A groundbreaking heavy rock band that has shaped the sound of punk and metal for over 35 years, the Melvins return to the Bay Area for several shows on their current tour with fellow mavericks Boris.

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If you placed every Melvins release together end-to-end, they would stretch halfway to the moon. That’s an exaggeration, of course, but the Melvins' output is uncommonly large: give or take two dozen ...

Sludgy alt-rock legends the Melvins have just announced a string of North American dates to celebrate the band's 30th anniversary. The Melvins are one of the hardest working bands on the planet.

Heavy duty punk-/metal cult legends Melvins are making a stop at District Live on their Five Legged Tour, and this is not one to miss. Too heavy for the radio and too weird for the mainstream, Melvins ...

If you like a live band’s thunderous refrains to slug you in the gut, Melvins punched your ticket Friday night. The punk-metal trio wasn’t headlining the three-band bill this weekend at McKees Rocks’ ...

Long-time fans of the Melvins won't be surprised to hear the formative rock band released two albums last year. "Being prolific is nothing new to us," said Buzz Osborne, founder, guitarist and ...

In May 2009, on the eve of their 25th-anniversary show in Seattle, the Melvins — Dale Crover and Buzz Osborne — went to watch the Mariners play the San Francisco Giants at Safeco Field. At the game, ...

Ever since Black Sabbath invented the genre, metal has had an odd relationship with rock. On the surface, they look alike—similar guitar/bass/drums instrumentation, similar (primarily) white male ...

Melvins have been an influence on some of the most sonically forward-thinking rock bands and other musical experimentalists of the last three decades. Impossible to consistently pigeonhole as simply ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The music industry's collapse is good news for the Melvins, the defiantly uncommercial "thud-rock" band that just cracked the U.S. pop album chart for the first time in its ...

While Melvins may not have gotten the commercial success that some of their peers have, some of the biggest grunge bands owe a nod of respect to the band for helping to pave the way. With the Buzz ...