Varshons

Vote for the best Varshons playlist!

pete — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:24:16 +0000

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!

I Just Can’t Take It Anymore - out now!

pete — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:20:38 +0000

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

Fantasy Playlist Competition

pete — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:38:24 +0000

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?

Create your playlist with online services such as Spotify and iTunes and share your links with us via Twitter (with the #varshons hashtag), or by posting a link to it by leaving a comment on this page.

The playlist seen as the best will win an extremely limited edition 7″ vinyl test pressing of I Just Can’t Take It Anymore, the first single to be taken from the new album.

The competition closes on June 15th 2009. Good luck!

Varshons - released June 15th 2009

pete — Wed, 06 May 2009 09:14:13 +0000

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.”

VARSHONS was produced by Haynes, mixed by ex-Cornershop guru Anthony Saffrey, and features Dando along with Vess Ruhtenburg (bass) and Devon Ashley (drums). The collection is filled with strange bedfellows - from G.G. Allin to Texas troubadour Townes Van Zandt and garage rockers The Green Fuz. The Lemonheads make each track their own, with help from actress Liv Tyler, singing back up on Leonard Cohen’s “Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye,” and Kate Moss, who sings over the dance groove of Arling & Cameron’s “Dirty Robot,” Also featured on lead guitar and backing vocals throughout most of the album is John Perry, on loan from The Only Ones.

VARSHONS unearths a pair of psychedelic treasures with “Yesterlove” – a song recorded in 1969 by the group Sam Gopal featuring future Motorhead bassist Lemmy Kilmister – and “Dandelion Seeds” from July, record collector’s Registered Landmark Band. For “Layin’ Up With Linda,” the band filters Allin’s cold-blooded tale through the swaggering country-honk of The Stones’ “Dead Flowers.”

Filled with obscure nuggets, the tracks on VARSHONS cut a wide swath, jumping from early British psychedelic to Dutch electronica and like all good mix tapes, you never know what is coming next.