Old Ass Ween News(234 total)

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...

The Dean Ween Group whipped a packed Megalomaniacs Ball into a frothing frenzy last night, leading a four band onslaught of massive guitar riffs and what seemed like every kind of drum ever made...

In 99.99% of most cases, you can consider a show over when the band leaves the stage, the house lights come up and the crew starts putting away microphones and other equipment. Last night's Dean Ween Group show falls in 0.01%...

Ween fans flocked to Evanston's SPACE on Thursday for an intimate performance from Gene Ween. Playing with an electric four-piece backing band, the singer delivered a set spanning Ween's eclectic discography in addition to songs from his most recent record, Freeman...

Late last month Billy Joel played New York City's Madison Square Garden for the 63rd time. Meanwhile, across the river, Aaron Freeman played many of the same tunes to a smaller crowd at Brooklyn's most upscale bowling alley...

I can assure you from personal experience that are few better people to party with than Mickey Melchiondo, aka Dean Ween. Some time in a dimly remembered past, I did a Guitar World feature with him, which spotlighted his 5 Favorite CDs to do listen to on drugs. Only we couldn't say that, so we said "party with"...

Ween fans have been quite starved for something like this in recent years, as nearly a half-decade has passed since the bizarro outfit banded together for a tour in full. While Gener tours the northeast in support of his most recent eponymous Freeman record, the remainder of the original force rides again...

Boognish smiled upon Ardmore Music Hall on Friday as Aaron Freeman, formerly known as Gene Ween, took the stage. The near-capacity crowd welcomed him back to the area with rowdy cheering at nearly every available moment...

The 1970s was such a rich musical era that even identifying something as "'70s rock" is nebulous. Within that designation, there's classic rock, sludgy pre-punk rock, power ballad rock, metal and more. The Dean Ween Group - the outfit led by Mickey Melchiondo, half of the New Hope-based experimental rock group Ween - is similarly undefined...

When opening the jewel case of the original Chocolate And Cheese disc, you were greeted by a sketch on the CD face: a meaty cartoon hand, overlaid on a pukey brownish-green background, flipping you the bird...

New Hope favorite son Mickey Melchiondo brought his Dean Ween Group to John and Peter's in New Hope Wednesday night to warm up for their upcoming tour...

Moistboyz are too metal to be punk and too punk to be metal. Between the two genres falls the blisteringly energetic rock 'n roll the band makes their own...

The Moistboyz stormed John and Peter's last Wednesday night and took no prisoners...

Hog Island Press loves Ween. We still remember that Summer night in '93 when we let Nichole with an 'H' borrow our copy of Pure Guava, never to see it again. Lesson(s) learned. Fast forward two decades and New Hope native Dean Ween - aka Captain Mickey Melchiondo - has covered quite a bit of ground...

Aaron Freeman's set at the Fox felt decidedly familiar. The former Ween frontman may have officially shed the musical alter ego of Gene Ween since his last appearance in Colorado, but a lot about his act has stayed pretty much the same...

On this day, Michael "Mickey" Melchiondo, Jr. was born in New Hope, PA. New Hope is a lot like other small towns in eastern Pennsylvania, historic and boring...