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Dua Lipa Unveils Details Of Upcoming Album 'Radical Optimism'

Dua Lipa's 'Radical Optimism' album, influenced by '90s Britpop and '70s psychedelia, set for release on May 3, promises a fresh sonic experience.

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Today's NYT Connections hints and answers — Friday, February 16, #250

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Today's NYT Connections hints and answers — Thursday, February 15, #249

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“Our drummer left for a sandwich and never came back. We heard he was found wandering in no man’s land by Canadian Mounties”: An epic guide to every Swervedriver album in the band’s own words

Adam Franklin takes us on an all-access tour through the Swervedriver back catalogue, from their Creation incubation up to the band's reunion and glorious second act

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“When Noel asked me to join High Flying Birds, he said I could use any of his gear. I asked if he still had the Epiphone Sheraton, and he said, ‘Yeah.’ I said, ‘OK, I’ll join’”: Gem Archer on playing with Oasis – and both Gallagher brothers’ solo projects

Possibly inspired by a dent in the head from his first guitar, the Britpop mainstay was there for the Gallaghers’ breakup and played in both their solo bands – but he’d rather have a cup of tea than talk about a reunion

Guitar World

“It's good to see him back writing songs, and f**king good ones too”: Britpop’s greatest guitarist and vocalist join forces as John Squire evokes classic Stone Roses on Liam Gallagher’s latest single

Just Another Rainbow marks the Stone Roses guitarist’s first new recorded music in seven years, with more music together promised throughout 2024

Guitar World

Ian Broudie: ‘Terry Venables liked Three Lions: “It’s a proper key-tapper, Ian,” he said’

The Lightning Seeds musician on his memories of Britpop, why the FA didn’t like his Three Lions song, and why he loves being a scouser

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The history of rock band logos, from the 1960s to the present day

From The Beatles to today's biggest bands, this is how rock band logos continue to evolve.

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“Forget grunge music. Get a pint of Guinness down your neck and pick that guitar up”: The rise and fall of Britpop, the Nineties’ other massive guitar movement

The UK got its guitar mojo back in the ’90s with a new generation of rock and indie bands. This is the story of how it all got consumed by the rivalry between Blur and Oasis, and the catch-all category of Britpop

Guitar World

Gavin Rossdale talks us through Bush's platinum hits: "These songs were not written with a view to any degree of success… I had toiled for many years and nothing had worked"

From unemployment in London to 20-million album sales and US stardom, the songwriter recalls a remarkable rise – "I was pretty rubbish at first, but I had a knack"

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“I got the call saying there was a band looking for a player. I said yes before even asking which band it was. Then I got told it was Ghost”: Former Nameless Ghoul Chris Catalyst breaks cover about his time in Tobias Forge’s epic metal project

The UK session guitarist went from marathon tours with Sisters of Mercy and Ugly Kid Joe to massive arena shows with Ghost. He reveals what it takes to cut it in one of metal’s biggest bands, why Noel Gallagher has one of his all-time favorite guitar tones, and how a…

Guitar World

"Pearl Jam used to hire out bars to drink with us": Idlewild's Roddy Woomble on how four punk rock kids from Scotland emerged from the wreckage of Britpop, gatecrashed the UK charts and got adopted as Pearl Jam's new favourite band

With their 30th anniversary approaching, Idlewild look back on a career spent "existing in their own little place"

Louder

Best red shirts for women, from Valentino to Mango

Tap into the celeb-approved Britpop trend

Evening Standard

"It speaks to regular people, and that's why it's so great": Watch the worlds of emo and Britpop collide as My Chemical Romance cover Pulp's Common People

My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way: “I remember pushing carts at a supermarket listening to this song on headphones on a cassette player..."

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Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds: South Facing at Crystal Palace Bowl review - Britpop is fully back

The gig was peppered with the acerbic, deadpan good humour we’ve come to love from Oasis’s elder Gallagher brother

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‘Everyone wanted to get one over on Thatcher’ – the artists who raided the Enterprise Allowance Scheme

Forty years ago, the Tories launched a scheme to foster entrepreneurs – but artists from Jarvis Cocker to Rachel Whiteread saw another way to use it. So did a government seen as hostile to the arts kickstart Britpop and the YBAs?

Louder

10 terrible Britpop albums with one classic song

There were some era-defining records made during the Britpop boom, but some stinkers too. Here's ten terrible efforts that were saved by one song.

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A beginner’s guide to Britpop in five essential albums

It was an indie phenomenon that changed everything: here’s five classic records that defined Britpop

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"You will remember this show for the rest of your life": Pulp's triumphant homecoming sees Jarvis Cocker's BritPop heroes shoot for the moon

Pulp's spectacular Sheffield set may conjure up BritPop nostalgia, but their epic, dramatic homecoming also delivers so much more

Daily Mirror

Blur frontman wants Britpop label ditched for Europop because he hates Brexit

This weekend Blur, famous for hits such as Girls and Boys, Song 2 and Parklife, will be playing to thousands at Wembley stadium but frontman Damon Albarn said he found the resurgence of Britpop 'irritating'

Louder

A beginner's guide to 90s UK indie in five essential albums

There was more to 90s indie than just Britpop, but it's a pretty good place to start... Here, the story of how one decade saw a genre morph beyond all recognition, told by the albums that made it happen

Evening Standard

Blur, boozers and 90s hedonism — why Britpop was the last carefree party

The often maligned Nineties music scene was in fact an explosion of maverick talents crashing the mainstream. Sylvia Patterson recalls a time when ‘it felt like the freaks and geeks were winning’

Evening Standard

Cool Britannia! The enduring appeal of Britpop’s gritty and glamorous style

As Britpop legends Blur and Pulp take over this summer with comeback tours, Victoria Moss revisits the era’s enduring style legacy

Daily Mirror

Noel Gallagher says Oasis split was 'crash and burn' and bandmates were 'far from adult'

Noel and Liam Gallagher have been locked in a bitter feud for over a decade but rumours of an Oasis reunion has been circulating following the comebacks of Britpop rivals Blur and Pulp

Louder

Every Pulp album ranked from worst to best

Jarvis Cocker and co. are national treasures, but which album is their crowning glory?

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