Video: The Melvins-"Honey Bucket"

True underground-rock royalty, the Melvins have been soundtracking lung-busting bong marathons for more than two decades. All Music Guide calls the trio's music "one massive, oozing pile of dark slime," but it's some pretty resilient, influential slime. Kurt Cobain's failed audition for the band led him to form Nirvana - and longtime drummer Dale Crover filled in behind the kit briefly in Nirvana before Dave Grohl came aboard - while onetime bassist Matt Lukin went on to found Mudhoney. (His replacement, according to Wikipedia , was former child star and U.S. ambassador Shirley Temple Black's [...]

I just took a trip home to my parents house for 10 days. While cleaning out some of my old things I came across a few old CDs and tapes. Trust me, there were some really impressive albums in there - Damn Yankees, Vanilla Ice, Skid Row, Tesla... Amongst these collections of gold I found my Melvins Houdini album. Since I was home and was borrowing cars that I couldn't use my iPod in (yep, just like you I own an iPod), I was breaking my neck to the sounds of Lorax, Dale, and King [...]