Ongoing History Daily: Damon’s dog
When you sell millions of albums, there are untold ways to spend your money: big house, fancy cars, travel, guitars,
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Britpop
Ongoing History Daily: Whither Elastica?
Back in the heady days of Britpop in the middle 90s, Justine Frischmann of Elastica was one-half of the scene’s
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Ongoing History Daily: The origin of the term “Britpop”
Back in the middle 90s, the big buzzword in the UK was “Britpop.” This became an umbrella term for a
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Random music news for Tuesday, September 22, 2020
No. Just…no. Let’s begin the first day of autumn with music news for September 22, 2020. Coronavirus update 1: There
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Weekly survey: 25 years after the Battle of Britpop, are you on Team Blur or Team Oasis?
Twenty-five years ago this month, Blur and Oasis went head-to-head for chart supremacy on the same week, sending Britain into
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It was 25 years ago this month: The Great Britpop War
If you were around in the summer of 1995 and into British music, you’ll remember this as the time when
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This graphic shows how big Britpop was in Toronto
Back in the day, Britpop was huge in Toronto. Really, really huge. Cameron Gordon at Completely Ignored analyzed the whole
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The Ongoing History of New Music encore presentation: The 90s, Part 4: Britpop
Fashion is one of the most disposable of all the artistic endeavors. Much of what’s created and sold isn’t designed
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Random music news for Saturday, January 12, 2019
Ever had one of those weeks where computers seem to hate you? I had one of those. But I still
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Next up on the resurrection/recycling list: Britpop!
It takes anywhere from a dozen to twenty years for nostalgia to kick in for a previous era of music.
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Random music news for Tuesday, April 24, 2018
It was a rough day for Canada yesterday. Anything I can offer for music news will seem inconsequential. Still, here’s
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