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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ah, britpop. It’s a label that some bands that fell under it didn’t particularly like. It’s not quite an alternative culture, nor is it something based on British patriotism. Rather, britpop was a ...
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 ...
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 ...
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. If you asked the average listener who Blur is, you’d be lucky to get an answer that didn’t mention “Song 2,” the ...
“‘Britpop?’ It’s just a shitty-sounding word,” Jarvis Cocker told Pitchfork this month. “I don’t like the nationalistic idea of it; it wasn't a flag-waving music. It was really distasteful when it got ...