Splender return

Splender are back, reports Alternative Addiction. Don't remember Splender? 1999's "Yeah, Whatever"? They got in on the very tail-end of the original alt-rock craze (right before Creed and Limp Bizkit brought nu-metal in), along with bands like Stroke 9 and Lit. I saw them at Music Midtown in Atlanta in the spring of 2000, on the same bill as Guster, Oasis, and Travis. They were pretty good live; bass player tweezed his eyebrows a bit too much, but hey, whatever makes you happy. Then they ended up as the only rock act on Clive Davis' J Records label for their second album, which flopped (though I liked it), and they broke up in 2003.

Since the break-up, lead singer Waymon Boone moved to Sacramento and started a band called Headrush, which didn't do much. He also became a songwriter-for-hire, working for Kelly Clarkson, Pink, and Tim McGraw, as well as the Shirley Manson solo album that may have been scrapped.

This reunion features all four original members (hey, Candlebox can't claim that). No tour dates have been announced, but a new album is expected in 2009.
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