Rhino attempts to map almost a quarter-century of UK indie music, focusing on shoegaze, Britpop, and 1980s "120 Minutes" staples. Save this story Save this story Starting with the British Invasion, ...

Our Britpop special celebrates that era with a look at the major players, the rivalries, the classic albums and what they're ...

The term Britpop is one of those slightly amorphous terms coined by some pithy British music journalist in an attempt to define a key moment during a transitional period of U.K. based rock n' roll. It ...

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 ...

Get a pint of Guinness down your neck and pick that guitar up.” Led by Blur and Oasis, the Britpop scene exploded in the U.K. in the early ’90s and soon included a sonically diverse collection of acts ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A montage of Blur, Elastica, Pulp, Suede and Oasis in front of a Union Flag There are some hurdles to overcome when putting ...

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 ...

The technique and songwriting traits behind the 90s UK guitar movement When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Britpop tracks such as ...

“‘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 ...