Nude With Boots out now on Ipecac!!

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Written by brian

Created: 08 June 2008

(The) Melvins have done it again, out now, Nude With Boots, a not so gentle reminder to that fixed income of yours that there are indeed two kinds of fixes, both Melvins approved!

The tour dates are coming together as nicely as you'd expect. Once the masses have been whipped into shape, much to all of our astonishment, the Melvins have uncovered various primitive tribes beyond the vast seas, whom, despite their many deficiencies, will also be provided the privilege later on in 2008. Check the TOUR DATES Grégoire.

Last.fm is streaming the entire album.

Synthesis radio has posted an interview with Buzz where he discusses the new album and other things on the horizon.

(The) Melvins
Nude With Boots

It's 2008 and The Melvins are still called 'family entertainment on another level.' Almost 25 years, over 25 albums and still counting. Maybe they're just too dumb to quit.

AND? Some people STILL think the Melvins should be called "The Fucks" because they're so fucked.

The band still includes founding member King Buzzo and almost founding member Dale Crover, and they STILL have the Big Business guys Jared Warren and Coady Willis playing with them. This is extraordinary considering how hard it is for bass players and others to stick around the Melvins camp for more than two minutes. Everyone always loses their minds with or without drugs, but mostly with. They can't explain why, but the list of former members is about 40 and counting. Well, 40 might be a bit of an exaggeration but not by much.

The Melvins have been a band for a long, long, long, long time... A long, long, long time. They're somewhere in between a novelty act and yesterdays news. It's a strange place for a band with a Peter Pan complex to be in but there it is!

What the hell right?

We ALL want to just get on a space ship and watch the earth explode, don't we?

As hard as it might be to believe, The Melvins have a NEW album in the can! It's called Nude With Boots and is scheduled for a July 8 release. This is good news because it means the boys will be hitting the road again in the United States AND in Europe! The rest of the world could follow, but who knows? Hell, that would be like eight months from now and it's hard to plan that far ahead.

Nude With Boots was recorded in Hollywood in a couple of weeks give or take a day or two and the boys seem to be extremely happy with the outcome. It's good? Groovy good! They played it for their wives and girlfriends and they seemed to like it so HERE WE GO! No shit Sherlock!

Let's see?

JESUS! The Melvins will be celebrating 24 years in the business this year and have absolutely NOTHING planned for it, maybe next year when they turn 25?

However, along with their new album, Nude With Boots, they do have a shit load of things happening THIS year that include:

1. A lot of touring
2. The vinyl releases of (A) Senile Animal, which will be in a super deluxe quadruple gate fold sleeve with four etched, one-sided 12 inch records
3. Two more 12 inchers with double surprises
4. A secret 7 inch (so secret that not even the band is aware of it)
5. More fun with Haze XXL
6. A split 7 inch with Rancid Vat
7. The Fantomas Melvins Big Band DVD
8. A huge limited edition Ipecac box set of everything the Melvins have done with the label as well as stuff you haven't heard at all
**Plus other stuff we forgot all about or don't know about or something

It's a big world out there and nothing is ever as hopeless as it seems. Dig?

Well...
The Melvins have put out a ton of albums and done a shit-load of touring in their vast 24 year musical career but nobody is offering them a TV show, and I don't mean a bogus "reality" show I mean a show like Sha-Na-Na had in the late 70's. It's REALLY bogus. A Melvins show seems like a no brainer, but the world is not a right place. If you don't pay attention to TV then you can't realize just how bad it really is.

The Melvins' influence is vast and incomparable. It's global baby, and AND King Buzzo has even been accused of attempted murder! What the fuck is that? You know it HAS to be bullshit because when the King starts something, he finishes it. He's never ATTEMPTED anything in his life. He gets the job done, and so do the Melvins.

When does the man get here with all the candy?

Melvins to play Jello Biafra's 50th Birthday shows in San Francisco

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Created: 22 May 2008

Biafra Five-O poster No. 1 by Nat Damm.

Nude With Boots

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Written by brian

Created: 27 March 2008

The Melvins next full length album is scheduled for release on July 8 through Ipecac Recordings and is titled "Nude With Boots". The eleven track album was recorded in January 2008 in Los Angeles and features the same line-up as (a) Senile Animal (Buzz & Dale along with Jared & Coady from Big Business ).

