fugazi, Messthetics), Pete Stahl (Scream), and Guy Picciotto (Fugazi) on Saturday, June 24th at 4pm.

This unique event celebrates the release of Antonia's brand new book 'The Inner Ear of Don Zientara: A Half Century of Recording in One of America’s Most Innovative Studios, Through the Voices of Musicians' released on June 6th via Akashic Books.

**Your ticket provides free entry to the book talk.**

Talk will begin promptly at 4pm, please arrive a few minutes early.

- Please bring your smartphone with you to display the ticket on entry.
- On arrival, the purchase of relevent items will be necessary in order for it to be signed.
- We recommend arriving early for available seating. The rest will be standing room only.

Inner Ear Studio is best known for recording iconic DC punk musicians Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Bikini Kill, Rites of Spring, Mary Timony, Fugazi, and others. The Inner Ear of Don Zientara is an oral history of not just Inner Ear’s recordings, but also of the role that founder Don Zientara played in creating one of the most welcoming and nurturing recording studios the world over. Alongside 250 photographs, the volume includes testimonials from members of Fugazi, Scream, Fire Party, Shudder to Think, Jawbox, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Dismemberment Plan, as well as musicians like Kathleen Hanna and Henry Rollins, among other notables.

This is an all ages event.

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