

The Lemonheads have announced the 2024 “It’s a Shame About Come On Feel” tour, a 24-date US tour where the band will play their respective 1992 and 1993 albums, It’s a Shame About Ray and Come On Feel the Lemonheads, in full.
The run begins in late August with a show at Cannery Hall in Nashville, and continues with dates in New York City, Pittsburgh, Washington D.C., Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, Minneapolis, and more throughout September. The tour concludes on September 28th in Columbus Ohio; see the full list of tour dates below.
Get The Lemonheads Tickets Here
Tickets to The Lemonheads’ “It’s a Shame About Come On Feel” tour will be available beginning Friday, June 28th at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster or via the band’s website.
Once tickets are on sale, fans can look for deals or get tickets to sold-out shows via StubHub,...
The run begins in late August with a show at Cannery Hall in Nashville, and continues with dates in New York City, Pittsburgh, Washington D.C., Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, Minneapolis, and more throughout September. The tour concludes on September 28th in Columbus Ohio; see the full list of tour dates below.
Get The Lemonheads Tickets Here
Tickets to The Lemonheads’ “It’s a Shame About Come On Feel” tour will be available beginning Friday, June 28th at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster or via the band’s website.
Once tickets are on sale, fans can look for deals or get tickets to sold-out shows via StubHub,...
- 6/26/2024
- by Paolo Ragusa
- Consequence - Music


The Lemonheads are back with a new single titled “Fear of Living,” the band’s first new music since 2006. Stream it below.
Frontman Evan Dando played all of the instruments on the power pop track, which was recorded and produced by Apollo Nove at A9 Audio in São Paulo, Brasil. “Fear of Living” features a catchy guitar riff and carpe diem lyrics from Dando, who sings, “Life is short and unforgiving/ I only fear the living.”
In a statement, Dando recalled co-writing the song with the late Dan Lardner of Qty: “I met with Dan in 2022, he sent me ‘Fear Of Living,’ I added some riffs and things, and he said he liked it. I shall miss you, Dear Prince, ever the most dignified person in the room.”
According to a press release, Dando is currently working on more new Lemonheads music. In the meantime, the group will...
Frontman Evan Dando played all of the instruments on the power pop track, which was recorded and produced by Apollo Nove at A9 Audio in São Paulo, Brasil. “Fear of Living” features a catchy guitar riff and carpe diem lyrics from Dando, who sings, “Life is short and unforgiving/ I only fear the living.”
In a statement, Dando recalled co-writing the song with the late Dan Lardner of Qty: “I met with Dan in 2022, he sent me ‘Fear Of Living,’ I added some riffs and things, and he said he liked it. I shall miss you, Dear Prince, ever the most dignified person in the room.”
According to a press release, Dando is currently working on more new Lemonheads music. In the meantime, the group will...
- 11/15/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music


Nirvana’s third and final album, In Utero, celebrated its 30th anniversary last month. To mark the occasion, surviving band members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl, along with In Utero producer Steve Albini, sat down with Conan O’Brien for an hour-long conversation on his Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast.
The trio spoke at length about the In Utero recording process and comparisons to Nevermind; how they killed time in the studio by prank calling Gene Simmons, Evan Dando, and Eddie Vedder; the record label’s reaction to In Utero; and the depths of Kurt Cobain’s lyricism. For Nirvana geeks, the conversation won’t provide much in the way of new revelations, but it’s still a thrill hearing the three guys back in the same room together.
In a teaser clip released ahead of the full podcast episode, Novoselic, Grohl, and Albini also spoke about Nirvana’s dizzying...
The trio spoke at length about the In Utero recording process and comparisons to Nevermind; how they killed time in the studio by prank calling Gene Simmons, Evan Dando, and Eddie Vedder; the record label’s reaction to In Utero; and the depths of Kurt Cobain’s lyricism. For Nirvana geeks, the conversation won’t provide much in the way of new revelations, but it’s still a thrill hearing the three guys back in the same room together.
In a teaser clip released ahead of the full podcast episode, Novoselic, Grohl, and Albini also spoke about Nirvana’s dizzying...
- 10/23/2023
- by Scoop Harrison
- Consequence - Music


The Lemonheads’ classic Come On Feel The Lemonheads is turning 30 years old this year, and Evan Dando and company are celebrating the occasion with an anniversary reissue of the 1993 record.
