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THE MELVINS – Release Unconventional Covers Album “Everybody Loves Sausages” On April 30th

Posted in experimental rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Metal, metal music, Music, rock music, rock music news with tags hard rock news, melvins lite, Metal News, rock music news, the melvins, the melvins everybody loves sausages on February 12, 2013 by Metal Odyssey

GUESTS INCLUDE MARK ARM, JELLO BIAFRA, JG THIRLWELL AND SCOTT KELLY

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The Melvins return with a 13-track covers album titled Everybody Loves Sausages, which is set for an Apr. 30 release via Ipecac Recordings.

“This record will give people a peak into the kind of things that influence us musically,” explains Buzz Osborne. “We REALLY like all of these songs along with the bands who actually wrote this stuff because first and foremost we are HUGE music fans.”

In a decidedly Melvins approach to a covers album, the band not only selected a unique assortment of songs to cover, ranging from Roxy Music’s “In Every Dream Home A Heartache” to Queen’s “Best Friend,” they also enlisted several friends to take part including Mudhoney’s Mark Arm joining them for The Scientists’ “Set It On Fire” and Neurosis’ Scott Kelly pitching in on a cover of Venom’s “Warhead.”

While the release is billed as a proper Melvins’ album (featuring the line-up of Osborne, Dale Crover, Jared Warren and Coady Willis), there are a handful of songs recorded as the Melvins Lite incarnation of the band (Osborne, Crover and Trevor Dunn): ”Female Trouble” (Divine a.k.a. John Waters), “Timothy Leary Lives” (Pop-O-Pies) and “Romance By Tales of Terror” (Tales of Terror).

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The complete track listing with original artist and guest player notation:

01. Warhead (Venom; Guest: Scott Kelly of Neurosis)

02. Best Friend (Queen; Guest: Caleb Benjamin of Tweak Bird)

03. Black Betty (Original artist unknown)

04. Set It On Fire (The Scientists; Guest: Mark Arm)

05. Station To Station (David Bowie; Guest: JG Thirlwell)

06. Attitude (The Kinks: Guest: Clem Burke of Blondie)

07. Female Trouble (Divine a.k.a. John Waters)

08. Carpe Diem (The Fugs)

09. Timothy Leary Lives (Pop-O-Pies)

10. In Every Dream Home A Heartache (Roxy Music; Guests: Jello Biafra and Kevin Rutmanis)

11. Romance (Tales of Terror)

12. Art School (The Jam; Guest: Tom Hazelmeyer)

13. Heathen Earth (Throbbing Gristle)

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(Source: Speakeasy PR & Marketing)

* For more info on THE MELVINS, click on the links below!

http://www.melvins.com

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http://www.ipecac.com

LONG LIVE THE MELVINS.

Stone.

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THE MELVINS FEATURED ON PITCHFORK TV’S “FRAMES”

Posted in Heavy Metal, heavy metal albums, metal music, Music, rock music, rock music news with tags experimental metal, freak puke, heavy metal news, melvins lite, melvins lite tour dates 2012, rock music news, the melvins, the melvins tour dates 2012 on July 31, 2012 by Metal Odyssey

BAND’S ATTEMPT AT GUINNESS WORLD RECORD FOR FASTEST TOUR OF THE UNITED STATES BY A BAND KICKS OFF SEPT. 5 IN ALASKA; THE MELVINS CHRONICLING THEIR ADVENTURE ON SPIN WEBSITE

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July 31, 2012, LOS ANGELES – The Melvins’ Buzz Osborne shares the story of the band’s first tour via an animated clip on Pitchfork TV’s “Frames” (http://pitchfork.com/tv/frames/1914-melvins/3117-first-tour/#ooid=E3Nm5mNTocmZ_r3eLDn6TFjHet8t1gWP).

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. The Los Angeles-based band’s exploits will be chronicled on Spin’s website via an ongoing tour diary.

“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, North Dakota, Delaware and Hawaii.