Nude With Boots Tracklist:

1. The Kicking Machine
2. Billy Fish
3. Dog Island
4. Dies Iraea
5. Suicide In Progress
6. The Smiling Cobra
7. Nude With Boots
8. Flush
9. The Stupid Creep
10. The Savage Hippy
11. It Tastes Better Than The Truth

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Above is a live video of Melvins playing two songs slated to be on the next album, Suicide In Progress & Billy Fish 

Tour dates should start trickling in before too long.

the Melvins "The End" LP

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Created: 14 January 2008

the Melvins "The End" LP

from enterruption.com: The Best way to start off '08: the mighty Melvins live in '03!! Buzz, Dale, and Kevin, recorded by their longtime soundman, Kurt Schlegel, in Los Angeles, CA, at the beginning of their Spring 2003 US tour with Tomahawk.

Song list: At A Crawl, Black Stooges, Night Goat, Revolve/Brain Center At Whipples, Let It All Be, Hooch, Mombius Hibatchi, The Bloat, The Bit.

Mastered by Mell Dettmer (Earth, Sunn, ASVA, Boris). Cover art by Alison Elizabeth Taylor.

Edition 500x copies, shades of pink...ish vinyl.

The vinyl re-issue of the long out-of-print cassette originally released on Enterruption, edition 100x, in early '04.

AVAILABLE NOW!!! in the catalog section at www.enterruption.com

$20ppd US / $30ppd World

LIMIT OF 2 per Person!

Making Love Demos + Fall U.S. Tour Dates

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Created: 18 August 2007

from Brian Walsby's myspace page: "Almost twenty years ago, Dale taped this for me and I have listened to it ever since. Frankly, I am surprised that they have never unearthed this. It is among my very favorite Melvins recordings. Recorded shortly after the release of "Gluey Porch Treatments", this homemade four track won't be confused with "Sergeant Pepper" in terms of production values (although we have boosted the levels somewhat), but fucking A, the songs and the performance more then makes up for that. It was also the last thing the band recorded with original bass player Matt Lukin, a fitting end to the band's first album lineup... Some of these then new songs ended up on "Ozma". I actually prefer these versions. Other songs were lost in the shuffle but are as good as anything the band has put out. As for the band themselves, Dale is on fire on all of these tracks. Buzz's vocals have never been any more twisted, sneering or evil. I am pleased as punch that these guys have let me release this material in conjunction with my new book. Me and Charles are both really happy about this. Obviously this will sell my book a lot easier then the previous two. Sadly, the band's version of a Kiss song from which the title of the demos have been taken didn't make the cut, as a abrupt tape drop in assured that said fact. Besides, Gene Simmons might get pissed off. I don't need that trouble."

This is being released by Bifocal Media on Oct. 9th 2007. It is available for pre-order now.

Tracklist:

1. Creepy Smell
2. My Small % Shows Most
3. Dime Lined Divide - this one is uploaded to the Bifocal Media myspace page
4. Excess Pool
5. Vile Vermillion Vacancy
6. We Got Worries Here
7. Let God Be Your Gardener
8. Repulsion

Melvins are playing a special date in Minneapolis again this year at Grumpy's Bar & Grill - Downtown Minneapolis . This one is out in the parking lot so should be able to accomodate more people, the word is two Melvins/Melvins related 7 inches might be available for purchase at the show. August 25, 2007

Melvins are also touring the U.S. this fall with Big Business, they will also be screening the Purge of Dissidents DVD at all shows.

• September 15, 2007 Los Angeles, CA - The Henry Fonda Theater performing w/ Mudhoney
• September 16, 2007 Sacramento, CA - Harlow's Night Club
• September 18, 2007 Seattle, WA - Showbox
• September 19, 2007 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
• September 21, 2007 Fort Collins, CO - Aggie Theater
• September 22, 2007 Denver, CO - Gothic Theatre
• September 23, 2007 Colorado Springs, CO - the Black Sheep
• September 25, 2007 Lawrence, KS - the Bottleneck
• September 26, 2007 Sauget, IL - Pop's
• September 27, 2007 Chicago, IL - Double Door
• September 28, 2007 Detroit, MI - Small's
• September 29, 2007 Cleveland, OH - Peabody's
• October 1, 2007 Philadelphia, PA - the Fillmore at TLA
• October 2, 2007 Baltimore, MD - Ottobar
• October 5, 2007 New York, NY - the Fillmore at Irving Plaza
• October 6, 2007 Brooklyn, NY - Luna Lounge
• October 9, 2007 Spartanburg, SC - Ground Zero
• October 10, 2007 Athens, GA - 40 Watt Club
• October 11, 2007 Birmingham, AL - Bottle Tree
• October 12, 2007 Knoxville, TN - Blue Cats
• October 13, 2007 Nashville, TN - Exit Inn
• October 15, 2007 New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks
• October 16, 2007 Houston, TX - Red Room at Meridian
• October 17, 2007 Austin, TX - Emo's
• October 18, 2007 Dallas, TX - Granada Theatre
• October 22, 2007 Tempe, AZ - Clubhouse