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October 2022

  • L-R: Sheridan Riley, Abbey Blackwell, Molly Rankin, Alec O’Hanley, Kerri MacLellan

    Alvvays’ Molly Rankin: ‘We drive people crazy with the things that we want’

    After a five year wait, the Canadian indie-rock band have returned with Blue Rev, one of the best records of the year. Their lead singer and guitarist reflects on perfectionism, Morrissey fandom and creating a sound that’s ‘strange and familiar’

May 2021

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    The month's best album reviews
    Marianne Faithfull, AJ Tracey and more: May’s best album reviews

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    Teenage Fanclub: Endless Arcade review – heartbreak and joy

April 2021

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    Teenage kicks
    Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake: ‘My first band was the Spanking Newts’

    Back with a new album, the Fannies frontman remembers his teenage years, from the kindness of the Specials to selling guitar strings to John Martyn – and trying to impress with his ice-skating skills

March 2021

  • Trainspotting’s Ewen Bremner in Creation Stories, about record label supremo Alan McGee.

    Creation Stories review – mythmaking and megalomania in likable Alan McGee biopic

    Irvine Welsh’s cracking adaption of an autobiography by the ‘President of Pop’ flashes from My Bloody Valentine to his discovery of Oasis

August 2019

  • Fun ahoy! … Belle and Sebastian (Stuart Murdoch fourth from right) and fans on the indie festival cruise aboard the Norwegian Pearl.

    All bands on deck: aboard the Belle and Sebastian Med and music cruise

  • Advised to drink Jack Daniel’s … Teenage Fanclub.

    How we made
    Teenage Fanclub: how we made Bandwagonesque

November 2018

  • Reliably wry ... Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub.

    Teenage Fanclub review – classic lineup bids farewell with glorious nostalgia trip

    With founder member Gerard Love leaving after this tour, Teenage Fanclub spent three nights revisiting the bubblegum glory of their classic years

May 2018

  • The Jesus and Mary Chain: Douglas Hart, Jim Reid and William Reid.

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    The greatest Scottish indie bands – ranked!

    With five beloved Teenage Fanclub albums coming back around on vinyl this summer, we look at the best of the band’s Scottish indie brethren

July 2017

  • Teenage Fanclub in Chicago, July 1992.

    Ben Gibbard on Teenage Fanclub: 'A reminder of beauty in the world'

    The Death Cab for Cutie singer has rerecorded Bandwagonesque, Teenage Fanclub’s 1991 album. How did an ‘incredibly romantic’ Seattle teenager get hung up on four blokes from Scotland?

December 2016

  • ‘Even-handed’: Norman Blake takes his turn with Teenage Fanclub in Cambridge.

    Teenage Fanclub review – mellow fellows

    Scotland’s indie veterans play nice, as ever. But you can’t help wishing for just a little Teenage angst…

September 2016

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    Teenage Fanclub: Here review – heart-tugging reacquaintance

  • Teenage Fanclub 2016 (l-r): Dave McGowan, Gerry Love, Raymond McGinley, Norman Blake, Francis Macdonald.

    Teenage Fanclub: ‘We were never famous, so we’re still getting old’

July 2016

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    Teenage Fanclub – watch the new video from a group you can grow old with

    Have a look at the promo for I’m in Love, the first single from the Scottish veterans’ new album

March 2016

  • Gerry Love and Norman Blake (with ‘difficult’ glockenspiel) onstage in 2010.

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    Teenage Fanclub – 10 of the best

    With the beloved Scottish band newly announced for this year’s End of the Road festival, we cast an eye over their delicious back catalogue

September 2015

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    Cult heroes: Joe McAlinden searches for beauty in the matter-of-fact

    His band Superstar never quite lived up to their name, despite being covered by Rod Stewart. Now, 30 years on, he returns as Linden, and he’s lost none of his melodic gift

August 2014

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    Teenage Fanclub review – harmonies exceptional enough to suggest telepathy

  • New Mendicants

    Music blog
    Why there's comfort in the middle-aged music of the New Mendicants

March 2014

  • Steve Mason

    Scottish independence: what the musicians think

    We asked you for your suggestions for the music site, and this week we’re carrying daily blogs based on your ideas. Today, Scottish musicians such as Steve Mason, the Pictish Trail and Django Django share their thoughts on the upcoming referendum

June 2012

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    The Guardian's Music Podcast
    Music Weekly podcast: Teenage Fanclub's Gerry Love and Soundway Records

    Bassist Gerry Love on his solo outing, stunning beats from Africa and a Singles Club with a twist

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