The 30th anniversary reissue of Come On Feel will boast the original album’s 15-song tracklist along with a second disc featuring unreleased demos, rarities, and more. You’ll hear The Lemonheads’ acoustic versions of tracks like “Big Gay Heart” and “Into Your Arms,” plus covers of songs by Victoria Williams, Buddy Holly, and The Flying Burrito Brothers, plus the Cole Porter standard “Miss Otis Regrets.” As a preview, you can stream an alternative recording of “Being Around” and a cover of Holly’s “Learning the Game” now.
Come On Feel (30th Anniversary Edition) will be available on standard double-cd and double-lp formats, as well as various limited runs, including colored vinyl and “bookback” editions. Pre-orders are ongoing.
Listen to...
The 30th anniversary reissue of Come On Feel will boast the original album’s 15-song tracklist along with a second disc featuring unreleased demos, rarities, and more. You’ll hear The Lemonheads’ acoustic versions of tracks like “Big Gay Heart” and “Into Your Arms,” plus covers of songs by Victoria Williams, Buddy Holly, and The Flying Burrito Brothers, plus the Cole Porter standard “Miss Otis Regrets.” As a preview, you can stream an alternative recording of “Being Around” and a cover of Holly’s “Learning the Game” now.
Come On Feel (30th Anniversary Edition) will be available on standard double-cd and double-lp formats, as well as various limited runs, including colored vinyl and “bookback” editions. Pre-orders are ongoing.
Listen to...
- 3/13/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music


Courtney Love made a surprise appearance during the Lemonheads’ show at Roundhouse in London on Friday, where she joined the band to perform “Into Your Arms.”
Before they launched into the song — which appeared on the band’s 1993 LP, Come on Feel the Lemonheads — Love paid homage to her longtime friend, the band’s frontman Evan Dando, whom she called her “one constant” adding that he “doesn’t have a fucking bad bone in his body.”
Prior to the performance, Love explained that she would end her Hole sets in...
Before they launched into the song — which appeared on the band’s 1993 LP, Come on Feel the Lemonheads — Love paid homage to her longtime friend, the band’s frontman Evan Dando, whom she called her “one constant” adding that he “doesn’t have a fucking bad bone in his body.”
Prior to the performance, Love explained that she would end her Hole sets in...
- 10/1/2022
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com


Evan Dando — Lemonheads frontman, one-time alternative rock “it” boy, and notorious hedonist whose career was the very definition of sex, drugs, and rock & roll — is set to tell his life story in an upcoming memoir.
Titled Rumors of My Demise — a tongue-in-cheek nod to the seeming inevitableness of Dando’s premature death in the Nineties — the tome tracks the singer’s wild, excessive life.
“My life is a muddy river. I thought I should add more dirt,” Dando said in a statement of his memoir, which he co-wrote with music writer Jim Ruland.
Titled Rumors of My Demise — a tongue-in-cheek nod to the seeming inevitableness of Dando’s premature death in the Nineties — the tome tracks the singer’s wild, excessive life.
“My life is a muddy river. I thought I should add more dirt,” Dando said in a statement of his memoir, which he co-wrote with music writer Jim Ruland.
- 10/26/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com


The Lemonheads will rerelease their major-label debut, Lovey, as a deluxe reissue to celebrate the 1990 album’s 30th anniversary.
Following a trio of ramshackle punk albums on Taang! Records, Lovey — the Lemonheads’ first album on Atlantic Records — marked Evan Dando and Co.’s shift toward alternative rock before the group broke out with 1992’s It’s a Shame About Ray. Lovey is also the last Lemonheads LP to feature founding bassist-turned-filmmaker Jesse Peretz.
The Lovey reissue, released via Fire Records as a two-cd or two-lp set, features the original album...
Following a trio of ramshackle punk albums on Taang! Records, Lovey — the Lemonheads’ first album on Atlantic Records — marked Evan Dando and Co.’s shift toward alternative rock before the group broke out with 1992’s It’s a Shame About Ray. Lovey is also the last Lemonheads LP to feature founding bassist-turned-filmmaker Jesse Peretz.
The Lovey reissue, released via Fire Records as a two-cd or two-lp set, features the original album...
