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Rough Trade

Canadian musical group
Organization musical_group Q7370866
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Rough Trade

Summary

Rough Trade is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (267 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Rough Trade's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • Rough Trade's genre is alternative rock[4].
  • Rough Trade's record label is recorded as True North Records[5].
  • Rough Trade's country of origin is recorded as Canada[6].
  • January 1, 1974 marks the founding of Rough Trade[7].
  • Rough Trade's location of formation is recorded as Toronto[8].
  • Rough Trade's described at URL is recorded as http://www.maplemusic.com/artists/rtr/default.asp[9].
  • Rough Trade's start of work period is recorded as 1968[10].
  • Rough Trade's name is recorded as Rough Trade[11].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Group[12]

  • Country: CA[13]

  • Began / founded: 1974[14]

  • Ended / dissolved: 1988[15]

  • Genre(s): new wave, rock[16]

  • Community tags: canadian, new wave, rock[17]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 4f4b0013-1704-4936-a769-e6e8a6e08ff8[18]

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Founding

January 1, 1974 marks the founding of Rough Trade[7]. Its location of formation is recorded as Toronto[8].

Why It Matters

Rough Trade ranks in the top 7% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (267 views/month).[2]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . musik-sammler.de. musik-sammler.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  7. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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