A groundbreaking heavy rock band that has shaped the sound of punk and metal for over 40 years, the Melvins bring their current tour with UK grindcore greats Napalm Death to San Francisco and San Jose ...

The post Melvins Release Manic New Song “Allergic to Food”: Stream appeared first on Consequence. The Melvins have offered up “Allergic to Food,” the second single from their forthcoming album ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

A legendary band in the rock and sludge-metal sphere is heading to Salt Lake City. Melvins have managed to toe the line between being extremely successful, and largely unknown among many fans of ...

Melvins’ formidable imprint on punk, alternative and metal music has been quite a topic this year. But the proverbial Champagne cork for this occasion is a co-headlining tour the band is doing with ...

It’s not even 10 a.m. in San Francisco when Melvins’ singer and guitarist Buzz Osborne gets on the phone with New Times. He’s already in peak curmudgeon form, throwing countless F-bombs at the public ...

Although the name Napalm Death has existed since 1981, as the band's first line-up plundered the post- and anarcho-punk scenes for inspiration, it was 1987's seminal Scum album that would ensure their ...

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’ ...

For a guy whose riffs have influenced generations of musicians and helped spawn several genres, namely grunge and sludge metal, King Buzzo aka Buzz Osborne doesn’t spend too much time thinking about ...

Melvins guitarist/singer Buzz Osborne has learned quite a bit about touring in his 40-plus years with the sludge metal pioneers. Before touring, Osborne sits down with a map and a calendar, plotting a ...

Frances Bean Cobain turns 21 this month. Mudhoney made a quarter-century. And somewhere out there — probably still at the Thriftway on Pioneer Avenue in Montesano, Wash. — a grocery manager with a ...

It’s safe to say that early grunge and sludge-rock pioneers Melvins played a fundamental role in both genre’s early 90s crossover into the mainstream and the subsequent rise of bands such as Nirvana ...