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Lemonheads continue comeback with tour
Singer/songwriter Evan Dando and his freshly re-minted Lemonheads will continue to make strides upon the comeback trail when the band mounts its second major tour in three months starting in January.
Dando and the current Lemonheads lineup, now a trio with the appointment of drummer Bill Stevenson (Descendants, Black Flag) and bassist Karl Alvarez (Descendants), will kick things off Jan. 25 in Carrboro, NC, the first date of a 24-city trek that will run into late February as the band continues to back its first new album in more than a decade.
On Sept. 26, The Lemonheads issued their eighth album, a self-titled set that is the group's first new disc since 1996's "Car Button Cloth." Dando and Stevenson co-produced the album at Stevenson's Blasting Room studios in Ft. Collins, CO.
Stevenson wrote or co-wrote three of the disc's 11 songs, according to a press release, while longtime Lemonheads collaborator Tom Morgan added another pair of tracks. Guests who turn up on the set include bassist Josh Lattanzi, keyboardist Garth Hudson and guitarist J. Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.). Lattanzi and drummer John Kent will back Dando during the upcoming tour.
Fans need not fear that "The Lemonheads" is a one-off reunion set from Dando.
"I want to do another [album] right away," the singer told LiveDaily during a recent interview. "I'm going to be writing on tour. And I want to get right in the studio and do another one, I hope, at Fort Collins with Bill again."
