The Dean Ween Group Track by Track, photo by Mark Adams “I’m pretty proud of this one; it represents the first time that I was able to take what we do onstage and put it on a record. 2017 is a strange ...

Mickey “Dean Ween” Melchiondo is a busy man these days. For starters, he’s back at it with Ween, the popular—but never mainstream—-alternative rock band he co-founded with Aaron “Gene Ween” Freeman.

Dean Ween, aka Mickey Melchiondo, is one half of the surreal, eastern Pennsylvania spoof duo Ween, which is now on hiatus. Ween was something like a blend of Frank Zappa, Tenacious D, the Butthole ...

As half of genre-busting duo Ween, Mickey Melchiondo (aka Dean Ween) made a living confounding the ears of listeners worldwide. Though their bizarro humor and top-notch chops carried over from album ...

Dean Ween isn’t precious about his songs. Oh, he’ll work for ages getting the right keyboard sound or the perfect guitar solo. But the man born Mickey Melchiondo and one-half of legendary experimental ...

Dean Ween and the Stone Pony are all but inseparable these days. The Trenton-native, New Hope, Pennsylvania-based alt-rocker's roots run deep at the Jersey Shore: his parents owned a house on Long ...

The 1970s was such a rich musical era that even identifying something as ” ’70s rock” is nebulous. Within that designation, there’s classic rock, sludgy pre-punk rock, power ballad rock, metal and ...

Let’s say you don’t know Ween’s music or the music made by the lead guitarist’s spinoff the Dean Ween Group. Then Dean Ween is fairly certain no matter what you read here (or anywhere), you’re not ...

Experimental rock band Ween formed in the mid-’80s and, after a remarkably long tenure, broke up weirdly and publicly in 2012. But all was not lost. The band’s founding members, Aaron Freeman and ...

Dean Ween is in a good place, literally. The Trenton native, born Mickey Melchiondo, is known by a global cult of acolytes as half of the New Hope, Pennsylvania-based alt-rock duo Ween. But these days ...