Freak Puke, the debut release from Melvins Lite, was released in early June. “First off, it’s almost impossible for us to convey to people that we plan on having both versions of the Melvins happening at the same time,” Osborne recently told Exclaim Magazine. “So, for the record, we now have TWO versions of the Melvins, Melvins regular and Melvins Lite… Got it?”

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The Melvins 51-Date United States Tour Dates:

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(Source: Speakeasy PR & Marketing)

* For more info on The Melvins & Melvins Lite, click links below!

http://www.themelvins.net

http://www.melvins.com

LONG LIVE MELVINS LITE.

Stone.

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THE MELVINS – Seek Guinness World Record For The Fastest Tour Of The United States & D.C. By A Band With 51-Date Fall Tour

Posted in experimental rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Music, rock music, rock music news, sludge metal with tags freak puke, hard rock news, heavy metal news, melvins lite, rock music news, the melvins on June 5, 2012 by Metal Odyssey

Left to right: Buzz Osborne, Dale Crover; photo credit: Mackie Osborne

June 5, 2012, LOS ANGELES — 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 Melvins Performance of “The War on Wisdom” from a recent episode of Last Call with Carson Daly can be seen by clicking the link below:

Arriving in-stores and online today is Freak Puke, the debut release from Melvins Lite that Spin recently described as “a unique detour for the long-running band” and adding “one of the loudest bands on earth has perfectly siphoned their gloomy energy into evil cocktail jazz.”

Trevor Dunn

“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.”

Prior to the Fall, the Melvins have a full spate of appearances. The band perform two shows in conjunction with Subliminal Projects: June 8 at The Echoplex in Los Angeles and June 30 at TT Underground Gallery in New York. Buzz Osborne will be a guest on Fox News’ “Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld” on June 28. Melvins Lite will also venture north for a three week trek of primarily Canadian tour dates that kicks off on July 1 (dates below).

The Melvins 51-date United States tour dates:

September 5 Anchorage, AK @ Bear Tooth Theatre and Pub

September 6 Seattle, WA @ Showbox at The Market

September 7 Oregon @ TBA

September 8 Boise, ID @ Neurolux Lounge

September 9 Missoula, MT @ Top Hat Lounge

September 10 Salt Lake City, UT @ Club Sound

September 11 Casper, WY @ TBA

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 @ House of Bricks

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 Jermyn, PA @ Eleanor Rigby’s

September 28 South Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground

September 29 Dover, NH @ Dover Brickhouse

September 30 Portland, ME @ Asylum

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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 @ Artifice

October 24 Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery

October 25 Honolulu, HI @ The Republik

Melvins Lite Canada + tour dates (Retox opens all dates except July 4 and 20):

July 1 Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall

July 3 Montreal, QC @ Corona Theatre

July 4 Ottawa, ON @ Cisco Ottawa 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

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(Source: Speakeasy PR & Marketing)

* For more info on THE MELVINS, click on the links below!

www.ipecac.com

LONG LIVE THE MELVINS.

LONG LIVE MELVINS LITE.

Stone.

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Melvins Lite “Freak Puke” – I’ve Listened. I Dig It. I Highly Recommend It. Will It Really All Matter? I Hope So…

Posted in alternative rock, experimental rock, Hard Rock, Music, rock albums, rock music, rock music news with tags alternative rock, buzz osborne, freak puke album review, melvins lite, rock albums 2012, rock music news, the melvins on June 3, 2012 by Metal Odyssey

MELVINS LITE – The irrefutable legendary band known across Earth as The Melvins are Melvins Lite with their new studio album Freak Puke. This ten song offering from Melvins Lite will be released on June 5th, 2012, via Ipecac. For loyal and new fans alike, I’ve decided to list some excerpts from past press releases that sheds more “lite” on why The Melvins are Melvins Lite on Freak Puke. Here we go and enjoy:

The Melvins unveil the latest twist in their 29-year history with Melvins Lite, an additional incarnation of the band that finds founders Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover partnering with Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, Tomahawk) for a 10-song release titled Freak Puke.

