We hope you’ll be able to join us on Friday, October 24th at 5:00 PM for an intimate instore performance with Evan Dando of The Lemonheads! He’ll be playing a solo set in the shop and signing copies of Love Chant, the new Lemonheads album released that same day via Fire Records. The album is available to preorder in the record store and on our webstore now on limited edition yellow vinyl LP, available exclusively at indie record shops, standard black vinyl LP, and CD. All who preorder Love Chant from Grimey’s for local, event pickup will also receive a wristband with their preorder. Wristbands are required for the signing for all 13+ and also guarantee entrance to our event. (Kids 12 & under don’t need a wristband if attending with a wristband holding adult.)

After years of writing, wandering, and starting over, Evan Dando returns with Love Chant, the first Lemonheads studio album of original material in nearly two decades. Long in the works and shaped by shifting geographies and a cast of trusted collaborators, it’s a bold, melodic reaffirmation of one of alternative rock’s most distinctive voices.

Now based in Brazil, where much of the album was recorded, Dando’s relocation in recent years has offered a quiet shift in perspective — a chance to reset, reconnect, and finally bring these songs into focus. The result is a record that sounds both fresh and familiar: rooted in the hallmarks of The Lemonheads’ best work, yet expanded by years of lived experience and new surroundings.

Love Chant was produced by Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Apollo Nove, it draws together old friends and new allies. J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr), Juliana Hatfield, and Tom Morgan rejoin the fold, alongside producer Bryce Goggin (Pavement, Antony and the Johnsons), Nashville’s Erin Rae, John Strohm of the Blake Babies and Nick Saloman of The Bevis Frond. Adam Green of cult New York favourites The Moldy Peaches also contributes as co-writer on the loose-limbed country detour “Wild Thing.”

We cannot wait to host Mr. Dando at Grimey’s and celebrate this new era of Lemonhead recordings with him and all of you! We’ll have copies of Love Chant on vinyl & CD available at our event but you can lock in your copy plus a signing wristband next time you’re in the shop or on our webstore here. See you soon, Music City!