Evan Dando’s poppy platitudes to drugs, homosexuality, and other grungeisms have been culled from four saccharine albums and a handful of singles and EPs.
Unappreciated and unknown, they create usually short, sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant rock’n’roll which veers from driving punk to drunken country blues.
The Kidney Thieves are following their influences into hilarious and self-parody like Whitesnake opening for the Crüe on the 1987 Girls, Girls, Girls tour.