Buzz Osborne has stated, in a prior press release:

“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 Osborne. “Consider the Freak Puke record the fifth side of the four-sided Melvins triangle.”

The Melvins have decided to release an album called “Freak Puke.” AND they’ve decided to call it Melvins “Lite.” It’s still the Melvins of course but the “Lite” moniker comes from the fact that they’ve recorded the entire record with the always busy and fabulously talented Trevor Dunn playing a stand up double bass and it sounds really cool! It’s new musical territory for the Melvins and it works like a charm…”

Stone says, about Freak Puke and other related stuff:

My curiosity for The Melvins came to a boil back in 1993, when Houdini was released. This was the fifth album from The Melvins, so I knew I had some catching up to do with their back catalog. Houdini did it for me and the rest is (who gives a crap) history. I’m guessing once you listen to The Melvins once, you’re sucked in by the uncanny way they make their music different.

Fast forward to 2012 and Freak Puke from Melvins Lite. Wether it’s Houdini, Freak Puke or any other album from The Melvins that’s in-between, I’ve come to the belief that The Melvins follow no musical path but their own. As I write this epic album review, that classic line from (Bill Murray) who played Tripper Harrison in the 1979 comedy film, Meatballs, comes to my mind: “It just doesn’t matter.”

What doesn’t matter Stone? Well, I’ll tell you since you’re pondering. Trying to declare what genre The Melvins or Melvins Lite belongs to… it just doesn’t matter. Caring if anyone out there gives a crap that I really dig Freak Puke… it just doesn’t matter. Telling the world that Freak Puke ranks as a high recommendation from Stone… it just doesn’t matter.

What does matter is The Melvins musical existence. This Freak Puke album from Melvins Lite doesn’t follow a flavor-of-the-month blueprint for gratitude; that slimy gratitude from the snotty hierarchy that manipulates the mainstream. From the onset, Mr. Rip Off reminds me that this band is not ripping off anyone (no pun intended). Besides, I could sit for a month of Mondays and still not be able to name another band that sounds like this. Yes, that’s a grand statement to make, especially when soundalikes are more abundant in the music world than there are synthetic additives found in one Hostess Twinkie.

For those who truly need to know, Freak Puke is a heavy album. You’ll hear heavy guitar, heavy beats and clean vocals. Eccentric vocals at times too. With that said, Freak Puke is also a listen into what’s not heavy and still comes across as… heavy. Experimental. Alternative. Heavy. Sludgy. That’s Freak Puke and yes, I did throw out some damn Rock genres after all. Then again… it just doesn’t matter.

Wait, what does matter is my persuasiveness in prompting you to buy Freak Puke. Don’t follow the robotic crowd of cheerleaders for America’s Got Talent or any other plastic Pop Culture crap on a plate, try to be different. Be very different. Melvins Lite won’t bite. Hey, that rhymed. Still, it just doesn’t matter.

Let your ears become saturated with some Melvins Lite and be introduced to Rock ‘N Roll the way it was meant to be played; Rock ‘N Roll that shoots straight from the hip, without any predetermined obligations to those Rock historian morons that push out 50 pound coffee table books and vote at The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Freak Puke, courtesy of Melvins Lite, aims and succeeds to spread some messed-up fun and madness, on a sonic ride that is an instant remedy for Rock ‘N Roll status-quo-itis.

At the end of my semi-boring day, I surely hope my blab for Melvins Lite and Freak Puke does matter. At least a little bit. Metal be thy name.

Freak Puke – Track Listing:

Mr. Rip Off

Inner Ear Rupture

Baby, Won’t You Weird Me Out

Worm Farm Waltz

A Growing Disgust

Leon vs. The Revolution

Holy Barbarians

Freak Puke

Let Me Roll It

Tommy Goes Beserk

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* For more info on THE MELVINS, click the links below!

www.ipecac.com

LONG LIVE MELVINS LITE.

LONG LIVE THE MELVINS.

Stone.

