2011 two CD collection from the Boston Alt-Rock band who rose and then burned out during the heady days of the '90s. Boston singer-songwriter Evan Dando broke through to the mainstream in 1992 with `Mrs. Robinson', a Simon & Garfunkel cover that took his band the Lemonheads to the UK Top 20. But this was the tip of a musical iceberg founded on an indie-label career that had set the press purring. This 47-track compilation profiles the idiosyncratic talent behind the classic It's A Shame About Ray album and much more zesty music. Music Club Deluxe.

180gm vinyl LP repressing of this Alternative Rock classic from Evan Dando and friends, originally released in 1992. Over 15 years after it's original release, It's A Shame About Ray still holds up as a Jangle-Pop classic. 13 tracks. 2009.

The Lemonheads will release Hotel Sessions, an intimate recording documenting a Sunday night that Evan Dando spent recording new songs with just an acoustic guitar (and some revealing commentary) in a hotel room in Bondi Beach, Australia. The 14 songs include some that never made it to an official Lemonheads album, but Dando says, 'the 'Into Your Arms' I did here is better than the one on the album (I like it anyway).'

"It really sounds like THE LEMONHEADS. Maybe a little better." Evan Dando is getting a bit conspiratorial about the latest incarnation of the legendary pop/punk outfit he formed a full two decades ago, now about to unleash their eighth album on an unsuspecting and defenseless world. And how does this new release—the first for THE LEMONHEADS on Vagrant Records—compare to, say, Dando’s much-acclaimed solo work of the past few years? "Louder, faster, more like BUZZCOCKS pop-punk—and way less introspective."

Talk about getting back to your roots. For the Vagrant offering, Dando convened two of his early influences—the unholy duo of drummer Bill Stevenson (DESCENDENTS, BLACK FLAG) and bassist Karl Alvarez (DESCENDENTS)—in a remote Rocky Mountain hideaway. And it was there, off and on over eighteen months, that they kicked out the first LEMONHEADS album in ten years. Said guitarist/singer/songwriter Dando of Stevenson and Alvarez, "I wanna make another loud record, and those are the guys to do it with."

Dando and Stevenson co-produced the album, and Stevenson wrote or co-wrote three of its eleven songs; long-time Australian collaborator Tom Morgan added another two. And very much inna LEMONHEADS stylee, there’s cameos galore: from wunderkind bassist Josh Lattanzi ("Poughkeepsie", "Rule of Three", "In Passing"), certifiable rock giant Garth Hudson (THE BAND, who plays keyboards on "Black Gown" and "December"), and some real foot-on-monitor guitar work by DINOSAUR JR’s J. Mascis ("No Backbone", "Steve’s Boy").

1993 album features the tracks The Great Big NO, Into Your Arms, Paid To Smile and more. Atlantic.

It makes sense that the new album from The Lemonheads feels like a cool mix tape slipped to you by a music-obsessed friend anxious to turn you on to something new.

VARSHONS was produced by Haynes, mixed by ex-Cornershop guru Anthony Saffrey, and features Dando along with Vess Ruhtenburg (bass) and Devon Ashley (drums). The collection is filled with strange bedfellows - from G.G. Allin to Texas troubadour Townes Van Zandt and garage rockers The Green Fuz. The Lemonheads make each track their own, with help from actress Liv Tyler, singing back up on Leonard Cohen s Hey, That s No Way To Say Goodbye, and Kate Moss, who sings over the dance groove of Arling & Cameron s Dirty Robot, Also featured on lead guitar and backing vocals throughout most of the album is John Perry, on loan from The Only Ones.

Filled with obscure nuggets, the tracks on VARSHONS cut a wide swath, jumping from early British psychedelic to Dutch electronica and like all good mix tapes, you never know what is coming next.

Some of you are still possessed of the thoroughly old fashioned idea that songs with words demanding to be listened to are a bad thing. I suggest you purchase this album and get cured quick. Try not to resist. Melody Maker...Dando is at last emphatically his own man - and the results fall barely short of the miraculous. NME The Lemonheads formed in Boston in the late 80s and had their major label debut on Atlantic in 1990 with Lovey. It was 1992's IT S A SHAME ABOUT RAY, though, that proved to be their breakthrough success. Critical and fan acclaim surged for the album, which centered on lead singer/songwriter Evan Dando's melodic, left-of-center alt-rock artistry. His warm, resonant vocals and brilliant pop sensibilities often belied insurgent lyrics, a quality that runs throughout the title track a #5 Billboard® modern rock chart hit and the album's other stand-outs, including My Drug Buddy, Allison s Starting To Happen, Confetti, and the band's hit, punk-skewed cover of Mrs. Robinson. On this new 2-disc, CD+DVD COLLECTOR'S EDITION, the original album plus ten bonus tracks comprise Disc 1. The DVD features 45 minutes of content including videos and commentary from Dando.

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