Old Ass Ween News(228 total)
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Jul 16th, 2011
WEEN PRODUCER BEN VAUGHN DETAILS THE MAKING OF '12 GOLDEN COUNTRY GREATS'
Source: Taste of Country
Author: Matthew Wilkening
Of all the adventurous things the rock band known as Ween has done over their career, recording a straight-up country album with legendary Nashville session musicians was probably the most surprising. Their fans were already used to albums filled with a variety of eclectic stylistic changes, but staying in one genre for an entire record and abandoning their previous DIY recording methods was a big change even some Ween fans had a little trouble with. However, over time, the record has become an important and beloved part of the band's history...
Read MoreSep 20th, 2010
WEEN IN CENTRAL PARK
Source: sarcasm.com
Author: Kurt Koller
I went to my first Ween show in what seemed like ages. I caught the Gene Ween Band when they came through New York last time, and while that was a fun show, it's not Ween. My friend Bill had noticed that this show fell on his birthday, and he had never seen Ween live, so it pretty much had to happen...
View Setlist Read MoreSep 12th, 2010
Ween singer-guitarist talks about the offbeat alt-rock band's evolution
Source: nj.com
Author: Lisa Rose
Q. I was wondering if you are going to debut new material at the show. I think the fans want to know about the next album.
A. We're taking it a little slower this time. Mickey's doing a lot of fishing and his season is summer. I'm always writing music, so there will eventually be another Ween record...
Feb 23rd, 2010
THE OVER/UNDER: WEEN
Source: MAGNET
Author: Eric Waggoner
...on both label-attached records and a dizzying stream of self-released recordings, Ween has delighted in nothing more than vivisecting pop music forms and twisting them into new shapes - or pushing them far beyond their logical endpoints...
Read MoreFeb 17th, 2010
We Are Plastic Ono Band @ BAM, Brooklyn 2/16/10
Source: Stereogum
Author: Amrit Singh
The reconstituted, radicalized Plastic Ono Band boasted a lineup of legends and friends of Sean Lennon to survey the audio (and visual) output of Yoko Ono, the septuagenarian battling Leonard Cohen for the title of World's Most Vital...
View Setlist Read MoreMar 5th, 2009
An Oral History of May 3, 1987: The Day The Butthole Surfers Came to Trenton, New Jersey
Source: The Rumpus
Author: Amy Yates Wuelfing
That Butthole Surfers show is another one of those shows that 5,000 people claim they were at, but only 500 or so tickets were sold...
View Setlist Read MoreDec 11th, 2007
Review: WEEN December 1st, 2007 at Terminal 5, New York, NY
Source: PopMatters
Author: Zach Schonfeld
Ween's detractors have no shortage of ammunition. The perverted Pennsylvania duo has often been dismissed as tasteless, a far-from-shocking claim if you peruse some of the group's song titles...
View Setlist Read MoreDec 3rd, 2007
Long Night for Swashbucklers in Uncharted Territory
Source: New York Times
Author: Kelefa Sanneh
It was a long Friday night at Terminal 5 at the first of two sold-out performances by Ween, the band from New Hope, Pa., that has turned two decades of long nights into one unexpectedly long - and fruitful - career...
View Setlist Read MoreNov 22nd, 2007
Philadelphia seriously awash in irony
Source: The Morning Call
Author: Len Righi
Given that both Ween and They Might Be Giants are performing in Philadelphia on Saturday night, some form of cosmic irony appears to be at work, and not just because the oddball indie-pop duos are renowned for creating songs that ooze irony in a kaleidoscopic array of styles...
Read MoreSep 19th, 2007
WEEN: A BAND OF SUPERBAD BROTHERS
Source: MAGNET
Author: Jonathan Cohen
Great bands don't form via drummer-wanted ads or happenstance encounters at the local guitar shop. Instead, they come together in a fashion similar to New Hope, Pa.'s Ween, whose two members met in a middle-school typing class and decided to jam later that day...
Read MoreJun 23rd, 2007
KRAMER: TRIALS AND ERRORS
Source: MAGNET
Author: Eric Waggoner
Collect the research on Mark Kramer, look at it from a distance, and what stands out are the flashes of brilliance, tragedy and occasional outright psychosis: A deranged Texan igniting a puddle of lighter fluid pooled on an inverted drum cymbal. A crude four-track record made by a couple of teenagers - its cover art shamelessly lifted from The Best Of Leonard Cohen - that set the bar for a generation of lo-fi absurdist rock...
Read MoreFeb 23rd, 2007
Q&A: Claude Coleman Jr.
Source: STOPSMILING
Author: Drew Fortune
Claude Coleman Jr. is paying his dues. The versatile multi-instrumentalist and longtime Ween drummer is traveling the US with his backing band on a 26-stop, bi-coastal tour in support of The Full Catastrophe, the second album from his passion project Amandla...
Read MoreJan 1st, 2006
Lazy Wasted Ween
Source: exclaim.ca
Author: Matt McMillan
Mickey Melchiondo bristles at misguided accusations that Ween's latest disc Quebec is a cheap diss against the Great White North. "Our vision is like this rainy, colder than Paris, Parisian place. The vibe of our record is like romantic and rainy without being as classy as Paris"...
Read MoreSep 21st, 2005
Shinola, Vol. 1: Dean and Gene issue an odds-and-sods collection of previously unreleased archival material
Source: Pitchfork
Author: Adam Moerder
Traditionally, an odds-and-sods collection presents two types of songs; the unabashedly experimental and genre-hoppity and stale, ersatz versions of previously released tracks. So where does that leave the first volume of Ween's Shinola B-sides collection?...
Read MoreDec 16th, 2004
WEEN: Interesting Motherfuckers
Source: acid logic
Author: Sean C Tarry
It's a demon-god that draws a fast line separating the weird from the rest. One that revels in its own fascination of the absurd, while trying to compromise a balance between insanity and logic. A twisted creature of strangeness and bizarre savagery. And its name is Ween...
Read MoreFeb 3rd, 2004
Review: All Request Live
Source: Pitchfork
Author: Dan Miron
Ween's appeal isn't universal, and this release hews even further from the mainstream than unusual... Even if they garner new devotees, most of them will probably be age 13, thus becoming too cool within a few years for a band so childlike...
Read MoreAug 28th, 2003
Ween Takes Indie Road To 'Quebec'
Source: Billboard
Ween spent most of the previous decade as one of the strangest bands on a major-label roster, recording a series of unclassifiable records for Elektra...
Read MoreAug 6th, 2003
WEEN Interview
Source: A.V. Club
Author: Stephen Thompson
"...Our music is kids' music. I mean, it's really weird: My girl is 4, and she's singing "So Many People In The Neighborhood" to me from our new record, and it's really fucked up. I mean, our music generally appeals to children and retarded people, and I'm into that. In a way, we've been making children's records for years"...
Read MoreMar 12th, 2003
A LONG NIGHT WITH WEEN
Source: Prague.tv
Author: Jimmy Wilson
Felt anything unusual bubbling out of Zizkov Tuesday night? You should have. The boys from Ween were here - and they picked Prague to unveil their latest rocker...
View Setlist Read MoreAug 16th, 2001
Eatin' Raw Bacon - Ween is once again a band on the run
Source: Tucson Weekly
Author: Curtis McCrary
Dope-smoking wisenheimers all over Tucson were abuzz in an uncharacteristically non-chemical way over news that surfaced at July's ides: They're coming...
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