Teenage Fanclub News

Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub): December 15, 2012 Maxwell’s – FLAC/MP3/Streaming

Teenage Fanclub is one of those "90s bands" that has taken on a more mythical quality in its comeback years than what it enjoyed during the first part of their career.

Yo La Tengo ended Hanukkah 2012 run at Maxwell's (check out what they played & who else played each night)

We opened night eight with "Ohm" (recorded by John McEntire on YLT's forthcoming Fade record).

INTERVIEW: The Darkness

As we reported back in May, The Darkness, the UK's finest contemporary exponents of straight-up rock n' roll, pyrotechnic fretwork and tight trousers have finished a new album.

Stretching Out : Best Fit meets Gerard Love of Lightships / Teenage Fanclub

Gerard Love is known for being one-third of one of the finest song writing triptychs of the past 20 years through his role in the enduring and wonderful Teenage Fanclub.

Members of REM, Hot Chip, The Raconteurs, Teenage Fanclub to take part in Big Star tribute night

A host of musicians are set to take part in a concert paying tribute to US guitar pop band Big Star and their third album, 'Sister Lovers', which was released in 1978 but recorded in 1974.

Lightships - Electric Cables

Behind the first album from Lightships is Gerard Love, a man that many people will know as the bassist and frequent singer/songwriter from Teenage Fanclub.

Lightships - Electric Cables

For many, Teenage Fanclub will forever be one of rock's most serially under-sung talents.

Review of Lightships’ Electric Cables

2010′s Shadows was just their third effort in the 21st century, assuming you count 2000 as part of this millenium – is that despite having three superb songwriters in their ranks, they just work very, very slowly; if this is true, then clearly bassist Gerard Love isn't the limiting factor.

Adam Duritz From Counting Crows Discusses The New Album, Live Gigs & Internet Promotion ...

First of all, if you could take us right back to the beginning.

Lightships: Lightships

Twenty years ago this past February, Teenage Fanclub made their North American network television debut on Saturday Night Live , in an episode hosted, fittingly, by 90210 heartthrob Jason Priestley.

Lightships – Electric Cables: exclusive album stream

Gerard Love, singer, songwriter and bassist with Teenage Fanclub – which is another way of saying " indie rock god" – has gone and made a record under the alias Lightships.

teenage fanclub: the black sessions

top of the evening! hope everyone had just the most loveliest of weeks. shit, i know i did! or maybe not really, or it was fine, or just there. i havent decided. i did learn today that i have a sinus infection and a deviated septum. yay for genetics! dont think i have brought this up, but i have not been able to hear for the past month. well, i can hear, but its very muffled. so, being the proactive person i am, i went out and spent about 30 bucks on shit that would, if worked as advertised, unclog my ears. well, as it turns out after visiting the ent, ear, nose and throat, doc today, my ears are not clogged at all. in fact they are all clear. its the sinus infection that is causing them to be the way they are. son of a bitch! i have wasted money on a lot of stupid shit in my day, but i hate that i actually was trying to waste my money on something good and it was all for nothing. now, i have to take steroids, some nasal spray and antibiotics for ten days. no drinking for me. again, son of a bitch! oh, and the kicker of all this is that its these damn cats thats inflicting most of this. the cats that i cant stand to begin with. i know ya'll dont care about my ailments but figured i would throw it out there for my own therapeutic reasons. anyway, like the headline says this here is teenage fanclub's black session which was recorded in paris on 11.16.93.

News round up - w/e 21 Jan 2012

Emeli Sande has released a video for her single 'Next To Me', which will be released on 13 February, the same day as her debut album.

Gerard Love Forms New Project

Teenage Fanclub songwriter Gerard Love has formed a new project using the name Lightships.

Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque

The pop-quiz fact everyone seems to know about the Glaswegians' 1991 album is that Spin magazine anointed it the best of the year, ahead of Nirvana's Nevermind , My Bloody Valentine's Loveless , Primal Scream's Screamadelica and REM's Out of Time.

Awesome Album Covers: Teenage Fanclub And “Bandwagonesque”

While many of the most popular UK bands of the mid-'90′s were jumping onto same bandwagon as Happy Mondays – that is, creating collages of music tuned for the rock stage and the night club — Teenage Fanclub stuck to their classic rock rootsiness.

Twenty Years On: Teenage Fanclub's Bandwagonesque Revisited

Over the years, it's likely that few people really care or remember what album Spin magazine crown as their release of the year.

A Tribe Called Quest, American Music Club, Del the Funkyy Homosapien, Drive Like Jehu, Gang Starr, Pixies, Primal Scream, Slowdive, The Jesus Lizard: Quarantining The Past: Ten (Other) Great Albums From 1991

'Nevermind Ten' for a minute, there are other great albums turning 20 this year.

teenage fanclub live at the paradiso, 11.20.95

full disclosure. my family and i are in a really bad place, financially, probably like most of america. we are not special, i understand this. ive had to sell off my camera, which i loved dearly, my wife's bike, etc just to try and pay bills. so for the next few months i am gonna have to depend on the generosity of strangers to help foot some of the 80 dollar a month bill, meaning hopefully some of you, to help this joint stay open. you dont owe me anything, another thing i understand but any consideration in donating would be greatly appreciated. all donations will go directly back into the site and not to buy me cigarettes, in case you were wondering.

Teenage Fanclub – Deep Fried Fanclub

It has become de rigueur with young up and coming bands to name drop Scottish indie legends Teenage Fanclub , and NME favourites Yuck have gone as far as taking their template and reselling it to the 21st century indie masses.

Teenage Fanclub Rerelease Announced

Ms Guðmundsdóttir teams up with director Michel Gondry again.

teenage fanclub peel session, 1991

good saturday evening to you all. most of my day has been spent either a. sleeping or b. playing just cause 2, which is a pretty cool game but the controls are a little wonky. just got done playing crysis 2, which was pretty damn awesome, imo. yes, i play video games. little known fact about yours truly. teenage fanclub is one band that i have never gotten the pleasure of seeing live, and is def in my top 5 bands that i need to see live, someday, hopefully. although, as i am typing this i feel like i may have back in the early 90s at the metro in chicago. i dont think i have, but again something is telling me i have. anyone else go through this kinda shit? its hell getting old… you can buy this via amazon for either a penny, used, or 80 bucks new. if you do buy it, it is packaged with a frank black peel session. so it may be worth it, at least for the penny. *edit: that peel session i linked to via amazon is actually frank black w/ teenage fanclub, which could be pretty awesome.

Teenage Fanclub – Sometimes I Don’t Need To Believe In Anything

I'm almost sick of talking about how Teenage Fanclub's star quality has been on the wane.

Norman Blake (Jonny) :: The AD Interview

Norman Blake is a well-known name to people who love their power pop.

Teenage Fanclub /// “December” ///...

Live Review: Teenage Fanclub and the Vaselines with the Radar Brothers at 9:30 Club, Washington DC – 2nd October 2010

A mate described opening band the Radar Brothers as 'Americana'.

Teenage Fanclub in Minneapolis

Greetings from the land of the Hold Steady, The Replacements, Prince, The Jayhawks, Mason Jennings, and Semisonic.