Lone Justice/Maria McKee

According to social media posts, Marvin Etzioni, Ryan Hedgecock and Maria McKee are working on a new Lone Justice album. Apparently Marvin showed Maria some old demos and they decided to contact Ryan about making some new recordings. As mentioned, drummers Don Willens and Don Heffington both passed away years ago, so this basically reunites the surviving core members.

Hello Lone Justice Heads!
In the studio with Ryan Hedgecock working on the forthcoming LJ album.
He's playing his 1982 Telecaster reissue. pic.twitter.com/PGFKTSeKcW

— marvin etzioni (@marvinetzioni) July 2, 2022

McKee also mentions working on the album in an earlier Instagram post.

oh wow

Honestly surprised she would be up for this, given how far afield she’s shifted

For those without Instagram, this is from Maria McKee's account, the text under a photo cropped from the cover of The Vaught Tapes 1983 from Omnivore Recordings:

(April 20) It's hard to believe it's been over a year since Don died. Marvin and I meet every few weeks at Factor's deli for latkes and do a stroll through the neighborhood, stop for rugelach and coffee. We talk about old times but not just old times. New life too. He recently spruced up some demos we made during the recording of Sin To Get Saved. "How do you want to release them, as MM? Or LJ?" "As LJ," I said. But we can't release it as LJ without Ryan. You will have to overdub some Ryan!" So that's what they are doing today.

And in the comments, there's a nice one from Benmont Tench saying he can't wait to hear these.

jesus what a voice

“If Love Is A Red Dress” just shook me to my core

yep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajhYfBoQSXE

Holy Moly, is that from or on your xpost Complete Geffen Demos, bird?? Great stuff, thanks! Hope they did more like that.

You're welcome! This is an official upload and apparently available on a 45 - the credits on the page list the lineup that did the first LP, including the late great Don Heffington.

Taken from their forthcoming album, ‘Teenage Kicks’ is a rambunctious slice of punk angst that was recorded in one take. It’s a timeless anthem with a joyous riff that explodes into a hail of feedback.

(Also, I don't think this is on the Geffen demos bootleg - I need to find my copy and check, though)