Playing Wonder Bar in July
The Lemonheads are a strange and interesting story. They started as kind of a hardcorish band of teenagers. Evan Dando's good looks, his penchant for performing excellent cover songs, and his talent for writing some truly brilliant pop songs got the band swept up in the whole "alternative" explosion in the early 1990's.
Their second major-label effort, It's A Shame About Ray, is a landmark record of the 1990's corporate alternative era and an album that CoolMom and I bonded over during the early years of our life together.
Being the type of person that I am, though, -- the kind of person that claims to love Darkness on the Edge of Town more than Born to Run -- my favorite Lemonheads record has to be Lick. The album came out on Taang! records just before Dando took the band to Atlantic, and I think it really shows the band transitioning from their beginnings to Dando's alt-country pop.
It also contains one of my favorite songs of all time, "Mallo Cup."
Tickets for the Wonder Bar show go on sale at 10AM today. It's a great place to see a show.
Rock on...
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