Last night, The Lemonheads performed on U.S. national television for the first time in decades. Bringing their first album of all-new original material in almost 20 years, Love Chant, to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, they paid tribute to psych rock pioneer Roky Erickson with “Roky.” Fan favorite song “My Drug Buddy” from the band’s seminal album, It’s A Shame About Ray, followed and featured a duet with Jimmy Fallon.
WATCH THE LEMONHEADS PERFORM “ROKY” ON THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON
WATCH THE LEMONHEADS PERFORM “MY DRUG BUDDY” ON THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON
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Recorded at São Paulo’s A9 Áudio with producer Apollo Nove (Rita Lee, Bebel Gilberto, Seu Jorge), Love Chant marks the welcome reemergence of singer-songwriter-guitarist Evan Dando’s justifiably legendary rock ‘n’ roll band, with songs like “Deep End,” “In The Margin,” “The Key of Victory,” and “Togetherness Is All I’m After” all marked by the emotional clarity, melodic instinct, and wry intimacy that have long defined Dando’s body of work. With musical and co-writing partnerships by a bevy of dear friends and collaborators, including Dinosaur Jr’s J Mascis, Juliana Hatfield, Boston punk legend John Felice (The Real Kids), Blake Babies’ John Strohm, British psychedelic rock icon Nick Saloman (The Bevis Frond), Nashville folk pop singer-songwriter Erin Rae, cult singer-songwriter Adam Green (The Moldy Peaches), longtime cohort Tom Morgan (Smudge), producer Bryce Goggin (Pavement, Antony and the Johnsons), and others, Love Chant is much more than simply a return to form for Dando — it’s a bold, melodic reaffirmation of one of alternative rock’s most distinctive voices.
STREAM/PURCHASE LOVE CHANT WATCH “DEEP END” OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO WATCH “IN THE MARGIN” OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO WATCH “THE KEY OF VICTORY" OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO LISTEN TO "TOGETHERNESS IS ALL I'M AFTER"
Greeted by worldwide media attention from such publications as Rolling Stone, Consequence, The Guardian, Uncut, Stereogum, and many more, Love Chant quickly garnered critical acclaim, with Mojo hailing the album in its four-starred review as “scrappy, vulnerable, and heartfelt but also loose, exuberant, and animated in a manner that seems faithful to who Dando is today.” “An album that will be more than enough to cheer those who remember the Lemonheads fondly,” wrote The Arts Desk. “Dando emphatically reclaims the musical territory that has been taken over by less adept pretenders during his absence.”
The Lemonheads spent much of the past year celebrating Love Chant with a marathon world tour, resuming on July 10 at Red Rocks in Morrison, CO, supporting The Avett Brothers and continuing with a UK headline tour on September 30 in Sheffield, UK. For complete details and remaining ticket information, please visit www.thelemonheads.net/tour.
Dando recently shared his candid, colorful, and unputdownable memoir, Rumors of My Demise (Gallery Books), available now at bookstores everywhere. The true story of the Lemonheads’ tumultuous history and what it was like to be famous in the pre-Internet 1990s, Dando’s remarkably honest autobiography presents an exuberant portrait of an artist who lives wholly for his music, and one that makes no apologies for doing so. “Riveting,” raved The Observer. “Dando’s entertaining, painful memoir is about talent and fame in all its raw, messy reality.”
PURCHASE RUMORS OF MY DEMISE: A MEMOIR BY EVAN DANDO
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PRAISE FOR LOVE CHANT
“(Love Chant) captures the many untamed aspects of Evan Dando…A defiant escape from the traps of a dark past.” – MOJO (****)
“Love Chant is an invigorating, colourful record that seamlessly blends Dando’s disheveled charm with spaced out, ambitious overtones. Now, let’s not leave it another two decades, eh?” – LOUDER THAN WAR “From the lively yet melodic jangly guitar pop of ‘58 Second Song’ to the woozy freak folk of ‘The Key of Victory’… Love Chant is a fine return to form.” – THE ARTS DESK
“An album that revisits the lyrical and melodic strengths that propelled the Lemonheads to indie stardom.” – GUITAR.COM “Love Chant contains some of Dando’s most experimental material to date, trading country-fried distortion for time-warped psychedelia and rambly vocals that recall Lou Reed…On a late-career record that often finds Dando grappling with mortality and the pace of time’s passage, the band’s work is catchy and comforting.” – BANDCAMP DAILY
“Love Chant, the first album of original Lemonheads music in almost 20 years, contains flashes of the lyricism and melodic smarts that propelled them to the indie big league.” – THE GUARDIAN
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PRAISE FOR RUMORS OF MY DEMISE: A MEMOIR
“An amiable – and sometimes dark – self-portrait of a self-deprecating artist…(Dando) writes with disarming candor and vulnerability.” – KIRKUS REVIEWS
“Dando’s memoir reminds readers what was so special about the 1990s – the innocence, the access and the anonymity.” – PARADE
“Dando is open, honest, reflective and even poetic… If you are even a passive fan, give it a read.” – GQ
“Detail-packed and riveting. From the opening pages, it’s also laced with melancholy, like Dando’s best songs.” – THE OBSERVER
“A zesty, entertaining read, and a particularly satisfying integration of Boston music history into rock’s global canon...To focus on the benders would be a disservice to the other rock and roll lore embedded throughout the book, a streamlined look at both the Lemonheads’ history and Dando’s (sometimes destructive) drive – and where they eventually merged into one entity.” – THE BOSTON GLOBE
“An indie-pop darling details his rise to fame and subsequent public humiliations with appealing frankness…It’s a wry, heady, fitfully eye-watering account of his adventure as a musician and addict.” – THE GUARDIAN | 
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