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.

Friday night at Paper Tiger, The Melvins delivered one of the best sets the Alamo City has experienced all year. The ...

Despite its slick vinyl interior, the Los Angeles branch of the Cha Cha Lounge in Silver Lake is still a gum-under-the-table kind of joint. Melvins drummer Dale Crover sits in a corner booth.

Listen up! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Like firecrackers, most bands blow up. Their fuses burn. They build to a critical point. If they’re lucky, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Melvins vocalist/guitarist Buzz Osborne estimates he’s written and recorded well over 500 songs during his nearly 40 year career with the legendary rock band. “The songwriting thing is not ...

Inside Atlanta’s The Loft—a barely lit, industrial concrete rectangle of a rock club—the Melvins strut onstage to dramatic fanfare. A wash of horn blasts gives way to the Blazing Saddles theme. Then, ...

he Melvins are an American band that formed in 1983.[7] They usually perform as a trio, but in recent years have performed as a four piece with two drummers. Since 1984, singer and guitarist Buzz ...

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, ...

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 ...

Please note in the case of Melvins, "lite" does not mean "less loud." The trio version of the Washington State sludge pioneers bulldozed their way into Brooklyn last ...