Tag: The Melvins

  • The MELVINS in San Francisco: Hellbound video interview

    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 July 10, 2017.   The interview: Recorded by Todd Owens. The Melvins: King Buzzo: guitar, vocals Dale Crover: drums, vocals Steven McDonald: bass, vocals The trailer: The music:   The tour:…

  • Kowloon Walled City – Grievances

    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 get a bit of a sense of that in the lyrics, but had I not been alerted beforehand, I probably wouldn’t have picked up on it—post-sludge often tends to be cryptic,…

  • King Buzzo – This Machine Kills Artists (vinyl)

    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 arrangements for the songs have already been written and the design has been set so, simply, stripping away the trappings installed by a record producer as well as the other…

  • The Melvins – Hold It In (Vinyl Vlog)

    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 more formats with different tracklists are the norm), the biggest, longest variant of an album isn’t always the best one. The vinyl incarnation of Hold It In – The Melvins’ twenty-fourth…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…