Longtime Melvins members drummer Dale Crover (photo) and Buzz Osborne (vocals, guitar) have teamed up with Hydra Head recording artists Big Business, expanding their line-up to a quartet with two drummers!\"Two drums — just like the Allman Brothers and the Grateful Dead! (...) It\'s great. Coady Willis\'s left handed, so we want to do this \'mirror image\' type of thing. We\'ve kind of fused our two drum sets together, and we\'re going to try and do some crazy thing with it. We\'re sharing these big toms in between us.\"
The new line-up plans to tour at some point later this year and eventually hit the studio. But the next Melvins release will be a live CD comprised of a recent performance of the 1993 album \"Houdini\". It is set for release this spring.
The Melvins will also be playing shows this spring backing ex-Dead Kennedy Jello Biafra in Australia.
Additionally, Crover will be appearing on the long-in-the-works Mike Patton project, Peeping Tom:
\"I did some recording with [Mike Patton] a while back - about two years ago. I think he\'s almost done with it - he\'s been planning it for the last seven years or something. He\'s mentioned that it\'s going to be more straightforward for him. I don\'t know how many songs he recorded - an insane amount, like 30. There\'s a lot of layered vocals - like Beach Boys style. Some hip hop-y sort of beats. It\'s weird. It\'s drum machine mixed with live drums mixed with crazy samples, but then there\'s guitar and bass. Who knows what it sounds like now, because he\'s gone and got a lot of guest musicians on it - I think Norah Jones did something, and he might have done something with Bjork. He\'s sort of mentioned a possible tour.\"
