Aaron Freeman strongly suggests that Ween has broken up, to the surprise of Mickey Melchiondo

In an A.V. Club interview that ran earlier this month, Aaron "Gene Ween" Freeman declined to go into detail about the current status of Ween, one of the best and most enduring bands to emerge during the '90s alt-rock boom. "I’m just leaving it very open-ended," he said. "I’m not going to really get into that too much, so it’s just open-ended." Reading between the lines, it seemed obvious that Freeman was hinting that Ween was, at best, in the midst of an extended hiatus, and most likely finished. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Freeman appears to be more explicit. "It's time to move on," Freeman told the magazine. "I'm retiring Gene Ween." When pressed on whether this means the end of Ween, Freeman replied, "Pretty much, yeah. It's been a long time, 25 years. It was a good run."