- 8/13/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com


The Lemonheads announced they will tour North America this spring in support of their upcoming covers album, Varshons 2, which comes out February 8th. The Replacements’ Tommy Stinson will join Evan Dando and company, providing guest support for all 33 dates. The tour begins May 2nd in Fairfield, Connecticut and ends June 15th in Boston. Tickets go on sale Friday, February 8th at 1 p.m. Eastern Time.
The Lemonheads teased the news, releasing one of the new album’s tracks: a marginally updated version of the psych-pop band GiveGoods’ song “Unfamiliar,” which...
The Lemonheads teased the news, releasing one of the new album’s tracks: a marginally updated version of the psych-pop band GiveGoods’ song “Unfamiliar,” which...
- 2/5/2019
- by Brandon Kahn
- Rollingstone.com


Nearly a decade after the Lemonheads released Varshons, Evan Dando’s outfit will return with Varshons 2, the follow-up to their 2009 covers LP.
Lemonheads tackle songs originally by the likes of Eagles (“Take It Easy”), Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (“Straight to You”), John Prine (“Speed of the Sound of Loneliness”) and Lucinda Williams (“Abandoned”) on Varshons 2, which arrives February 8th. Dando and company also shared the first single from the LP, an autumnal spin on Yo La Tengo’s Fakebook cut “Can’t Forget.”
Varshons 2, available to pre-order now, also...
Lemonheads tackle songs originally by the likes of Eagles (“Take It Easy”), Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (“Straight to You”), John Prine (“Speed of the Sound of Loneliness”) and Lucinda Williams (“Abandoned”) on Varshons 2, which arrives February 8th. Dando and company also shared the first single from the LP, an autumnal spin on Yo La Tengo’s Fakebook cut “Can’t Forget.”
Varshons 2, available to pre-order now, also...
- 10/29/2018
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
2018 has been a game-changing year for Netflix’s original film output, and its October release slate hammers that home in a big way. After months of festival hype, the streaming giant’s subscribers will finally get to see a handful of the very best movies the company has released thus far. From Tamara Jenkins’ tender and hilarious “Private Life,” to Sandi Tan’s unclassifiable meta-doc “Shirkers,” Sara Colangelo’s unnerving remake of “The Kindergarten Teacher” (featuring a career-best performance by Maggie Gyllenhaal), and Timo Tjahjanto’s brutal Indonesian beat-em-up “The Night Comes for Us,” Netflix is earning your $10.99 this month.
And that’s not all: In addition to that eclectic mix of exciting new films, the service is also bolstering their roster with a few certified classics, from the iconic ’90s comedy “Empire Records” to Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in America” (a film that some say was...
And that’s not all: In addition to that eclectic mix of exciting new films, the service is also bolstering their roster with a few certified classics, from the iconic ’90s comedy “Empire Records” to Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in America” (a film that some say was...
- 10/1/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire

In the fall of 1968, Wayne Kramer saw his dreams come true when Elektra Records came to Detroit and signed his band, the MC5. “This was the deal I was looking for,” he writes in his new memoir The Hard Stuff, “with a very hip label that had pockets deep enough to market the band properly.” With a strong creative and performing nucleus in vocalist Rob Tyner and the double guitar team of Kramer and Fred “Sonic” Smith, greatness seemed to be waiting. Instead, their embrace of radical politics put the...
- 8/24/2018
- by Fred Goodman
- Rollingstone.com
It was 20 years ago today.
No, it’s nothing about “Sgt. Pepper”, but rather two decades exactly since Lucas, A.J, Cory and the gang banded together to save Empire Records.
For those unfamiliar, “The Empire” was one of the last great vestiges of independent music ownership and the scene of one of the great cult classics of the 1990s. The unfamiliar can be excused, however, since the film was, by and large, a failure. It grossed just over $300,000 in the States and was gone from theatres just two weeks after its late 1995 release. So, why the fuss?
It gained popularity with a certain age group – pretty much anyone currently in their 30s – thanks to early performances from some would be stars (Liv Tyler and Renee Zellweger most notably) and its all-timer of a soundtrack.
But why celebrate 20 years of the cult classic in April instead of on its Sept.
No, it’s nothing about “Sgt. Pepper”, but rather two decades exactly since Lucas, A.J, Cory and the gang banded together to save Empire Records.
