Teenage Fanclub, road-weary but game, played a career-spanning set, sampling from nine of their 10 albums, at the Teragram Ballroom. The present sounded just as fine at 1991 did.
Also on Wednesday: Fruit Bats/Vetiver, Meg Mac, 8mm, Shook Twins, JJUUJJUU, Cesar Caez, Charming Liars, Lili Kendall, Blues Traveler, Men I Trust
Also on Tuesday: Gavin James, Worn-Tin, LittleDNGR, Anemone, Gryffin, Coeur de Pirate, Benny Sings, Hamzaa, V Torres, Henry Wolfe, MNEK, Veneer, Crumb, Mamalarky
Incoming: Crumb, Royal Teeth, Seun Kuti, Teenage Fanclub, Mazzy Star, Gryffin, Worn-Tin, Roy Ayers, Fruit Bats, Meg Mac, Talker, Ladytron, Robert DeLong, Saves the Day, Peter Murphy, Shannon Shaw, Waxahatchee, Bob Mould, Sharon Van Etten, Dorothy, Jungle, Bane’s World, Jesse Boykins III, Between the Buried & Me, the Wood Brothers, the Chills
Also on Friday: Yellowcard, MUSINK, Flogging Molly, Thao, Kyle McNeill, BOYTOY, the Electric West, Susy Sun, We the Kings, Jungle Fire
Incoming: Starry Nites Festival, Musink, Fucked Up, Aquilo, Hurray for the Riff Raff, the Menzingers, Black Atlass, Dua Lipa, Meat Puppets, Shiny Toy Guns, Van Morrison, Teenage Fanclub, Flogging Molly, Yellowcard, Wu-Tang Clan, Steve Aoki, Rickie Lee Jones
Cat Power and Teenage Fanclub join Alan Parsons Project, the Kills, the Dandy Warhols and She Wants Revenge at the first-year Starry Nites Festival.
[My overall Top 20 albums in a year informed by a mountain of good music and an avalanche of trying times, based purely on how much they resonated with me. I was lucky this year to have seen all but 4 of these artists live. With my 4-word reviews:] 1. Arcade Fire, “The Suburbs.” Sonically […]
There’s no propriety in writing a serious review of a show that turned into my birthday celebration. Besides, after two decades and still at the top of their game, Scottish rockers Teenage Fanclub would almost have to try mount a show I considered lousy. On Monday at the El Rey, the Scotsmen played loud and […]
Top 1 show for a special occasion if were in charge of the special occasion: ‣ Teenage Fanclub and this blogger go way back. Not quite to when I was teenage, but I got “Bandwagonesque” early and never hopped off. Tonight, the Scottish quintet visits the El Rey Theatre behind their new album “Shadows,” supported […]
