The Melvins News

Remix albums are unpredictable prospects, sometimes yielding blissful, expressionistic results and sometimes...not so much.

Chicken Switch Review Posted by Jesse Coy on 10.18.2009 A variety of artists remix not individual songs, but entire albums by the Melvins.

A new Melvins record. A monumental event from a band with a 25-year career that has seen them influence the likes of Nirvana and Mastodon, go through seven bass players and release 24 studio albums, three on a major label .

MEN OF STEELY: Donald Fagen and Walter Becker are set to perform 'Aja' album live.

While Spinal Tap had issues with drummers spontaneously combusting, for the Melvins, it's been the dude on bass.

Also known as: B-Rabbit, Brentasaurus. Age: 24. Bands: Jerkagram and a new, unnamed performance-based duo with Rotten Orifice.

The Melvins announce new remix CD and tour with Down July 8th, 2009 by Leilani Polk in Concerts , News Sludgy post-punkers The Melvins are set to release Chicken Switch , a different sort of 15-song remix CD, on Sept.

Last Friday was Metal night at little Gotham City aka the Neurolux. Big Business and Tweak Bird graced the stage that night.

STOKES CROFT: A "silent auction" of musical items is being held next week to raise money for the Malawi Education Project.

Celebrating 25 years of sludgy rock, the original members of the Melvins reunited for a cross-country tour that featured both songs that made them big and those that should have.

The longstanding and heavy as hell sludge-rockers The Melvins are making a stop at Emo's this evening to perform their 1993 breakthrough album Houdini in its entirety.

Enter to win tickets to see The Melvins 25th Anniversary show at The Roseland on Sunday May 24th.

The sludgecore band has been an influential part of grunge for each of those years - its drummer, Dale Crover, even played with Nirvana in 1988, on the album that later became Bleach .

With half their lineup tour-dogging behind the new Big Business LP, New York gets a rare glimpse of Melvins Classic, returning to play 1993's Houdini in its entirety.

Remember in the '90s how nearly every band even mentioned by Nirvana inked with a major? The Melvins scored an unlikely alliance with Atlantic Records.