The Melvins Thread

[UndKeineZwEier]

Buzz lists his Top 5 Favorite Album Covers.

[fortysixand2]

as a HUGE THANK YOU to all of our fans, we are kicking off our new DIGITAL RARITIES REISSUES campaign with a FREE DOWNLOAD of our OUT OF PRINT 2001 "SHIT SANDWICH" 7 inch. Enjoy and share with everyone you know!

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[badkittygothgirl]

Buzz takes his acoustic set on the road for an extensive U.S. tour:

May 17 Pomona, CA Scion Rock Fest

June 10 San Diego, CA The Casbah
June 11 Echo Park, CA The Echo
June 12 Santa Ana, CA The Observatory
June 13 Fresno, CA Strummer’s
June 14 Sacramento, CA Assembly
June 15 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
June 17 Eugene, OR Wow Hall
June 18 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theatre
June 20 Seattle, WA Neumo's
June 21 Bellingham, WA The Shakedown
June 22 Spokane, WA The Hop
June 23 Missoula, MT The Palace
June 24 Billings, MT The Railyard
June 26 Fargo, ND The Aquarium
June 27 Minneapolis, MN Grumpy's
June 28 Milwaukee, WI Shank Hall
June 30 Grand Rapids, MI The Pyramid Scheme

July 1 Columbus, OH A&R Music Bar
July 2 Detroit, MI Small's
July 3 Cleveland, OH The Grog Shop
July 6 South Burlington, VT Higher Ground
July 7 Portland, ME Portland City Music Hall
July 10 Allston, MA Brighton Music Hall
July 12 Hamden, CT The Ballroom at The Outerspace
July 13 New York, NY Santos Party House
July 14 Brooklyn, NY The Wick
July 15 Philadelphia, PA Underground Arts
July 17 Baltimore, MD Ottobar
July 18 Charlottesville, VA The Southern
July 20 Carrboro, NC Cat's Cradle
July 22 Atlanta, GA The Basement
July 23 Birmingham, AL The Bottle Tree
July 25 New Orleans, LA One Eyed Jack's
July 26 Houston, TX Warehouse Live
July 27 Austin, TX Red 7
July 28 Sam Antonio, TX Limelight
July 30 Tucson, AZ Club Congress
July 31 Pioneertown, CA Pappy and Harriet's

Tickets will be available this Friday, April 4.

[Kittaan]

June 15 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall

There's a good chance I will be out of town for this, but if not, I'm there.

[badkittygothgirl]

I'm looking forward to the Atlanta show. The Basement is super tiny and I have no doubt this will sell out. It will be cool to see Buzzo in such an intimate venue.

[Kittaan]

Great American in SF is pretty decent size (Melvins/Jello/Primus/Isis). Not sure this will sell out like a full Melvins gig. Will be interesting to see.

[hellboy]

New track from King Buzzo:

http://www.avclub.com/article/hear-new- ... buz-203455

[ziggy23]

[Kittaan]

Confirmed I should be around mid June, so purchased my tix for SF. Should be a great show. Anyone else hitting one of these dates?

[ziggy23]

LISTEN: King Buzzo - Instrument Of God
http://thequietus.com/articles/15206-ki ... ent-of-god

[fortysixand2]

Stream new King Buzzo track "The Hesitation Twist"


Preorder This Machine Kills Artists on Amazon

Melvins added to FEST 13 in Gainesville, FL
https://thefestfl.com/

[hellboy]

Most excellent news. Tiny venue here in Adelaide.

Frontier Touring is thrilled to announce that rock’n’roll royalty Buzz Osborne, King Buzzo is headed to Australia with a ten-date solo acoustic tour of Australia this August!

With a career spanning 31 years, 30 albums, and over 2,000 live performances, this tour marks the first time that the monarch of metal has performed acoustically in such a unique and intimate setting.

Buzz is the front man & founding member of Melvins, whose dark and sludgy sound influenced the works of many acclaimed grunge and metal bands including Nirvana, Soundgarden, Green River and in many ways nurtured the Seattle music scene itself.

Last year the band released their nineteenth studio album Tres Cabrones (out now through Ipecac Recordings), a psychedelic hard-rock gem that saw original drummer Mike Dillard re-join Buzz and Dale Crover for a collection of tracks that playfully referenced both the punk aesthetic of the band's roots and their current layered and exploratory sound… all done with a pierced tongue planted firmly in cheek.

