1990s

For someone who spent much of his youth in dank underground metal clubs or, later, pretentiously and very publicly reading […]

Since its inception in the 1960s, popular music has been riven by an ongoing conflict between Britain and America and,

After years of searching, I finally found it; the origin point of what Oasis manager Alan McGee would later dismiss

Why weren’t Supergrass bigger? I must admit, I had only the faintest awareness of them during the heyday of Britpop

1. “Rock ’N’ Roll Star” (Definitely Maybe)This is the obvious choice for kicking off an Oasis selected playlist. The opener

Oasis’ much-vaunted comeback will obviously and inevitably be a risible exercise in meticulously stage-managed, money-grabbing nostalgia, and yet, despite my

Annie Lennox long struck me as a strange proposition – a tall, pale, willowy, otherworldly, short-haired fierce-as-fuck Scottish ice queen,

I have always and will always object to the lumping together of R.E.M. and the Smiths. Yes, both bands purveyed