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24 Oct 2025

Watch Sabrina Carpenter Arrest Gigi Hadid at Her Pittsburgh Show: ‘I’m Getting So Hot & Flustered’

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Not many cops can say they’ve arrested a supermodel, but Sabrina Carpenter can. The pop star added Gigi Hadid to her list of Juno girls on Thursday night (Oct. 23) as SC kicked off the final leg of the Short n’ Sweet Tour in Pittsburgh.

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Ahead of performing “Juno,” Carpenter walked toward the front of the stage where Hadid was standing and the model’s face was broadcast on the arena jumbotron when the police sirents went off. “What’s your name,” she asked. “Gigi, does that stand for gorgeous girl? Oh my God. Gigi, wow, where are you from?”

Rocking a leopard print top over a white t-shirt, Hadid replied: “Bucks County.”

Carpenter, being a fellow Pennsylvania, responded: “Bucks County? I’m kinda from there too. That’s so crazy. Maybe we are soulmates. Gigi, I’m getting so hot and flustered. Oh my God, s—t, that always happens when I get excited about love.”

The singer handed over the signature hot pink handcuffs to Hadid as the “Juno” beat began playing. “This one is for Gigi, everybody,” Carpenter exclaimed, as the model blew her a kiss.

Hadid reposted the clip of her arrest to her Instagram Story. “Guilty as charged,” she fittingly wrote.

It’s been a busy last week for Gigi Hadid, who returned to the runway as an Angel in the 2025 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on Oct. 15. However, she’s far from the first famous face to be arrested by Carpenter. Some previous celebrity Juno girls include Millie Bobby Brown, Margaret Qualley and Emma Bunton.

Sabrina Carpenter will hit the stage for a second Pittsburgh show on Friday (Oct. 24) before heading to New York City next week. Watch Sabrina arrest Gigi Hadid here.

24 Oct 2025

Every Taylor Swift Lead Single Ranked, From ‘Tim McGraw’ to ‘The Fate of Ophelia’: Critic’s Picks

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At press time, Taylor Swift is ruling the Billboard Hot 100 with her 13th No. 1 hit — and it’s all thanks to “The Fate of Ophelia,” the lead single from new album The Life of a Showgirl.

Though the sparkling, smitten love song wasn’t released at any point before the LP dropped, “Ophelia” definitely got the lead single treatment, with the pop star pairing it with a big-budget music video and a TikTok trend-bait dance campaign. It follows the strategy of Swift’s past singles throughout the back half of her catalog, for which she’s been opting to release an album’s tracks all at once while still pushing one as the lead — such as “Fortnight” on The Tortured Poets Department and “Anti-Hero” on Midnights, both of which topped the charts and earned Grammy nods in the major song categories.

Before 2020’s Folklore, however, the singer followed the more traditional format of dropping lead singles well in advance of their respective albums, allowing those tracks to formally usher in a brand new era by making a grand artistic statement. Almost every Swiftie, for instance, remembers exactly where they were the first time they heard Swift say, “Sorry, the old Taylor can’t come to the phone right now” on “Look What You Made Me Do,” which set the stage for Reputation to drop six weeks later.

But no matter which approach the musician has used for her lead singles, each one has notched a memorable and important place in Swift history. From her debut single to “Ophelia,” check out Billboard‘s ranking of all 12 lead album tracks the star has dropped — as well as their chart peaks on the Hot 100 — over the course of her career below.


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24 Oct 2025

AI Artist Xania Monet Had a Boom — And Hasn’t Gone Bust. Here’s Why.

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The Velvet Sundown is an AI-generated rock four-piece that captured worldwide attention in June after word of the surreptitiously computer-made music spread online. The music is a mix of classic rock, folk and psychedelic Americana. The album’s surrealist artwork evokes Salvador Dali during a stint in the high desert of the American Southwest. The band came replete with an AI-generated press photo and a halfway believable bio.  

News of The Velvet Sundown’s AI origins spread like wildfire, and U.S. on-demand streams quickly jumped to approximately 140,000 per week, according to Luminate. The dramatic rise revealed strong curiosity about a band with a fully formed concept but no human creativity. Interest reached a fever pitch the following week when weekly on-demand streams jumped to 760,000. That turned out to be the band’s high-water mark.  

