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Once again, Mr. Brian Walsby has compiled a collection of edgy, biting comic art and bad assed, rare tunes from the Melvins. MANCHILD 4 is 100 pages of illustrations and stories from a comic artist who's been poking fun at subversive youth culture, pop culture, your favorite band, and himself since the early ë80s. You'll laugh. You'll cringe. You just might get angry and start a message board war. Contents of Brian's new book include "No! I Don't Want To Play Your Effing House Party", "Frisky's Beaver Hut", "We Were All Assholes", "My First Orgasm", "Emo Rock Revival", and tons of others. There's also an in depth Melvins 2008 tour diary that's sure to break a few eggs. BATABING! There are 3000 of these on earth. How many do you have?

Pick Your Battles is a 15 song CD of live Melvins tunes recorded in 1989 at the 924 Gilman St. Project in Berkeley, Ca. and in 2008 at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston. The track list is as follows:

  1. Koolegged
  2. Oven
  3. Cranky Messiah
  4. Raise a Paw
  5. Ever Since My Accident
  6. Green Honey
  7. Claude
  8. You're Blessened
  9. Nude With Boots
  10. The Kicking Machine
  11. Eye Flys
  12. Rat Faced Granny
  13. The Hawk
  14. You've Never Been Right
  15. Boris

Tracks 1-9 from Gilman St./Tracks 10-15 at the Paradise.

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from the Melvins Myspace: "The Melvins celebrate their Silver Anniversary this year! Lots of fun and surprises are coming! To kick off the festivities, the boys are doing some select shows performing the Houdini record in it’s entirety. One Mr. Trevor Dunn will be handling the bass duties while the Big Business boys are touring their new album “Mind The Drift”. Also along for the ride is original drummer Mike Dillard. The boys will play songs from the Mangled Demos record with Dale Crover playing the role of Matt Lukin! The Melvins will also play two special shows with old pals Green River in Seattle, WA."

  • May 15, 2009 - New York, NY - Webster Hall
  • May 16, 2009 - Boston, MA - Paradise
  • May 18, 2009 - Chicago, IL - Double Door
  • May 20, 2009 - Austin, TX - Emo's
  • May 22, 2009 - Seattle, WA - Showbox
  • May 23, 2009 - Seattle, WA - Showbox
  • May 24, 2009 - Portland, OR - Roseland

The Melvins have been announced as part of the lineup for the Flaming Lips/ATP curated New York All Tomorrow Parties Festival this year on Saturday September 12th.

It looks like they will also be playing some festivals this summer overseas, including this years Fuji Rock Festival in Japan on July 25th.

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Burlesque of North America is selling the 3 item's that were on sale during the Grumpy's dates in Minneapolis this past December. Check out their store for details!

BUZZO'S T-SHIRT
We received several emails from you asking to purchase individual items from the sets, so here they are! Get 'em while they're hot!
$15 + $5 shipping

MELVINS vs MPLS 3CD SET
3-disc set of live Melvins performances in Minneapolis. 2 audio discs, one data disc, 11 live shows total! Brand new artwork designed by Wes Winship and screenprinted right here at Burlesque.
$40 + $5 shipping.

MELVINS BUZZO PACKAGE 1
This package contains all three of the following:
- BuzzO's t-shirt, designed by Wes Winship
- Melvins VS MPLS 3CD set with all new artwork by Wes Winship and screenprinted here at Burlesque
- Star Spangled Banner 7"
$72 includes shipping.

MELVINS BUZZO PACKAGE 2
This package contains both of the following:
- BuzzO's t-shirt, designed by Wes Winship
- Melvins VS MPLS 3CD set with all new artwork by Wes Winship and screenprinted here at Burlesque
$62 includes shipping.

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Word on the street is that Melvins will be playing a couple shows in Australia in January '09 while Fantomas is down under doing the Big Day Out 2009 festival dates. Be sure to check Ipecac's calendar for up to date info on Fantomas shows. These Melvins dates will be the lineup of Buzz, Dale, & Trevor Dunn on bass. The dates:

Melvins will also be playing a show at the Great American Music Hall on Dec. 27th. Poster designed by Dirty Donny.

Hydra Head has begun selling the a Senile Animal 4 LP sets on their webstore again. Specifically they have the Peach/Olive/Yellow/Dark Blue & Dark Blue/Yellow Haze ones for sale. The comic book by Tom Neely "Your Disease Spread Quick" is also available from their webstore but appears to be sold out currently.

The Star Spangled Banner 7" and the second edition Melvins vs MPLS cd's have sold out according to amrep. No word yet on whether or not Burlesque has any more of the cd sets or t-shirts left.

Brian Walsby is doing another book and will be releasing another Melvins CD along with it on Bifocal Media, most likely on sale date is April 4th, 2009. Here is what Mr. Walsby had to say about the release: We still havent completely decided the order of the cd but it will be the Gilman St. recording and some of a recent show from the last tour. There will be some old photos and liner notes in the cd as well. You can count on these songs at least:
Oven
Koolegged
Green Honey
Raise A Paw
Your Blessened

and from the recent stuff:
Boris
Eye Flys
maybe the trilogy of songs off of A Senile Animal

 

 The Melvins also made an apperance on the children's show Pancake Mountain back in November, the clip has been posted on the youtube.

