Happy Mondays

“This special release of ’Tart Tart’ showcases the unique musical talent of our brother Paul Ryder who passed from this world," write Happy Mondays. "We will all miss you Horse...he brought the funk and the rock n roll to Happy Mondays.“

Read tributes from members of The Stone Roses, The Charlatans, Ride, Sleaford Mods, and more.

Aitch says his new album is ”100,000 per cent a proper Manchester album” and new single ”1989” is indeed very Manchester, as it samples The Stone Roses and opens with an intro by Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder...

Tony Wilson, the cofounder of iconic Manchester label Factory Records (Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays), died in 2007 after a battle with cancer. He left a final request: that writer Paul Morley, a legend in is own right, write Wilson's biography...

From '90s ska to Nina Simone, from Anti-Flag to the history of hip hop, there's something for everyone in this roundup of new and recent documentaries to stream.

This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new albums from Shaun Ryder (Happy Mondays), Tropical Fuck Storm, and Jim Bob (Carter USM), plus HUSHPUPPY, the return of Cud, and Suburban Lawns' debut is reissued on vinyl.

“In my delusional ADHD brain it’s my Sgt. Pepper full of different flavoured songs.“

1995 was the peak year for Britpop with the "Blur Vs Oasis" feud, and nearly every major player in the scene releasing an album. We ranked the 20 best.

Former Happy Mondays tour manager Anthony Murray was arrested along with 15 others at a port in Istanbul when authorities found 500 pounds of cocaine hidden inside 3,500 bags of fertilizer aboard a ship from Colombia...

Yes, there are Bez shirts.