The MELVINS will cap off 2025 with the “Cease Your Whining” tour, a six-week outing with particular friends REDD KROSS for a double shot of underground rock royalty.
Identified for his or her crushing riffs, genre-defying experiments, and off-kilter humorousness, the MELVINS proceed to defy expectations 4 a long time into their profession. The band, at the moment that includes Buzz Osborne, Dale Crover, Steven McDonald (additionally of REDD KROSS) and Coady Willis, stays probably the most influential and unpredictable forces in heavy music. Their lately launched album “Thunderball” delivers the “most irresistible, huge-sounding tunes” (Kerrang!) and as AllMusic stated, is as “totally uncompromised and filled with swampy vigor” as ever.
Becoming a member of them for the complete tour are L.A. icons REDD KROSS, whose kaleidoscopic mix of punk, retro glam, and storage rock has earned them a cult following because the early ’80s. REDD KROSS have been lately the topic of each a guide (“Now You are One Of Us: The Unbelievable Story Of Redd Kross”) and documentary (“Born Harmless: The Redd Kross Story”).
Tickets for the “Cease Your Whining” tour go on sale this Friday, Might 16 at 10 a.m. native time, with an unique artist pre-sale starting Wednesday, Might 14 at 10 a.m. native time (code: VENUS). Tickets can be found by way of Ipecac.com/excursions.
“Cease Your Whining” tour dates:
Sep. 09 – Flagstaff, AZ @ Yucca North
Sep. 10 – Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf
Sep. 12 – Boulder, CO @ Fox Theatre
Sep. 13 – Fort Collins, CO @ Aggie Theatre
Sep. 15 – Sioux Falls, SD @ Bigs Bar
Sep. 16 – Moorhead, MN @ Harold’s On Essential
Sep. 18 – Madison, WI @ Excessive Midday Saloon
Sep. 19 – Davenport, IA @ The Raccoon Motel
Sep. 20 – Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue
Sep. 22 – Columbus, OH @ A&R Music Bar
Sep. 23 – Huntington, WV @ The Loud
Sep. 24 – Morgantown, WV @ 123 Nice Avenue
Sep. 25 – Toledo, OH @ Frankie’s
Sep. 26 – Buffalo, NY @ Electrical Metropolis
Sep. 27 – Brooklyn, NY @ CBGB Competition
Sep. 29 – Windfall, RI @ Fete Music Corridor
Sep. 30 – Hamden, CT @ House Ballroom
Oct. 01 – Asbury Park, NJ @ The Stone Pony
Oct. 02 РBethlehem, PA @ Musikfest Caf̩ on the ArtsQuest
Oct. 03 – Lancaster, PA @ Tellus 360
Oct. 04 – Washington, DC @ Black Cat
Oct. 06 – Raleigh, NC @ Lincoln Theatre
Oct. 07 – Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel
Oct. 08 – Knoxville, TN @ Bijou Theatre
Oct. 10 – Pensacola, FL @ Vinyl Music Corridor
Oct. 11 – Jackson, MS @ Duling Corridor
Oct. 12 – Memphis, TN @ Minglewood Corridor
Oct. 13 – Little Rock, AR @ Revolution! Music Room
Oct. 14 – Tulsa, OK Cain’s @ Ballroom
Oct. 15 – Oklahoma Metropolis, OK @ Beer Metropolis Music Corridor
Oct. 17 – San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger
Oct. 19 – Roswell, NM @ The Liberty
Oct. 21 – Tucson, AZ @ Membership Congress
A European MELVINS touring leg precedes the U.S. dates, with performances slated on the ArcTanGent, Rock Im Wald and Blue Moon festivals.
The MELVINS are at the moment on the highway with NAPALM DEATH, co-headlining the “Savage Imperial Dying March II” tour.
The MELVINS are one among trendy music’s most influential bands. Having fashioned in 1983 Montesano, Washington, the group — based by vocalist/guitarist Buzz Osborne, with drummer Dale Crover becoming a member of a yr later — has been credited with merging the worlds of punk rock and heavy music, forming a brand new subgenre all their very own. Over their 40-plus-year profession, they’ve launched greater than 30 unique albums, quite a few reside information, and much too many to rely singles and rarities. Current releases embody “Thunderball”, a MELVINS 1983 launch that sees Osborne reunite with the band’s unique drummer, Mike Dillard, 2024’s “Tarantula Coronary heart”, an album that Osborne wrote songs primarily based on a sequence of improvisational reside periods, the six-song 2022 “Unhealthy Temper Rising” and “5 Legged Canine” (2021),an bold 36-track acoustic assortment that reimagines their heaviest songs alongside covers of their favourite artists.
Photograph credit score: Toshi Kasai
