Guardian Music — Co-founder of US alt-rock's dedicated provocateurs leaves the group after 25 yearsGene Ween has left Ween. The band's co-founder has announced his retirement from one of the most provocative roups in American alternative rock, choosing instead to foc... more info

Chorus.fm — *Ween (http://www.ween.com)* have decided to call it quits (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/aaron-freeman-closes-the-book-on-ween-20120529) after 25 years. more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Aaron Freeman, best known as "Gene Ween," has released his first solo album, "Marvelous Clouds." A tribute to singer/poet Rod McKuen, the album brims with soft rock irony. Freeman recently asked fans to text him their reactions to the record. more info

Totally Fuzzy — Aaron Freeman, who is best known as Gene Ween (of alt-prankster band Ween), will put out his tribute to poet/songwriter Rod McKuen in a few days. Now, the whole album is already available for streaming below. Read more » more info

Stereogum — Aaron Freeman will step out from behind the Gene Ween moniker to release Marvelous Clouds , a 13-song tribute to the poet and songwriter Rod McKuen, under his own name later this spring. A prolific writer, McKuen wrote songs for the likes of Perry Co... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Gene Ween (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) According to the video teaser you can watch and listen to below, Gene Ween (aka Aaron Freeman) is releasing his first solo album, entitled Marvelous Clouds, via Partisan Records on April 10th. Check it... more info

Impose Magazine — The song begins with a faded-in single snare. An organ creeps along, tiptoeing around the beat. There is a deep, tunneled voice, ranting, Lynchian, in Russian, presumably, since Post-Materialists are a Moscow collective. The track reminds me of other... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Halloween (more by Jessica Amaya) today in NYC * Halloween parade * Whiplash @ UCB * Brain Cloud @ Barbes * Chicha Libre @ Barbes * Ween @ Hammerstein Ballroom * Yukon Blonde @ The Rock Shop * Dome Theater,... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Ween at Central Park (more by Andrew St. Clair) If you planned on spending Halloween with Deaner and Gener this year but didn't get tickets, sorry ladies & gentlemen but you are officially S.O.L.; Hammerstein is sold-out. Fortunately, you can... more info

Popdose — Ween is one of those fantastic, cult-beloved quirky bands too interesting to ever be extremely popular that should have been one of those fantastic, cult-beloved quirky bands that eventually scored a single, fluke top 40 hit that sounds nothing like ... more info