For those unfamiliar, “The Empire” was one of the last great vestiges of independent music ownership and the scene of one of the great cult classics of the 1990s. The unfamiliar can be excused, however, since the film was, by and large, a failure. It grossed just over $300,000 in the States and was gone from theatres just two weeks after its late 1995 release. So, why the fuss?
It gained popularity with a certain age group – pretty much anyone currently in their 30s – thanks to early performances from some would be stars (Liv Tyler and Renee Zellweger most notably) and its all-timer of a soundtrack.
But why celebrate 20 years of the cult classic in April instead of on its Sept.
- 4/8/2015
- by Shane McNeil
- Cineplex


A few days ago, Relativity Music Group released the soundtrack to Paranorman, which is out in theaters today. The soundtrack is from singer-songwriter Jon Brion, and is streaming all week on AOL Music and MSN Music and can be purchased from iTunes here. We have the press release straight from Relativity Music below:
Los Angeles, CA - August 14th: The soundtrack to ParaNorman by famed composer, record producer, and singer-songwriter Jon Brion is available today, August 14th from Relativity Music Group. The new stop-motion animated comedy thriller, will be released in theaters everywhere on Friday, August 17th. The soundtrack is streaming all week on AOL Music and MSN Music and is available for purchase on iTunes here: http://bit.ly/ParaNormanITUNES.
When a small town comes under siege by zombies, who can it call? “Norman!” From Focus Features and Laika, the companies behind the Academy Award-nominated animated feature Coraline, comes the comedy thriller ParaNorman.
Los Angeles, CA - August 14th: The soundtrack to ParaNorman by famed composer, record producer, and singer-songwriter Jon Brion is available today, August 14th from Relativity Music Group. The new stop-motion animated comedy thriller, will be released in theaters everywhere on Friday, August 17th. The soundtrack is streaming all week on AOL Music and MSN Music and is available for purchase on iTunes here: http://bit.ly/ParaNormanITUNES.
When a small town comes under siege by zombies, who can it call? “Norman!” From Focus Features and Laika, the companies behind the Academy Award-nominated animated feature Coraline, comes the comedy thriller ParaNorman.
- 8/17/2012
- by Andy Greene
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
If there are any filmmakers who’ve worked their way through record stores as much as folks like Quentin Tarantino or even Wes Anderson, it would have to be John Hughes and Allan Moyle. So perhaps it’s no real surprise that on annual Record Store Day, where you can come out and support your local independent record stores on April 21st this year, there will be soundtrack reissues from both filmmakers.
First is Hughes’ “The Breakfast Club,” which will surely find many record enthusiasts doing some Judd Hirsch-style fist pumping as they pick up their all-white 12-inch vinyl pressing of the album. It’s hard to capture an entire mood of a film with a single soundtrack, especially when that film lingers on a dreary Saturday spent in detention with a few high school students looking to find themselves like in “The Breakfast Club,” but between the seminal...
First is Hughes’ “The Breakfast Club,” which will surely find many record enthusiasts doing some Judd Hirsch-style fist pumping as they pick up their all-white 12-inch vinyl pressing of the album. It’s hard to capture an entire mood of a film with a single soundtrack, especially when that film lingers on a dreary Saturday spent in detention with a few high school students looking to find themselves like in “The Breakfast Club,” but between the seminal...
- 4/6/2012
- by Benjamin Wright
- The Playlist
If you happen to see Lemonheads founder Evan Dando today, go ahead and give the guy a hug. Do it for two reasons. First, he could probably use it. And secondly, it's his birthday today. The Boston-born indie rock icon is now 44 years old, and over those four decades and change he has cranked out some of the best jangle-and-mumble jams in indie rock history.
Dando formed the Lemonheads with friend Ben Deily in 1986. The group signed a deal with local label Taang! Records (which drove Dando to drop out of college) and recorded the albums Hate Your Friends, Creator and Lick. By 1989 they had generated something of a following, but Dando bolted the group for a short time, only to come back for a European tour.
By the time the band signed to a major label and released Lovey in 1990, Deily had left the band and they were on their way up.
Dando formed the Lemonheads with friend Ben Deily in 1986. The group signed a deal with local label Taang! Records (which drove Dando to drop out of college) and recorded the albums Hate Your Friends, Creator and Lick. By 1989 they had generated something of a following, but Dando bolted the group for a short time, only to come back for a European tour.
