The best 2 Varshons fantasy playlists have been chosen and are up for voting on the right side of the website - vote for your favourite now!

The first single to be taken from Varshons, entitled I Just Can’t Take It Anymore, is now available from all good record stores and download sites.

The track is a cover of a track by Gram Parsons who, in 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him #87 on their list of the 100 Most Influential Artists of All Time.

The single is available on 7″ vinyl and digital download.

Buy it at the following links:

Vinyl @ Cooking Vinyl store

Download @ iTunes

We want you to share your fantasy Lemonheads cover playlist with us. If you could see Evan & co perform any of your favourite songs live, what would you want to see?

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It makes sense that the new album from The Lemonheads sounds like a mix tape slipped to you by a music-obsessed friend anxious to turn you on to something new. In fact, the idea for the band’s new covers record was inspired by Gibby Haynes, ringmaster of the Butthole Surfers, who for years has made mixes for his longtime friend Evan Dando. “Making a good mix is an art, and Gibby has it down,” says Dando. “I thought it would be fun to share these songs with other people like he shared them with me. So I picked the ‘greatest hits’ from his mixes and covered them, along with a few other songs I always wanted to play.”

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