Old Ass Ween News(228 total)

If you thought your chances were slim to ever catch Ween and the [Shit Creek] Boys again, they just got a whole lot fatter: Squeezed in between a couple of dates on Ween's fall Florida Georgia Line Tour is a two-night stand at the Mother Church of Country Music...

Sometimes at the Invite the best musics happen at the end of the night when all but the hardcore locals have vacated the bar. Here is some "free association jamming" from us at around 1:15 am. Hang with it, it goes around the block and back a few times...

As an entity, it's no secret that Ween loves the water. Full of nautical imagery, their musical catalog includes tunes like "Ocean Man".... while [Dean Ween] doubles as a fishing captain in his off time. It felt a bit like a friendly "wink" that they headlined Burlington, Vermont's Lake Champlain Maritime Festival on the beach Sunday night, closing out the weekend as the sun set...

• 10/30 Royal Oak Music Theatre, Detroit, MI
• 11/02 Eagles Ballroom, Milwaukee, WI
• 11/03 Palace Theatre, St. Paul, MN
• 11/04 Palace Theatre, St. Paul, MN

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• 10/13 The Fillmore, Miami, FL
• 10/14 St. Augustine Amphitheatre, St. Augustine, FL
• 10/19 The Tabernacle, Atlanta, GA
• 10/20 The Tabernacle, Atlanta, GA

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Ween closed out a two-night run at the Red Rocks Amphitheater on Wednesday night. In a fitting development, the band was forced to take the stage an hour later than expected due to a thunderstorm or, as the fan site BrownBase referred to it on the setlist, "superfluous atmospheric electricity"...

The musical enigma known as Ween returned to St. Louis on Saturday, June 2, 2018. The show at the Pageant was its first in town since 2007...

When Ween went on break in 2012, I didn't do anything for a while, which actually turned out to be a blessing. I had never really taken a break from anything, never known a life where there wasn't a bunch of tour dates on the schedule...

MAGNET asked me to give my opinion on, like, 20 songs that they mailed to me. You see, I'm promoting my new record, Rock2, under the name the Dean Ween Group, which means once again, I have to do press to help convince you to buy it...

Laughing Hearts is the third album from Amandla, the project of Asheville-based musician Claude Coleman Jr. Though the album was quietly issued in digital form a year ago, Coleman is now overseeing a vinyl launch of Laughing Hearts and scheduling select live dates to celebrate that release...

WEEN will play two shows at Edgefield in Troutdale (just outside Portland), Oregon, August 17th & 18th...

After a miserable, wet and dreary Sunday afternoon, there was no better way for this reviewer to stay warm last night than to go see Primus on the last leg of their 2018 Australian tour. After doors opened to The Palais at 7pm, fans started piling in quickly and the limited edition merchandise sold out...

Recently, Aquarium Drunkard rang Dean up. Worn out from a day of interviews and a gig the night before, he was loopy but still in good spirits, ready to let some ideas out into the wind. "I'm talking shit," Dean laughs. "But it's the real shit"...

The Dean Ween Group took the stage at Philadelphia's Theater Of Living Arts this past Friday to tour behind their new album rock2... Taking the stage, Melchiondo, originally from New Hope, Pennsylvania, greeted fans stating it was good to "finally be back home"...

Claude Coleman Jr. is a busy guy. He prioritizes music and joy, making time to tour with Ween, Mike Dillon Band, Dean Ween Group, his own band Amandla, and occasionally with Fishbone's Angelo Moore. The current Asheville, North Carolina resident explained that "everywhere you look in Asheville is a musician playing an instrument," but unfortunately, many of them have nowhere to practice...

If you're a singer-songwriter who only needs an acoustic guitar for company, you can create and rehearse your music pretty much anywhere. But if you're in a band, you need a place to spread out and be loud without bringing down nearby property values - or the police...

This week our guest is none other than Dean Ween, a founding member of the cult favorite, multi-genre duo/band Ween. Dean Ween (the alias of Michael Melchiondo Jr.) is promoting his latest release Rock2, his sophomore solo effort with The Dean Ween Group...