By the time the band signed to a major label and released Lovey in 1990, Deily had left the band and they were on their way up.
- 3/4/2011
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
Here are the Blu-ray and Netflix new releases of note for the week of January 11th.
Blu-ray New Releases:
Alpha and Omega
Add To Queue
Synopsis:
Come along on the ultimate road-trip adventure that will leave the whole family howling with laughter! When Kate, a take-charge "Alpha" wolf, and Humphrey, a laid-back "Omega" wolf, get snatched by park rangers and relocated halfway across the country, the two must set off on an incredible journey home! With the help of a goofy golfing goose and his quacky duck caddy, Kate and Humphrey won't let anything stop them - prickly porcupines, grumpy bears, even a speeding locomotive - from getting back to Jasper Park in time to help save their pack from rival wolves! And along the way, Kate and Humphrey learn that even though they are complete opposites, they make a pretty good team! It's a thousand miles of fun in...
Blu-ray New Releases:
Alpha and Omega
Add To Queue
Synopsis:
Come along on the ultimate road-trip adventure that will leave the whole family howling with laughter! When Kate, a take-charge "Alpha" wolf, and Humphrey, a laid-back "Omega" wolf, get snatched by park rangers and relocated halfway across the country, the two must set off on an incredible journey home! With the help of a goofy golfing goose and his quacky duck caddy, Kate and Humphrey won't let anything stop them - prickly porcupines, grumpy bears, even a speeding locomotive - from getting back to Jasper Park in time to help save their pack from rival wolves! And along the way, Kate and Humphrey learn that even though they are complete opposites, they make a pretty good team! It's a thousand miles of fun in...
- 1/11/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
With Tsr Buzz, you’ll find links to articles, videos and other random things that will help you waste your time just a little bit more.
Did the internet shut down this week? I’m having a hard time finding anything that’s not a best of list. Speaking of, Best of Cat Videos courtesy of Gawker. Patton Oswalt brings a call of arms for geek culture. I’m not sure I agree that Geek culture is dead (I think he just aged and what he liked as a kid became more mainstream) but it’s still good reading. Well, fine. If no one wants to make new, funny videos this week, I’ll have to find some old stuff to show. Here’s The Lemonheads video for “Luka” featuring a young, attractive, Evan Dando.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW9Pv0WT2K0
Finally, I have a new obsession.
Did the internet shut down this week? I’m having a hard time finding anything that’s not a best of list. Speaking of, Best of Cat Videos courtesy of Gawker. Patton Oswalt brings a call of arms for geek culture. I’m not sure I agree that Geek culture is dead (I think he just aged and what he liked as a kid became more mainstream) but it’s still good reading. Well, fine. If no one wants to make new, funny videos this week, I’ll have to find some old stuff to show. Here’s The Lemonheads video for “Luka” featuring a young, attractive, Evan Dando.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW9Pv0WT2K0
Finally, I have a new obsession.
- 12/30/2010
- by Megan Lehar
- The Scorecard Review
Oakland — Just in time for the holiday season, the Gravy has arrived.
Saint Misbehavin’: The Wavy Gravy Movie opens up in various theaters across America at the start of December. Wavy Gravy is an icon with an ever changing career. He’s gone from the legendary Merry Pranksters to the head of security at the original Woodstock to running a respected charity and finally achieving international greatness as a flavor of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. The many facets of his life are covered in the documentary directed by Michelle Esrick.
We had a chance to sit down for an extensive interview with Wavy Gravy and Michelle Esrick when the movie premiered at 2009’s Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.
This first part has him discuss getting drunk with Jack Kerouac (On the Road) and dropping acid at the Electric Acid Kool-Aid Tests. Ahhh good times.
Now we get...
Saint Misbehavin’: The Wavy Gravy Movie opens up in various theaters across America at the start of December. Wavy Gravy is an icon with an ever changing career. He’s gone from the legendary Merry Pranksters to the head of security at the original Woodstock to running a respected charity and finally achieving international greatness as a flavor of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. The many facets of his life are covered in the documentary directed by Michelle Esrick.
We had a chance to sit down for an extensive interview with Wavy Gravy and Michelle Esrick when the movie premiered at 2009’s Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.
