Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Melvins
In 1985, in Aberdeen, Washington, Kurt Cobain headed a band named Fecal Matter. He was 18. Some of the members of that band (Dale Crover, Buzz Osborne, and Mike Dillard) were also in a fledgling group called the Melvins, a band that Cobain was known to think highly of. A year earlier he had auditioned to be the Melvins’ new lead guitarist but didn’t make the cut. Instead, the band helped Cobain record his first demo. The inevitable disbanding of Fecal Matter a few months later proved to be a pivotal event in rock history. Right after that the Melvins launched their own recording career in earnest, and the strange and sad story that was Nirvana began to take shape.
By 1987 the Melvins were the underground hot ticket, and their imprint was on everything grunge. Nirvana’s first album Bleach sounded like something the Melvins could have recorded. Their influence on the grunge, punk, and metal scene in the Northwest is well documented, but it didn’t net them much money. Nirvana’s next CD Nevermind would go on to sell upwards of 400,000 records a week at its peak and catapult Cobain into a tax bracket way beyond wealthy, while members of the Melvins still held their day jobs.
Cobain was the best songwriter of the two bands, but the Melvins made a place where Nirvana — and grunge in general — could grow outward from its crude beginnings. The Melvins’ own influences (the Who, Black Sabbath, and Jerry Lee Lewis) are present in the sound of every band from Aberdeen to Seattle. They were the musical ground zero for a generation of rockers, and to this day the Melvins are still grinding it out as if they never got word that sludge/grunge croaked years ago. I don’t think they care.
Past Event
The Melvins
- Tuesday, June 1, 2010, 8:30 p.m.
- Casbah, 2501 Kettner Boulevard, San Diego
- $16
Here's something you might be interested in.
Melvins
Melvins
In 1985, in Aberdeen, Washington, Kurt Cobain headed a band named Fecal Matter. He was 18. Some of the members of that band (Dale Crover, Buzz Osborne, and Mike Dillard) were also in a fledgling group called the Melvins, a band that Cobain was known to think highly of. A year earlier he had auditioned to be the Melvins’ new lead guitarist but didn’t make the cut. Instead, the band helped Cobain record his first demo. The inevitable disbanding of Fecal Matter a few months later proved to be a pivotal event in rock history. Right after that the Melvins launched their own recording career in earnest, and the strange and sad story that was Nirvana began to take shape.
By 1987 the Melvins were the underground hot ticket, and their imprint was on everything grunge. Nirvana’s first album Bleach sounded like something the Melvins could have recorded. Their influence on the grunge, punk, and metal scene in the Northwest is well documented, but it didn’t net them much money. Nirvana’s next CD Nevermind would go on to sell upwards of 400,000 records a week at its peak and catapult Cobain into a tax bracket way beyond wealthy, while members of the Melvins still held their day jobs.
Cobain was the best songwriter of the two bands, but the Melvins made a place where Nirvana — and grunge in general — could grow outward from its crude beginnings. The Melvins’ own influences (the Who, Black Sabbath, and Jerry Lee Lewis) are present in the sound of every band from Aberdeen to Seattle. They were the musical ground zero for a generation of rockers, and to this day the Melvins are still grinding it out as if they never got word that sludge/grunge croaked years ago. I don’t think they care.
Past Event
The Melvins
- Tuesday, June 1, 2010, 8:30 p.m.
- Casbah, 2501 Kettner Boulevard, San Diego
- $16