The MELVINS in San Francisco: Hellbound video interview
Mean Gene Gaona sits down with Buzz, Dale and Steven from the Melvins at The Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, CA on…
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Kowloon Walled City – Grievances
I had read somewhere that Kowloon Walled City‘s new album, Grievances, is a concept album about office culture, workplace conflict and the rat race. You…
King Buzzo – This Machine Kills Artists (vinyl)
On the most superficial level, making an album like This Machine Kills Artists should be the definition of simplicity. How could it not be?…
The Melvins – Hold It In (Vinyl Vlog)
It might sound a little deliberately contrary but, in the current “more is more” music industry landscape (where more variant releases of albums on…
The Melvins – Hold It In
The problem which tends to spring up whenever two bands team up and pool their creative energy for an album is that neither band…
The Melvins – Tres Cabrones
By Bill Adams It might be a little late in the game to try and call what The Melvins have done on Tres Cabrones…
Beastwars-S/T
If you’ve not dabbled in the world of New Zealand metal before, Beastwars could be the perfect gateway band for you, especially if you like things grubby. The debut isn’t as technical as Ulcerate, as malevolent as Witchrist or as claustrophobic as Diocletian (bands that you should definitely listen to) but Beastwars hums with enough psychedelic escapism and irreverence to make it a good place to begin
Black Sleep of Kali – Our Slow Decay
If you’re into Torche, Baroness, Harvey Milk or the Melvins—especially their most recent output—then Black Sleep of Kali is your new band.
The Melvins: Chicken Switch
For this album, thirteen musicians weren’t just handed a single song and asked to artfully adorn it with electronics, they were handed as much source material from The Melvins’ songbook as they wanted and asked to get as creative as they wanted in creating something new from their source material selections; essentially being asked to create a series of sound collages from any and as much Melvins material as they liked.