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AmRep has announced that tomorrow morning around 9AM Central a number of new and limited Melvins vinyl releases will go on sale on SHOXOP and then likely sell out posthaste. The new splits in the ongoing Sugar Daddy split series with Mudhoney and Fucked Up will be available along with the 5th cover variant of the Melvins 1983 EP. In addition to those items, AmRep is releasing Hepa/Titus' new album Follow Me tomorrow morning as well. Hepa/Titus is former Melvins bassist Kevin Rutmanis' new band and the album is outstanding!
UPDATE(1/26/2013): As expected these releases sold out in about an hour. Some copies may still be available at upcoming tour dates in 2013.
On a related note, Tom Hazelmeyer, owner of Amphetamine Reptile Records was interviewed by an Israeli radio station recently. In the interview he touches on the way AmRep functions in its new era of mostly limited releases. Check out the interview HERE.

   
   

YouTube clips have been posted of the two tracks from the NYE split 12" with Redd Kross!

Decent Exposure Radio posted the audio of an interview they did with the band while they were in Allentown, PA for the 51/51 tour.


Tour Dates are starting to trickle in for 2013, in the meantime you can pretend you were at the San Francisco show last month and buy the Alan Forbes silkscreen poster from Secret Serpents!

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Roxwel has posted the full set of the Melvins Lite show in Austin, TX last October along with an interview!


Poster art from the show by Bobby Dixon

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It's nearly 2013 and the Melvins will be breaking in a select few along with Redd Kross in L.A. at the historic Alexandria Hotel for their New Years Eve Ballroom Blitz! The Melvins will also be playing a show in San Francisco at the Great American Music Hall on Dec. 29th.


Poster by Haze XXL

There's sure to be some interesting limited releases available at the New Years eve show, including a split 12" w/ Red Kross which has the Melvins covering Female Trouble and Carpe Diem by The Fugs! Redd Kross side will have 2 versions of "Linda Blair" old & new. Silk screened sleeves by Obsolete Industries. 300 are being pressed so there should be a handful leftover after the show for sale on the web from AmRep.

Joyful Noise Recordings will soon be opening up for pre-order their Flexi-Disc series for 2013 and not only are the Melvins being featured, Mackie Osborne did the artwork for the optional Deluxe Wooden Box for the set. "The Joyful Noise 2013 Flexi Disc Series features new, unreleased recordings from 12 of our favorite bands - released monthly on square, single-sided, clear 7" Flexi Discs. Limited to just 1000 copies solely on Flexi Disc, these songs will not be released digitally or on any other format.  Each release includes full artwork, featuring a unique cover provided by the respective bands."  No word on what the song the Melvins will be contributing as of yet. Check out the Joyful Noise site for all the details...


Hand-numbered, custom-built wooden box, screen-printed with exclusive artwork by Mackie Osborne

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Big Biz has put up the remainder of the 2012 tour 7 inches on their site for purchase, so I invite you to do some business with Big Business. $7 and comes in Yellow, Clear, or Red. A-side is Battlefields and the b-side is Into The Light(Siouxsie and the Banshees cover). "our limited run of tour 7's has finally been counted and put up on the site!!!! can you believe it? be a part of history and order all of them for yourself.. then put them on ebay and watch the profits rain in!!!!!! comes with a free download card and everything!" They're also pursuing a hostile takeover of Facebook so get behind that before they sick a portion of their legal team on you.

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ACT FAST, AmRep has posted a plethora of the recent limited Melvins releases for sale on their SHOXOP tonight! This includes the latest Sugar Daddy splits (Butthole Surfers & MWxHC), Freak Puke picture discs, The Bulls & the Bees and the 1983 10" records, and the 7" picture discs with Hammerhead. Also, if you're behind on what Amphetamine Reptile was back in its heyday you might want to pick up a copy of the AmRep Motors comp which includes the Melvins track Larry. A lot of this stuff may sell out tonight, you've been warned!

UPDATE: Everything sold out in a matter of a couple hours. I do know that you can still buy the Melvins/Hammerhead split picture disc from the artist Chris Mars directly. Melvins should also be getting restocked soon to sell more of some of these items on their tour as well, and the 5th 1983 EP cover variant is being held over for the New Years Eve show w/ Redd Kross.

   

The fifth release in this 13 volume series has Melvins "Kicking Machine" (live from Sugar Daddy LP) on the A-Side and Side One with tracks by 3 good ol' Midwestern Hardcore bands with Negative Approach ("Sick of Talk"), Die Kreuzen ("In School") & Necros ("IQ32").

The sixth release in this 13 volume series has Melvins "Eye Flys" (live from Sugar Daddy LP) on the A-Side and Side One by the legendary Butthole Surfers with the tracks, 'Pittsburgh to Lebanon", "No Rule" & "Gary Floyd."


Poster by Jeff LaChance

"We are well into this infernal tour and now it's dark. Well, it's not actually dark but that's what Frank Booth would say and I've been on a Blue Velvet bender as of late, meaning I've watched all or part of the movie Blue Velvet for the last eight nights. Best sex scenes ever put to film! I can't watch those parts without laughing my ass off and laughs are good on tour, they give you the strength to go about your day and make it easier to face life itself. I've been trying to talk Trevor into playing the song "Blue Velvet" in his solo but so far no luck. I still have half the tour to make it happen." - read more from the Melvins tour diary at SPIN

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The Melvins are hanging in there and inching up on the halfway mark of their 51 day record breaking tour! As Buzz said in a recent interview with citypages.com: "Its going good! No one is dead, no one is in jail, and everyone is still on heroin." They've been keeping a tour diary at SPIN.com, make sure you stay up to date on all of the shenanigans and tomfoolery. Dale is also doing a bit of a tour blog for Tama's site. They're touring with Tweak Bird on most of these dates, and SPIN also put up a preview track from their upcoming album Undercover Crops which is endorsed by Dale Crover himself, can't do much better than that... Melvins have a lot of limited edition stuff at the merch table on this tour, including the Freak Puke picture discs, '1983' and 'The Bulls & the Bees' 10" records, and the newest in the Sugar Daddy 12" split series with Butthole Surfers and Die Kreuzen/Necros/Negative Approach. Speaking of which, those new Sugar Daddy splits should go up for sale on AmRep's site real soon so stay on your toes. Melvins also announced that they'll be playing in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve with Redd Kross. Tickets are on sale now, and it should be a real barn burner!

The Bulls & The Bees 10" - Letterpress Sleeve art by Mackie Osborne

While the Melvins were in the great city of Minneapolis playing Grumpy's some video was shot by a friend of themelvins.net forum!


Poster design by Shawn Knight & Michael Hacker

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