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The "nightmare" birth of the Stones Roses' Second Coming
By Paul Brannigan published
After The Stones Roses set the British music scene alight with their stunning debut album, the expectation was that they would take over the world with album two. Things didn't quite go to plan

The Stone Roses on the making of their flawed, long-in-the-making second album
By Niall Doherty published
Second Coming turns 30 this week but the Mancunian indie-rockers’ resurrection didn’t last long

10 classic albums that would be better if they were shorter
By Johnny Sharp published
Making great records greater, one edit at a time

"If you were anticipating audacious swerves into grindcore, drill, chillwave or ragga, then, as Obi-Wan Gallagher sings, these are not the droids you're looking for": Relax lads, Liam Gallagher John Squire is the Brit-Bloke audio catnip you expected
By Paul Brannigan published
'Madchester' indie legends Liam Gallagher and John Squire pair up for hugely predictable, moderately fun and entertainingly spiky pastiche of former glories

Listen to Just Another Rainbow, the first single from the new supergroup fronted by ex-Oasis vocalist Liam Gallagher and ex-Stone Roses guitarist John Squire
By Paul Brannigan published
Madchester lives! Former Oasis and Stone Roses men share first single from new project

“John Squire, without a doubt the best guitarist of his generation and in the world in my opinion”: Liam Gallagher drops hints that his collaboration with Stone Roses' John Squire is incoming
By Paul Brannigan published
Is the long-rumoured collaboration between Liam Gallagher and John Squire coming in 2024? Find out more

"There's a lot to be said for going inside": the time that Ian Brown got sent to prison for threatening to cut off an air hostess' hands
By Niall Doherty published
Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown spent two months at her Majesty's pleasure back in 1998, and took some benefit from the experience

A beginners' guide to UK 80s indie in five essential albums
By Stephen Hill published
The 1980s were a hugely fertile period for free-thinking, boundary-pushing British 'indie' bands. Here is the story of the genre via five essential albums
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