Old Ass Ween News(228 total)

Back when Gene and Dean Ween became childhood friends prior to forming the indie rock group Ween in 1984, they benefited from the fact that their parents had eccentric record collections...

After delivering their debut, The Deaner Album, just last year, The Dean Ween Group are already back with their sophomore full-length, rock2. Ahead of the official March 16th release date, the entire effort is streaming below...

If the name Michael Melchiondo does not ring a bell, it's because he is known professionally by his stage name of Dean Ween, one half of the band Ween, who for nearly 30 years - along with Gene Ween (whose real name is Aaron Freeman) - have been releasing into the world a very unique style of music...

When John Larsen and Peter Price were ready to move on and hand the reins of their iconic New Hope music club to a new generation of managers last summer, many feared that John and Peter's would become another lost piece of lost rock 'n' roll history...

The Dean Ween Group are prepping to release a new album titled rock2. Slated for March 16th through Schnitzel Records, it serves as their second following last year's debut, The Deaner Album...

We at Direct Attention were humbled to sit down with Claude Coleman Jr. while he was in Colorado. Coleman is a talented multi-instrumentalist, best known for his work drumming in the alternative rock band, Ween...

Mickey Melchiondo spends much of his downtime from Ween fronting The Dean Ween Group. Today, the band announced its sophomore record, Deaner Rock 2, due out March 9 via Schnitzel Records...

Coming off a well-received festival set at Suwannee Hulaween and a wild Halloween night show at The Bomb Factory in Dallas, weirdo rocker heroes Ween continued through the Lone Star State to the beloved Stubb's BBQ for a two-night run marking their final shows of the year. 2017 has been a big one for the band...

The Halloween force was strong at the Bomb Factory...

Iconoclast music makers Ween brought their mixed bag of pop, rock, sea shanties and more to the Suwannee Hulaween Festival for their wild and woolly Amphitheater closing set. The band has always reveled in their sonic diversity and their career-spanning song selection certainly showed it...

...Then there was Ween, whose presence at the festival seemed both incongruous and ingenious...

The long-standing friendship between Primus bassist Les Claypool and Ween guitarist Mickey "Dean Ween" Melchiondo paid musicial dividends once again on Sunday night at the North Coast Music Festival in Chicago...

Aaron Freeman may be known best as Gene Ween, the frontman of alternative rock band Ween from New Hope, Pennsylvania, but on Saturday, Aug. 5, he embodied a very different singer/songwriter...

In 2008, Ween played two nights at the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver, Colorado. On the second night, after playing 32 straight songs, the band went into "Squeal on the Pusher," which led into an epic, power-driven, spaced-out, weird-as-ever drum solo to be remembered forever...

A couple weeks ago, I received a text from my friend Mickey Melchiondo, asking if I'd be interested in putting together an oral history for the 20th anniversary of Ween's album The Mollusk. Of course, I gladly accepted...

Last night, fans of one-of-a-kind rock outfit Ween were treated to a very special performance at Bend, Oregon's Les Schwab Amphitheater... To open the show, the band performed their fan-favorite (and Deaner-favorite) 1997 album The Mollusk in its entirety, breaking out a pair of long-lost tunes in the process...