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It's nearly 2013 and the Melvins will be breaking in a select few along with Redd Kross in L.A. at the historic Alexandria Hotel for their New Years Eve Ballroom Blitz! The Melvins will also be playing a show in San Francisco at the Great American Music Hall on Dec. 29th.


Poster by Haze XXL

There's sure to be some interesting limited releases available at the New Years eve show, including a split 12" w/ Red Kross which has the Melvins covering Female Trouble and Carpe Diem by The Fugs! Redd Kross side will have 2 versions of "Linda Blair" old & new. Silk screened sleeves by Obsolete Industries. 300 are being pressed so there should be a handful leftover after the show for sale on the web from AmRep.

Joyful Noise Recordings will soon be opening up for pre-order their Flexi-Disc series for 2013 and not only are the Melvins being featured, Mackie Osborne did the artwork for the optional Deluxe Wooden Box for the set. "The Joyful Noise 2013 Flexi Disc Series features new, unreleased recordings from 12 of our favorite bands - released monthly on square, single-sided, clear 7" Flexi Discs. Limited to just 1000 copies solely on Flexi Disc, these songs will not be released digitally or on any other format.  Each release includes full artwork, featuring a unique cover provided by the respective bands."  No word on what the song the Melvins will be contributing as of yet. Check out the Joyful Noise site for all the details...


Hand-numbered, custom-built wooden box, screen-printed with exclusive artwork by Mackie Osborne

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Big Biz has put up the remainder of the 2012 tour 7 inches on their site for purchase, so I invite you to do some business with Big Business. $7 and comes in Yellow, Clear, or Red. A-side is Battlefields and the b-side is Into The Light(Siouxsie and the Banshees cover). "our limited run of tour 7's has finally been counted and put up on the site!!!! can you believe it? be a part of history and order all of them for yourself.. then put them on ebay and watch the profits rain in!!!!!! comes with a free download card and everything!" They're also pursuing a hostile takeover of Facebook so get behind that before they sick a portion of their legal team on you.

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ACT FAST, AmRep has posted a plethora of the recent limited Melvins releases for sale on their SHOXOP tonight! This includes the latest Sugar Daddy splits (Butthole Surfers & MWxHC), Freak Puke picture discs, The Bulls & the Bees and the 1983 10" records, and the 7" picture discs with Hammerhead. Also, if you're behind on what Amphetamine Reptile was back in its heyday you might want to pick up a copy of the AmRep Motors comp which includes the Melvins track Larry. A lot of this stuff may sell out tonight, you've been warned!

UPDATE: Everything sold out in a matter of a couple hours. I do know that you can still buy the Melvins/Hammerhead split picture disc from the artist Chris Mars directly. Melvins should also be getting restocked soon to sell more of some of these items on their tour as well, and the 5th 1983 EP cover variant is being held over for the New Years Eve show w/ Redd Kross.

   

The fifth release in this 13 volume series has Melvins "Kicking Machine" (live from Sugar Daddy LP) on the A-Side and Side One with tracks by 3 good ol' Midwestern Hardcore bands with Negative Approach ("Sick of Talk"), Die Kreuzen ("In School") & Necros ("IQ32").

The sixth release in this 13 volume series has Melvins "Eye Flys" (live from Sugar Daddy LP) on the A-Side and Side One by the legendary Butthole Surfers with the tracks, 'Pittsburgh to Lebanon", "No Rule" & "Gary Floyd."


Poster by Jeff LaChance

"We are well into this infernal tour and now it's dark. Well, it's not actually dark but that's what Frank Booth would say and I've been on a Blue Velvet bender as of late, meaning I've watched all or part of the movie Blue Velvet for the last eight nights. Best sex scenes ever put to film! I can't watch those parts without laughing my ass off and laughs are good on tour, they give you the strength to go about your day and make it easier to face life itself. I've been trying to talk Trevor into playing the song "Blue Velvet" in his solo but so far no luck. I still have half the tour to make it happen." - read more from the Melvins tour diary at SPIN

