Post-Britpop

Post-Britpop is an alternative rock subgenre and is the period in the late 1990s and early 2000s, following Britpop, when the media were identifying a "new generation" or "second wave" of guitar bands influenced by acts like Oasis and Blur, but with less overt British concerns in their lyrics, more introspective songwriting, and greater influences from experimental music and American indie rock. Bands that had been established acts in the Britpop era, but gained greater prominence under post-Britpop, included Radiohead and the Verve. Meanwhile, newer acts such as Keane, Snow Patrol, Stereophonics, and particularly Travis and Coldplay, achieved much wider international success than most of the Britpop groups that had preceded them, and were some of the most commercially successful acts of the late 1990s and early 2000s.