Will The Boognish Rise Again? Ween Social Media Comes Alive With ‘Europe 90’ Teaser

UPDATE: Ween officially announced Europe “90”, a 3LP set of previously unreleased live and studio material due out for Record Store Day on April 18, 2026. This article has been updated to reflect the follow-up announcement.

After a long silence, the Boognish has spoken. Ween’s official social media channels lit up last night with a cryptic post featuring the band’s iconic logo and the oddball phrase, “Is this thing on, mang?”

The post marks the first public transmission that isn’t an overt promotion for merch from the notoriously unpredictable group since announcing an indefinite hiatus from touring in August 2024. Fans were left to wonder what’s brewing in the Weeniverse.

Sleuths on Reddit and elsewhere had been looking for clues. One hint was thought to be text on a Linktr.ee page accessible from Ween’s Instagram stating “Summer tour tickets on sale Fri, March 24 @ 9am PT.” However, this text has been up for years and refers to the band’s Summer Tour 2023 announcement.

The answer came on Wednesday afternoon with the announcement of 2026 Record Store Day exclusive releases. A 3LP set of previously unreleased Ween dubbed Europe “90” will be released for Record Store Day on April 18, 2026.

Limited to 7,000 vinyl copies, the set includes studio sessions laid down in Eindhoven, The Netherlands on Christmas Day 1990, along with a live performance from Basel, Switzerland that was played in either December 1990 or January 1991 (hence the “1990” moniker). Dean Ween proclaimed the concert “may be the best Ween show of all time,” according to the description on RecordStoreDay.com.

Ween was founded by Mickey “Dean Ween” Melchiondo and Aaron “Gene Ween” Freeman in 1984. The long-running live lineup also features bassist Dave Dreiwitz, keyboardist Glenn McClelland and drummer Claude Coleman Jr.

The band was slated to embark on a 40th Anniversary Tour in 2024. Dates scheduled for April 2024 were cancelled to give Melchiondo time to “preserve [his] mental and spiritual well being.” Ween returned to the stage on August 2 in Missoula, Montana and made it through one more show before scrapping the rest of the run.

A few weeks later, the group called off a concert honoring the 30th anniversary of their Chocolate & Cheese album and announced their decision to stop touring “for the foreseeable future.” A statement from Ween said the decision came after, “it’s become clear that touring and performing is too taxing on Deaner’s mental health to continue.”

Claude Coleman Jr. spoke about the status of Ween last summer on a podcast, stating:

“Everyone is still in a holding pattern, and everyone is just hoping for the best for everybody involved, including the primary person who is the focus of everything – Big Deaner [Dean Ween]. Everyone cares enough about him to just let it all play out.

“I think everybody probably has a notion that it’ll come back around at some point just because it kind of has to – that’s just the nature of music and creating. I don’t know anybody who retires from music. It’s just not possible physically, emotionally or spiritually. So I don’t think there’s any chance of it ever going away with any kind of real permanence.

“I think we’re still all just sort of waiting it through and letting it go through a healing process. However long it takes is however long it takes. We’re waiting, we’re ready, letting it be organic. I don’t think anything is going to be much different when we come back to it. We’ve been through this sort of situation before – similar shocking disruption. But in the end, in the long term, it’s just like a flick of a switch and we’re back on the bike, raging and ripping it up.

“So I think everyone’s hopeful that it’ll eventually come around, but we’re not really putting too much energy and focus on when and how and what’s really happening. We’re just letting it happen naturally.”