Buzz also picked up the guitar to join Mike Patton, Dave Lombardo and Trevor Dunn in experimental metal supergroup Fantômas, a band that allowed each member the creative freedom to explore their many influences – both in and outside of music.

Their debut and subsequent releases received heavy praise for their innovation - second album The Directors Cut (out now through Ipecac Recordings) climbed to #18 on the ARIA Albums Chart and scored rave reviews from NME, Pitchfork and Drowned In Sound who called it “a genre breaking, irreverent album that bridges everything from metal, jazz, sludgecore, grunge, and abstract electronica… one of the most challenging, and rewarding albums of the year”.

King Buzzo’s solo and acoustic debut This Machine Kills Artists (out May 30 through Ipecac Recordings, listen to ‘Instrument Of God’ here) has actually been a long time coming – Buzz wrote a vast majority of the Melvins’ songs originally on acoustic guitar before transferring to electric - "What I'm doing, it's not folk music, it's not heavy metal. It's 'molk,' how 'bout that?"

Across seventeen tracks, This Machine Kills Artists uses absolutely no electric guitars, amplifiers or direct boxes, offering a surprising new side to the grunge progenitor and a rawness that spotlights his skill as a songwriter. Rolling Stone premiered track ‘Dark Brown Teeth’ (listen here), remarking that it “still has the doomy, ill-angled, Beefheartian edge his band is renowned for”.

‘‘THIS MACHINE KILLS ARTISTS’ CONTINUES OSBORNE’S APPROACH OF REDEFINING AND SUBVERTING WHATEVER MUSICAL GENRE HE DEEMS FIT. THIS ARTIST FEELS VIBRANT AND UNSHACKLED, MACHINES BE DAMNED’– SMELLS LIKE INFINITE SADNESS
After an extensive 38-show tour of the United States, King Buzzo will now bring This Machine Kills Artists to Australian audiences for the first time with a series of shows that are guaranteed to bring the house down.

Adelaide, Geelong, Melbourne, Newcastle, Sydney, Wollongong, Canberra, Brisbane and Perth are all set firmly within Buzz’s sights – make certain you’re there for this rare opportunity to see a metal powerhouse like you’ve never seen him before.

TOUR DATES

Wednesday 13 August Adelaide | Enigma Bar (18+)
Thursday 14 August Geelong | Barwon Club (18+)
Friday 15 August Melbourne | Ding Dong Lounge (18+)
Wednesday 20 August Newcastle | The Small Ballroom (18+)
Thursday 21 August Sydney | Newtown Social Club (18+)
Friday 22 August Wollongong | Anita's Theatre (18+)
Saturday 23 August Canberra | Transit Bar (18+)
Sunday 24 August Brisbane | Black Bear Lodge (18+)
Tuesday 25 August Perth | Astor Lounge (18+)

[The Boss]

Most excellent news. Tiny venue here in Adelaide.

Frontier Touring is thrilled to announce that rock’n’roll royalty Buzz Osborne, King Buzzo is headed to Australia with a ten-date solo acoustic tour of Australia this August!

With a career spanning 31 years, 30 albums, and over 2,000 live performances, this tour marks the first time that the monarch of metal has performed acoustically in such a unique and intimate setting.

Buzz is the front man & founding member of Melvins, whose dark and sludgy sound influenced the works of many acclaimed grunge and metal bands including Nirvana, Soundgarden, Green River and in many ways nurtured the Seattle music scene itself.

Last year the band released their nineteenth studio album Tres Cabrones (out now through Ipecac Recordings), a psychedelic hard-rock gem that saw original drummer Mike Dillard re-join Buzz and Dale Crover for a collection of tracks that playfully referenced both the punk aesthetic of the band's roots and their current layered and exploratory sound… all done with a pierced tongue planted firmly in cheek.

Buzz also picked up the guitar to join Mike Patton, Dave Lombardo and Trevor Dunn in experimental metal supergroup Fantômas, a band that allowed each member the creative freedom to explore their many influences – both in and outside of music.

