The Lemonheads Announce Tour and First Original Album in 19 Years, Share New Song: Listen

The Lemonheads are back. Evan Dando and the band have a new album, Love Chant, on the way, and a sweeping tour of North America and Europe to go with it. Below, listen to the new single “In the Margin” and check out the dates, ahead of the album’s October 24 release via Fire.

Of “In the Margin,” Dando said in a press release, “I wanted to have a riffy song, so I wrote riffs all over it. The body of the song was Marciana [Jones]’s. It’s like a full-on 8th-grade girl revenge song: ‘Stupidly I left the escape plans out so they could find my way.’”

On Love Chant, Evan Dando and the band are joined by J Mascis, Juliana Hatfield, Bryce Goggin, Erin Rae, the Blake Babies’ John Strohm, and the Bevis Frond’s Nick Saloman, as well as co-writers Adam Green and Tom Morgan on “Wild Thing” and “Deep End,” respectively. Apollo Nove produced the LP.

The Lemonheads’ last album of original songs was their 2006 self-titled LP. Since then, they have dropped a pair of covers albums, Varshons and Varshons 2, and themselves been covered by the likes of MJ Lenderman and Courtney Barnett. Dando will release a memoir, Rumors of My Demise, on October 7.

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Love Chant:

01 58 Second Song
02 Deep End
03 In the Margin
04 Wild Thing
05 Be-In
06 Cell Phone Blues
07 Togetherness Is All I’m After
08 Marauders
09 Love Chant
10 The Key of Victory
11 Roky

The Lemonheads:

08-13 London, England – Rough Trade East ∞
08-14 Northampton, England – Roadmender
08-15 Norwich, England – Rock N Roll Circus
08-16 Manchester, England – O2 Ritz
08-17 Glasgow, Scotland – Garage
08-19 Belfast, Northern Ireland – Limelight
08-20 Limerick, Ireland – Dolans Warehouse
08-21 Cork, Ireland – Cyprus Avenue
08-23 Waterford, Ireland – Bank Lane
08-24 Dublin, Ireland – Academy
08-26 Sheffield, England – Foundry
08-27 London, England – Electric Ballroom
08-28 London, England – Electric Ballroom
08-29 Stockholm, Sweden – Debaser Strand
08-30 Oslo, Norway – John Dee
09-01 Trondheim, Norway – Byscenen
09-04 Copenhagen, Denmark – Loppen
09-05 Hamburg, Germany – Molotow Club
09-06 Stekene, Belgium – Crammerock Festival
09-08 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Melkweg Oz
09-09 Cologne, Germany – Luxor
09-11 Berlin, Germany – Frannz Club
09-12 Warsaw, Poland – Proxima
09-16 Zagreb, Croatia – Vintage Industrial Bar
09-23 Madrid, Spain – Sala Wagon
09-24 Lisbon, Portugal – LAV2
09-26 Barcelona, Spain – Apolo 2
09-27 Valencia, Spain – Visorfest
11-11 Birmingham, AL – Workplay
11-12 Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade
11-13 Asheville, NC – Grey Eagle
11-14 Norfolk, VA – The Annex
11-15 Baltimore, MD – Ottobar
11-16 Richmond, VA – The Broadberry
11-18 Lititz, PA – Mickey’s Black Box
11-19 New York, NY – Racket
11-20 Fairfield, CT – The Warehouse at FTC
11-21 Woodstock, NY – Bearsville Theater
11-22 Jersey City, NJ – White Eagle Hall
11-23 Portsmouth, NH – 3S Artspace
11-25 Amherst, MA – The Drake
11-26 Boston, MA – The Wilbur
11-28 Syracuse, NY – Westcott Theater
11-29 Buffalo, NY – Town Ballroom
11-30 Toronto, Ontario – Phoenix Concert Theatre
12-02 Millvale, PA – Mr. Smalls Theatre
12-03 Columbus, OH – Skully’s Music Diner
12-04 Kalamazoo, MI – Bell’s Eccentric Cafe
12-05 Madison, WI – Majestic
12-06 Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line
12-08 Lawrence, KS – The Bottleneck
12-10 Dallas, TX – Echo
12-11 Houston, TX – Bad Astronaut
12-12 Austin, TX – Mohawk
12-13 San Antonio, TX – Paper Tiger
12-14 Fort Worth, TX – Tannahill’s
12-16 St Louis, MO – Delmar Hall
12-17 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
12-18 Indianapolis, IN – Hi-Fi
12-19 Louisville, KY – Headliners Music Hall
12-20 Nashville, TN – Basement East

∞ Evan Dando solo show