Happy 75th Birthday Tom Waits!

Celebrating Tom's birthday with his brief cameo on the new Dale Crover album Glossolalia and a couple of vintage performances. 

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Men's Journal Life Advice From Tom Waits

Happy Birthday Dale Crover!

Cheers to Dale Crover on his 56th birthday. Here he is bashing away with The Melvins in Toronto a few years back. 

Toasting 40 years of The Melvins... with an electro tribute to Throbbing Gristle!

The Melvins new album "'Throbbing Jazz Gristle Funk Hits" featuring Void Manes is being issued by Amphetamine Reptile.

Here's the scoop from AmRep HQ...

What’s the obvious and predictable move for an insanely influential band like the Melvin’s to do on their 40th anniversary? An homage LP to another insanely influential band Throbbing Gristle of course!

THROBBING JAZZ GRISTLE FUNK HITS!

A hybrid of covers and inspired jams, joined by their good friend Void Manes and produced by Toshi Kasai, this project will likely for the first time challenge longtime Melvins fans, because the band isn’t known for doing that…ever. 

Expect Industrial accidents, broken machines, modular synths, circuit-bent toys inspired by the dawning of the industrial music genre kicked off in no small part by Throbbing Gristle. The first all-electronic Melvins LP!?!

The Vinyl Art edition, sporting locked groove infinite loops on both sides, also comes with a bonus Flexi disc with 2 tracks! Complimentary CD version included, and the head kicker… Off-axis drilled spare spindle hole – an act inspired by industrial forefathers (we advise against even thinking of using it!) Hand stamped art on the center label... just about every down and dirty trick from the industrial miscreants of yesteryears handbook.

Check out the video for "Discipline 23" by Jesse Nieminen.

Cabbage 'n' Mash vs. The Small Faces

Cabbage 'N Mash (feat. Dale Crover, Clem Burke & Glen Matlock) took a crack at the Small Faces' "Song Of A Baker"

The Melvins' King Buzzo talks about keeping things weird

Get swank Melvins t-shirts and recordings from their official site: http://www.themelvins.net. 

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Guitar.com Buzz Osborne On Four Decades  of The Melvins

Redd Kross, B-17 @ Lee's Palace, Saturday

The McDonald brothers rocked Lee's Palace with Dale Crover. Watch Jimmy's Fantasy and Standing In Front of Poseur below.

Hear the new single by The Melvins' Dale Crover featuring Lou Barlow!

The sleeve for "United Fruit" was created by Tom Hazelmyer who's releasing the single at the end of August.

Happy Birthday Dale Crover!

The Melvins' Dale Crover, Aberdeen High School 1985