While Seattle-based grunge unfolded in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a much different movement was playing out in the UK, centered in another big city. Alternately known as “Baggy” (based on its ...

Music fans feature alongside iconic musicians and artists from the time Photographs capturing the "mayhem and energy" of Manchester between 1989 and 1991 are the focus of a new book. The collection ...

VOODOO RAY has been voted the anthem of the Madchester movement. The classic "acid house" hit by A Guy Called Gerald has topped a poll of scores of tracks that became synonymous with the Manchester ...

The Happy Mondays made music that hadn't been done before, on their terms and in a haze of hedonism and tabloid headlines. Their 1989 Madchester Rave On EP provided the name for the Manchester music ...

LONDON (AP) - The Stone Roses, one of the best-loved and most influential bands to emerge from Britain’s “Madchester” scene, say they are reuniting. The band members, who split in 1996 after releasing ...