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 ...

It's been 40 years since Buzz Osbourne formed Melvins in high school, but their impact can be found across the rock, punk and metal spectrum. Cited as an influence by everyone from Dave Grohl and Kurt ...

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 ...

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 ...

"It was like a completely new thing," Melvins singer Buzz Osborne tells Full Metal Jackie on her weekly radio show about the band's Tarantula Heart album, adding "It's very odd." Indeed, Osborne did ...

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 ...

Underappreciated gems by Led Zeppelin, Montrose and Thin Lizzy are among the five tracks King Buzzo selected as his favorite classic rock songs. The Melvins frontman is currently on tour as one-half ...

It’s not even 10 a.m. in San Francisco when Melvins’ singer and guitarist Buzz Osborne gets on the phone with New Times. He’s already in peak curmudgeon form, throwing countless F-bombs at the public ...

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 ...