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The Melvins - “American Cow,” from the forthcoming album Tres Cabrones. 
“Tres Cabrones is as close as we’re willing to get to the Melvins 1983 line-up,” explained Osborne, of the 12-song album that reunites him, Dale Crover and original drummer Mike Dillard. “The best part is it’s all new songs.  I specifically wrote tunes that would be good for these guys to play and it worked out great.  We had no interest in rehashing tunes we wrote 30 years ago and chose instead to simply create NEW songs. It worked out perfectly.”

American Cow

The Melvins - “American Cow,” from the forthcoming album Tres Cabrones. 
“Tres Cabrones is as close as we’re willing to get to the Melvins 1983 line-up,” explained Osborne, of the 12-song album that reunites him, Dale Crover and original drummer Mike Dillard. “The best part is it’s all new songs. I specifically wrote tunes that would be good for these guys to play and it worked out great. We had no interest in rehashing tunes we wrote 30 years ago and chose instead to simply create NEW songs. It worked out perfectly.”

City Dump

After a 31-year career in music with the Melvins, which has born over 30 albums of studio and live material, dozens of limited and highly limited 12-inch, 10-inch, and 7-inch records, and north of 2000 live performances why is he going acoustic now?

Because it actually makes sense.

After all, Buzz has written the vast majority of the Melvins’ songs with a fair amount of them originally written on an acoustic guitar and then simply transferred to electric. "I recorded most of This Machine Kills Artists with my red white and blue Buck Owens American acoustic. It's a great guitar and is pretty much irreplaceable so it's staying home for tours. It's too bad really. Maybe I can paint the Chinese one I use live red white and blue! Ha!"

This Machine Kills Artists is an authentically acoustic album with no electric guitars, amplifiers or direct boxes used during the 17-track release’s recording.  Buzz’s live performance, previewed in a brief March tour, is equally raw, with the legendary singer/guitar player armed with only his guitar and his quirky-yet-captivating stories.

"I have no interest in sounding like a crappy version of James Taylor or a half assed version of Woody Guthrie,” explained Buzz.  “Which is what happens when almost every rock and roller straps on an acoustic guitar. No thanks... This Machine Kills Artists is a different kind of animal."  This Machine Kills Artists isn’t merely Melvins Lite (hey, there already is a Melvins Lite!), instead the album offers a surprising new side to the grunge progenitor, songs when offered naked further highlight what a powerful songwriter the Melvins’ front man is.

Along with the new album Buzz will be hitting the road on a giant tour that will take him all the way around the world! The tour itself will begin in the U.S. with a multi-month outing before winding it’s way throughout the globe. The songs on This Machine Kills Artists were written to be performed live and that's exactly what Buzz plans on doing.

It's all about digging it out of the dirt...

The more you work the luckier you get...


01 Dark Brown Teeth

The Melvins return with Hold It In, their first studio album as a quartet since 2010's The Bride Screams Murder, on Oct. 14. 
 
Joining Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover for the 12-song outing are Butthole Surfers' guitar player Paul Leary and bass player JD Pinkus.  Hold It In was recorded in both Los Angeles and Austin earlier this year.

"Hold It In is a refreshing piece of fiction in a boring world of fact and bullsh*t," said Osborne.  "Paul is one of the best guitar players I have ever heard and Pinkus has an outside the box type of approach to both guitar and bass that you just have to let it ride.  I can't believe this actually happened.  I'm thrilled."

"It's very rare you get a chance to work with three folks from the 'Break A Wish' foundation, all at the same time," said Pinkus.  "I believe they'll remember their experience with me forever (or until they finally all lose their fight with S.I.D.S)."
 
The Melvins kick off a round of U.S. tour dates on Oct. 15 in Sacramento at Assembly, which also includes a performance at this year's Voodoo Experience in New Orleans. Osborne, Crover and Pinkus will be the touring roster for this run of dates.


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Melvins - Brass Cupcake

Melvins - Sesame Street Meat

Taken from "Houston (Publishing Demos 2002)" coming August 21, 2015 on Ipecac Recordings

Houston: Publishing Demos 2002

Mark Lanegan - No Cross

On this self-titled debut release,  …AND WE ALL DIE creates a cohesive fusion of the heaviness of punk, hardcore and metal with the foreboding melodic edge of goth and darkwave.  Jason Rufuss Sewell (ONE-EYED DOLL) produced and plays guitar and drums on the three original tracks: “…And We All Die”, “Modern Day Privateers” and “Bodhisattva”.  Paul Leary (BUTTHOLE SURFERS, MELVINS) contributes a signature psychedelic remix of “…And We All Die” that also features his inimitable guitarwork.  Will Brooks (DÄLEK, iconAclass) provides a dark atmospheric remix of “Modern Day Privateers.”  Texas hardcore band ELEVENTH HOUR reunites to interpret “Bodhisattva.”  Shelby Cinca (FRODUS, DECAHEDRON, the CASSETTES and FRANTIC MANTIS) serves up a digital hardcore remix of “…And We All Die.”  GOST delivers a punchy industrial dance remix of “Modern Day Privateers” that stretches synthwave into darker territory.  KNIFIGHT contributes a brooding darkwave remix of “Bodhisattva.”  Eric Broyhill (7 SECONDS, DEFTONES, ONE-EYED DOLL) of Monsterlab Audio mastered this release.  Jeffrey Everett of Rockets are Red designed the artwork.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

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