Their debut and subsequent releases received heavy praise for their innovation - second album The Directors Cut (out now through Ipecac Recordings) climbed to #18 on the ARIA Albums Chart and scored rave reviews from NME, Pitchfork and Drowned In Sound who called it “a genre breaking, irreverent album that bridges everything from metal, jazz, sludgecore, grunge, and abstract electronica… one of the most challenging, and rewarding albums of the year”.

King Buzzo’s solo and acoustic debut This Machine Kills Artists (out May 30 through Ipecac Recordings, listen to ‘Instrument Of God’ here) has actually been a long time coming – Buzz wrote a vast majority of the Melvins’ songs originally on acoustic guitar before transferring to electric - "What I'm doing, it's not folk music, it's not heavy metal. It's 'molk,' how 'bout that?"

Across seventeen tracks, This Machine Kills Artists uses absolutely no electric guitars, amplifiers or direct boxes, offering a surprising new side to the grunge progenitor and a rawness that spotlights his skill as a songwriter. Rolling Stone premiered track ‘Dark Brown Teeth’ (listen here), remarking that it “still has the doomy, ill-angled, Beefheartian edge his band is renowned for”.

‘‘THIS MACHINE KILLS ARTISTS’ CONTINUES OSBORNE’S APPROACH OF REDEFINING AND SUBVERTING WHATEVER MUSICAL GENRE HE DEEMS FIT. THIS ARTIST FEELS VIBRANT AND UNSHACKLED, MACHINES BE DAMNED’– SMELLS LIKE INFINITE SADNESS
After an extensive 38-show tour of the United States, King Buzzo will now bring This Machine Kills Artists to Australian audiences for the first time with a series of shows that are guaranteed to bring the house down.

Adelaide, Geelong, Melbourne, Newcastle, Sydney, Wollongong, Canberra, Brisbane and Perth are all set firmly within Buzz’s sights – make certain you’re there for this rare opportunity to see a metal powerhouse like you’ve never seen him before.

TOUR DATES

Wednesday 13 August Adelaide | Enigma Bar (18+)
Thursday 14 August Geelong | Barwon Club (18+)
Friday 15 August Melbourne | Ding Dong Lounge (18+)
Wednesday 20 August Newcastle | The Small Ballroom (18+)
Thursday 21 August Sydney | Newtown Social Club (18+)
Friday 22 August Wollongong | Anita's Theatre (18+)
Saturday 23 August Canberra | Transit Bar (18+)
Sunday 24 August Brisbane | Black Bear Lodge (18+)
Tuesday 25 August Perth | Astor Lounge (18+)

I think I'm going to cry. I'm not joking.

[hellboy]

Some cool venues there - should be a good tour. Would come as no surprise if there were a few NZ dates announced as well.

[The Boss]

Some cool venues there - should be a good tour. Would come as no surprise if there were a few NZ dates announced as well.

The eternal optimist. This is why people like you, Hellboi.

[not tyson]

Haven't even heard of Anita's theatre, I'm there, wonder if they sell booze, if so I'll train it up there.

[The Boss]

Haven't even heard of Anita's theatre, I'm there, wonder if they sell booze, if so I'll train it up there.

I have fond memories of seeing SNIVLEM with a dear friend . . .

[not tyson]

Yeah that guy in Newcastle right?

You already told me

[The Boss]

Yeah that guy in Newcastle right?

You already told me

*sobs uncontrollably*

[hellboy]

There seem to be samples of the new album on Amazon as well. Haven't had a chance to listen though, as I'm in the office today.

[The Boss]

There seem to be samples of the new album on Amazon as well. Haven't had a chance to listen though, as I'm in the office today.

As excellent as they are, it feels like they should be electric.

Don't get me wrong, The King is a fucking genius and I love everything he does - but I'm pretty sure he's just doing this for shits and giggles.

It's kind of hard to take it seriously, to be honest. Which, I guess, is the point.

[hellboy]

[hellboy]

Don't forget that the pre-sales for these shows are on at 12 noon today.

http://www.frontiertouring.com/kingbuzzo

[not tyson]

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/stre ... rous_minds

[liz]

Don't forget that the pre-sales for these shows are on at 12 noon today.

http://www.frontiertouring.com/kingbuzzo

Whoops I missed it; but that is the beauty of little old Adelaide, I reckon I'll be ok tomorrow!