AmRep announces MELVINS: The Devil You Knew, The Devil You Know
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Amphetamine Reptile Records has announced a new/old Melvins release! The Devil You Knew, The Devil You Know is the bands first 7" plus a re-recording of it to commemorate their 40th anniversary! The CD is available now via Shoxop with the vinyl soon to follow.
More details from HAZE XXL:
- Easy As It Was
- Now A Limo
- Grinding Process
- At A Crawl
- Disinvite
- Snake Appeal
Here's a new one for you. It's also an old one. More on that in a minute. The Melvins have their 40th anniversary this year & we’ve got quite a few projects in the pipeline to celebrate & the first one is ready to go.
So here's the deal. 1 Album with 2 versions of the same songs. One half of it is the tracks from the sessions recorded in 1986 for the Melvins first 7" EP record. The other half is those same songs re-recorded in 2023, this time with Steven McDonald on bass. SHOXOP.COM
Ipecac reissuing TRES CABRONES, HOUDINI LIVE 2005, THE BULLS & THE BEES + ELECTRORETARD
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Ipecac has three more additions to their recent series of (the) Melvins vinyl reissues! They are already in stock in their Blixt US and Bandcamp stores, so those will be shipping in mid-April. Everywhere else should have them for the May 19th release date.
Pre-order them all here! Each reissue comes with a special 12-page booklet designed by Mackie Osborne. And all are just in time for the band's 40th Anniversary!
THE BULLS & THE BEES + ELECTRORETARD
2LP Canary Yellow Vinyl + Limited 2LP Orange w/ Yellow Splatter Vinyl
The first time on vinyl for the complete collection of these two albums together in one package.
TRES CABRONES
Sky Blue Vinyl + Limited Edition Baby Blue w/ Sky Blue Splatter Vinyl
Vinyl reissue of the band's 2013 release featuring their 1983 lineup. First time ever available on vinyl.
HOUDINI LIVE 2005
2LP Hot Pink Vinyl + Limited Edition Baby Pink w/ Hot Pink Splatter Vinyl
The live album from 2006 of Melvins performing their legendary album, Houdini. First time ever on vinyl!
Melvins announce 40th Anniversary European Tour
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40 Years! The band has announced they'll be heading to Europe after the Geek Show tour in the U.S. to continue celebrating their 40th anniversary, the tour kicks off May 30th in the UK! Tickets are on sale February 10th, some of the ticket links are aggregated at ipecac.com/tours
Ipecac Geek Show 2023 Tour Dates announced
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Ipecac recently announced the return of the Geek Show with some U.S. dates scheduled for this spring! It’s the return of the Ipecac Geek Show! We’ve got Mr. Bungle! We’ve got (the) Melvins! We’ve got Spotlights! Hitting select US towns this May, tickets on sale this Friday Jan 27th at 10am local time.
Check out ipecac.com/tours for ticket info.
UPDATE: A few more dates have been added to this tour since it was originally announced!
Geek Show 2023 Tour
May 10, 2023 - Pomona, CA - Fox Theater w/ Spotlights, Mr Bungle
May 11, 2023 - Los Angeles, CA - Palladium w/ Spotlights, Mr Bungle
May 13, 2023 - Las Vegas, NV - Sick New World Festival
May 14, 2023 - Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues w/ Spotlights, Mr Bungle
May 16, 2023 - Denver, CO - Mission Ballroom w/ Spotlights, Mr Bungle
May 17, 2023 - Salt Lake City, UT - Union Event Center w/ Spotlights, Mr Bungle
May 19, 2023 - Seattle, WA - Showbox w/ Spotlights, Mr Bungle
May 20 2023 - Seattle, WA - Showbox w/ Spotlights, Mr Bungle
May 21, 2023 - Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom w/ Spotlights, Mr Bungle
May 23, 2023 - Oakland, CA - Fox Theater w/ Spotlights, Mr Bungle
May 24, 2023 - Oakland, CA - Fox Theater w/ Spotlights, Mr Bungle
Melvins - Bad Mood Rising out now on Amphetamine Reptile Records
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The new MELVINS album Bad Mood Rising is officially released and can already be found at top tier local record stores! It'll be available at the merch table on the Five Legged Tour which they are already about a week into. AmRep will also have an exclusive mail order splatter edition, those are slated to go on sale Tuesday(9/13) over at SHOXOP.COM. From the band: 'After slogging through the insanely clogged up pressing plant delays... IT'S HERE!!! Our full LP of all new material "BAD MOOD RISING"! We'll have exclusive orange vinyl copies on the current tour starting in Las Vegas(Sept. 12)'. Local record stores will be selling the standard black vinyl version, the tour and mailorder color vinyl variants are limited to a 500 ct. pressing each. Local record stores can hit up Think Indie Distribution to stock the LP and CD! A digital/streaming release is expected at a future date TBD. An extra bonus if you missed it in the previous news post is that Dylan Carlson of Earth fame contributed additional guitar on the album opener.
