Old Ass Ween News(228 total)
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Mar 19th, 2018
Dean Ween Talks About His Various Influences
Source: Cleveland Scene
Author: Jeff Niesel
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...
Read MoreMar 9th, 2018
The Dean Ween Group give a Track by Track breakdown of their new album, rock2
Source: Consequence of Sound
Author: Drew Fortune
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...
Read MoreMar 1st, 2018
Take Note Podcast Episode Eighteen: Dean Ween
Source: Berklee Online
Author: Pat Healy
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...
Read MoreFeb 13th, 2018
The Torch Is Passed To A New Generation At John And Peter's In New Hope
Source: New Hope Free Press
Author: Charlie Sahner
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...
Read MoreJan 10th, 2018
The Dean Ween Group announce new album, plus US spring tour
Source: Consequence of Sound
Author: Lake Schatz
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...
Read MoreDec 4th, 2017
An Interview with Claude Coleman Jr.
Source: Direct Attention
Author: Kristin Zachman
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...
Read MoreNov 30th, 2017
The Dean Ween Group Announces 'Deaner Rock 2' Album
Source: JamBase
Author: Scott Bernstein
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...
Read MoreNov 4th, 2017
Ween Plays Full "Stallion" Suite Live For 1st Time Ever, Covers Prince & More At Stubb's
Source: Live For Live Music
Author: Andrew O'Brien
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...
Read MoreNov 1st, 2017
Photos: Gene and Dean of Ween Was Quite a Scene on Halloween
Source: Dallas Observer
Author: Mike Brooks
The Halloween force was strong at the Bomb Factory...
Read MoreOct 30th, 2017
Watch Ween Close Down The Amphitheater Stage At Hulaween
Source: Live For Live Music
Author: Rex Thomson
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...
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Ween fans rule Music Tastes Good festival on a day with pointed messages from Slaves and Protomartyr
Source: Los Angeles Times
Author: Randall Roberts
...Then there was Ween, whose presence at the festival seemed both incongruous and ingenious...
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Ween Welcomes Les Claypool At North Coast Music Festival
Source: JamBase
Author: Scott Bernstein
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...
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PHOTOS: Gene Ween Does Billy Joel at Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre, 08/05/17
Source: NEPA Scene
Author: Keith Perks
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...
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Watch Ween Destroy Claude Coleman's Drum Set, On This Day In 2008
Source: Live For Live Music
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...
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Ween's The Mollusk Turns 20: An Oral History By Mickey Melchiondo
Source: Stereogum
Author: Drew Fortune
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...
Read MoreJul 2nd, 2017
WEEN Plays The Mollusk Full Album in Bend, OR - Review and Videos
Source: Live For Live Music
Author: Andrew O'Brien
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...
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