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Today Ipecac announced vinyl reissues of the three Big Business era lineup full lengths. I know fans have been waiting a long time for vinyl reissues of these recent classics! Bride Screamed Murder had previously only been released by AmRep in limited Art edition quantities, and the same was the case for the original 4 single sided (A) Senile Animal release that HydraHead Records put out at the time.

Reminder: Melvins TV Volume 3: MAYDAY! MAYDAY! MAYDAY! starts tomorrow at 3PM eastern and stays up for a week! Over an hour of music, deep philosophy and stupid stunts! melvins.veeps.com

More from the label:
Making our way through the (the) Melvins catalog and bringing back the "Big Business line-up" releases on vinyl for your collections on June 25th!
(A) SENILE ANIMAL - Sea Blue 2LP gatefold set, cut at 45rpm. Plus a limited edition Aqua Blue Splatter
NUDE WITH BOOTS - Apple Red LP. Plus a limited edition Red w/ Black Splatter
THE BRIDE SCREAMED MURDER - Apple Red LP. Plus a limited edition Tri-Color Red/Pink/White
All come with a 12 page booklet with expanded art from Mackie Osborne
Regular vinyl available at stores everywhere, but the limited editions (500 each worldwide) are only in our Blixt & Townsend webstores

In case you missed it on Facebook, check out the April Fool's Day tease of an all bass album THUD!

Bifocal Media even has a special limited to 100 T-Shirt featuring the original HAZE XXL cover art to memorialize what is sure to become another Melvins classic!

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April 1st Melvins announce new all-bass lineup/record.


30 albums deep into a career of bottom-heavy surrealistic sludge, the Melvins are leaning into their lower frequency proclivities with the announcement of their new album “THUD!,” set to drop this weekend as an ultra-limited vinyl edition on Amphetamine Reptile Records with artwork by HAZE XXL.


The full length release bears the first fruit of a newly-minted all-bassist lineup, something that Buzz Osborne says was inevitable: “Over the years Dale and I have played so many ear-splitting live shows, it’s sheared the higher frequencies out of our hearing range. I’ve been writing songs for 5 years now that I can’t even hear. It’s mostly just by feeling the vibrations these days. Writing exclusively for basses gives us a chance to actually listen to what we’ve done”


Dale Crover says that he wanted to retain his percussive identity for the record, and studied slap-bass techniques for weeks on end: “Thank Christ for Flea.”


In addition to the core lineup, the record features recent bass-mongers Steven McDonald, Trevor Dunn and Jeff Pinkus, with a special noise bass solo emailed in from former bassist Kevin Rutmanis.


Osborne says that the biggest challenge was writing songs where listeners could differentiate the parts from each other: “By the time we were ready for Toshi to hit the record button, my strings were so loose that they were literally falling off of my bass if I strummed too hard. This is the most brown-note-laden album ever recorded.”
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Artwork by HAZE XXL

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Melvins have announced they'll be doing a 3rd live stream via Veeps on May 1st, get your tickets now!

From the band: 
Catch the third volume of our Melvins TV series, with the May 1 streaming event: “Melvins TV, Volume 3: May Day! May Day! May Day!”
Melvins (acoustic) opens (yes, two Melvins sets!). Tickets and exclusive merchandise, including a limited-edition t-shirt designed by Skinner, are available now via melvins.veeps.com
“Melvins TV #1 and #2 were a blast. So you can expect more blasting with #3. Remember to inhale deep.” - Buzz

 
Limited Edition T-Shirt for Melvins TV Vol. 3, artwork by Skinner

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Amphetamine Reptile Records will be releasing a new EP of acoustic tracks from the Melvins. This will be out on both 10" vinyl(in 3 different art variants with a factory pressing coming at a later date) and CD via shoxop.com. The cover art linocut by HAXE XXL pays tribute to the Alice Cooper album Killer which is fitting as the band covers Halo of Flies from that album on the A-side of this release. Check out the details and track listing below!


Slithering Slaughter artwork by HAZE XXL

From AmRep: After the year we just had, it's a great time for some mellow, easy listening tunes. Thankfully, the Melvins had the exact same idea with their new, all-acoustic album, Slithering Slaughter. Get all cozy with a cup of chamomile tea & fire up the hi-fi starting things off with a 12-minute cover of Alice Cooper's Halo of Flies. HAZE XXL made the cover artwork & kept the theme going with his own serpentine tribute to Cooper's Killer album.

