Known stateside as Kurt Cobain’s favorite band, Scottish rockers the Vaselines finally made their US debut Wednesday—18 years after their only release. To a small, adoring, and cultish crowd, the show was “the second coming of Jesus, John Lennon, and Ian Curtis, all at once," writes Marlow Riley in a Radar review of one of the group's three US club dates.
Backed by members of Belle & Sebastian, their "lazy mix of warped indie-folk, Velvet Underground-inspired garage rock, and one brilliantly emasculating dance-pop song" was as good as it was in the '90s. "Like the original incarnation of the Vaselines, it was a brief explosion of sharp, slacker melody that will be remembered forever.” The Vaselines finish up the brief visit at a festival tomorrow in Redmond, Wash. (More indie rock stories.)