FREAK PUKE out today, also 50 state + D.C. tour anounced

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Created: 05 June 2012

Today is the day my friends, get out to your local record stores and pick up FREAK PUKE - the new Melvins LITE album from Ipecac Recordings. Melvins Lite is an additional incarnation of the Melvins.  The line-up is Buzz Osborne, Dale Crover and Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, Fantomas & Tomahawk).  “The Melvins have a long history of mixing up our line-ups and I think that’s what has kept us relevant for so long,” explains Buzz.  “Consider the Freak Puke record the fifth side of the four-sided Melvins triangle."  "We had seen Trevor playing upright bass in a jazz setting and thought that we could utilize that for a recording project," explained Crover. "This is something different from the two drummer/big hair line-up, which we plan on continuing with as well."  For a limited time you can stream the entire album at Spinner.

Freak Puke - Tracklisting:

1. Mr. Rip Off 5:52
2. Inner Ear Rupture 1:56
3. Baby, Won't You Weird Me Out 3:50
4. Worm Farm Walt 3:54
5. A Growing Disgust 4:28
6. Leon vs. The Revolution 2:47
7. Holy Barbarians 2:31
8. Freak Puke 2:46
9. Let Me Roll It 4:30
10. Tommy Goes Berserk 9:40

Melvins also announced today that they'll be touring all 50 states + Washington D.C. in 51 days! The Melvins will attempt to become the Guinness World Record holders for the first band to tour the full United States and D.C. in 51 days with a tour kicking off Sept. 5 in Anchorage, Alaska and wrapping up Oct. 25 in Honolulu, Hawaii. "We figured it was time for us to do something REALLY crazy," said Osborne. "51 shows in 50 states plus 1 on D.C. and all in 51 days?  Jeez!  I wonder if we can do it?" The tour, which will feature the Melvins Lite line-up of Buzz Osborne, Dale Crover and Trevor Dunn, also marks the first time in the band's near 30-year history that they will perform in Alaska, New Hampshire, Delaware and Hawaii. Buzz will be a guest on Fox News' "Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld" on June 28.

Poster by HAZE XXL

June 8, 2012 - Los Angeles, CA - Subliminal Projects Gallery (w/Hammerhead) - Post Moral Neanderthal Retardist Pornography art show
June 30, 2012 New York, NY TT Underground Gallery (w/Hammerhead) - Post Moral Neanderthal Retardist Pornography art show
Melvins-Lite Northern Incursion Tour w/ Retox
July 1 Rochester, NY Water Street Music Hall
July 3 Montreal, QC Corona Theatre
July 4 Ottawa, ON Cisco Ottaway Bluesfest
July 5 Toronto, ON Opera House
July 6 London, ON Call the Office
July 7 Hamilton, ON Club Absinthe
July 9 Winnipeg, MB West End Cultural Center
July 10 Regina, SK The Exchange
July 11 Saskatoon, SK Louis' Pub
July 12 Calgary, AB Republik
July 13 Edmonton, AB Starlite Room
July 15 Vancouver, BC Venue
July 16 Victoria, BC 9one9 Club
July 17 Bellingham, WA Wild Buffalo House of Music
July 18 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theatre
July 20 San Francisco, CA Slim's
September 2 Sacramento, CA Ace of Spades
50 States + D.C. in 51 Days Record Breaker Fall U.S. Tour
September 5 Anchorage, AK Bear Tooth Theatre and Pub
September 6 Seattle, WA Showbox at The Market
September 7 Portland, Oregon Hawthorne Theatre
September 8 Boise, ID Neurolux Lounge
September 9 Missoula, MT Top Hat Lounge
September 10 Salt Lake City, UT In the Venue
September 11 Cheyenne, WY Forum 619
September 12 Denver, CO Bluebird Theatre
September 13 Lawrence, KS The Bottleneck
September 14 Columbia, MO The Blue Note
September 15 Omaha, NE The Waiting Room
September 16 Des Moines, IA Wooly's
September 17 Sioux Falls, SD The Vault
September 18 Fargo, ND The Aquarium
September 19 Minneapolis, MN Grumpy's
September 20 Madison, WI High Noon Saloon
September 21 Chicago, IL Double Door
September 22 Indianapolis, IN The Vogue Theatre
September 23 Louisville, KY The Vernon Club
September 24 Detroit, MI Smalls
September 25 Cleveland, OH Grog Shop
September 26 Morgantown, WV 123 Pleasant Street
September 27 Allentown, PA Crocodile Rock Cafe
September 28 South Burlington, VT Higher Ground
September 29 Dover, NH Dover Brickhouse
September 30 Portland, ME Asylum
October 1 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club
October 2 Pawtucket, RI The Met Cafe
October 3 New Haven, CT Toad's Place
October 4 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg
October 5 Hoboken, NJ Maxwell's
October 6 Wilmington, DE Mojo 13
October 7 Baltimore, MD Ottobar
October 8 Washington, DC Black Cat
October 9 Charlottesville, VA Jefferson Theatre
October 10 Carrboro, NC Cat's Cradle
October 11 Knoxville, TN The Square Room
October 12 Greenville, SC The Handle Bar
October 13 Athens, GA 40 Watt Club
October 14 Birmingham, AL Bottle Tree
October 15 Pensacola, FL Vinyl Music Hall
October 16 Jackson, MS Duling Hall
October 17 Little Rock, AR Juanita's Cantina
October 18 Baton Rouge, LA Spanish Moon
October 19 Austin, TX Mohawk
October 20 Norman, OK Opolis Production
October 21 Albuquerque, NM Launchpad
October 22 Phoenix, AZ Crescent Ballroom
October 23 Las Vegas, NV Las Vegas Country Saloon
October 24 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Forever Cemetery
October 25 Honolulu, HI The Republik

