
The Lemonheads have a new record coming out in September, and they’ve put one of the new songs “No Backbone” up on their MySpace page. This track arrives at a good time, as we’ve been digesting the Guardian’s pretty awesome piece on Evan Dando in which he says that he has no interest in ever giving up certain drugs. He claims that they don’t hold the same destructive power over his life that they used to. “I think it’s important I take mushrooms and acid” he tells the paper. “They’re certainly not addictive, so I can’t rule that out. Every six months or so I’ll take some mushrooms, because I can’t let go of that completely. And I don’t want to.” We love a principled rock star.
Anyway, this song is really great. All lazy-day riffs and lyrics that make us feel like over talented underachievers failing at romance but looking damn pretty while doing it. With 90s rock back in a big way (’specially down in L.A. — see Giant Drag and Silversun Pickups, among others) Dando may have waited long enough to finally be back in style (see before and after picture, above, for example of his impressively consistent look).

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