{"id":250409,"date":"2026-01-21T19:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/250409\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T19:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:31:08","slug":"the-lemonheads-jam-with-jimmy-fallon-at-first-late-night-gig-since-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/250409\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lemonheads Jam With Jimmy Fallon at First Late Night Gig Since ’96"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Lemonheads<\/a> aren\u2019t the usual sort of musical act to land a booking on The Tonight Show<\/a> Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/a> in 2026. The norm is Madison Beer, Ty Myers, Sienna Spiro, and the other Gen Z-friendly artists they\u2019ve featured in recent weeks. And One Direction\u2019s Louis Tomlinson is coming up on Friday.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut for reasons we\u2019re not going to question since we\u2019re very happy that it took place, Evan Dando\u2019s newest\u00a0iteration of the Lemonheads played two songs on the Jan. 20 episode, and Fallon even joined them on vocals for one of them.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOur next guests are here with a tribute to the late rock icon Roky Erickson<\/a>,\u201d an amped-up Fallon told viewers, \u201cperforming Roky from their new album Love Chant, the Lemonheads!\u201d The studio audience cheered enthusiastically even though the vast majority of them have likely never heard of Erickson, and probably have only a dim memory of the Lemonheads due to their 1992 cover of Simon and Garfunkel\u2019s \u201cMrs Robinson.\u201d\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tTo be fair, some of the cooler middle-aged dudes in the crowd may have bought It\u2019s a Shame About Ray that same year. And Fallon was clearly one of them, since he jumped onstage and helped them sing \u201cMy Drug Buddy\u201d from that landmark alt-rock LP. \u201cUnbelievable!\u201d Fallon gushed at the end. \u201cI\u2019m honored. The Lemonheads! That\u2019s how you do it, right there!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to Stereogum,<\/a> this was the first late night booking for the Lemonheads since they played Late Night With Conan O\u2019Brien in 1996. Dando did play solo on Last Call With Carson Daly in 2003, but that doesn\u2019t really count.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Lemonheads perform Wednesday night at Lucinda\u2019s in New York City, and July 10 at Red Rocks in Morrison, Colorado, before heading over to England in late September for a run of shows all over the country.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tIf Fallon wants to keep booking the great unsung bands of his teenage years, we recommend that he continue with Sebadoh, Buffalo Tom, the Afghan Whigs, and Superchunk. Maybe after that, he can dial it back to his childhood and call up Dramarama, Camper Van Beethoven, and the Feelies. Late-night talk shows appear to be on their way toward extinction<\/a> \u2014 they might as well go out strong.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lemonheads aren\u2019t the usual sort of musical act to land a booking on The Tonight Show Starring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,20334,10120,133613,45679,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-250409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-jimmy-fallon","12":"tag-late-night-tv","13":"tag-the-lemonheads","14":"tag-tonight-show","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}