June 1st, 2012

Alice in Chains performing at the MusiCares Map Fund Benefit in L.A. last night. Guitarist Jerry Cantrell was one of the evening’s honorees.

May 30th, 2012

Spinner is streaming the entirety of the forthcoming Melvins album, Freak Puke. Listen here.

May 13th, 2012
Members of Alice in Chains onstage with Poison, early ’90s. (Photo via Metal Sludge; H/T MetalSucks)“In ’91, I got Alice in Chains to play a bunch of Northwest dates with [Poison]. All I knew was they were starting to break out big. I had a little studio at my house in Malibu, and in probably ’93, Jerry and those guys came out and we sang, wrote music, partied, had a good time. I was talkin’ to Jerry, and we both addressed how now there was supposed to be this anger and hatred between us. I said, ‘We don’t hate each other, right?’ We both laughed, and he goes, ‘I grew up on Sabbath and Kiss.’ And I said, ‘Me, too.’ And he said, ‘I know we’re supposed to not like each other, but you’re a cool dude.’ We were laughing about the media portraying us as such enemies. If you like somebody, you like somebody.”—Poison singer Bret Michaels, from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge

Members of Alice in Chains onstage with Poison, early ’90s. (Photo via Metal Sludge; H/T MetalSucks)

“In ’91, I got Alice in Chains to play a bunch of Northwest dates with [Poison]. All I knew was they were starting to break out big. I had a little studio at my house in Malibu, and in probably ’93, Jerry and those guys came out and we sang, wrote music, partied, had a good time. I was talkin’ to Jerry, and we both addressed how now there was supposed to be this anger and hatred between us. I said, ‘We don’t hate each other, right?’ We both laughed, and he goes, ‘I grew up on Sabbath and Kiss.’ And I said, ‘Me, too.’ And he said, ‘I know we’re supposed to not like each other, but you’re a cool dude.’ We were laughing about the media portraying us as such enemies. If you like somebody, you like somebody.”

—Poison singer Bret Michaels, from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge

May 10th, 2012

angryblue:

Achtung! is 18x18, 6 colors and a run of 200 Signed/Numbered. I love any excuse to mix up a bunch of candy colors and this was no different. I also …made it sparkly on a few colors as well. $40(+Shipping)

I love doing stuff for the Melvins. They’re some of my favorite prints to work on! They’re slaying on the current tour with UNSANE and I hope to see them again this fall on the Freak Puke tour.

www.angryblue.com

Reblogged from Angryblue
May 8th, 2012

Melvins drummers Dale Crover and Coady Willis, live in New York, April 29, 2012. (Photo by Jammi York; see more show pics at Verbicide)

May 7th, 2012

Spin.com has posted an exclusive track (“Leon Vs. the Revolution”) from the Melvins’ forthcoming album Freak Puke. Listen to it here. (Photo by Mackie Osborne)

April 29th, 2012

The Melvins performing “The War on Wisdom” for Last Call With Carson Daly.

April 26th, 2012
Poster for the June 29, 2010, Melvins show at Denver’s Ogden Theatre

Poster for the June 29, 2010, Melvins show at Denver’s Ogden Theatre

(Source: ariwilson14)

April 22nd, 2012

Mastodon’s cover of the Flaming Lips’ “A Spoonful Weighs a Ton” (a Record Store Day exclusive)

April 12th, 2012
What does it mean? I don’t know what it means. Freak puke! Freaky puking. It’s a freak that pukes. It’s a freakish puke. It’s puke that becomes freaky. It just sounds good together. FREAK. PUKE. They work great. I’m not sure where it came from? I write down stuff all the time that I hear, and like. It could’ve come from a wide variety of sources. Let’s say, let me make something up. Let’s say it came from a Bob Dylan poem I read. It’s not true, but we’ll say it is for today.
Melvins frontman Buzz Osborne on the title of their upcoming album Freak Puke

(Source: sfbg.com)

April 11th, 2012
Poster for Alice in Chains’ MTV Unplugged taping, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, April 10, 1996 (via Alice in Chains Chile)

Poster for Alice in Chains’ MTV Unplugged taping, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, April 10, 1996 (via Alice in Chains Chile)

April 6th, 2012
Do I hear from [the surviving members of Alice in Chains]? No. Do I care about what happens to them? Absolutely. I have invited them to come to the house many times. As Layne’s friends, I would just want them to tell me funny stories that they remember, so for 10 years that has never happened. I’d love it if somebody picked up the phone and said Nancy, ‘I’ve got to tell you something funny that happened when Layne was in Berlin.’ I would love if that would happen. They were his friends first, and I think the industry keeps them from pursuing some kind of connection with their friend’s mom, and they’re moving on.
Layne Staley’s mother, Nancy McCallum, speaking to an Atlanta radio show yesterday, the 10th anniversary of Layne’s death (source: GrungeReport.net)
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