The Lemonheads and The Bevis Frond announce a limited-edition 12”, featuring three classic tracks — ‘Roky’, ‘The Great Big No’ and ‘My Drug Buddy’ — on white vinyl, due for release 16th October: https://fire-records.lnk.to/lemonheadsbevisrokyFA
Today, you can listen to The Bevis Frond’s cover of The Lemonheads’ classic ‘My Drug Buddy’.
TRACKLIST:
A1: The Lemonheads – Roky feat. Nick Saloman
B1: The Bevis Frond – The Great Big No (The Lemonheads Cover)
B2: The Bevis Frond – My Drug Buddy (The Lemonheads Cover)
‘Roky’ is Evan Dando’s homage to the late, great outsider genius Roky Erickson of garage-psych legends 13th Floor Elevators, and features a searing guitar break from the song’s co-writer, Nick Saloman of The Bevis Frond. The Bevis Frond also join The Lemonheads in support of the latter’s much-praised 2025 album ‘Love Chant’, from which ‘Roky’ originally comes.
If Roky Erickson had vanished from the face of the earth after The 13th Floor Elevators released their epochal debut single, ‘You’re Gonna Miss Me’, in early 1966, in all likelihood he’d still be regarded as a legend among garage rock fanatics for his primal vocal wailing and feral harmonica work.”
To complete this unique package, The Bevis Frond cover two Lemonheads songs, ‘The Great Big No’ and ‘My Drug Buddy’ — both sounding like the kind of UK-based, left-field power pop that inspired Kurt Cobain in the formative days of grunge. Indeed, they could have slipped out on the original Rough Trade or 53rd & 3rd labels at any time.
Fact fans looking for Roky-styled curveball ley line between events, might note that The Lemonheads covered The Bevis Frond’s ‘Old Man Blank’ on 2019’s ‘Varshons II’, the same year that Roky sadly passed.
The Lemonheads also announce 2027 US tour dates presenting ‘Love Chant’,
