It’s a safe bet that whatever apocalypse befalls our planet, the catastrophic end of everything will be survived by cockroaches, tardigrades and grunge progenitors the Melvins. The band’s core duo of guitarist-singer King Buzzo (Roger Osbourne) and drummer Dale Crover have carpet-bombed rock and roll with more than a hundred…

In this dark epoch of late capitalism, “big business” refers to a grinding corporate oligarchy slowly devouring the economy—a cash-crazy leviathan driven onward by its ceaseless appetite. Among aficionados of heavy rock, Big Business is a power duo from Seattle made up of drummer Coady Willis and bassist Jared…

Courtesy photo. Interview photos: Alessio Neri. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre features Humphrey Bogart as an out of luck prospector south of the border. John Huston’s 1948 film depicts the negative effects success can have on a group of friends. It is the favorite movie of Roger “King…

The Melvins perform at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on July 10, 2017. Alessio Neri/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — The sold-out crowd inside the Great American Music Hall hummed with excitement as the Melvins took the stage for their sixth show in a marathon 62-date American tour in…

For the last three decades the Melvins have charted their own wayward course through the heart of rock and roll, confounding critics and conventional wisdom at every turn. How many other bands can claim to have opened for Kiss in front of a quarter of a million people, hired…