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  • Under the Radar

    Letter From The Editor

    Apr 24, 2024 3 minutes

    spent the summer of 1995 in my hometown of London, on break from my university in Los Angeles. It was the summer that Britpop truly exploded; when the press hyped the Blur vs. Oasis chart battle where both bands decided to release a big single on the same day (Blur’s “Country House” beat Oasis’ “Roll With It” to number one, but then Oasis ended up selling more copies of their new album). I bought the two singles on release day and wore out my copies of both. It was the summer I saw R.E.M. at

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