Aaron Freeman

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Brothers Keeper

The demonic duo of Dean and Gene Ween returns with a new studio album -- and a refined take on a twisted past.

How the West Was Ween

Gene and Dean Ween take on country music and live to tell the tale.

Gene Ween Band

Saturday, May 9, Walnut Room, 303-292-0077; Sunday, May 10, and Monday, May 11, b.side lounge, Boulder, 303-473-9463.

Over the weekend: Gene Ween at the Walnut Room and b.side in Boulder

Walnut Room set shot by Jon Solomon (click to enlarge)Gene Ween Saturday, May 10, The Walnut Room Sunday, May 11, The b.side lounge Better than: Hearing Gene Ween play a bunch of solo songs you don't recognize. Gene Ween (aka Aaron Freeman) perhaps best summarized the dynamic of his trio of Colorad ... More >>

Dean and Gene put the Ween in Halloween

Walnut Room set shot by Jon Solomon (click to enlarge)Gene Ween Saturday, May 10, The Walnut Room Sunday, May 11, The b.side lounge Better than: Hearing Gene Ween play a bunch of solo songs you don't recognize. Gene Ween (aka Aaron Freeman) perhaps best summarized the dynamic of his trio of Colorad ... More >>

Dean Ween on fundamental changes to the recording industry and pot-smoking hippies

​ For nearly thirty years, Mickey Melchiondo's been making music under a moniker. As Dean Ween, one of the eponymous creative forces behind Ween, Melchiondo's carved out an ambitious musical niche since founding the band with Aaron Freeman - aka Gene Ween - in the 1980s. In advance of Ween's ... More >>

Ween at 1STBANK Center, 10/31/10

A.H. Goldstein​ WEEN 10.31.10 | 1STBANK Center The scene captured the sheer surrealism of Ween's Halloween show at the 1STBANK Center in Broomfield: Toward the end of the band's three-hour performance, Mickey Melchiondo -- aka Dean Ween -- belted out "The Blarney Stone" with gusto, his vocal ... More >>

Ween's The Pod turns 20 years old today

Twenty years after its release, it's no wonder that many still consider The Pod to be Ween's most challenging album. Released on September 20, 1991, less than two years after the band's freshman release GodWeenSatan: The Oneness, the 23-track EP took the group's flair for surreal sounds and heady h ... More >>

Gene Ween on Ween's history, working with Dean Ween and playing in Colorado

​Aaron Freeman incorporates a lot of personal history when he takes on the musical alter-ego role of Gene Ween. For nearly thirty years, Freeman and Mickey Melchionda (aka Dean Ween) have been the tongue-in-cheek duo behind Ween, a band that's evolved from the abstract musical experiments of 1 ... More >>

New Year's Eve in Denver: live music tip sheet

Brandon MarshallYonder Mountain String Band​While there's plenty of action in the clubs over New Year's weekend, there are also a ton of bands playing in Denver and Boulder, and a lot of them playing multiple nights, including Yonder Mountain String Band (five nights at the Boulder Theater), R ... More >>

Review: Ween at Fillmore Auditorium, 12/29/11

Eric Gruneisen​WEEN @ FILLMORE AUDITORIUM | 12.29.11 Early in the first show of Ween's three-night stint at the Fillmore, guitarist and frontman Dean Ween offered the crowd a simple game plan: "We're Ween. We're the band for the next few days," Dean Ween (aka Mickey Melchiondo) announced casu ... More >>

Review: Ween at the Fillmore, 12/30/11

Eric GruneisenWeen at the Fillmore Auditorium last night playing the second night of a three-night stand. See more photos in the full slide show from last night. WEEN @ FILLMORE AUDITORIUM | NIGHT TWO | 12.30.11 There was no ambitious declaration or plan of attack from the Ween brothers as they la ... More >>

Review: Ween at the Fillmore Auditorium, 12/31/11, Night Three, New Year's Eve

Eric GruneisenWeen at the Fillmore on New Year's Eve WEEN @ FILLMORE AUDITORIUM | NIGHT THREE | 12.31.11 See also, reviews of: 12/29/11 (night one) and 12/30/11 (night two) Just in case anyone in the capacity crowd packed into the Fillmore Auditorium on New Year's Eve wasn't paying attention, Dea ... More >>