has a fantastic piece on Juliana Hatfield and The Lemonheads' Evan Dando (right), who are currently gigging together in NYC. Dando confesses that lately, "I've been playing music to make money. I never really had to do that before, and it's a mindfuck." A description of Dando's unkempt apartment implies where the money goes:
These are some of the items on the coffee table: a dingy stuffed tiger; an open bottle of Dr Pepper; a wad of cotton; several empty beer bottles; a flashlight; a Strokes CD; a melon-size chunk of rippled steel poached from ground zero; a charred tablespoon; a copy of Aleister Crowley’s Diary of a Drug Fiend; a Polaroid of Dando and his ethereally blonde estranged wife, Elizabeth Moses; a pile of plastic bags filled with substances; a crusty container of green sauce.
Dando also quickly shares his 9/11 conspiracy theory (he saw the towers fall, so he KNOWS) and answers questions about drug use. It's one of the more interesting pieces of music journalism I've read lately. Check it out here.
Lots more after the jump — including the likelihood of the Faith No More reunion continuing, a very comprehensive interview with Fletcher from Pennywise, and another former Alternative Tentacles artist (a pretty legendary one, I might add) hating on Jello Biafra….
This article appears in Oct 14-20, 2010.