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 ...

A groundbreaking heavy rock band that has shaped the sound of punk and metal for over 40 years, the Melvins bring their current tour with UK grindcore greats Napalm Death to San Francisco and San Jose ...

When the Melvins roll into Portland’s Revolution Hall on June 3, they’ll bring with them two drummers, tourmates Napalm Death, and a slew of new songs to play from their recent album Thunderball. The ...

If you like a live band’s thunderous refrains to slug you in the gut, Melvins punched your ticket Friday night. The punk-metal trio wasn’t headlining the three-band bill this weekend at McKees Rocks’ ...

Flashback: I was dubbed a “daft cunt” by Napalm Death bassist Shane Embury at Spanky’s café in the early '90s. Earache Records had signed several grindcore bands and sent them on tour. This particular ...

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 ...

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 ...

As seen on BrooklynVegan, the Melvins Lite (Melvins minus Jared Warren and Coady Willis, plus bassist Trevor Dunn) are attempting to break the Guinness World Record for “Fastest Tour of the U.S. by a ...

Melvins drummer Dale Crover will sit out the band's imminent co-headlining tour with Boris to receive emergency spinal surgery. "We are sad to announce that literally days before leaving on tour, our ...

Hey do you fancy purchasing parts of a rusty old van last used sometime in the 1990s? A steering wheel? A side panel? Or maybe a front section? Don’t all rush at once. These were all parts of the ...