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:

• January, 22 2009 - Sydney, Australia - The Annandale Hotel
  
• January, 27 2009 - Melbourne, Australia - Ding Dong Lounge

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.