All the Britpop fans, this one’s for you. Blur and Oasis have long been compared to each other as two of the U.K.’s indie-rock darlings. However, 1994 marked the start of something bigger: the Battle ...

PLEASURES and Blur’s collaboration line, which dropped on Friday, Feb. 10, celebrates the anniversary of the U.K. quartet’s classic 1997 album Blur, which featured iconic songs such as “Beetlebum” and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This week, after 16 years of bitter feuding, the Gallagher brothers finally bury that sodden hatchet and embark on what was once ...

Frischmann left in 1991, after she and Anderson broke up, leaving all guitar work to teenage whiz-kid Bernard Butler. She started her next band, Elastica, with brief Suede drummer Justin Welch. Her ...

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Alex James is taken aback by the crowd's reaction to a test run of his new Britpop Classical show.

A new theatre comedy penned by John Niven and exploring Blur and Oasis’ infamous Britpop chart battle has been announced for a UK tour in 2026. Check out the trailer above and details below. READ MORE ...

IT was the long, hot summer of 1995, John Major was in No10 and Blackburn Rovers were Premier League champions. The music charts had been dominated by acting duo Robson and Jerome, until one crazy ...

Britpop was born in London and was the soundtrack of British youth in the 1990s. Oasis, Blur, Suede, Pulp, and Elastica changed the focus from American grunge to the homeland’s guitar bands. But those ...

Britpop is back! We’ve been hearing so much of that these past few years, we’re starting to forget when it actually came back, or when it went away for that matter. Because at some point it did go ...

Britpop peaked over thirty years ago. A pivotal moment came in 1995, marked by the media-fuelled rivalry between Blur, who released "Country House," and Oasis, with "Roll with It." In 1997, I remember ...