There’s a new generation of Manchester bands out to shake things up. From Pale Waves to Witch Fever, these rising bands are doing things their own way.
There’s the classic adage that a picture is worth a thousand words. However, a quality band T-shirt is worth a million. Our music tastes are synonymous with our personalities and how we express ourselves, so what better way to embody this than to dive into a collection of classic T-shirts?
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“The Battle Of Britpop”
In its Aug. 26, 1995 issue, venerable U.K. pop weekly NME reported, “In a week where news leaked that Saddam Hussein was preparing nuclear weapons, everyday folks were still getting slaughtered in Bosnia and Mike Tyson was making his comeback, tabloids and broadsheets alike went Britpop crazy.” Homegrown pop g...
“Rock ‘n’ roll is supposed to be fun,” Sex Pistols singer Johnny Rotten told British rock journalist Charles Shaar Murray in 1977. “You’re supposed to enjoy it. It’s not about taking a million fucking years to learn a million fucking chords on the guitar.”
That clarion call — sounded as thei...
After the golden age of rock ‘n’ roll, it was clear that something was starting to emerge from the underground. As the genres of hair metal and pop rock dominated the charts, the rise of alternative rock gave a voice to people who might have been considered too strange for the early MTV generation. Years late...
Noel Gallagher has begun the new year with some new music from his High Flying Birds project in the form of a demo. The former Oasis guitarist debuted the track, "Trying To Find A World That's Been And Gone: Part 1," with fans Saturday (Jan...
When it was time to start work on the second Snail Mail album, Lindsey Jordan only had a couple of songs ready. “If I don’t actually have anything to write about, I’m not gonna write anything. I don’t want to. I don’t want to waste my time — I don’t want to waste anybody else’s time,” she says.
Speaking on Zoom from a London hotel room she’s j...
Oasis are celebrated in a new documentary by music video director Jake Scott titled Oasis Knebworth 1996. The film will have a worldwide release starting Sept. 23, and tickets are available here.
In 1996, Oasis brought 250,000 fans to Knebworth House in Hertfordshire for two nights of music...
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Britpop was the sound of England taking back rock ‘n’ roll after American grunge and alt rock had annexed the world’s airwaves and charts for the first half of the ‘90s. Vox amps, Union Jacks, 1964 Paul McCartney haircuts, Ben Sherman shirts and Chelsea boots became all the rage, as bands plundered their British Invasion, David Bowie and early punk records for ideas.
If you played your...
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There’s a reason Lil Peep was lauded as the “future of emo” by multiple publications. From the early days of his career, his songs featured a diverse array of scene-bred samples mixed with trap beats and loaded with lyrics that solidified him as a genre-melding force. Before getting t...
Gibson just released the new Noel Gallagher J-150, a recreation of the musician's Gibson J-150. Gallagher has used his acoustic Gibson for over 20 years, first making an appearance with it in the music video for Oasis’ “Little By Little.”
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AFI have announced their long-awaited return to the stage with the Bodies tour in support of their latest full-length. Bodies, which was released June 11, marks the group’s first major release since 2017’s AFI (The Blood Album). The tour is scheduled to kick off Feb. 11, 2022 i...
Shapel Lacey, an L.A. by way of Arizona stand-up comedian, is a true-to-form alternative fan. Onstage and behind podcast mics, he never shies away from sharing his love of Oasis, Rancid and beyond, knowing full well that acts such as these inform his whole life and art form...
Architects are continuing to reach new heights with their ninth studio album For Those That Wish To Exist. Nearly a month after they earned their first-ever U.K. chart No. 1 with the LP, Architects have hit another chart milestone, and this time it’s in the U.S.
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Duets are all the rage these days, and largely without the intention of releasing said duet as a single. Case in point: YUNGBLUD’s recent sitdown with Avril Lavigne to blaze through her hit “I’m With You.” That’s just all about making it go viral.
But there was a time whe...
Every guitarist knows the feeling of first picking up the instrument and being at a total loss for where to start. While everyone just wants to jam out to their favorite hits, there's often a learning curve involved. That said, there are plenty of beginner-level songs that you can learn how to play with just a few chords, and 1990s music boasts no shortage of them...
There's no doubt that the relative abundance of "unplugged" performances has skyrocketed in the past year. It makes sense, given that pared-back sessions are far easier to conduct over a livestream than a full-band setup. Still, though, we can't help but feel like we're experiencing a bit of a '90s cultural revival...
1998 really wasn’t that long ago, but after saying the number 2021 out loud, it feels like it happened during another lifetime. To put things in perspective, Billie Eilish was born three years after 1998, and, hell, even FINNEAS was born the year before.
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Josh Dun, one-half of twenty one pilots, has done impressive drum covers onstage and offstage with Tyler Joseph, other artists and on his own. He's also filled in on drums for fellow scene vocalists with ease. Undoubtedly, he can play anything with anyone...