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The Cameron Jamie film BB, which is an 18 minute film involving Backyard Wrestling, is being played at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis right now up until May 4th. The soundtrack to this film is Hung Bunny/Roman Bird Dog from the Melvins Lysol(self-titled) cd.

B B(2000) was filmed after a long investigation of the backyard wrestling phenomenon in southern California. For two years Jamie followed groups of kids in the San Fernando Valley, shooting videos, going to their wrestling shows, and integrating himself into this community. The film itself was shot with two Super-8 cameras and is superimposed with the timeless, demented, slow, and forceful music of the Melvins. The combination of the slow-motion, black-and-white images with this music creates a dreamlike state that reinforces a nightmare quality. The challenge of such a project was to avoid an exploitative relationship to its topic. Jamie is not interested in authoring "arty white-trash chic," or in depicting violence in a traditional documentary way. The dreamlike form of the film takes the documentary format to another level, to what he calls a "purgatory state of being," a middle ground that, in his view, is perfectly embodied in the notion of suburbs. Go here for more info on the event. 

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It looks like Melvins and Tomahawk will be touring together this spring in the U.S. in the first ever "Ipecac travelling road show" which will also include either Skeleton Key or Dälek. It's supposed to begin late april or early may in time for the next Tomahawk album "Mit Gas" to be released, the 26 songs rerelease from melvins will also be out by this time as well. Apparently there are going to be quite a few dates for the tour, not just the standard big cities of the u.s. stay tuned to ipecac.com for tour dates. 

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Those of you in the midwest such as myself have a chance to see the melvins this sunday at grumpy's bar and grill in Minneapolis, MN, check it out.

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Ok, insiders, here is the scoop! The upcoming 7 - Melvins 7 inch singles will be a very limited edition and VERY hard to find. But our friends at Midheaven have the answer! Starting....... now you can preorder these singles. To do so you must send an e-mail to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Let them know which singles you are interested in and they will get your payment - shipping information. Do not worry that you don't see the singles on their site, they will have 500 of each! Please remeber to be patient. This is a new system we are trying, also keep in mind there are only 2500 of each of these singles so e-mail soon! The singles are for each of the songs that appeared on HOSTILE AMBIENT TAKEOVER. The b-side to each single is a cover.

The singles will be realeased like this: January 28 IPC 21 Melvins – Black Stooges/ Foaming fast version(Melvins) 7” IPC 22 Melvins – Dr. Geek/Return of Spiders(Alice Cooper) 7” February 11 IPC 23 Melvins – Little Judas Chongo/Jerkin' Krokus(Mott the Hoople) 7” IPC 24 Melvins – The Fool, The Meddling Idiot/Promise Me(the Gun Club) 7” February 25 IPC 25 Melvins – Brain Center at Whipples/Today Your Love,Tomorrow the World (Ramones) 7” IPC 26 Melvins – Foaming/Arny(Warlock Pinchers) 7” March 11 IPC 27 Melvins – The Anti-vermin Seed/Antivermin part 2(Melvins) 7” In other Melvins news look in the calendar section for a mini California tour and finally the reissue of the very first official Melvins release, now retitled 26 SONGS, loaded with extra demos and goodies due in March.

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from Southern.net...

The Melvins have announced a new (well, sorta) record. The first will be "26 Songs". Some of you may know this as the classic, nigh on impossible to find "10 songs" will be reissued, except that this time they have added 16 bonus tracks. "10 Songs" was a collection of early demos and apparently you can now only find it on E-bay, where one would expect to pay in the region of.... oooo well about the same you pay for a photo of Buzz Osbourne signed "Dear Metal, thanks for stealing all our ideas". "26 songs" will be released on Ipecac on March 11th 2003.

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The salad of a thousand delights live melvins vhs which has been out for many years is now going to be released on dvd with some extras.  Looks like this is going to be released February 18th, “The DVD includes additional footage shot at the Off Ramp in Seattle, Washington on May 11, 1991.”  I heard it's going to include 'Mac Allec' from the Box Dog video compilation 'Hoop Skirt / Loop Yarn' plus some left over footage from that video session.

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