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 ...

Grunge rock’s most indefatigable missionaries, Melvins, will return this spring with Tarantula Heart, their umpteenth release since the turn of the millennium (or is that umphundredth?). As with every ...

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 ...

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 ...

The power and fun contained in the Melvins’ music derives from the manner in which the legendary 18-year-old band–originally from Aberdeen, Wash., and veterans of the Seattle scene–embraces extreme ...

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 ...

While most bands that hit the 30-year mark seem content to live off their early glories, influential mavericks the Melvins continue to shred the heavy-rock envelope with gleeful experimentation and a ...

Heavy duty punk-/metal cult legends Melvins are making a stop at District Live on their Five Legged Tour, and this is not one to miss. Too heavy for the radio and too weird for the mainstream, Melvins ...

Hey there Mr. Thom Yorke Sourpudding, maybe the death rattle of the music industry isn’t such a bad thing: After all, it just allowed stalwart sludge-rock band the Melvins to land on the Billboard ...