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For those of you who resided in Sydney, Australia in the Summer of 1992/93, Evan Dando‘s presence was a ubiquitous one. On a night off in Sydney, Dando recorded a set of songs in his Bondi hotel room featuring tracks that would later appear on Come On Feel The Lemonheads, along with covers of Love Positions and Smudge songs. Having recently unearthed the cassette, Dando deemed it worthy of release and the album, Hotel Sessions, is due out on January 9, 2012.

Concert cornucopia time once again for Aussie kids: The Lemonheads are doing It’s a Shame About Ray “Don’t Look Back” style. Last seen in these parts by Webcuts in 1993 we’re looking forward in re-visiting the past a-la “Hot Tub Time Machine” with The Lemonheads in November. Meanwhile in January Junip featuring the gentle Swede Jose González are playing Sunset Sounds and doing two sideshows, likewise Interpol. Finally classic loving Canadian Owen Pallett who in a perplexing move is not doing any festival slots or classic albums in full at all but just coming out here to play a normal run of shows. Hurrah!

Evan Dando and a cast of several come together to make the ultimate Lemonheads record so far. With an album featuring songs by Wire and Christina Aguilera, it’s both “Strange” and “Beautiful”.

For a band who owe much of their success to the art of the cover version, and yeah, let’s not beat around the bush here, It’s a Shame About Ray wasn’t exactly setting the charts alight before their Lemon-lovin’ Graduate-coverin’ selves took the mild-hearted Simon and Garfunkel hit “Mrs. Robinson”, turning it into solid gold [...]