July 10, 2003

Icelandic Sugarcube-turned-worldwide-sweet-sensation Bj

Ween will be out on their first world tour in three years in support of their upcoming 15 track album “Quebec.” The band will be hauling through parts of the midwest, into the northeast, and back down the east coast until they reach the northeast again in mid-August. Ween then plans on touring America extensively thru the winter of this year (probably 4 tours of 3-4 weeks). The band will also be planning a number of in-store concerts and quite a few live webcasts of select shows on their new Ween Amp system which is a piece of software that will connect you with one click to weenradio, ween.com, the ween forum, the ween irc chat channel, and a peer to peer file trading program that will enable the listener to download the concert you saw the night before.
For more information on everything Ween, visit Ween.com.

The debut release by the Finger, Ryan Adams and Jesse Malin’s not-so-secret punk band, will arrive in the U.S. Sept. 23 on One Little Indian Records.
The first part of the set “We Are F*** You,” surfaced earlier this year in the U.K. after California-based Broadway Jungle label pressed 1,000 vinyl copies. The second half, “Punk’s Dead Let’s F***,” was recorded later, bring the final tally to 20 tracks, a slew of which clock in at less than a minute-and-a-half.
The U.K.-based One Little Indian (which recently opened an office in the U.S., where the label is distributed by Navarre) has combined both on the disc, import versions of which are currently selling for more $30 on Amazon.com.
Adams (guitar) and Malin (bass) are respectively listed on the album as Warren Peace and Irving Plaza (the latter being the name of a New York concert venue). They are joined on the set by a pair of fellow New York-area pals: painter/singer Colin Burns (listed as “Jim Beahm”), who handles vocals, and Johnny T. (listed as “Rick O’Shea”) on drums.
Source Billboard.com.