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May 24, 2005

Teenage Fanclub Return

Scottish rockers to tour U.S. after "Man-Made" release
June 8, 2004

Trashcan Sinatras Lift Off

Scottish band to release new album in August
October 11, 1997

Teenage Fanclub Postpones U.S. Tour
June 13, 1997

Teenage Fanclub To Tour With Radiohead

Teenage Fanclub To Tour With Radiohead

Man-Made

For a moment in the early Nineties, when Teenage Fanclub's major-label debut, Bandwagonesque, hit modern-rock airwaves on the heels of Nirvana's Nevermind, the Scottish band seemed poised to ride the grunge rocket into the hearts and minds of America's youth. Instead the band jettisoned most of its...

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Ragged grunge and delicate pop songcraft met on these Glaswegians' breakthrough 1991 album, Bandwagonesque, making them seem, at the time, a sort of mild Scottish analogue to Nirvana. But the similarity turned out to be only riff-deep: Soon Teenage Fanclub dropped the noisy haze and concentrated on the simple clarity of Byrds-y, Big Star-y guitar pop. The group's three songwriters, Norman Blake,...

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