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The Melvins talked about their long history as Kiss fans, and of covering Kiss songs, in a February 2021 interview.

Former Minuteman Mike Watt (center) with filmmakers Brendan Hirsch, Garrett Barghash, Michelle Crispin, and Julie Nunis Hermosa’s Jazz, punk legacy to be featured at MB film fest “Jazz v. Punk”—I think it’s a draw by Bondo Wyszpolski The Florana International Film Festival takes place Friday and Saturday atop the Manhattan Village Mall parking structure with the same 25-30 short films each evening. One of the highlights of the event was shot mainly in Hermosa Beach: “Jazz v. Punk.” The nearly 40-minute film essentially asks one question, but it’s a big one: How is it that a 1....

“We've always been noisemakers. I mean, even in the studio, you know, we've got so many things to play with. That's how [ The Fickle Finger of Fate, Crover's first solo album] started — with the little weird things — and this one kind of has the same stuff, but I made them a little bit different,” Crover says over the phone. Diehard Phoenix fans may recall hearing Crover's band play many of the songs off The Fickle Finger of Fate when they opened for Redd Kross at Last Exit Live in December 2018. It seems, though, that revisiting the solo world was a foregone conclusion for the Los...

Dale Crover ( Melvins / Redd Kross) would fill the time by recording a solo album. The reality is, Crover had already written and recorded Rat-a-Tat-Tat! ( Joyful Noise Recordings) by the time the pandemic had shut down the world and he was actually looking forward to hitting the road to support his second full-length solo album, a follow-up to 2017’s The Fickle Finger of Fate. In his drumming day gig, Crover balances his time between the heavy, sludginess of the Melvins and the power-pop stylings of Redd Kross and his own material, not so surprisingly, falls somewhere between the two. ...

The Vinyl District January 14, 2021 Part two of the TVD Record Store Club’s look at the new and reissued releases presently in stores for January 2021. Part one is here. NEW RELEASE PICKS: Catspaw (Omnivore) Sweet’s big splash was the 1991 LP Girlfriend, though he’d been active for a good while prior, emerging from the Athens, GA scene with a sound that stood a bit apart from post-Byrdsian collegiate jangle. Instead, he’s generally categorized as a power-popper, but as the release of his 15th album Catspaw makes clear, with multidecade longevity that’s somewhat unusual for the gen...