Old Ass Ween News(228 total)

Brooklyn Bowl is a great place to see a show, but this might be what the almost-three-year-old venue does best: host multiple nights with the same band - while turning itself into home base for fans of that act...

Sunday night saw Ween close out a three-night stand at Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas with a show heavy on rockers including a Motorhead cover. The evening also featured a wedding proposal that ended well after the guy proposing lost the ring for a little while...

Times have changed, and so has his address. For the longtime member of one of America's most beloved left-of-center rock bands - reunited after several years apart - it's all for the better...

As one-half of beloved cult pranksters Ween, Dean Ween (real name Michael "Mickey" Melchiondo, Jr.) has created songs that run the gamut from foul-mouthed sea shanties to Nashville-tinged country tunes mourning the loss of a pet. Name a genre of music, and Dean Ween has likely already dived headfirst into it...

Last night Ween guitarist Mickey "Dean Ween" Melchiondo brought his The Dean Ween Group to New York for a show at Brooklyn Bowl. The evening featured a sit-in by opener, percussionist Mike Dillon as well as guest vocalist Carol Brooks and Joe Russo's Almost Dead guitarist Scott Metzger...

Thursday, April 20th in Charlottesville, VA
Friday, April 21st in Asheville, NC...

"I talk a lot," says Mickey Melchiondo, the man known to much of the world as Dean Ween and to some of the globe as Mickey Moist. "That's what makes me a good interview."...

Mickey Melchiondo's been so prolific lately - so out there and seemingly ever-present - that it's tough to imagine a time when his musical fires were barely at a smolder. But that's what happened to Melchiondo - better known to countless Ween fans as Dean Ween, or Deaner - following the breakup of Ween five years ago...

Let's say you don't know Ween's music or the music made by the lead guitarist's spinoff the Dean Ween Group. Then Dean Ween is fairly certain no matter what you read here (or anywhere), you're not going to like it...

Last night, a variety of artists from across the musical spectrum came together to play the music of Led Zeppelin at the Brooklyn Bowl in New York. Vocalist Gene Ween, pianist John Medeski, and guitarist/vocalist Scott Ian (of Anthrax) led the brigade through a furiously awesome tribute to the English rock band...

Where were you on September 11, 2001? I was bowling with friends in Asahikawa, Japan - way up north, a stone's throw from Russia. I had told the man at the counter my name was Gary, and that was the name up on the score-tracking screen over our lane. Gary sounds about the same as "geri," or diarrhea in Japanese...

Ween was in San Francisco this weekend for the first time since 2009, and for two nights, Friday and Saturday, October 14 and 15, they had the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium all to themselves...

On the road with the Shit Creek Boys in October, 1996...

If you've read "Understanding Trump" by the cognitive scientist George Lakoff, you might recognize aspects of "strict father morality" in Fugazi's code. It was funny, escaping the hierarchies of home and school to attend a Fugazi show as a teenager: You didn't know which songs they were going to play, but you could be sure they would deliver a stern talking-to about your behavior...

Last night Nelson Ledges Quarry Park hosted a concert featuring openers The Dean Ween Group and The Claypool Lennon Delirium at the outdoor venue in Garrettsville, Ohio...

The sonic DNA of Ween borrows from dozens of classic artists, but Prince's influence on the cult duo runs especially deep. "As young kids in Ween, it was attainable to imitate Prince," guitarist Mickey Melchiondo, a.k.a. Dean Ween, told Rolling Stone this week...