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For the past few years, any news from the Ween camp has been few and far between. Finally, The Mighty Boognish has awoken, and we’re about to get our fill of brown. Mickey “Dean Ween” Melchiondo published an exciting update on the band’s website. First, Deaner gave an update on Ween’s new album:

We’ve been in the studio the past couple of months with our producer Andrew Weiss recording our new album. It is going to be an amazing record. I’m very skeptical when anyone makes claims about their new music so I’ll just say that I can’t wait for the album to be released. We have a few more songs to record and we will hopefully be finished with the tracking by the time our gigs start at the end of the month. We started out with 50 or 60 demos and whittled it down to around 20 songs. We recorded the album to 24 track 2 inch tape so it sounds the way music was meant to be heard.

As if the prospect of the first Ween studio album in four years didn’t get me excited enough, news of an archival release (on DVD, too) made ‘it’ move.

Check it out after the jump, as well as summer tour plans and more pics…

String Cheese Incident is quickly becoming the Sugar Ray Leonard of the jamband world. We’re pretty sure the band announced its retirement some time between the fall of the Berlin Wall and end of the global Y2K freakout fakeout. Yet here we are, one quarter through the Year of Our Lord 2007, and dates continue to emerge from the Madison House corporate headquarters. Here’s the latest from the SCI camp:

We’ve gotta hand it to SCI for a job well done booking an undercard that’s strong to quite strong. It’ll take an awful lot to get people to converge on Salem, Missouri for the String Cheese Coventry, but we’re guessing Greyboy, JJ & MOFRO, Los Lobos, The Wailers and Yonder Mountain will help draw a sizeable crowd.

Catch ’em before they go (for real): SCI also hits Bonnaroo, three nights at the Beacon, the Greek, and somewhere in Oregon before Sam Malone sells the bar and the band hangs it up during a three-night stand at Red Rocks. That is, presumably, until they replace Billy Nershi and get back out on the road.

Read on for the full list of SCI’s Summer 2007 tour dates…

Seriously, where was I when the Fantastic 4 formed and decided to melt faces on a temporary but supernaturally unbelievable basis? Although it’s a recently established league of musical justice, I have no

The Allman Brothers Band concluded another epic run at the Beacon Theater last night. And just when you thought they had run out of possible guests, they bring out a

Major news from the Drive-By Truckers camp: Jason Isbell has left the band, and the Truckers will finish their tour with John Neff on guitar. Isbell was a big part

Tiger loses wearing Championship Red, A-Rod’s the paragon of clutch and Bernie Williams jams with the Allmans. Wait, that all sounds wrong. But that’s what really happened on the weekend

Johnny Damon’s been out with a strained right calf. Hideki Matsui pulled his hammy trying to beat out a grounder. Chris Ray plunked Bobby Abreu in the knee before A-Rod’s

Neither of us can successively operate a camera. We take out-of-focus pictures and shaky amateur videos, but we can’t get it right. Thankfully some of our friends have at least a modicum of talent, and occasionally they pass along some photos for Show & Tell. Our man Danfun from Who’s Driving the Bus? caught the Dr. Dog show at Bowery Ballroom on Thursday, and he was kind enough to share. Take’r away…

During the past three years I’ve been lucky enough to see Dr. Dog open for some of my favorite bands, like My Morning Jacket and the Raconteurs. But if last night’s Bowery Ballroom show was any indication of where this band is headed, these guys will probably be headlining bigger venues instead of opening for bigger acts.

Read on for the rest of Danfun’s top-notch photos from the show…

We reported the credible rumor yesterday that Larry McCray will step in as one of Phil Lesh’s Friends at the super-stealth SOBs shows in New York this coming Monday and