Melvins/Hammerhead Picture Discs on-sale tonight & MANCHILD 6 is out now too!

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Written by brian

Created: 27 May 2012

The amazing picture discs AmRep has put together for the upcoming art shows in L.A. and New York are going to be available in limited quantities tonight at 6PM Central Time. This will likely sell out quickly as the entire amount obviously won't be put on sale before the art show and the bands will be getting some too to sell at shows etc.

Split 7" picture disc made in conjunction with the "Post-Moral Neanderthal Retardist Pornography" art shows in LA & NYC.  5, count 'em 5, different variant artwork by the likes of Camille Rose Garcia, Shepard Fairey, Junko Mizuno, Chris Mars & Haze-XXL. 2500 total of this release with 500 pressed of each design. First person to complain they are sold out because they didn't read this, we're sending AmRep over to your house to punch you in the throat.

A-side: Melvins- "A Growing Disgust"
B-side: Hammerhead- "Lite Industrial"

Friend to Melvins and Melvins-Fan alike, the prolific Brian Walsby has released his new book, the latest in his series - MANCHILD 6 Check it out!

After finally being suckered into fatherhood with the birth of his daughter Willow, Brian Walsby finally says, “goodbye punk rock, hello ad...ulthood” with the release of MANCHILD 6. Joining the ride is new publisher Will Butler of To Live a Lie Records. Will somehow believed in Brian enough to spend his own money on someone who obviously is out of touch, has betrayed the scene (any scene, take your pick) and has more or less moved on. Or has he? 

Despite the nonstop demands of diapers, real life responsibilities and taking the six year old Noble to school most of the time Brian has still somehow found precious time in coming up with new work. Filling out MANCHILD 6 are exclusive interviews straight from Brian’s blog (INTROVERTED LOUDMOUTH) from the last couple of years with lengthy interviews with Richmond’s TANNON PENLAND (LOINCLOTH), Raleigh’s own incredible songwriter KENNY ROBY, The split personality of SCOTT RADINSKY (PULLEY, TEN FOOT POLE, SCARED STRAIGHT) , guitarist for the DESCENDENTS and ALL STEPHEN EGERTON and a lengthy tour diary on the road with MELVINS right before Willow was born. Lots of good reading.

So if you are at all interested in punk rock, fatherhood, MELVINS, potshots at people who deserve it, Mad magazine type satire and all of the other things that Brian Walsby is known for, MANCHILD 6 is a must have and a fine addition to a growing collection of hard work.

On May 21st NBC's 'Last Call w/ Carson Daly' featured a couple more songs from the Melvins show at the Troubadour in L.A. on April 13th.

  Spin & The Melvins released a sneak peak, Leon vs. The Revolution, Track 6 from Freak Puke which is due out June 5th.

Secret Serpents posted images and in some cases purchase links of the tour poster series they put together for the Melvins/Unsane tour this spring.

Melvins announce Canadian tour dates as Melvins Lite and limited picture disc too!

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Created: 28 April 2012

Canadians, your luck has finally turned! Either the petitions worked or The Queen must have been fooled by the slight name inconsistency as Melvins Lite will be touring the north this July! Check the tour dates page for the up to date list of upcoming shows.

NBC posted the video of the Melvins performance of The War on Wisdom on Last Call w/ Carson Daly, someone else happened to do them one better and include the entire appearance which also featured most of The Bit off of Stag.

AmRep will be putting out a 5 artist series of split 7" picture discs with Melvins on one side and Hammerhead on the other. (same songs on each of the five 7"s)

So we'll have 5 different picture disc versions of the same single available at the Post Moral Neanderthal Retardist Pornography art & music show at Subliminal Gallery in L.A.(6/8) and TT Underground in NYC (6/30). AmRep is making a large run too! We showed the Junko Mizuno art, now feast your eyes on Camille Rose Garcia's art for these!!! If we loved Camille any more we'd have to marry her in some weird reverse-Mormon kinda way.