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Streaming activity dropped 25% the following week, and another 7% the week after. Then interest in The Velvet Sundown fell off a cliff. Weekly streams plunged 48%, then 34%, and then another 25%. Six weeks after hitting its streaming pinnacle, The Velvet Sundown’s weekly on-demand streams were just 15% of its peak number. In another nine weeks, those streams were just 7% of the peak week. 

The band’s Google search traffic followed a remarkably similar trajectory. The number of searches for “The Velvet Sundown” peaked the same week that on-demand streams did, and then steadily dropped. 

When plotted on a chart, The Velvet Sundown’s weekly U.S. on-demand streams and U.S. Google search traffic look like one-half of a seismometer after a massive earthquake. A sharp peak of curiosity — measured in streams and searches — was followed by a cliff of disinterest.  

The shape of the curve says a great deal about both The Velvet Sundown and AI music in general. If AI music is fortunate enough to find an audience, it won’t be easy to keep listeners engaged. Maintaining and building an audience is the domain of record labels, artist managers and armies of service providers and consultants. People see chart positions, news appearances and social media mentions, but they don’t see the behind-the-scenes blocking and tackling that creates all that visibility. The Velvet Sundown had the benefit of being one of the first AI artists most people encountered. Once that novelty wore off, it was left to compete with far more organized, more resourceful artists. 

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Enter Xania Monet, an AI-based R&B artist who signed a multi-million-dollar deal with Hallwood Media in September. Monet is the creation of Mississippi artist Telisha Jones, who used AI music platform Suno to create songs based on lyrics she penned herself. Monet could have had an experience similar to The Velvet Sundown’s, but she took a different path. 

When Billboard broke the news about Monet’s signing, a wave of media attention drove her on-demand streams and Google search traffic to a peak in mid-September. The week after the peak, Monet’s streams fell 24% — remarkably close to The Velvet Sundown’s 25% decline after its peak week. That could have been the beginning of a steep drop following the height of the public’s curiosity. Instead, Monet’s weekly streams stopped their downward decline and leveled off over the last three weeks. So why didn’t Monet suffer the same fate as The Velvet Sundown? 

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A week after Monet’s streams hit their apex, Hallwood Media started securing radio play for her songs. In the first week — when her streams fell 24% — Monet’s songs were played just twice on broadcast radio, according to Luminate. But weekly spins rose to 109 the next week, then climbed to 423 and 485 in the next two weeks. By the most recent week (the period ended Oct. 16), Monet had something The Velvet Sundown didn’t: an aggregate radio audience of more than 1 million listeners.  

Placed side by side, the charts representing The Velvet Sundown and Xania Monet show the difference between existing outside of the traditional music business and operating within it. Radio play helped turn Monet away from the cliff of disinterest and put her on a different trajectory. Without promotion, both radio and digital, it can be exceedingly difficult for any artist to maintain momentum — much less one created with AI.

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24 Oct 2025

6ix9ine Claims He Owes the IRS $8 Million Because the Government Wanted to Make an ‘Example’ Out Of Him

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6ix9ine says that he didn’t know how to manage his money and now owes the U.S. government $8 million in unpaid taxes.

During a livestream with Deshhae Frost on Thursday (Oct. 23), the rainbow-haired rapper explained that his money troubles began once he got famous, and that no one showed him how to properly manage his funds.

“I was like, ‘Yo, Damn, all my tax-paying dollars is going to [the IRS],” 6ix9ine said. “You know, I did something that — I didn’t know how to manage my money. So my f—king — my accountant wasn’t writing nothing off. So I got into a problem with the IRS.”

He went on to say that he’s paid back $6 million and that he’s in the process of paying back the last $2 million. He also added that he felt slightly targeted, but that he’ll pay it back regardless.

