“Oasis are the last great, true, rock and roll band,” Allegra Weingarten of momma.band says. This is not an overstatement. For a lot of American teenagers, Oasis served as the perfect rags-to-riches story — a bunch of working-class lads from Manchester who managed to claw their way out with guitars, larger-than-life choruses, and stadium-ready melodies. It is the quintessential fairytale about how rock music can quite literally save you that even resonated with hardcore punks. “I thought I was too punk to like Oasis until it dawned on me that they’re one of the most punk bands of all time,” hotlinetnt bassist Haylen Trammel says. “Maybe not musically, but their attitude. Everything about them is straight-up punk rock.”⁠ ⁠ In the 15 years between the band’s break-up and their gargantuan reunion shows kicking off in July, a new generation of young Anglophiles have established themselves as some of today’s most exciting guitar bands and taken up the mantle that Oasis left behind. It’s eas...