Proving once more that exciting things happen when I go away – it appears that Danny jumps up on stage with Faith No More at their recent gig in LA. Tool bad he didn’t get behind the drumkit: Two of my favourite bands united – I wonder if Tool and Faith No More would ever really tour together… In other news: Blood Into Wine is on Netflix (everyone can stop… Read More »Danny makes Patton look short
Just announced on Fasterlouder is the following cool show on the 3rd of March at The Palais in Melbourne: Primus fans the world over were thrown into fits of sporadic air-bass when the influential US rockers announced in April that after a five year hiatus they were back in business. It seemed only logical that the band would eventually be nabbed by one of our summer festivals, and Soundwave ended… Read More »Primus & The Melvins Melbourne show
Just in case you’d forgotten the second leg of the Melvins US tour kicks off soon, with dates in Canada and the West Coast of the US. Much West Coast love recently. Here are the dates: August 28, 2010 – Minneapolis, MN – Grumpy’s ‘Amrep 25th Anniversary Bash’ September 1, 2010 – Toronto, ON, Canada – Opera House September 3, 2010 – Montreal, QC, Canada – Club Soda September 4,… Read More »In case you needed reminding – The Melvins!
According to a leaked list of acts for the 2011 Soundwave Festival here in Australia, The Melvins will be joining the lineup. Other highlights for me include Primus, Queens Of The Stone Age, Slayer and High On Fire. If this is true, I’ll definitely be there. The official announcement is tonight, so keep your hats on! Update: Great news everybody: that leak has been confirmed as official!
Bonnaroo took place over the weekend, and favorites of Fourtheye The Mevlins and Isis both performed. Luckily for those that couldn’t make it their sets are available for streaming! Enjoy: The Melvins Isis
Here’s a bunch more Melvins dates that I may or may not have posted about in the past: Jun 1 San Diego Casbah Jun 2 Phoenix The Clubhouse Jun 3 Albuquerque, NM Launchpad Nightclub and Restaurant Jun 5 Austin Emo’s Jun 6 San Antonio, TX White Rabbit Jun 7 Houston Warehouse Live Jun 8 Baton Rouge, LA Spanish Moon Cafe Jun 9 New Orleans One Eyed Jacks Jun 14 Athens,… Read More »More Melvins Dates
Anaphoria tweeted me that at the Volto! show over the weekend, John Z mentioned that there will be a Tool show in Los Angeles on the 20th of July. In other news I found an interview with King Buzzo from the Melvins on Metalsucks.
Aaron Harris from ISIS twittered today a couple of details from the upcoming ISIS/Melvins split on Hydrahead. According to the pics the track are: ISIS: Way Through Woven Branches Pliable Foe The Melvins: Pig House (alt version) I’ll Finish You Off (alt version) The Isis Tracks are from the Wavering Radiant sessions, while The Melvins tracks seem to be versions of songs from their forthcoming album The Bride Screamed Murder.… Read More »The Melvins/ISIS Split Details
According to a recent Twitter post (Thanks to StubbaDub for the tip), Amazon has 30 second samples from each of the tracks on the forthcoming Melvins album The Bride Screamed Murder. According to the site the tracklist should be: The Water Glass Evil New War God Pig House I’ll Finish You Off Electric Flower Hospital Up Inhumanity And Death My Generation P.G. x 3 I listened to them all, and… Read More »The Melvins Samples on Amazon
According to an article on Limewire, the forthcoming Melvins tour will include dates with Isis, and for those shows without Isis, the Melvins will play two sets. Not sure which one I’d be more interested in to be honest: The Melvins may have just recently had their 25th band birthday, but they’re showing no signs of slowing down. They’ll be supporting The Bride Screamed Murderall over the country in June… Read More »Melvins Tour Details, Album Art