The Charlatans
For a long time, the Charlatans were seen as Madchester's second-best band—the band that failed to grab the culture's zeitgeist like the Stone Roses or Happy Mondays' crazy genre-bending. They were undoubtedly more conventional than any of their colleagues. The Charlatans built on a Stonesy basis by incorporating dance-oriented rhythms and layers of psychedelic organs from the 1960's. The band... read full bio