Suede will release Antidepressants, its tenth studio album, in early September while Oasis stages a massive 2025 stadium tour culminating at the Rose Bowl. The band is known in the U.S. as London Suede because of a decades-old legal dispute. Suede's 1992 single "The Drowners" helped ignite Britpop, sparking a major resurgence of British rock and influencing a new generation of bands while projecting British cultural influence abroad. The 1993 debut paired anthemic guitar lines with intimate British portraits of life and became the fastest-selling debut in British history. Brett Anderson reintroduced theatricality and glamour to the scene.
That assumption will be tested on Sept. 6, when Oasis plays the Rose Bowl, one of its first U.S. shows in more than two decades and part of what's being billed as the biggest rock tour of 2025. Ninety thousand fans are expected to show up in Pasadena for the Gallagher brothers' brash, sentimental version of Britishness - the stadium-sized equivalent of a pub on Santa Monica Boulevard. The day before, five thousand miles away, Suede will release "Antidepressants," its 10th studio album.
In the U.S., the band goes by the London Suede, thanks to a decades-old legal dispute with an American folk singer. That name is more likely to elicit polite recognition than the ecstatic nostalgia Oasis still inspires. But in Britain, Suede was the spark. Its 1992 single, "The Drowners," ignited what would become Britpop, the most significant resurgence of British rock since Beatlemania, paving the way for a new generation of bands and projecting British soft power abroad.
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