**The Lemonheads: It’s a Shame About C’mon Feel Tour with Cooper B. Handy at Underground Arts** **Night 1: Saturday, September 14, 2024** **Doors: 7:00 PM | Show: 8:00 PM** **21+** **Playing BOTH classic albums: It's A Shame About Ray & Come On Come on Feel the Lemonheads in their entirey (both nights)!** **Visit https://undergroundarts.org** for venue details including how to get here, parking, FAQ, UA Merch, Private Events, & everything else **About The Lemondheads** The Lemonheads' evolution from post- hardcore punk rockers to teenage heartthrobs is one of the stranger sagas in alternative music. Initially, the group was a punk-pop trio formed by three teenage Boston suburbanites, but over the years, the band became a vehicle for . Blessed with good looks and a warm, sweet voice, became a teen idol in the early '90s, when 's success made alternative bands commercially viable. While his simple, catchy songs were instantly accessible, they tended to hide the more subversive nature of his lyrics, as well as his gift for offbeat covers and his devotion to country-rock father . After developing his signature blend of pop, punk, and country-rock on several independent records in the late '80s, moved the Lemonheads to in 1990. Two years later, It's a Shame About Ray made the group into media sensations, as 's face appeared on music and teen magazines across America and Britain. At the height of the '90s alternative rock explosion, the Lemonheads topped Billboard's Modern Rock charts with "Into Your Arms," but the group couldn't sustain their momentum, partially due to 's personal excesses. After releasing Car Button Cloth in 1996, and the Lemonheads retreated from the spotlight for a decade, re-emerging in 2006 with an eponymous album. Recordings remained sporadic from the band in the 2010s and beyond, but kept performing solo shows, reconvening his band on occasion. The son of a Boston attorney and a fashion model, (vocals, guitar, drums) formed the Lemonheads in 1986 with his high school classmates Ben Deily (vocals, guitar, drums) and Jesse Peretz (bass). Initially, the group was called the Whelps, but by the time the band made their debut EP, Laughing All the Way to the Cleaners, they had changed their name to the Lemonheads. Recorded the day after their high school graduation, Laughing All the Way to the Cleaners was released on the group's own label, . The EP got the attention of the Boston-based indie label , which signed the band later that same year. By the beginning of 1987, Doug Trachten had become the Lemonheads' full-time drummer, leaving and Deily to share guitar and vocal duties. Hate Your Friends, a speedy hardcore LP that fell halfway between and , was released in 1987. Trachten left after the record's release, and the band made 1988's Creator with drummer. **About Cooper B. Handy** *https://cooperbhandy.com/* Underground Arts Presents This is a 21+ event