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The Mansruin album tentatively titled "Electro Retard" has been pushed back to a release date of january 29th keep checking the website to see when it's available for preorder. Also the Ipecac releases that are coming up are a "limited edition Trilogy triple gatefold vinyl picture disc" the other is a rerelased Gluey Porch Treatments cd What I've heard is that gpt was completely remastered and that the cd would contain 29 tracks and that all extra tracks are demos. The expected release date for those is November 28, 2000. Melvins have a show coming up in San Francisco on the 10th of November. Also I guess Buzz is working in the studio on new Fantomas stuff now that the Mr. Bungle tour is over which is supposed to come out next year. Altamont is playing a couple shows in november they're on the tour dates page.

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The new album due out on new years day on the Mansruin label is not available for preorder yet at the website but supposedly will be soon. The price is 10 bucks so be sure to keep checking back to their site to get a piece of the action. Also Ipecac is releasing two Melvins gems, one is a "limited edition Trilogy triple gatefold vinyl picture disc" the other is a rerelased Gluey Porch Treatments cd with the addition of live songs from the same era as it's release. Those two are due out in November. The melvins have been playing a few shows here and there, check out the tour dates for the remaining shows, plus the dates for the upcoming Australian tour of Buzz's side project Fantômas. Buzz told me the album coming out on mansruin won't be out until january, which sucks. He also said the project with Mike from enemymine was still in the recording stages.

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I heard from Kevin Rutmanis he had this to say about the new album coming out.. Hello there Brian. We just finished her up last weekend, and I must say it came out much to our liking. The working title right now is "Electro Retardo", and it should be out in November. It has "Youth of America" on it, some radical reworkings of old Melvins classics, a Cows song (with the 3 of us harmonizing like angels), an old alternate version of "Tipping the Lion" that was on a limited edition cd, and a snappy Pink Floyd cover that I think was on a 10" at some point.... Then he had this to say about upcoming dates the melvins are playing... We're doing 2 shows in Mpls, at the end of Sept., one in Las vegas with Hank Williams III, and I think LA and San Diego.......... He had this to say about his side projects... The Vaz boys may be moving out here this fall, so Gas War should be fully operational and playing live shows soon after.......Be sure and catch them (Vaz that is) on tour over the next few months.. Also, It's possible that Dale and I will be involved in a Meatmen single and/or comp one-off.............

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I talked to Kevin Rutmanis, I asked him what he was working on right now during the melvins off time and he said: Well, there's a new piano in my house, and a bass i had built for me just got here too (after a 3 month wait!) so i'm spending a lot of time working on and playing those 2 instruments....i'm always writing and noodling around, so that takes up a lot of the day.........next melvins cd will probably just be me playing beer barrell polkas on the piano with Dale and Buzz yodelling in their underwear. I also have another band called "gaswar" with paul erickson and jeff mooridian jr., the 2 guys from VAZ (they used to be in a band called Hammerhead). But since they live in Mpls., and i'm in LA, we havent been playing too much. We have a 3/4 finished cd in the can, which we are "shopping around".......which means it's sitting there collecting dust. I've also released a couple of things with David Livingstone, from the godbullies called "Teenage Larvae". We recently did some recording in Detroit, where he lives........we'll see what happens with that.

I also asked him about the upcoming Melvins releases and he said: Well, the plan right now is to try to finish the man's ruin thing in August when Buzz get's back from the Fantomas tour. We couldnt really get that one done in time cuz buzz got sick when we were in the studio, and his vocals woulda sounded like lumps of shit and snot hitting the mic, so we decided to postpone. The Mike and the Melvins cd is also mostly done, and just needs vocals and mixing. That one is all of us playing bass, except Mr. C drumming as usual. Basically, Mike needed more time to work on the songs.......we all wrote ditties for that one.....mine sound like sparkling honey-dipped plums, of course. Crover sings at least one on this one! This one will be a while, because Sub Pop needs six months once they get the tape to turn around and manufacture the cd, don't ask me why. Both these babies are pretty different from each other, and SURPRISE!, pretty weird! Yeah and dont worry, they "rawk" too...sorta....We even did a Cows song for the man's ruin CD, we'll see if it makes it to the final mix. You won't be disappointed....i promise.

For those of you who don't know Mike and the melvins is a project the melvins are doing with mike from godheadsilo and enemymine.

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Looks like the melvins record on mansruin is coming out in november, i'm looking forward to that. Jami Wolf from mansruin claims that the melvins are re-recording previously released songs for this. The project with mike from godhead silo and enemymine with the melvins is still coming out but sub pop isn't sure on a release date tentatively it will be out by the end of the year, yes tentatively. The new Fantômas album is slated for September 19th, it was recorded last february.

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