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Noel Gallagher's third solo release after Oasis is a marked shift from previous outings, delivering a desire for experimentation that demonstrates his continued relevance as musician, songwriter, and performer.

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Liam Gallagher Is Still Cranky After All These Years

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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds are rocking out on an exciting US tour in support of their new album Chasing Yesterday.

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The successors to Radiohead and The Bends are a generation who liked how the film started, but lost the script halfway through.

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The music world saw reissues from all over the genre map, spanning classic rock titans to electronic music legends.

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The lasting, overall impression of Why Me? Why Not. is Liam Gallagher discovering a belief in himself as an artist rather than simply as a singer in a rock 'n' roll band.

Noel Gallagher's third solo release after Oasis is a marked shift from previous outings, delivering a desire for experimentation that demonstrates his continued relevance as musician, songwriter, and performer.

Liam Gallagher is releasing his first solo album. Of As You Were, set for release Oct. 6. Gallagher figures, “It ain’t the best record in the world, it ain’t the worst record in the world.”

PopMatters' newest column kicks off with a reappraisal of the Oasis album time forgot: Heathen Chemistry, which turns 15 this July. Although the album was widely maligned upon its release, we dare to ask about this songbird: maybe it's good?

The fifth and final part of our examination of the 100 Greatest Alternative Singles of the '90s, includes Portishead, Blur, Björk, R.E.M., Nine Inch Nails and more.

The Britpop revival starts in Australia. Hills End is an outstanding debut album.

Here's a remix album that makes you want to listen to the original material. In other breaking news, the earth is round.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds are rocking out on an exciting US tour in support of their new album Chasing Yesterday.

The successors to Radiohead and The Bends are a generation who liked how the film started, but lost the script halfway through.

Noel Gallagher may not be completely chasing yesterday, but he certainly isn't moving forward.

The music world saw reissues from all over the genre map, spanning classic rock titans to electronic music legends.

Oasis' Morning Glory still holds up, which can be attributed to the fact that albums with this level of cultural clout and collective popularity tend to help define the sounds of their era.

Oasis releases stream of the demo for "She's Electric" from the forthcoming Super Deluxe Box Set of (What's The Story) Morning Glory? dropping 30 September.

Definitely Maybe is considered a classic, but with songs so straightforward and unadorned, what can really be gained from demos that sound almost exactly like the finished album tracks?

The takeaway here is that while Bugg's debut album felt genuine, Shangri La feels forced and awkward.

This is the kind of record that gives rise to lots of associations -- intentional, unintentional, whatever -- and while for some bands that kind of provocational association can be a good thing, it is bad news for Young Rebel Set.