Side A

  1. Halo of Flies (Cover of the Alice Cooper song)


Side B

  1. Honey Bucket
  2. Outside Chance (Cover of The Turtles)
  3. Up the Dumper

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Today marks the official release date of Working With God, this is the second release from the Melvins 1983 iteration of the band which features Buzz, Dale and original drummer Mike Dillard. The pre-orders of the vinyl and CD have already begun shipping so be on the look out if you ordered in advance through Ipecac, for those that didn't mask up and head on down to your local record store to pick up a copy! In the meantime, the band has put the album up for streaming on their Bandcamp site. Also be sure to check out the latest Melvins TV: Volume 2 – Divine Monkeyshines Valentine’s Day Special on Veeps if you haven't yet, it won't be available for much longer and received excellent reviews! The band also has the Valentine's Day merch up for sale at their Blixt merch shop.

Buzz appeared on Dean Del Ray's podcast Let There Be Talk on Feb. 22nd. Check it out, great conversation where they covered the new album and a ton of other stuff!

Bifocal Media has a new Melvins 1983 HAZE XXL design t-shirt based on one of his original 1983 EP art variants up for sale, check it out.

Dale appeared on Conan Neutron's Protonic Reversal Podcast a couple weeks ago, great conversation as always.

Buzz chatted with AXS TV the other day about the new album, and of course the forever hot topic of Kurt Cobain came up.

Decibel Magazine has an article with Buzz reminiscing about the year 1983.

Pollstar talked to Buzz about the future of live music after COVID.


Mike Dillard, Dale Crover, Buzz Osborne (MELVINS 1983)

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Melvins TV Volume 2: Divine Monkeyshines Valentine's Day Special is coming on February 14th! 5 songs plus band interviews and other crazy stuff just like last time on New Year's Eve! The Dale Crover Band will open. Two brand new shirts and a poster designed by HAZE XXL are also available with the purchase of this event.  Only $5 at melvins.veeps.com 

If you're on the fence, you probably didn't check out Volume 1. Ghost Cult has a great review of the stream, take it from them!

For a limited time you can also pick up the merch that was designed for the New Years Evil stream over at blixtmerchandise.store/the-melvins

Working With God, the new album from Melvins is due to come out in a little over a month, February 26th. Ipecac recently debuted two new songs from the album The Great Good Place and Caddy Daddy, check 'em out!

Loudwire has a great new video of Buzz playing some of his favorite riffs and expounding on the various guitar tunings he utilizes.


Poster art by HAZE XXL

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RAT-A-TAT-TAT! Dale's new solo album is out now on CD & Vinyl at Joyful Noise Recordings. He's also got a new merch store at BLIXT where you can pick up a copy of the album as well as a new t-shirt design! "Crover assembled an actual band to help him out. Redd Kross bassist Steve McDonald asked Crover to open for Redd Kross, Crover asked McDonald to play bass for him, and the rest is history. It’d be difficult for even the multi-talented Crover to put on a live show by himself without one of those one-man-band contraptions. In addition to McDonald, Kasai (ex-Big Business, Plan D) helps with keyboards, synths, jawharp, and backing vocals. Mindee Jorgensen (Dangerously Sleazy) sits behind the kit live and contributes additional drumming and some sweet saxophone skills here. His former Altamont bandmate Dan Southwick plays bass on “Tougher,” a track Crover cowrote with Kasai."

Punk News has named Rat-A-Tat-Tat! a staff pick and it has been charting on Billboard!

 

Dale was interviewed by Little Punk People, he talks about Rat-A-Tat-Tat!, his favorite music to listen to in 2020, and the music he grew up on on.

Dale spoke with Dean Delray for his podcast Let There Be Talk about his new album, the next Melvins album, being Neil Young and a lot of other things.

Northern Transmissions has a new interview with Dale where he talks about his new solo album, the Melvins 1983 album due out next month as well as the near term future of touring.

Dale had a conversation with mxdwn about the new album and other goings on in Melvins World.


Dale Crover photo by Buzz Osborne

Dale gave Apple Music some insight to each track on Rat-A-Tat-Tat!

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