I grew up liking bands that everyone else thought were shit, so it was a welcome relief when the 90s came along and guitar-based music had something of a renaissance. Boston’s Lemonheads were always described as “alternative rock” but they sounded mighty gentle for a rock band sometimes with flecks of country guitar, and the introspection of this particular track made me cry and laugh at the same time, basically because it was me. Oh and the Dando I fancied was called Evan not Jill. Even the cover and title of the album from which this was taken were just brilliant. Long live the Lemonheads.
Hard to believe that it’s been thirty years since this doozie was first unleashed. Evan Dando has been a long time lover of Gram Parsons, Big Star and others that we’d consider ‘classic’ americana artists. Accordingly, his own mix of West Coast singer-songwriter/East Coast indie/country pain and heartache made him…
Promptly onstage mere seconds prior to 9pm and offstage by 10 and playing a career spanning setlist of 25 plus songs in between, Evan Dando set quite a pace tonight. Pace and haste, perhaps not two words one would normally associate with the Lemonhead chief. After all, the new album…
Two more stoney evenings? Sadly, there comes a time in this former young man's life when any interest in drugs might turn more to the side effects of blood pressure medication or statins. So, with this in mind, 'Stoned Weekend', the debut album from Vermont-based, Drug Couple, wasn't looking too…
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