“That’s $8 million going to a universe that we don’t even know where it’s going to,” he joked. “So at the end of the day, I just gotta be more smarter with my money. I’m 6ix9ine at the end of the day. The way they treat everybody else and the way they treat 6ix9ine, there’s different rules, different things. I think they want to make me an example,” he said. “That’s cool. As long as I’m with free and with my family, we gon’ pay these n—as their money. Get ’em all this money, we don’t know where it’s goin’ to. But we’re gonna do the right thing.”

6ix9ine has been deep in a press run recently, and making some controversial headlines in the process. In a separate interview on One Night with Steiny, 6ix9ine clowned his longtime foe Lil Tjay for being shot at a Chipotle in New Jersey back in 2022.

“…He almost lost his life for a burrito,” 6ix9ine said at one point. “You know that burrito bowl… So you got your rice and beans, then they slide your bowl and it goes to the meats. Then right before you get to the salad and the [guacamole] and whatever, n—as hit that n—a. I know that he’s banned from all Chipotles.”


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24 Oct 2025

Kenny Chesney & Dierks Bentley Will Bring Their Music to ‘College GameDay’ in Nashville

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On Saturday (Oct. 25), ESPN’s College GameDay will take place in Nashville, being held at Vanderbilt University’s FirstBank Stadium for the first time since 2008, and there will be a strong country presence when College GameDay visits Music City.

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Country artists Kenny Chesney and Dierks Bentley are both set to perform at Vanderbilt’s Wyatt Lawn, as College GameDay features a top 15 SEC face-off between the Missouri Tigers and Vanderbilt’s Commodores.

Nashville native and comedian Nate Bargatze will serve as the celebrity guest picker. Bargatze previously appeared on College GameDay in 2023 at the LSU vs. Alabama game, held in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

This marks just the latest high-profile appearance from Chesney in Nashville, as the country singer was recently inducted as a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame on Oct. 19, alongside fellow 2025 inductees, producer Tony Brown and the late singer-songwriter June Carter Cash. Among those celebrating Chesney that evening were performers Megan Moroney, Kelsea Ballerini and Eric Church. Chesney just announced his new slate of 2026 summer shows at Sphere in Las Vegas, and next month will release the book Heart Life Music.

Earlier this year, Vanderbilt University graduate Bentley released his new album Broken Branches and was out on the road this year headlining his Broken Branches tour, featuring openers Zach Top and The Band Loula. His Broken Branches album featured collaborations with Stephen Wilson Jr. (“Cold Beer Can”) and Miranda Lambert (“Never You”), while the album’s title track was a collaboration with John Anderson and Riley Green.


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24 Oct 2025

Luke Combs Is ‘Back in the Saddle’ Atop Country Airplay Chart For 19th No. 1 Hit

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Luke Combs earns his 19th No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart as “Back in the Saddle” gallops three spots on the ranking dated Nov. 1, up 23% to 30.8 million audience impressions Oct. 17-23, according to Luminate.

The single is expected to appear on Combs’ sixth studio album, due in early 2026. His latest leader extends one of the most consistent radio runs in recent history – dating to his first week at No. 1 in May 2017, with “Hurricane” he and Morgan Wallen are tied for the most Country Airplay leaders.

“Back in the Saddle” is also Combs’ 18th Country Airplay No. 1 as a co-writer and eighth as a co-producer. (His only leader as a recording artist that he didn’t write: his 2023 cover of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car.”)

Combs’ strategic social media teasers have helped power the success of “Back in the Saddle,” from pre-release cryptic clips featuring NASCAR icons Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Richard Petty to an acoustic preview that quickly went viral with fans. The rollout built steady anticipation and framed the song as a crowd-pleaser before it ever hit radio. Its official video added to the momentum with behind-the-scenes footage further spotlighting the NASCAR tie-in.

Beyond Combs’ 19 Country Airplay No. 1s, he’s logged six on Billboard’s multimetric Hot Country Songs chart, four on Country Streaming Songs and 11 on Country Digital Song Sales.

New Top 10s for McCollum, Parmalee

Both Parker McCollum and Parmalee break into the Country Airplay top 10. McCollum’s “What Kinda Man” rises 11-8 with 17.1 million audience impressions (up 8%), marking his fifth appearance in that range. The Conroe, Texas, native has earned three No. 1s.

