Brooklyn Vegan — Plus: Teenage Fanclub, The Scientists, Dent May/Shannon Lay, Thursday, Killy, Sarah Shook, Eleanor Friedberger, Ulrika Spacek, The Goon Sax, and more newly-announced tours.
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Brooklyn Vegan — This week in the Indie Basement: some long-overdue Teenage Fanclub vinyl reissues, the return of Australian post-punk/proto-grunge band The Scientists, a new EP from Melbourne's Fall-esque The Shifters, a great new EP from UK band Ulrika Spacek ... more info
NME —
The alternative outfit are taking us back to the '90s
Teenage Fanclub are reissuing five of their classic albums on vinyl – and are set to perform special shows across …Continue reading »
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Five albums from Badwagonesque to Howdy! revisited live and on record
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Five albums from Badwagonesque to Howdy! revisited live and on record
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Guardian Music — (Warner Bros/YALA!) The last time major labels were signing amiable, jangly indie bands came in the aftermath of Creation Records’s dissolution, when Columbia Records attempted to turn Teenage Fanclub’s Britpop-adjacent success into hot... more info
Sweeping The Nation — Britpop Now! Yeah! There is a little of that, judiciously selected, in our 1995 roundup but also a reminder that very interesting things were happening just out of that sightline both in the fringes and in dance areas and American lo-fi (Number One C... more info
L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Did the universe need this? Probably not. But fans of Death Cab for Cutie and Teenage Fanclub -- and jangly, guitar-based indie pop in general -- will be pleased to have it. Willed into being by the proudly fussy music-and-food website Turntable Kitc... more info
Stereogum — For Turntable Kitchen's monthly vinyl subscription serious Sounds Delicious, in which one artist covers an entire album by another artist, Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard took on Teenage Fanclub's 1991 classic Bandwagonesque, the sighing jan... more info
Stereogum — It shouldn't surprise anyone that Ben Gibbard's favorite band is Teenage Fanclub, another ostensibly alt-rock-identified bunch of formalist squares whose records are as crafty and delicately layered as Death Cab For Cutie's. But his new solo take on ... more info
KEXP Seattle — Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard announced in December that he was covering Teenage Fanclub‘s 1991 album Bandwagonesque in its entirety. Today, he released his version of “The Concept.” Gibbard explained why he was covering that particular a... more info