A groundbreaking heavy rock band that has shaped the sound of punk and metal for over 35 years, the Melvins return to the Bay Area for several shows on their current tour with fellow mavericks Boris.

Despite its slick vinyl interior, the Los Angeles branch of the Cha Cha Lounge in Silver Lake is still a gum-under-the-table kind of joint. Melvins drummer Dale Crover sits in a corner booth.

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 ...

Bringing good cheer the only way the Melvins know how, the veteran rock band has released an intense and unrelenting cover of “Carol of the Bells.” “The song has scared us since we were children,” ...

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 ...

Almost 30 years after Buzz Osborne founded Melvins, the band remains hard to classify. You can call it punk, metal, grunge, rock or a dozen other genres, but good luck trying to pin one particular ...

Ever since Black Sabbath invented the genre, metal has had an odd relationship with rock. On the surface, they look alike—similar guitar/bass/drums instrumentation, similar (primarily) white male ...

Since 1983, the Melvins have influenced countless bands and carved out a path that is all their own. They constantly explore unexpected paths, even relative to their own work — with every album they ...

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 ...

To properly define the Melvins, a band that needs about 14 introductions, is a lesson in abject futility, and that’s exactly what founding member Buzz Osbourne (guitars and vocals), and drummer Dale ...

The history of the Melvins plays out like a lot of bands from the ’90s. Always considered a little bit better than whoever was riding the plaid-covered wave to the top of the charts during the grunge ...