Evan Dando : Rolling Stone

From the Archives

June 9, 2003

Dando Takes "Baby" Steps

Club and theater run starts tomorrow
May 21, 2003

Clean and Almost Sober

Evan Dando, one of rock's biggest burnouts, returns with a new outlook
January 29, 2003

Evan Dando's New Baby

Solo debut due this April
November 14, 1996

Q&A: Evan Dando

Lemonheads frontman very much alive

Recordings and Reviews

Baby I'm Bored

What has the former Lemonheads leader been up to these past seven years? That's the question Evan Dando seems to ask himself on this solo debut. He drawls a litany of self-abuse ("You stayed awake for fourteen days") on the Hank Williams-tinged "Why Do You Do This to Yourself?" and chastises himself...

2003 RS: 2of 5 Stars

Biography

A grievous, grievous angel is he. When the Lemonheads' final record, Car Button Cloth, converged with alt-rock's 1996 nosedive, our erstwhile Lemonhead was well on his way to becoming a legendary crackhead. Fans of his sweet, deceptively simple (some say just simple, or even saccharine) melodies worried about him the same way fans of Elliott Smith's doomed love poems rightly doubted their hopeless...

More Biography

Key Tracks