{"id":244730,"date":"2026-01-21T17:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/244730\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T17:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:59:07","slug":"the-lemonheads-perform-roky-and-my-drug-buddy-on-fallon-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/244730\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lemonheads Perform &#8220;Roky&#8221; and &#8220;My Drug Buddy&#8221; on Fallon: Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/the-lemonheads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Lemonheads<\/a> stopped by\u00a0The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday\u00a0to perform \u201cRoky,\u201d a song off their latest album\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/06\/the-lemonheads-new-album-2025-world-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Love Chant<\/a>, and \u201cMy Drug Buddy,\u201d a track from their 1992 LP\u00a0It\u2019s a Shame About Ray.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Evan Dando, the band first provided a faithful rendition of new song \u201cRoky,\u201d itself a tribute to the late musician Roky Erickson. Over a warm, smoldering groove and beneath moody lighting, the Lemonheads brought a touch of psychedelia and mystery to \u201cRoky.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They concluded the episode with a second song, busting out the beloved \u201cMy Drug Buddy\u201d for Fallon. The performance unfolded over a modest trot, with fuzzy guitars and Dando\u2019s rugged baritone on display; eventually, Fallon himself joined to sing the final chorus (in harmony) with Dando. Watch the pair of performances below.<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>The Lemonheads returned in October 2025 to offer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4pO84mk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Love Chant<\/a>, their first new album in 19 years. They closed out the year with a massive world tour; meanwhile, Dando released a new memoir, <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/05\/lemonheads-evan-dando-memoir-rumors-of-my-demise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Rumors of My Demise<\/a>, on October 7th. Pick up a copy <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3LWXXxF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lemonheads stopped by\u00a0The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday\u00a0to perform \u201cRoky,\u201d a song off their latest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-244730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}