We’ve Got A File On You: Melvins’ Dale Crover

On many of the Melvins’ greatest songs, drummer Dale Crover is really the soloist. Listen to the opening drum clatter on “Hooch” that kicks off their landmark 1993 album Houdini, ham-fisted but hyper-precise, a weird architectural construction that takes mere seconds for Crover to build and then topple spectacularly before our eyes. Listen to those woodblock thunks on “Lizzy,” which glint like distant lights in a dark, dismal swamp. The Melvins’ lyrics are famously inscrutable, an...

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