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THE MELVINS’ “STONER WITCH” PROFILED IN DECIBEL MAGAZINE’S AUGUST HALL OF FAME

SEVEN-PAGE ARTICLE FEATURES INTERVIEWS FROM BUZZ OSBORNE, DALE CROVER AND MARK DEUTROM

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Philadelphia, July 7, 2014 – Decibel Magazine’s August issue features an in-depth look at the Melvins’ 1994 album, Stoner Witch.

The issue, which arrives as Buzz Osborne is on his first ever solo/acoustic tour (dates below), features interviews with Osborne, Dale Crover and Mark Deutrom.

For more information and to order: http://store.decibelmagazine.com/collections/back-issues/products/august-2014-118.

Vice said of the release, “The Melvins are consummate masters of mood, in particular melancholy, and never more so than here.”

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Buzz Osborne Tour Dates:

July 07 Portland, ME @ Port City Music Hall

July 09 Dover, NH @ Dover Brickhouse

July 10 Allston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall

July 11 Pawtucket, RI @ The Met

July 12 Hamden, CT @ The Ballroom at the Outer Space

July 13 New York, NY @ Santos Party House

July 14 Brooklyn, NY @ The Wick

July 15 Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts

July 17 Baltimore, MD @ The Ottobar

July 18 Charlottesville, VA @ The Southern

July 19 Charlotte, NC @ Visulite Theater

July 20 Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle

July 22 Atlanta, GA @ The Basement

July 23 Birmingham, AL @ The Bottle Tree

July 25 New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jack’s

July 26 Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live

July 27 Austin, TX @ Red 7

July 28 San Antonio, TX @ Limelight

July 30 Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress

July 31 Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy & Harriet’s

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(Source: Speakeasy PR & Marketing)

LONG LIVE THE MELVINS.

LONG LIVE METAL.

Stone.

THE MELVINS’ BUZZ OSBORNE ANNOUNCES EXTENSIVE “THIS MACHINE KILLS ARTISTS” SUMMER TOUR

Posted in metal bands, metal music, Music, rock music, rock music news, world news with tags buzz osborne, buzz osborne tour 2014, melvins, metal odyssey, the melvins on April 4, 2014 by Metal Odyssey

Photo credit: Mackie Osborne

THIS MACHINE KILLS ARTISTS SET FOR JUNE 3rd RELEASE

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Los Angeles – Melvins front man Buzz Osborne has confirmed a seven-week U.S. tour, which kicks off June 10 at The Casbah in San Diego.

Osborne previously announced the release of his first solo, acoustic release, This Machine Kills Artists, which is set for a June 3 release via Ipecac Recordings. Rolling Stone recently premiered the song “Dark Brown Teeth” (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/hear-melvins-king-buzzo-go-acoustic-for-new-10-inch-album-tour-20140214), describing the track as “doomy, ill-angled” and with the “Beefheartian edge his band is renowned for.”

Osborne will document the solo outing through an ongoing travelogue on Noisey.com.

May 17 Pomona, CA @ Scion Rock Fest

June 10 San Diego, CA @ The Casbah

June 11 Echo Park, CA @ The Echo

June 12 Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory

June 13 Fresno, CA @ Strummer’s

June 14 Sacramento, CA @ Assembly

June 15 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall

June 17 Eugene, OR @ Wow Hall

June 18 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre

June 20 Seattle, WA @ Neumo’s

June 21 Bellingham, WA @ The Shakedown

June 22 Spokane, WA @ The Hop

June 23 Missoula, MT @ The Palace

June 24 Billings, MT @ The Railyard

June 26 Fargo, ND @ The Aquarium

June 27 Minneapolis, MN @ Grumpy’s

June 28 Milwaukee, WI @ Shank Hall

June 30 Grand Rapids, MI @ The Pyramid Scheme

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July 01 Columbus, OH @ A&R Music Bar

July 02 Detroit, MI @ Small’s

July 03 Cleveland, OH @ The Grog Shop

July 06 South Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground

July 07 Portland, ME @ Portland City Music Hall

July 10 Allston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall

July 12 Hamden, CT @ The Ballroom at The Outerspace

July 13 New York, NY @ Santos Party House

July 14 Brooklyn, NY @ The Wick

July 15 Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts

July 17 Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar

July 18 Charlottesville, VA @ The Southern

July 20 Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle

July 22 Atlanta, GA @ The Basement

July 23 Birmingham, AL @ The Bottle Tree

July 25 New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jack’s

July 26 Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live

July 27 Austin, TX @ Red 7

July 28 Sam Antonio, TX @ Limelight

July 30 Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress

July 31 Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy and Harriet’s

Tickets will be available this Friday, April 4.

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(Source: Speakeasy PR & Marketing)

* For more info:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/melvinsarmy

Website: www.themelvins.net

LONG LIVE BUZZ OSBORNE.

LONG LIVE THE MELVINS.

Stone.

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.themelvins.net

www.facebook.com/melvinsarmy

www.ipecac.com

LONG LIVE MELVINS LITE.

LONG LIVE THE MELVINS.

Stone.

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