Plus, Parmalee’s “Cowgirl” climbs 12-10 (17 million, up 9%). The four-man band collects its eighth top 10, a run that includes four No. 1s dating to its first, “Carolina,” in 2013. All five of the group’s Country Airplay entries this decade have hit the top 10.

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24 Oct 2025

Here’s Why Guns N’ Roses Won’t Be Playing The Sphere, According to Slash

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While other legendary rock bands have performed at the Las Vegas Sphere, Slash revealed that Guns N’ Roses apparently has no plans to take over the venue.

During an interview with Sirius XM’s Trunk Nation on Thursday (Oct. 23), Slash admitted he was worrisome that the venue might not be rock & roll friendly.

“I haven’t been [to the Sphere] yet, but just everything that I’ve seen, or most everything that I’ve seen of it, looks amazing,” Slash said. “I’m real trepidatious about playing there, because… It’s a great visual show. I think that in almost every case for a band, it becomes a visual show as opposed to seeing a rock n’ roll show. So there’s that.”

The Eagles are currently in the middle of their ongoing residency at the Sphere, and Slash shared that he had spoken with his fellow rockers about what it’s like to perform there.

Joe Walsh told him, “It’s not really sort of rock ‘n’ roll friendly, the way that it’s set up. So it’s just one of those things where it seems like a really cool thing, and conceptually there’s probably a lot of cool things that you could do, but I don’t think it would be the right environment for a proper rock n’ roll show.”

Slash also commented on Metallica, who are reportedly in talks to perform at the venue. Slash said he could picture them making it work, adding, “I’d be interested to see that too. I could see them doing it… You have to prepare your mind to put on not just a band performance, but 50 percent of what you’re doing is going to be the projection, or whatever you call that — the outer wall, what you’re putting on as content.”

Despite his apprehensions, Slash hinted that “maybe down the road” Guns N’ Roses might consider playing at the Sphere.

Meanwhile, the venue most recently announced that the reunited No Doubt will be the next band to fill up the Las Vegas venue, with the rock group scheduled for 12 shows next May.


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24 Oct 2025

Taylor Swift Eras Tour Hacker Pleads Guilty to Felony Charge Over $635K Ticket Resale Scheme

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A Jamaican man who allegedly stole and resold more 900 tickets to Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour has pleaded guilty to a New York criminal charge.

Tyrone Rose, 20, was arrested in March over allegations that he used backdoor access as an employee of a StubHub contractor to steal the pricey tickets, before forwarding them to a Queens-based accomplice who resold them for more than $635,000 in illegal profit.

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At a court hearing Thursday (Oct. 23), Rose pleaded guilty to a single count of grand larceny in the second degree over the alleged scalping scheme, while a sentencing hearing on that charge was set for January. Rose could face up to 15 years in prison.

The guilty plea was likely part of a deal under which prosecutors could recommend less than the maximum. Rose was also charged with five additional counts, including computer tampering, money laundering and conspiracy, which were not included in Thursday’s guilty plea.

Swift’s Eras Tour wrapped up last year with a record-breaking haul of more than $2 billion in face-value ticket sales over a two-year run that featured 149 stops in 51 cities across 21 countries. Massive demand for tickets led to a chaotic presale in November 2022, sparking calls for ticketing reform; it also created an infamously pricey secondary market, with even basic seats selling for thousands.

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The Eras Tour has also been big business in the courtroom. Swift fans filed class actions against Ticketmaster over the presale, and the Federal Trade Commission is suing a ticket broker for allegedly using bots to buy tickets that it resold for more than $1 million in profit. Just this month, an angry Swiftie sued StubHub for giving her “inferior” seats after she dropped $14,000 on Eras tickets.

In March, Queens prosecutors charged Rose with stealing more than 900 Eras tickets while working at a StubHub contractor in Jamaica called Sutherland. He allegedly abused his position to access a restricted area of StubHub’s network that houses URLs for event tickets that have already been sold, then re-directed them to New York-based co-conspirators who resold them for a windfall.

