In December of last year Sleeper released their first new music in...bloody ages. "Look at you Now" is now set for a limited physical release before an entire album's worth of new music follows in March. To celebrate both events we have a new video to accompany the single. Right now you can only view [...]
A Design For Life Healthy Mind, Healthy Body Through the Wisdom of Britpop Chapter One Power/Freedom/Dignity/Love Libraries gave us power Then work came and made us free What price now for a shallow piece of dignity We don't talk about love...we only want to get drunk ("A Design for Life" by Manic Street [...]
It is June, 1997 Six weeks earlier Anthony Charles Lynton Blair had found himself elected to Parliament as the leader of the (New) Labour Party and had taken up residence at number ten Downing Street as Prime Minister. Soon after that Noel Gallagher would arrive for a drinks reception in a chocolate brown Rolls Royce. [...]
"Most alternative music lived underground. It made a lot of noise, but no-one in the mainstream could hear it…. The nineties would see it go so much further than many of us expected. It wasn’t just the popularity of alternative music which would change; the music was constantly reinventing itself too, sucking in influences from [...]
The Lord of the indie dance party, Steve "Evening Session" Lamacq, has lovingly curated a collection of "lost" nineties alternative music which will be released in just a few weeks. Four discs and seventy-one tracks that drag you grinning through a pop hedge and leave you on the other side looking like an indie kid [...]
Once upon a time in a land of near eternal sunshine there lived a young man called Max. Max was a mild mannered fellow and was possessed of a beautiful head of hair that drew admiring glances from...well, himself. Each Wednesday young Max would head off to the local newsagent to avail himself of the [...]
Sometimes, just sometimes, you stumble upon something that makes everything seem a little less...ugly, complicated and painful. A painting, a film, an item of clothing, a line in a book, a person, a long forgotten memory. Finding Animal Breakdown is one of those moments. A new band. Embryonic really. Stepping wide eyed with wonder into [...]
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