New Melvins in 2010!

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Created: 09 February 2010

From The Nursery, artist/writer Bob Nickas' new label has just released a new Melvins 12" EP(as far as I know the label has no website). -  "A limited edition three-track 12-inch EP from MELVINS featuring a long version of “Dies Iraea” and a remix of “It Tastes Better Than The Truth” on the A-side (performed by the line-up of KING BUZZO, DALE CROVER, JARED WARREN and COADY WILLIS in 2008), and a 9-minute version of The Wipers’ “Youth of America” on the flip (featuring Buzz, Dale and KEVIN RUTMANIS, recorded by TIM GREEN at Louder in 2000). None of these tracks have appeared on vinyl prior. Limited to 2,000 copies (with 1,500 for distribution) pressed on silver/gray vinyl, with artwork by STEVEN PARRINO. Named “Record of the Month” in the February, 2010 issue of Vice Magazine."  Best place to get it right now is Midheaven.

Tracklisting:

1. Dies Iraea (long version)
2. It Tastes Better Than The Truth (remix)
3. Youth Of America

Word has it that Melvins will be playing at Bonnaroo this year.

The Melvins are almost done recording their new album. Coady has posted a couple short youtube videos detailing the rigorous recording process. HERE/THERE

VBS.TV has posted a video interview with Buzz from the New York ATP.

Additionally, Dale's side project Shrinebuilder has announced tour dates for March/April:

Mar 2 2010    Casbah   San Diego, California
Mar 3 2010   Echo   Los Angeles
Mar 4 2010   Echo   Los Angeles
Mar 5 2010   Voodoo Lounge   San Jose
Mar 6 2010   Metro   Oakland
Mar 7 2010   The Independent   San Francisco
Mar 9 2010   Neumos   Seattle
Mar 11 2010   New York University   NY, New York
Mar 13 2010   Scion Rock Festival   Columbus OH
Apr 17 2010   Roadburn Festival   Tilburg
Apr 18 2010   The Scala   London
Apr 19 2010   De Kreun   Kortrijk
Apr 20 2010   La Maroquinerie   Paris
Apr 21 2010   Substage   Karlsruhe
Apr 22 2010   Rote Fabrik   Zurich
Apr 23 2010   Bloom   Mezzago
Apr 24 2010   Bronson   Ravenna
Apr 25 2010   Arena   Vienna
Apr 26 2010   Futurum   Prague
Apr 27 2010   Feierwerk   Munich
Apr 28 2010   Conne Island   Leipzig
Apr 29 2010   Berghain   Berlin
Apr 30 2010   Asymmetry Festival   Wroclaw

First Melvins show of 2010 scheduled for San Francisco + more

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Written by brian

Created: 11 December 2009

Melvins will be playing their first show of 2010 at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, CA on January 2nd.

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rock-a-rolla.com posted a quote from Buzz regarding the new Melvins album they'll be recording sometime early next year for a middle of 2010 release: The unstoppable Melvins will hit the studio in February ’10 to record the follow-up to 2008’s Nude With Boots, Buzz revealed to Rock-A-Rolla recently. “I have maybe 300 songs, so we’ll choose, you know, about 55 – 60 minutes, from that” he told us. The LP, scheduled for a late spring/summer release via Ipecac, will feature a song Buzz “wrote in the 90s”.

 Metalkult posted a series of videos of Buzz giving some 'Riff Lessons' featuring his favorite new guitar designed by Electrical Guitar Company.

The Skinny has posted Buzz's (current) top 10 albums of all time (follow the link for more info):

1. The Stooges - Fun House
2. David Bowie - Station to Station
3. Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
4. Brainiac - Electroshock for President
5. The Gun Club - Fire of Love
6. Throbbing Gristle - Heathen Earth
7. The Latin Playboys - Dose
8. Butthole Surfers - Psychic... Powerless... Another Mans Sac
9. ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
10. Cream - Wheels of Fire

Fall 2009 European Tour Dates Finalized

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Created: 22 November 2009

November 24, 2009 Madrid, Spain - Caracol w/ Porn
November 25, 2009 Barcelona, Spain - Apolo2 w/ Porn
November 27, 2009 Conegliano, Italy - Zion Rock Club w/ Porn
November 29, 2009 Athens, Greece - Rodeo w/ Porn
November 30, 2009 Athens, Greece - Rodeo w/ Porn
December 1, 2009 Bologna, Italy - Estragon w/ Porn
December 2, 2009 Segrate, Milan, Italy - Circolo Magnolia w/ Porn
December 3, 2009 Geneva, Switzerland - L'Usine w/ Big Business, Porn
December 4, 2009 Munich, Germany - Feierwerk / Hansa 39 w/ Porn
December 5, 2009 Schorndorf, Germany - Manufaktur w/ Porn
December 6, 2009 Berlin, Germany - Maria am Ufer w/ Porn
December 7, 2009 Paris, France - Glazart w/ Porn
December 8, 2009 London, United Kingdom - Garage w/ Witch, Porn
December 9, 2009 Luxembourg, Belgium - Kulturfabrik w/ Porn
December 10, 2009 Kortrijk, Belgium - De Kreun w/ Porn
December 11, 2009 Den Haag, Netherlands - Paard van Troje - State X New Forms Festival
December 12, 2009 - Minehead, United Kingdom - Butlins Holiday Resort - TEN YEARS OF ATP

Dale played drums on Lou Barlow of Dinosaur Jr./Sebadoh fame's new album entitled 'Goodnight Unknown'.

Revolution Tattoo & Art Gallery of Chicago held a Melvins Art Show in Chicago the night of the Shrinebuilder show. It was a successful night, they sold all of the artwork pictured and donated all of the proceeds (a little over $1500.00) to the Paul Green School of Rock - photos here.