“These defendants tried to use the popularity of Taylor Swift’s concert tour and other high-profile events to profit at the [expense] of others,” Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said at the time. “They allegedly exploited a loophole through an offshore ticket vendor to steal tickets to the biggest concert tour of the last decade and then resold those seats for an extraordinary profit.”

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StubHub was not accused of any wrongdoing. When Rose was arrested, the company said it had promptly reported the scheme to both Sutherland and to law enforcement when uncovered, and had replaced or refunded all affected orders. Sutherland was also not accused of any wrongdoing.

Both an attorney for Rose and a spokesperson for the Queens DA did not return requests for comment on the guilty plea on Friday (Oct. 24).

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24 Oct 2025

Common Talks Becoming A Part of NBA History With New Track ‘Victory’ | Music You Should Know

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Common sits down to talk about creating the new track for the NBA on Prime, “Victory.” He opens up about his work with the NBA, his favorite players, his favorite collaborations, working with Erykah Badu, his new project with Madlib, ‘Piece of the Struggle,’ and more!

Common: NBA is one of my favorite things in life because I just love basketball. I’m always paying attention to it. I look forward to it after working being able to come watch a basketball game the NBA like I was a Bulls fan growing up, but I think at a certain point, I just started gravitating towards the players like, players I like. So Steph Curry is one of my favorites. Kyrie is one of my favorites. I love- I like Anthony Edwards. I like Kevin Durant, LeBron.

But some of the new guys, I really like, too … I really like this young dude Jeremiah Fears, he’s coming up on the New Orleans Pelicans and Cooper Flagg got game too. I think V.J. [Edgecombe], he plays hard. I like his game too.

I like to dream high. So I would like to say Kyrie Irving, but then I was talking to Carmelo one time on his podcast, and he was like, bro, let’s think realistic. Who is your player comparison? I’m still gonna fly high and say D. Wade, Dwayne Wade, I mean, but I’m thinking about comparisons on and off the court when I say him.

Man, being a ball boy was like it was something I don’t even know if I really grabbed on to what that experience was, but I was there when Michael Jordan, when he first came to the Bulls, so I just got to see a star really becoming like a superstar to becoming one of the greatest players of all time. Magic Johnson and Isaiah Thomas and Charles Barkley. I used to get, like, sneakers from them, and they would sign them, but at the time, I was kind of like just I was selling them or giving them to giving them to my teachers.

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24 Oct 2025

‘Say It and Worry About the Consequences Later’: Evan Dando Talks Writing His Memoir

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Evan Dando is squeezing a lot of work out of himself and his band the Lemonheads these days.

On Friday (Oct. 24), the group releases Love Chant, its first album of new material in 19 years. It follows the publication earlier this month of Dando’s Rumors of My Demise: A Memoir, and he reports he’s already at work on two more albums, a collection of Townes Van Zandt songs as well as the next Lemonheads set.

“I want to just keep working as much as possible ’cause we had such an extended stay away from doing anything — so why not do lots of things now?” Dando tells Billboard via Zoom from Nashville, where he’s recording the Van Zandt album. “I go through phases and stages — circles and cycles, as Willie Nelson would say. It’s a great feeling,” he continues, touching up a small painting during the discussion. “I have the urge to create like never before.”

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Though they’re out during the same month, Dando resists tying the memoir and the album too closely together. Love Chant’s personal (and at times autobiographical) lyrics, he says, “are what I always do,” so he feels the two projects “put the whole story in perspective a bit, but more in a general way.” Nevertheless, Dando continues, “I always dreamt of a time when I’d be putting out, like, two or three things all at once. I remember when Johnny Cash did that, three things at once or something, I thought, ‘yeah, that’s a way to go,’ especially when you’re a little bit older. Why not do a bunch of things at once. That’s really smart.”