MELVINS – NEW EP AVAILABLE TODAY AS A ‘FREE DOWNLOAD’ VIA SCIONAV.COM

Posted in heavy metal news, metal music, rock music, rock music news, sludge metal with tags heavy metal news, melvins, Metal, scion a/v, sludge metal, the bulls & the bees ep, the melvins on March 13, 2012 by Metal Odyssey

Mar. 13, Torrance, Calif. — Scion A/V has partnered with the Melvins for an EP titled Scion A/V Presents: The Bulls & The Bees, a five-song collection that marks the band’s first original material since their 2010 album The Bride Screamed Murder. The release is available today as a free download via Scion A/V’s website (http://scionav.com/index#!collection/917/The-Melvins—The-Bulls–The-Bees).

A video for “The War on Wisdom,” which features a re-enacted, early incarnation of the Melvins debuts today on Brooklyn Vegan’s website (www.brooklynvegan.com).

The Melvins formed in 1983, kicking off what would be a seismic shift in heavy music and focusing the epicenter of modern music firmly on the Pacific Northwest for the next decade plus. The band blended Punk, Metal, Hard Rock to create a new subgenre that has been tagged with a variety of labels including Sludge, Grunge and Doom and won a cult of fans that have yet to waiver some twenty-nine years into the band’s career. Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover have been the band’s constants (Crover joined in 1984) with Big Business’ Jared Warren and Coady Willis joining the band in 2006 for (A) Senile Animal.

“The Melvins have remained such a consistent presence in heavy music,” says Jeri Yoshizu, manager of sales promotions for Scion. “It’s an honor to have them create an original release for Scion A/V.”

Osborne described Scion A/V Presents: The Bulls & The Bees as “amazing in its noisy calm intensity.” The physical release will be available at Scion Partners retail stores. For more information about the Scion Partner program and to find retail stores, visit www.scionav.com/partners.

Scion A/V Presents: 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

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(Source: Speakeasy PR)

* For more info on the MELVINS and SCION A/V:

http://www.facebook.com/scionavmetal

http://scionav.com/

LONG LIVE THE MELVINS.

Stone.

http://www.revolvermag.com/news/the-melvins-premiere-new-song-we-are-doomed.html

MELVINS – SCION A/V SET TO RELEASE NEW MELVINS EP, SCION A/V PRESENTS: THE BULLS & THE BEES, ON MAR. 13

Posted in heavy metal news, Music, rock music, rock music news, sludge metal with tags heavy metal news, melvins, rock music news, scion a/v, sludge metal, the bulls & the bees ep, the melvins on March 2, 2012 by Metal Odyssey

Photo Credit: Jessi Rose

“We Are Doomed,” the second song from the forthcoming Scion A/V Presents: The Bulls & The Bees EP, streaming now via Revolver Magazine:

Scion A/V Sponsoring Spring U.S. Tour

Feb. 23, Torrance, Calif. — Scion A/V has partnered with the Melvins for an EP titled Scion A/V Presents: The Bulls & The Bees, a five-song collection that marks the band’s first original material since their 2010 album The Bride Screamed Murder. The release will be available as a free download on Mar. 13 via Scion A/V’s website (www.scionav.com). A free stream of the first track, “The War On Wisdom” premiered Friday, February 24, 2012 on Pitchfork: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/13220-the-war-on-wisdom/.

The Melvins formed in 1983, kicking off what would be a seismic shift in heavy music and focusing the epicenter of modern music firmly on the Pacific Northwest for the next decade plus.The band blended Punk, Metal and Hard Rock to create a new subgenre that has been tagged with a variety of labels including Sludge, Grunge and Doom and won a cult of fans that have yet to waiver some twenty-nine years into the band’s career. Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover have been the band’s constants (Crover joined in 1984) with Big Business’ Jared Warren and Coady Willis joining the band in 2006 for (A) Senile Animal.

Scion A/V Presents: 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

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(Source: Speakeasy PR)

* For more info on the MELVINS, click on links below:

http://www.facebook.com/scionavmetal

* For more info on SCION A/V, click on link below:

LONG LIVE THE MELVINS.

Stone.