Bad Mood Rising cover art by Mackie Osborne
The band announced that Void Manes will be joining them for select dates in the East, check out the Tour Dates and start making your plans to get to the shows early for his set!
Bifocal Media has a new Melvins/Flipper shirt based on the HAZE XXL artwork for the Hot Fish collaboration EP from 2019.
Melvins friend/producer/engineer Toshi Kasai has a new album Based On True Stories on the way via Joyful Noise Recordings!
Black Donut Records is putting out a Melvins tribute LP entitled A Future of Bad Men, you can pre-order the vinyl over at their Bandcamp.
You can now stream the Melvins documentary The Colossus of Destiny: A Melvins Tale on Tubi
Melvins announce Bad Mood Rising
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With the band getting ready to kick off their Five Legged Tour in a couple weeks they've dropped more news of their next LP 'Bad Mood Rising' which is racing towards release in Sept. (exact date will be posted here soon). In the meantime there's some limited edition art versions of the LP that are going to be available on Sunday (Aug 21) via SHOXOP. HAZE XXL collaborated with the ASTOUNDING Chris Mars for the cover art. Mackie has whipped up some great art for the regular release version, which will be available to stores and mail-order in both LP & CD! They'll be unveiling the Mackie art soon.
Bad Mood Rising tracklist:
SIDE A
Mister Dog is Totally Right
Never Say You're Sorry
SIDE B
My Discomfort is Radiant
It Won't Or It Might
Hammering
The Receiver and The Empire State
Via AMREP:
The best part about a new Melvins album is that you’re never quite sure what you’re going to get. THAT’S the genius of these guys! With Bad Mood Rising it’s a tuned down rock and roll nightmare.
BIG riffs and scary vocals.
The album starts with Mr. Dog is Totally Right which clocks in at over 12 minutes. This song also features guest guitarist Dylan Carlson from the world famous band, Earth.
What a treat!!
From there it goes into Never Say You’re Sorry. It sounds like the way a big mean dog walks.
Great fun!
The rest of the album rounds out nicely. Hammering might be one of the catchiest songs the Melvins have ever written.
Bad Mood Rising-The newest Melvins album.
The cover artwork, is collaboration between legendary artist & former Replacements drummer Chris Mars & Amphetamine Reptile's own HAZE XXL. First, Chris started out the piece by designing & drawing the art directly onto a linoleum block then HAZE took over, meticulously carving the block & printing each one by hand.
Then they were scanned & that's where Boxy Mouse took things over where he turned those into silkscreens, printing them on our standard thick tan chipboard. The back of the sleeve was entirely designed by HAZE, is hand-stamped with the edition # & is limited to 200 copies of each of the 3 editions.
BAD MOOD BLUE EDITION-The vinyl on this edition is semi-translucent white with a clear blue blob in a vague free-form flower-like pattern emanating from the center with heavy opaque black streaks splattered throughout. Front & back of the sleeve is in blue ink on this variant.
BLOOD ORANGE EDITION- Vinyl on this one is opaque red containing black splatters as an edge eclipse & a hourglass-shaped middle section in opaque orange. Front & back of the sleeve is in orange ink on this variant.
MOLDY MINT EDITION- Vinyl on this edition is semi-translucent Coke-bottle green base with neon pinkish red splatters throughout. Front & back of the sleeve is in mint green ink on this variant.
Buzz recently shared a snap of his forthcoming photography book on his Instagram page. More details to come on the book once an on sale date is announced!
Dale has a 10" in the works with Clem Burke of Blondie and Glen Matlock of Sex Pistols fame. They cover a couple Small Faces tunes. Consequence premiered the video for 'Song of a Baker'. “Song of a Baker,” alongside a cover of the Small Faces deep cut “Donkey Rides, A Penny A Glass,” will be available soon on limited-edition 10-inch vinyl from Amphetamine Reptile Records over at shoxop, and digitally via Cabbage ‘N Mash’s Bandcamp page.
Check out a recent interview with Buzz from Loudwire where he talks about the bands latest and upcoming happenings plus his love of Golf.
Both Buzz and Kevin Rutmanis contributed to the new Mr. Phylzzz album Cancel Culture Club, you can pick up the CD over at shoxop.