The US might have cornered the market on sludge, but they didn't hold an entire monopoly. In the UK's East Midlands, Fudge Tunnel would pick up the baton from Melvins and fuse noise rock and sludge, ...

For that hour, Star Theater sounded like the world’s last violent gasps were imminent. Impressively, their sound system ...

Like it or not, supergroups are an inevitable part of the music landscape. There’s always a new one in the works, in no small part because they reliably attract media attention even before they’ve ...

While never especially prolific in either output or appearances, area sludge-metal band Hollow Leg have nonetheless earned a premier reputation in the Florida heavy underground through their ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Oklahoma City’s underground and lauded sludge rock and metal quartet Chat Pile and Texan ambient and folk guitarist Hayden Pedigo could answer that question if it ever crossed your mind. Despite ...

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In a parallel universe that gets everything wrong, Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover would be capping the Melvins’ first quarter-century mulling over whether to wear tuxes or L.A. Dodgers jerseys to their ...