The phenomenon known as Britpop took shape in 1993 after the success of Suede's self-titled debut album. Twenty years later, we look back at the... On Sept. 8, 1993, the London rock band Suede took ...

For most of its career, Suede assumed Britpop — the movement the band helped originate in the early ’90s — wouldn’t make a comeback. That assumption will be tested on Sept. 6, when Oasis plays the ...

Blur's "Life" trilogy - Modern Life Is Rubbish, Parklife and The Great Escape - were some of the defining albums of Britpop This summer, some of Britpop's biggest bands are back on the road. Pulp are ...

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 ...

One credit, however, still seems to trump them all. Along with his bandmates in Blur, Albarn is often credited with helping usher in Britpop: a sound that surfaced in the UK in the 1990s, as British ...

I was only 7 when the Smiths split, was still in diapers (or nappies, as we call them in England) when the Two-Tone Ska revival was in full flow, and was but a twinkle in my father’s eye when punk ...

Twenty-three years after Blur’s Parklife, Britpop doesn’t need another takedown, or commemoration, or really anything more said about it. Which makes Pitchfork’s list of the 50 Best Britpop Albums an ...

Both compilations spring from Green’s involvement in Smashing, a London club night which, as he says in his liner notes to the new set, “I founded in 1991 alongside confrontational host Matthew ...

On Sept. 8, 1993, the London rock band Suede took home the Mercury Music Prize, Britain and Ireland's "album of the year" award, for its self-titled debut. It capped a historic year for lead singer ...