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The Melvins are hanging in there and inching up on the halfway mark of their 51 day record breaking tour! As Buzz said in a recent interview with citypages.com: "Its going good! No one is dead, no one is in jail, and everyone is still on heroin." They've been keeping a tour diary at SPIN.com, make sure you stay up to date on all of the shenanigans and tomfoolery. Dale is also doing a bit of a tour blog for Tama's site. They're touring with Tweak Bird on most of these dates, and SPIN also put up a preview track from their upcoming album Undercover Crops which is endorsed by Dale Crover himself, can't do much better than that... Melvins have a lot of limited edition stuff at the merch table on this tour, including the Freak Puke picture discs, '1983' and 'The Bulls & the Bees' 10" records, and the newest in the Sugar Daddy 12" split series with Butthole Surfers and Die Kreuzen/Necros/Negative Approach. Speaking of which, those new Sugar Daddy splits should go up for sale on AmRep's site real soon so stay on your toes. Melvins also announced that they'll be playing in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve with Redd Kross. Tickets are on sale now, and it should be a real barn burner!

The Bulls & The Bees 10" - Letterpress Sleeve art by Mackie Osborne

While the Melvins were in the great city of Minneapolis playing Grumpy's some video was shot by a friend of themelvins.net forum!


Poster design by Shawn Knight & Michael Hacker

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AmRep has put the Freak Puke picture discs up for sale tonight! 300 of each design = 1500 total pressed. $30 Get yours while the gettin's good. All the details you need are below...

UPDATE: These have temporarily sold out online. They will be on sale via the dynamic Brian Walsby at the merch booth for the majority of dates for the remainder of the tour. Assuming some will be left over after the tour more will be made available online at a later date. Thus, I would advise against blowing your money on ebay for one of these unless you have no patience whatsoever.

Melvins "Freak Puke" LP (AMREP089) with 5 different picture disc designs by Gary Taxali, Tara McPherson, Skinner, Mackie Osborne & Dave Cooper.

Here's how it works. This LP is a picture disc. There are 5 different artists' art in the run we made and like a pack of baseball cards. YOU DON'T PICK WHICH DESIGN YOU GET.

These are all sealed in a normal 12" LP cardboard sleeve (as pictured). You won't know which design you have until you open it, so... YOU DON'T PICK WHICH DESIGN YOU GET.

The B-side image is the same on all the LPs, it's the LP jacket graphic, as pictured in the lower right on the picture of the collected designs & you guessed it... YOU DON'T PICK WHICH DESIGN YOU GET.

You can only order TWO LPs. That really does mean TWO LPs. If you order more we will dump/refund your ENTIRE order.

VEVO uploaded a pro-shot series of videos from a recent Melvins show, however they didn't post the exact date/location of the performance. Check it out!

Pirate Press posted an image of all the the vinyl variants AmRep is putting out for the 1983 and Bulls & The Bees releases. These are available from the band on their current U.S. tour and will likely be available online in limited quantities at some point in the near future.

PunkNews.org posted a good interview w/ Dale - "Buzz and I always have had a great relationship. We don't get in big fights like The Kinks. But you know, a lot of people just lose their minds. We're trying to lose our minds and that's why we're doing a 51 day tour. We're really trying to crack ourselves. That's what this is all about. We're trying to push ourselves to the limits of insanity."


Pitchfork premiered the new Big Business song Battlefields which is available on their new 7". It should be available on their website eventually, but if you want a copy immediately you may be in luck if you have a chance to check them out on their ongoing ODD MILK WING tour! Incidentally, they're currently touring with my fellow Minneapolitans, Gay Witch Abortion.

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Melvins have announced that AmRep will be releasing Freak Puke on vinyl picture discs featuring 5 different artists. Tara McPhersen / Gary Taxali / Skinner / Mackie Osborne / Dave Cooper These should be available sometime in September via Amrep's online store. Keep an eye on this thread for the latest updates.


Art by Mackie Osborne

   

Pitchfork has released a fun animated video as part of their Frames series of Buzz describing the Melvins first U.S. tour back in 1986.




 50 States + D.C. in 51 Days Record Breaker Fall U.S. Tour - Poster by Viral Graphics

 Two-Headed Podcast did an interview with Melvins Lite last month before the Bellingham, WA show.

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