Former Lemonheads frontman Evan Dando will release his solo debut Baby, I'm Bored on April 22nd -- seven years after the release of the Lemonheads' last album, Car Button Cloth.

Dando enlisted old friends and collaborators for the record: Howe Gelb, John Convertino and Joey Burns of Giant Sand and Calexico; former Spacehog vocalist Royston Langdon, and one-time Come/Codeine guitarist Chris Brokaw all guest. Ben Lee contributed two songs to the album, "Hard Drive" and "All My Life."

Jon Brion, who has worked with Fiona Apple and Aimee Mann and contributed to the scores of the Paul Thomas Anderson films Magnolia and Punch Drunk Love, produced and co-wrote five songs with Dando. "I met Jon in 2000 and we just hit it off," Dando said. "We wrote one of the songs, 'It Looks Like You,' in twenty minutes. He's a musical powerhouse."

Lemonheads and Pavement producer/engineer Bryce Goggin also worked on five other songs with Dando.

Dando expects to tour behind the album this summer.

CHRISTINA SARACENO
(January 29, 2003)