Melvins to be part of NON Consensual POST Dada CONSTRUCTIVIST Cerebral WARTS Art/Music/Film Event

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Written by brian

Created: 08 October 2009

the Melvins have a few dates coming up in the U.S. in addition to a European tour late this fall which the dates are still trickling in for. Keep checking the Tour Dates page for updates. In addition to that, Ipecac is preparing to release Nude with Boots on red double vinyl on November 3rd.

Upcoming U.S. dates in October

October 16, 2009 - San Francisco, CA - Grand Regency Ballroom w/ Butthole Surfers
October 18, 2009 - Los Angeles, CA - Club Nokia w/ Butthole Surfers, Psychic Ills
October 25, 2009 - Minneapolis, MN - Soo Visual Arts Center

The show in Minneapolis is part of the 4-day NON Consensual POST Dada CONSTRUCTIVIST Cerebral WARTS Art/Music/Film Event 2009. The Melvins set will be a Buzz/Dale duo and they will be performing in 'Security Cam Vision' which means - "At the back of the gallery is a large room with 3 huge windows facing the gallery. Those windows wil be covered with white screen and heavily backlit. There will also be multiple security cams in the "live room" broadcasting to the gallery on a big screen, as well as several junk TV's placed through out the space - just what's occurring in the "live room". All the sets will be filmed and recorded, and if all comes out good maybe released down the road." Visit the AMREP BORED for more info as it becomes available.

CHICKEN SWITCH out today!!!

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Created: 29 September 2009

ipecac.com: What’s a “Chicken Switch”?

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When is a new Melvins record not a new Melvins record?

Well, we can’t figure out the Kardashians for you, but we can tell you this, there is a “new” Melvins record out, and it’s called “Chicken Switch”. It includes some of the Melvins coolest songs from the past, but the twist is, these songs have been remixed by some of the leading purveyors of underground, noise music. You got your Speedranch, Matmos, Eye from the Boredoms, Lee Ranaldo, Merzbow and more reinterpreting songs you’ve cherished since childhood. Hard to call most of these remixes as they stand on their own as new tunes. This project was spearheaded by you the Melvins fans at the Melvins website with the Melvins stamp of approval. So it’s gotta be good, right?

This will keep you satisfied until the new Melvins studio record is unleashed in mid 2010.

So, what’s a “Chicken Switch”?

The press release:

Remember, anything worth doing, is worth overdoing!
Well, it's 2009 and the seemingly tireless Melvins have yet ANOTHER record ready for release...
What is this, their 50th record?
Maybe?
Anyway, the "newest" Melvins release is called "CHICKEN SWITCH" and it's a "re-mix" record... of sorts...
Each of the artists on this thing were given an entire album to work with and pull things from, however none of them were given individual tracks from the albums! So the outcome HAD to be left of center from the "norm."

Some highlights from CHICKEN SWITCH:

As part of japanese noise/epic rock band Boredoms' 23 year mission, leader Eye Yamatsuka has done the impossible and made the drum circle cool for the first time, ever. Filthy hippies will have to find something else to do, which will predictably involve combining two lame sedentary "sports" into one.

Matmos famously lent their precision-sampling wizardry to Bjork. They took their name from the movie 'Barbarella' - featuring a nubile, scantily-clad Jane Fonda. Given their intense fondness for weird, sexy women, it's no wonder they were totally into working with the Melvins.

Lee Ranaldo has had a long solo career making quite pleasant warped midnight music. He's also in this band that you might have heard of called Sonic Youth.

Japanese NOISE GOD Merzbow is not the only guy to wrap 50 CDs of audio steel wool in a kinky leather fetish boxset or release a cassette "packaged" in an automobile, but -- Wait. Yeah, he is.

Sunroof! is the more psychedelic, meditative alter-ego of Matthew Bower (Skullflower, Hototogisu, Total, etc.), who is responsible for upwards of 50% of tinnitus cases reported in England.

Kawabata Makoto, as leader/guitarist of the cultish Japanese band Acid Mothers Temple, has perfected the art of making rock music that sounds like freight trains. His remix lovingly recreates the Monon BL2 diesel locomotive (pulling an estimated 60 cars).

No one knows what Void Manes is. I think it has something to do with EVP -- it was on the CD after it was mastered, and we sure as hell weren't going to pay to do it over.

Sounds good to me!

For those who don't know:
The Melvins have been a band for over 25 years...

The Melvins have done a shit load of albums.... How many is a shit load? No one really knows.

The Melvins live in Los Angeles and it's understood in hip circles that the United States tilts left and anything covered in slime tends to slide straight out to California. If your sliding too fast when you slide into San Francisco you tend to glance off south and the real scum bags end up in Los Angeles where their skin dries into a Malibu Ken tan which most hipsters have to painstakingly remove with Easy Off oven cleaner.

We all love porn right? And with the internet we've all become totally bored with porn. Bored out of our minds with easy access day and night internet porn.

The Melvins have four members.
King Buzzo... Longest surviving and only original member left. When they get around to replacing him there will be no original members!
Dale Crover... Long standing drummer and part time guitar player. Dale likes his booze in a High Ball glass.
Jared Warren... Bass player, singer and part time drama geek. Jared also plays in the band Big Business.
Coady Willis... Drummer. Coady has a funny story about trying to play a gig in leather pants. Ask him, it's funny as shit! Coady also plays drums in Big Business.

So there you have it!
You can find other interesting bits and bobs about the Melvins on line and some of it is even true! Well, it's at least as true as what the band would tell you in person.