The Vaselines are on a roll. Two albums in four years already makes this run more prolific than their late-'80s flourish. That burst was so short-lived the band may well have been lost to history if ...

The Vaselines, most famous for lending Nirvana's Kurt Cobain several of their songs, made a rare live appearance in the Uncut Arena at Latitude Festival tonight (Sunday July 19). The cult pop band's ...

The Vaselines played the Doug Fir on Monday, Jan. 26. (The Vaselines) Earlier this month, a scratchy recording of a 25-year-old show at Portland's Satyricon popped up briefly briefly on YouTube.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Formed in 1987 in Glasgow, Scotland, The Vaselines started out, as so many groups do, as an obscure cult band. In fact, its biggest claim to fame was that rock icon Kurt Cobain ...

When The Vaselines split up, singer and guitarist Eugene Kelly thought it was all over for the Glasgow band. Then one of the most famous groups in music history started playing their music. Kelly and ...

When Frances McKee and Eugene Kelly took the stage to “Son of a Gun” on the last night of their reunion tour, I got choked up, to my surprise. I haven’t dug out my copy of The Way of the Vaselines: A ...

When Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee reformed the Vaselines in 2008, it was just to play a couple festivals. Then, the band announced the release of an all-encompassing, definitive compilation, in the ...

We have a special theme on Under the Radar’s website this week which we’re simply calling Scotland Week. All throughout the week we will be posting interviews, reviews, lists, and blog posts relating ...

Influential Scottish indie heroes the Vaselines are next on deck to get the full reissue treatment courtesy of Sub Pop. Come May 5, the Seattle label will release Enter the Vaselines, a "definitive ...

Was it a given that you’d do Sex with an X with Sub Pop? You’ve also had a history with Calvin Johnson’s K Records, but most people automatically attribute Vaselines with Sub Pop. I think because Sub ...

The Vaselines are one-quarter jokesters, another quarter dry sarcastic wit, and all the rest, rough-hewn indie-pop gold — some imperfect alloy of garage, twee, and power pop, famously beloved (and ...