Pitchfork: Lemonheads Return, Sign to Vagrant

Galaxie 500 can't be far behind. What with the Pixies, Dinosaur Jr., and now the Lemonheads putting aside differences and getting back together, if we all close our eyes, it's just like being back at Boston's Middle East club circa 1989, reliving the glory days of college rock. Except we've all got better haircuts now.

Lemonheads leader Evan Dando cheated though. He's bypassing all that awkward making-up with former bandmates stuff and just hired a couple of new guys. Although the new guys are actually old guys: Bill Stevenson (producer, drums) and Karl Alvarez (bass) of punk legends the Descendents.

In all fairness, the Lemonheads didn't have a very consistent line-up over the course of their career, so it's not like Axl "reuniting" Guns N' Roses without calling Slash, Izzy, Duff, and Steven. And let's face it, it's nice just to see Evan back in action after getting mixed up with crack and the Gallagher brothers in the late 90s and not doing much else since then besides his 2003 solo LP Baby I'm Bored.

Dando has been working on songs on and off this past year at Stevenson's Colorado studio, and the results will be released by The Lemonheads' new label, Vagrant Records, sometime in the fall of this year. Perhaps best known as being home to emo faves Dashboard Confessional and the Get Up Kids, Vagrant has been busy un-pigeon-holing themselves of late by signing the Futureheads, Eels, and the Hold Steady recently. Vagrant President Rich Egan enthuses, "Nobody writes songs like Evan Dando, nobody sings like him...the new songs are incredible. He is in top form."

No word yet whether the editorial staff of 90s zine I Hate Evan Dando have reconvened upon hearing this news and are heading back to the presses.