Bassist Joe Preston may be best known for playing with the Melvins and Earth. However, he is also one of the most prolific bassists to come out of the early-’90s grunge and the Washington underground ...

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 ...

Friday night at Paper Tiger, The Melvins delivered one of the best sets the Alamo City has experienced all year. The legendary punk-metal crossover group has existed in various iterations for over 40 ...

All of the members of the Melvins have been involved in other projects like those with Mike Patton and members of Tool. It seems as though most bands who gained notoriety during the grunge-era have ...

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 ...

In a more than 30-year career, if your band has managed to become known as legendary weirdos within the heavy metal genre, that’s really saying something. Honorary godfathers of sludge metal and ...