Dando, who now resides in Brazil, says Love Chant — produced by Apollo Nove (Bebel Gilberto, Rita Lee, Seu Jorge) at A9 Audio in Sao Paulo — was drawn from a cache of more than 30 songs written during the years since the Lemonheads’ self-titled 2006 album. The Lou Reed-esque “The Key of Victory,” for instance, came from a groove on a tape Dando found of himself playing it for nearly 45 minutes. The buoyant “Cell Phone Blues,” meanwhile, has also been around for a number of years and is described by Dando as “one of those songs that was like a dare — ‘I dare you to put that one out!,’ and it wound up through various things we did in the studio, good enough to make it.” “Roky,” meanwhile, is a homage to the late psychedelic rock hero Roky Erickson that came from a sound check jam after Dando and the Lemonheads learned about Erickson’s death on May 31, 2019.

“I am especially proud of this record. We’ve never had so much fun making a record,” he says.

Ultimately, Dando hopes, “we’ll get a trio (of albums) out of this. I like to work in two- or three-record phases, like the (Rolling) Stones did when they went from Let It Bleed to Beggars Banquet to Sticky Fingers. (Love Chant)’s kind of like my Some Girls; that was their redemption, ’cause that record was so good, and this is the same way ’cause I think we got a bunch of records out of the one session, just like they did.”

As Love Chant comes out, Dando is still promoting Rumors of My Demise, a frank and illuminating account of his eventful life co-written with Jim Ruland. Dando pulled few punches. He addresses his upbringing, the impact of his parents’ divorce, his fascination with Charles Manson, sleepwalking issues, his struggles with pop stardom (and being a particularly good-looking pop star) after the Lemonheads hit it big during the early ‘90s, his battles with the music business and his well-documented drug use and the trainwrecks that caused in his life and career.

The book also delves into his creative process as well as Dando’s Forrest Gump-like relationships with assorted celebrities (Johnny Depp, Kate Moss, Milla Jovovich, Elizabeth Moses and others) and a non-relationship with Courtney Love, despite, Dando writes, her attempts otherwise. Dando was particularly dismayed that onetime Nirvana member Pat Smear, a friend, told him that Kurt Cobain believed Dando and Love had an affair; “‘Oh God,’ I thought, ‘Kurt Cobain went to his death thinking I’d slept with Courtney.’ I wanted to be honest and talk about whatever,” Dando says. “I have a difficult time shutting my mouth, anyway, so the book — why any different? I guess I was always, in the back of my mind, ‘No, don’t hold back. Just say it and worry about the consequences later, and we’ll see what happens.’”

Dando — who married video director Antonia Teixeira last year — has given up hard drugs such as heroin and crack but still imbibes in the occasional marijuana, LSD and mushrooms. “I don’t know if being completely sober is something I ever want to be,” he confesses in Rumors of My Demise — the title a reference to the many rumors about Dando’s death that have surfaced over the years. Despite all the sordid experiences, however, he came away from the book feeling like “the story’s not over yet, which is nice.” And even in his worst years, he adds, he was confident that would be the case.

“In the back of my mind I was always, like, ‘I’m gonna get through this somehow,’” Dando says. “I had a feeling about it, and it did happen. I’ve been lucky that I generally get a lot of good will from people, people doing nice things for me. But I was literally underneath this tsunami of death, fate or whatever, and skipped out of the way just in time. But I knew in my heart, ‘I’m gonna get out of this situation,’ and I did.”

Among his conclusions, Dando claims he’s “not famous anymore” and writes about coming to terms with what he calls the “elder-statesman era” of the Lemonheads.” While he feels he’s “turned into the grunge relic I was always afraid I’d become,” he is unconditional about his gratitude for being able to make music his life’s work — then, and now. “We’ve been around so long that it’s almost like a grudging respect — like the ugly building or the old hooker that just won’t go away, so people have to deal with it,” Dando says. “I love that. It’s a very human quality, this dogged refusal to give up.”

Dando is now jonesing to write more. “I’d like to write a ‘real’ book about something besides myself,” he says — if not fiction than a proposed “field guide to soft drinks” or other music topics. “I called up (the publisher) once, last minute, and was like, ‘Could we change the whole thing? Can I just write about other bands?’ and they were like, ‘Uh…no,’” he recalls with a laugh. “But I wanted to be a writer since I was a teenager, so I hope there’s more.”