This first part has him discuss getting drunk with Jack Kerouac (On the Road) and dropping acid at the Electric Acid Kool-Aid Tests. Ahhh good times.
Now we get...
- 12/3/2010
- by UncaScroogeMcD
Here's a fact that might not be shocking to close observers of the MTV Newsroom Blog: I have something of a fixation with the music of the 1990s. And I have a particular obsession with the soundtracks of that era, partially because I think the movies are interesting and partially because those soundtracks usually act as delightful little time capsules that express exactly where the zeitgeist was at the time (down to the month, usually). Plus, music was all over the place then, so the beginnings of nu-metal lived next to hippie dippie rock, post-grunge, post-riot grrrl, industrial, dance music and most everything in between (this was especially true of the late '90s — pre-millennium tension did strange things to people.
With that in mind, I got really excited when I came across Buzzfeed's list of the top 13 '90s soundtracks posted today. They touched on many of the best,...
With that in mind, I got really excited when I came across Buzzfeed's list of the top 13 '90s soundtracks posted today. They touched on many of the best,...
- 9/23/2010
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
If you have fond memories of mid-90s stalwarts The Lemonheads, you may want to book a flight to New York City immediately. Evan Dando and Juliana Hatfield, the group’s frontman and former bassist, announced today that they’d be taking the stage of local venue The Mercury Lounge to perform classic and new material along with a few covers on September 29 and 30.
"In the past when I worked with Evan,” sayeth the Juliana, “it was always in a strictly auxiliary capacity - backup singing, bass playing - but now that we will be on equal footing I think we could do a lot of damage. I've always thought that Evan was an underrated songwriter.....his good looks and antiestablishment attitude have overshadowed his skills." And, Evan reminisces "Juliana and I first met and started playing music together when we were 19. Since then Juliana has only gotten better and better.
"In the past when I worked with Evan,” sayeth the Juliana, “it was always in a strictly auxiliary capacity - backup singing, bass playing - but now that we will be on equal footing I think we could do a lot of damage. I've always thought that Evan was an underrated songwriter.....his good looks and antiestablishment attitude have overshadowed his skills." And, Evan reminisces "Juliana and I first met and started playing music together when we were 19. Since then Juliana has only gotten better and better.
- 9/14/2010
- by Wejo
- GeekTyrant
Pop music is a fickle mistress, and it's never certain exactly what will please whatever deity is in charge of who becomes a big deal and who doesn't. Back in 1992, things got really weird for Evan Dando, the frontman and primary songwriter for a ragtag little indie rock trio called the Lemonheads. They had gained a little bit of steam in the college rock community with four albums and a handful of EPs of shambling, workmanlike jangle pop. Then on this day in 1992, they released their fifth album It's a Shame About Ray, and everything got a little bit cagey.
Shortly after the release of It's a Shame About Ray, Dando and his band recorded a cover version of Simon and Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson" and released it as a single. It quickly became a huge hit on modern rock radio. Though it wasn't included on the original pressing, "Mrs.
Shortly after the release of It's a Shame About Ray, Dando and his band recorded a cover version of Simon and Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson" and released it as a single. It quickly became a huge hit on modern rock radio. Though it wasn't included on the original pressing, "Mrs.
- 6/2/2010
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
Lemonheads frontman Evan Dando has kind of always been into covers. His band’s rendition of Simon & Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson,” released as a single in 1992, was the introduction of the Lemonheads to many a fan. More recently, he and the rest of the band’s revamped crew released 11 of them on Varshons via Brooklyn-based The End Records last year, and that was before Smudge’s “No Backbone” made it onto their self-titled release in 2006....
- 5/27/2010
- Pastemagazine.com
Members of R.E.M., Meat Puppets, She & Him join the rest of Big Star to remember the late Chilton.
By James Montgomery
Alex Chilton
Photo: Frank Mullen/ Wireimage
Austin, Texas — It was unseasonably cold deep in the heart of Texas on Saturday night, as winds howled and low-hanging clouds swallowed up the moon. It was the kind of weather that seems to lend itself to mourning.
But inside venerable Austin blues bar Antone's, mourning wasn't on the menu (there were, however, tacos). Instead, friends, colleagues and disciples of the late Alex Chilton, who died earlier this week of an apparent heart attack, had gathered to pay tribute to the man and his music. And while there were a few tears shed, this was a night very much dedicated to celebration.
