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Rough Trade's Top LPs of 2013; NYC store opens in 1 week ++ more shows announced (Glasvegas, Au Revoir Simone)

Outside the soon-to-open Rough Trade NYC (via @brooklynvegan instagram)
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Well it’s that time of year again where everybody and their grandma start making Best of the Year lists. Almost always first out of the gate is Rough Trade Shops and their entire Top 101 list just went up. Here’s the Top 20:

1. John Grant – Pale Green Ghosts
2. Savages – Silence Yourself
3. Matthew E White – Big Inner
4. Dan Avery – Drone Logic
5. Thee Oh Sees – Floating Coffin
6. Jon Hopkins – Immunity
7. Valerie June – Pushin’ Against A Stone
8. Moderat – 2
9. Parquet Courts – Light Up Gold
10. Jessica Pratt – Jessica Pratt
11. Jagwar Ma – Howlin
12. Caitlin Rose – The Stand-In
13. My Bloody Valentine – MBV
14. Connan Mockasin – Caramel
15. Factory Floor – S/T
16. Charles Bradley – Victim of Love
17. London Grammar – If You Want
18. Queens of the Stone Age – Like Clockwork
19. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away
20. Mazzy Star – Seasons of Your Day

You can check out the whole list below and read about each one on their site.

You can see their #1 — John Grant — at the new Rough Trade NYC on December 2 which is free with purchase of Pale Green Ghosts (which comes with an exclusive RT bonus disc). Grant also plays Music Hall of Williamsburg the day before (12/2) which is a “stripped-down acoustic show” and tickets are still available.

Rough Trade NYC is set to open its doors next Monday (11/25) and its first shows will be that day with Sky Ferreira (7 PM, free with purchase of b-sides CD) and Charles Bradley (8:30 PM, FREE). Other opening week performances include Matthew E. White (11/27, FREE), Marissa Nadler and Phosphorescent (both 11/30 and FREE).

A couple new Rough Trade shows were announced today: Au Revoir Simone, who just played a Kidrockers show over the weekend and will be touring with Broken Bells next year, will play a free show on December 17. That’s after their free Brooklyn Night Bazaar show on December 7.

Anthemic Scottish rockers Glasvegas will play there on February 20 and they’ve also got a show at Mercury Lounge the day before (2/19). Tickets for those shows go on sale Friday at noon, with an AmEx presale for the Merc show on Wednesday (11/20) at noon.

Rough Trade’s 101 Albums of 2013 list below…

Rough Trade Shops – Albums of the Year 2013
1 – John Grant – Pale Green Ghosts
2 – Savages – Silence Yourself
3 – Matthew E White – Big Inner
4 – Dan Avery – Drone Logic
5 – Thee Oh Sees – Floating Coffin
6 – Jon Hopkins – Immunity
7 – Valerie June – Pushin’ Against A Stone
8 – Moderat – 2
9 – Parquet Courts – Light Up Gold
10 – Jessica Pratt – Jessica Pratt
11 – Jagwar Ma – Howlin
12 – Caitlin Rose – The Stand-In
13 – My Bloody Valentine – m b v
14 – Connan Mockasin – Caramel
15 – Factory Floor – Factory Floor
16 – Charles Bradley – Victim of Love
17 – London Grammar – If You Wait
18 – Queens Of The Stone Age – ….Like Clockwork
19 – Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away
20 – Mazzy Star – Seasons Of Your Day
21 – Arctic Monkeys – AM
22 – Public Service Broadcasting – Inform – Educate – Entertain
23 – Arcade Fire – Reflektor
24 – Haim – Days Are Gone
25 – Daughter – If You Leave
26 – John Wizards – John Wizards
27 – Unknown Mortal Orchestra – 2
28 – Veronica Falls – Waiting For Something to Happen
29 – Maps – Vicissitude
30 – Sigur Ros – Kveikur
31 – Goldfrapp – Tales of Us
32 – Boards Of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest
33 – Patty Griffin – American Kid
34 – Fuck Buttons – Slow Focus
35 – Daughn Gibson – Me Moan
36 – Darkside – Psychic
37 – Satellites – 2
38 – Cat Power – Sun
39 – Primal Scream – More Light
40 – Blondes – Swisher
41 – Melt Yourself Down – Melt Yourself Down
42 – Nadine Shah – Love Your Dum And Mad
43 – The Strypes – Snapshot
44 – Foals – Holy Fire
45 – The National – Trouble Will Find Me
46 – Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of The City
47 – Atoms For Peace – Amok
48 – Hookworms – Pearl Mystic
49 – Chelsea Light Moving – Chelsea Light Moving
49 – Body / Head – Coming Apart
51 – Julia Holter – Loud City Song
52 – Waxahatchee – Cerulean Salt
53 – Goldheart Assembly – Long Distance Song Effects
54 – Laura Marling – Once I Was An Eagle
55 – Bill Callahan – Dream River
56 – Fuzz – Fuzz
57 – Dirty Beaches – Drifters / Love Is The Devil
58 – Mark Lanegan – Imitations
59 – Money – The Shadow of Heaven
60 – James Holden – The Inheritors
61 – Darkstar – News From Nowhere
62 – David Bowie – The Next Day
63 – Bonobo – The North Borders
64 – Serafina Steer – The Moths Are Real
65 – Palma Violets – 180
66 – Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
67 – Suede – Bloodsports
68 – The Men – New Moon
69 – Keaton Henson – Birthdays
70 – Jacco Gardner – Cabinet Of Curiosities
71 – The Knife – Shaking The Habitual
72 – Fimber Bravo – Con-Fusion
73 – Edwyn Collins – Understated
74 – Kurt Vile – Wakin On A Pretty Daze
75 – The Black Angels – Indigo Meadow
76 – Bill Ryder Jones – A Bad Wind Blows In My Heart
77 – Kacey Musgraves – Same Trailer Different Park
78 – Pond – Hobo Rocket
79 – The Pastels – Slow Summits
80 – Laura Veirs – Warp And Weft
81 – Thundercat – apocalypse
82 – The Flaming Lips – The Terror
83 – Purling Hiss – Water On Mars
84 – Son Volt – Honky Tonk
85 – Phosphorescent – Muchacho De Lujo
86 – The Proper Ornaments – Waiting For The Summer
87 – Mark Kozelek and Jimmy Lavalle – Perils From The Sea
88 – The Asphodells – Ruled By Passion, Destroyed By Lust
89 – Oneohtrix Point Never – R Plus Seven
90 – Pantha Du Prince And The Bell Laboratory – Elements Of Light
91 – Omar Souleyman – Wenu Wenu
92 – White Hills – So You Are…So You’ll Be
93 – Dexter – The Trip
94 – Foxygen – We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace & Magic
95 – Steve Mason – Monkey Minds In The Devil’s Time
96 – Villagers – {Awayland}
97 – James Blake – Overgrown
98 – Laurel Halo – Chance Of Rain
99 – Steve Earle And The Dukes (And Duchesses) – The Low Highway
100 – Larry Gus – Years Not Living
101 – Four Tet – Beautiful Rewind