Tag: Dale Crover

  • IN CONVERSATION WITH (THE) MELVINS: THE SUB-POP THICKENS

    IN CONVERSATION WITH (THE) MELVINS: THE SUB-POP THICKENS

    Kyle Harcott interviews Buzz Osborne, Dale Crover and Steven McDonald in Vancouver, July 2017 Nearly thirty-five years into their career as sludge-metal progenitors, (The) Melvins have a well-known salty reputation with rock journalists that precedes them. Being masters of sardonic wit and not suffering fools gladly, an interview with them can either come out entirely…

  • The Melvins – Hold It In

    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 wants to be outshone and be seen as “the group who bent to [insert the name of other contributing act here].” It’s not exactly an ego trip, just that nobody wants…

  • The Melvins – Tres Cabrones

    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 a mid-life crisis. The average age of the band’s members is around fifty – no one tries to call that mid-life with a straight face – but there’s no denying that…

  • Just got back from Austin, and boy, are my arms fat!

    Seriously man, don’t drop me in an area surrounded by fast-food and Mexican restaurants and expect me to lose weight. That aside, the inaugural edition of the Housecore Horror Film+Metalfest was an agile affair…

  • Thinking Back To…  SXSW 1998

    Thinking Back To… SXSW 1998

    Sean Palmerston thinks back to his first SXSW festival experience back in 1998, featuring Shallow North Dakota, QOTSA and Man’s Ruin Records

  • Totimoshi – Avenger

    This record runs the gamut from cool to quirky to slightly-boring alt-rock slog, leaving no stone unturned along the way.