Sometimes, a hit song comes to a songwriter without trying, and that was certainly the case for Blur with "Song 2," their ...
Exploring comments by Radiohead about why they found the Britpop scene "backwards-looking", and why Oasis felt a similar ...
Britpop vets Gene ceased operations in 2004 but reunited last year and have kept going. They had already announced they’d be ...
Even those who didn’t spend the 1990s wearing fringe haircuts and desert boots know Oasis and Blur. Like any dominant music scene, Britpop had bands that were bigger than the movement and others who ...
If you’re unfamiliar, “Britpop” is a term used in reference to a wave of UK alternative rock bands from the ’90s, the most notable examples being Blur, Suede, Pulp, and Oasis. Just don’t say that to ...
On this week’s edition of the Celebration Rock podcast, we discussed one of the most vital musical movements of the ’90s rock. Back in the mid-’90s, some of the best and most exciting rock records ...
For most of its career, Suede assumed Britpop — the movement the band helped originate in the early ’90s — wouldn’t make a comeback. That assumption will be tested on Sept. 6, when Oasis plays the ...
The Wiggles sparked a wave of online reactions after revealing during an Australian radio appearance that they aren’t ...
Oasis, Blur, Pulp, and Suede were the Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice In Chains of Britpop. They dominated British pop culture in a movement known as Cool Britannia. Just as grunge had many ...
Twenty-three years after Blur’s Parklife, Britpop doesn’t need another takedown, or commemoration, or really anything more said about it. Which makes Pitchfork’s list of the 50 Best Britpop Albums an ...
Brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, frontmen of British band Oasis, confirmed Tuesday they would put aside a 15-year feud to reunite for a string of shows expected to generate feverish demand. Oasis ...
A. G. Cook, the producer and founder of P.C. Music, has confirmed details of his next solo album. Britpop will be released on May 10 via Cook's New Alias label. The album title track is available ...