July 1 Rochester, NY Water Street Music Hall
July 3 Montreal, QC Corona Theatre
July 4 Ottawa, ON Cisco Ottaway Bluesfest
July 5 Toronto, ON Opera House
July 6 London, ON Call the Office
July 7 Hamilton, ON Club Absinthe
July 9 Winnipeg, MB West End Cultural Center
July 10 Regina, SK The Exchange
July 11 Saskatoon, SK Louis' Pub
July 12 Calgary, AB Republik
July 13 Edmonton, AB Starlite Room
July 15 Vancouver, BC Venue
July 17 Bellingham, WA Wild Buffalo House of Music
July 18 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theatre
July 20 San Francisco, CA Slim's

The Bulls & The Bees out today, plus new video for 'The War on Wisdom'

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Created: 13 March 2012

The wait is finally over, the new Melvins EP "The Bulls & The Bees" is now available for F-R-E-E download. In addition to that, the new video for 'The War on Wisdom' the first track off the EP was released upon the internets for your viewing pleasure. As far as getting a physical copy of this, AMREP will be doing a vinyl version at some point, and I've heard rumors you might be able to get a copy of the free cd by e-mailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

METALSUCKS interviewed Dale recently and he let a plethora of cats out of the bag! "We’ve been doing a ton of recording of various things, doing lots of covers. We’re going to be doing a lot of splits with people. We’re going to be doing some singles where we play with other people as well. We’ve recorded some Venom songs, with Scott Kelly from Neurosis singing and playing guitar. We’ve recorded a Roxy Music song with Jello Biafra with our old bass player Kevin [Rutmanis] playing. We just recorded some Queen songs with a friend of ours Caleb who’s in a band called Tweak Bird. We have a bunch of things planned along those lines."

Spin conducted a revelaing interview with Buzz in which he reiterates his non-involvement in the death of Kurt Cobain among other things. "I really, really don’t care what people do. If you want to smoke weed or destroy your life with other drugs or whatever you want to do, I’m fine with that. Good. I think you should OD. You should OD with a giant stockpile of drugs right in front of you."

Rolling Stone has an article on the infamous Melvan, the original Melvins tour van complete with Kurt Cobain sharpie art. The current owner posted it on ebay and appears to be well on his way to a life of luxury.

Dale and Coady went Mano-a-mano in a drum-off on March 10th at The CineFamily at the premiere of the film Sound of Noise. There was video on youtube of the drum-off but the person that shot the video decided to set it to private.

AmRep posted Unsane's cover of 'The Bloat' on youtube that will be on the upcoming tour 7". If you weren't sure whether or not you wanted to pick this up, now you know you do.

Big Business redesigned their website and it looks like something out of a utopian future.

Cotton Candy Machine has a few XXL Melvins shirts left designed by Tara McPherson.

Tour Dates are starting to trickle in for Europe now too along with the already announced U.S. dates.

Poster designed by Jim Altieri

Melvins announce 'The Bulls & The Bees' AND 'Freak Puke'

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Created: 24 February 2012

What a news-filled month February has turned out to be for MELVINS Fans! First up, on March 13th you will be able to download 'The Bulls & The Bees' 5-song EP from facebook. The EP release will be followed by a 21-date U.S. trek w/ Unsane that kicks off on Apr. 11 at The Blank Club in San Jose, Calif. and wraps up exactly a month later on May 11 at The Galaxy Concert Theatre in Santa Ana, Calif. Additionally, the April 13th Los Angeles show at the Troubadour will be taped for a future airing on an episode of “Last Call With Carson Daly“. You'll be able to pick up a free Bulls/Bees CD at one of the shows, AmRep will also likely be releasing it at a later date in what will undoubtedly be an attractive format. Buzz described the effort as “amazing in its noisy calm intensity.” To whet your appetites four of the five tracks are available for streaming NOW!

The Bulls & The Bees Track Listing:

1. The War on Wisdom
2. We Are Doomed
3. Friends Before Larry
4. A Really Long Wait
5. National Hamster

Ipecac has also announced the forthcoming Melvins-Lite album 'Freak Puke' scheduled to be released on June 5. Melvins-Lite is Buzz and Dale along with the great Trevor Dunn. (Have no fear, this collaboration does not spell the demise of the Melvins/Big Biz alliance) There will be a Melvins-Lite tour later on this year.

“The Melvins have a long history of mixing up our line-ups and I think that’s what has kept us relevant for so long. Consider the Freak Puke record the fifth side of the four-sided Melvins‘ triangle.” - Buzz

Freak Puke - Tracklisting:

1. Mr. Rip Off
2.  Inner Ear Rupture
3. Baby, Won't You Weird Me Out
4. Worm Farm Walt
5. A Growing Disgust
6. Leon vs. The Revolution
7. Holy Barbarians
8. Freak Puke
9. Let Me Roll It
10. Tommy Goes Berserk