Originally scheduled as a South by Southwest closing concert by Chilton's influential power-pop band Big Star, the Antone's gig instead became a memorial show.
By James Montgomery
Alex Chilton
Photo: Frank Mullen/ Wireimage
Austin, Texas — It was unseasonably cold deep in the heart of Texas on Saturday night, as winds howled and low-hanging clouds swallowed up the moon. It was the kind of weather that seems to lend itself to mourning.
But inside venerable Austin blues bar Antone's, mourning wasn't on the menu (there were, however, tacos). Instead, friends, colleagues and disciples of the late Alex Chilton, who died earlier this week of an apparent heart attack, had gathered to pay tribute to the man and his music. And while there were a few tears shed, this was a night very much dedicated to celebration.
Originally scheduled as a South by Southwest closing concert by Chilton's influential power-pop band Big Star, the Antone's gig instead became a memorial show.
- 3/21/2010
- MTV Music News
Director: Dagur Kri Writer: Dagur Kri Starring: Brian Cox, Paul Dano, Isild Le Besco We meet a homeless young man named Lucas (Paul Dano) – looking eerily similar to Evan Dando during one of his heroin-infused daze of the mid-90s – as he sits with his pet kitten inside a dilapidated cardboard box under a bridge. Then we are introduced to Jacques (Brian Cox), a bitter and jaded old fart, who also looks like a bum but is actually an owner of a bar frequented by a multicultural handful of eccentric beatniks. While listening to a relaxation audio tape, Jacques is instructed to connect his index finger and thumb – this is the first moment when we realize that Jacques is by no means a relaxed person and it is only a matter of seconds before he suffers his fifth heart attack. Lucas, too, is waking up in the hospital after a...
- 3/11/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Give Lemonheads frontman Evan Dando credit for tackling an eclectic set of songs and styles for the band’s covers album Varshons. Dando takes on the likes of Gram Parsons, Wire, G.G. Allin, and Townes Van Zandt, with the help of producer Gibby Haynes, guest vocalists Kate Moss and Liv Tyler, and his own so-deadpan-it’s-almost-inert sense of humor. The album clocks in at just over 30 minutes, and when The Lemonheads find a song that’s in their scruffy roots-rock sweet-spot—like their cover of Sam Gopal’s freakbeat chestnut “Yesterlove,” or Leonard Cohen’s ethereal “Hey, That ...
- 6/30/2009
- avclub.com
One of the great comeback tales of the past few years has been the one owned by Linda Perry, who rescued herself from one-hit-wonder obscurity to become a top collaborator with some of the biggest names in pop music (like Christina Aguilera, Alicia Keys and Gwen Stefani). Kris Allen is currently working with super-producers David Hodges (Kelly Clarkson, Daughtry), Salaam Remi (Amy Winehouse) and Claude Kelly (Leona Lewis, Akon), but here are five circa-’90s songwriters who Allen should draft into collaboration service.
» Gregg Alexander: Alexander made a splash in 1998 when his band New Radicals scored a big hit with “You Get What You Give.” The group only produced one album, and since then Alexander has actually made a name for himself as a collaborator-for-hire, working with Hanson, Enrique Iglesias and Santana (whose “The Game of Love” won Alexander a Grammy in 2003). But he needs a big breakout that...
» Gregg Alexander: Alexander made a splash in 1998 when his band New Radicals scored a big hit with “You Get What You Give.” The group only produced one album, and since then Alexander has actually made a name for himself as a collaborator-for-hire, working with Hanson, Enrique Iglesias and Santana (whose “The Game of Love” won Alexander a Grammy in 2003). But he needs a big breakout that...
- 6/22/2009
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
Aside from his Evan Dando-tweaking breakthrough “I Wish I Was Him” way back in 1993, Ben Lee’s innocuously anemic pop has never been terribly interesting. But The Rebirth Of Venus, his seventh full-length, offers a more direct kind of terrible. There’s the self-congratulatory narcissism of “What’s So Bad (About Feeling Good)?” and “I Love Pop Music,” an upbeat but equally awful flipside to Daniel Powter's “Bad Day.” But that’s nothing compared to Lee’s realization that the world was waiting for him to make a loosely conceptual album celebrating the power of feminine qualities to ...
- 2/10/2009
- avclub.com
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