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UPDATE 12/19/08 from the amrep bored: "You folks from out of town, thank the snow gods, as we had a semi blizzard with -10 temps the night of the show. Being true Minnesotans we still had a great turnout at the guest bartending things and the Sun. show itself. Likely we were the only bar in town with a couple hundred folks hanging out! But it wasn't quite a sellout, and as a result we have some extra stock left over. I Never announced the re-issue of the CD set, as it came up pretty last minute. Burlesque Crew (well Wes) did a bang up job."

MELVINS • STAR SPANGLED BANNER 7" - SOLD OUT
$10 - Scale 114
Newest Melvins / AmRep collaboration. 2 studio songs. The acapella  version of Star Spangled Banner they performed during their 2008 tour, and another studio track, this being a ripping version of Kiss' "Detroit Rock City". Limited Edition of 666, on vinyl only.


2nd and final edition of
MELVINS vs. MINNEAPOLIS CD set. - SOLD OUT
$40
Same material as the 1st EDITION, with a whole new sleeve. Edition of 333

 

UPDATE 12/14/08 from the bbs: Hello everybody, There's some new limited stuff showing up at the Buzz's bar tending shift at Grumpy's in downtown Minneapolis tonight as well as at the Melvins show at Grumpy's Roseville later. Along with the new 7" I'm sure most of you know about, I put together a second and final edition of the Melvins vs. Minneapolis 3 CD set. This is an edition of 333 and has revamped artwork by yours truly. I had fun on this just working over my original art and generally Grump-a-fying it. The CDs are the same as the first edition, we just did it for people that missed out the first time and since we had to screen print it all over again, thought a change up was in order. They are priced at $40 each. (hey, there's over 10 hours of music on there!)

The second item goes with Buzz's takeover of Grumpy's, or as it will soon be known, BuzzO's. They are available in white and grey, complete with Buzz's gold tooth. These were made for this weekend and tonight might be the only chance to get them. Unless you were one of the awesome people that picked one up last night of course. Shirts are $15 each

from the amrep bored: Holy smokes, the weekend to promote the new Melvins single has gone ballistic. Events all over.
Buzz just called me late last week and wants to do a Melvins set. Here's the itinerary for that weekend.

• Buzz guest bartending Grumpy's Roseville Sat. Dec 13 - 9pm

• Big Business playing live at the Triple Rock Sat. Dec 13 - 11pm

• Buzz guest bartending Grumpy's Downtown Sun. Dec 14 - 9pm

• Melvins playing live Grumpy's ROSEVILLE Sun. Dec 14 - 10pm

Tickets for both the Sat. Big Business show at Triple Rock, and the Sun. Melvins show at Grumpy's available at Indietickets.com
    (Big Business WILL NOT be playing on the Melvins set that Sun. Night though there's been some talk of the Melvins joining them at the Triple Rock, as of yet unconfirmed, so get down to the Triple Rock!)

directions / info at www.grumpys-bar.com

From grumpysbar.com: MELVINS AND BASTARD SAINT LIVE AND LOUD AT GRUMPY'S ROSEVILLE.

December 14th (interestingly, day two of King Buzzo as a guest bartender), Grumpy's Roseville will see a live performance from the Melvins and Bastard Saint. Or if you want to really live it up that night, get access to the VIP room for free food, beer, records and conversation. It's like being part of the hipster crowd, but you don't have to deal with hipsters.

 

More from grumpysbar.com: KING BUZZO OF THE MELVINS WILL BE SLINGING DRINKS AT GRUMPY'S.

Grumpy's X-Mas Present to our Rocker crowd comes early!

Guest bartending indeed. Buzz will be in the house, behind the bar, and serving up his own concoctions for those brave enough to drink 'em. Sat Dec 13 at Grumpy's Roseville, and Sun Dec. 14th at Grumpy's Downtown. Both nights will be from 9pm-10:30 pm. In conjunction with the Guest Star Bartender appearance, AmRep will be making a limited edition 7" available at the bar during this. The 7" is limited to 666 copies, and has 2 unreleased studio tracks. - The Melvins version of Star Spangled Banner, and a cover of Kiss's Detroit Rock City.

UPDATE 12/2/08 grumpysbar.com: A while back, we made the announcement that Melvins singer King Buzzo would be guest bartending at Grumpy's Roseville and Downtown locations. Well, now he's got help. Melvin's collaborator and Tool guitarist Adam Jones (video director, Rolling Stone's #75 top guitarist, and Ronnie Dobbs supporter) will also be slinging drinks for you. So if you prefer your rock celebrities subservient, your time is coming.

 

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The (a) Senile Animal 4xLP is set to be released by the end of the month on the great Hydra Head Records. This thing is a monster and will indeed prove to be worth the wait. Side A of each LP is audio at 45rpm with color labels, Side B has different etchings on the vinyl. Each LP has a heavyweight inner sleeve, all kept inside a custom designed 4xLP gatefold jacket. This thing is as thick as a book and limited to a one time pressing of 3,000 with over 5 sets of colors in varying numbers of each within that 3,000 pressing, most limited is 100, most available is 1000.

A super limited edition silkscreened and numbered box set version of 300 will be available of this which will also include a signed copy of Tom Neely's Melvins inspired comic book "Your Disease Spread Quickly" as well as a die-cast metal belt buckle based on a design the band provided, around 3-400 of these were made.

The box set will be made available first,exclusively through Secret Headquarters on Sunset Blvd in Sliverlake/Los Feliz, CA. These should be available very soon, and are limited to 300 on a color exclusive to the box.  A wider release for the release can be expected by the end of the month, exact release date is TBA.  Check hydraheadlines.blogspot.com for updates.

 

 

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