Melvins

Best Albums: Sage Francis, King Buzzo, Helms Alee / Young Widows, Fucked Up

Sage Francis: Copper Gone King Buzzo: This Machine Kills Artists Helms Alee / Young Widows: Split 12" Fucked Up: Glass…

Album Stream: Godswounds’ Death to the Babyboomers

A heart-racing synthesis of heavy metal, horns, and videogame scores, Godswounds’ debut album is half psychedelic trip, half nutty science…

Best Albums: Melvins, Bryce Dessner & Kronos Quartet, Czar, Phuture Doom

Melvins: Tres Cabrones Bryce Dessner & Kronos Quartet: Aheym Czar: No One Is Alone If No One Is Alive

MP3 Premiere: Victory and Associates’ “We’ll Have To Be Our Own Heroes”

Victory and Associates are here to inspire heroism in the pit with new track "We'll Have To Be Our Own…

Life as a touring punk musician: Watch Retox’s YPLL doc in full

Last week we premiered footage from Retox’s YPLL documentary, giving an in-depth look at the existence of the punk-hardcore outfit…

Watch Buzz Osborne, Nick Zinner, and other punk vets ruminate in 10-min Retox doc

In a video documentation of its new album, hardcore-punk outfit Retox (along with friends Buzz Osborne, Nick Zinner, and Trevor…

Streaming Sausages: Hear The Melvins’ 30th-anniversary covers album, catch ’em on tour

Celebrating 30 years of rock sweetness this year, The Melvins is releasing a covers record April 30. Check it out,…

Hear Melvins cover Queen’s “You’re My Best Friend”

The Melvins, not exactly known for poppy good times, has released a cut from Everybody Loves Sausages, its guest-filled "unconventional covers…

Melvins to cover Queen, Venom, Bowie, and other oddballs on Everybody Loves Sausages

In usual Melvins unusualness, the sludge-rock band has announced an entire album of covers that include Queen, Venom, David Bowie,…

ALARM’s 50 (+5) Favorite Songs of 2012

Last month ALARM presented its 50 favorite albums of 2012, an eclectic, rock-heavy selection of discs that were in steady…

Melvins, Hella, Why?, Rob Crow share new tracks for Joyful Noise flexi-disc subscription

Joyful Noise Recordings is offering exclusive seven-inch recordings from a glut of great bands -- including Melvins, Hella, and Why?…

ALARM’s 50 Favorite Albums of 2012

Another year, another torrential downpour of albums across our desks. As always, we encountered way too much amazing music, from…