Mike And The Melvins - Three Men And A Baby – New LP

These are the facts we can be sure of: in 1998, around the time his band godheadSilo went on hiatus, bassist/vocalist Mike Kunka busied himself by tagging along on a tour with his friends the Melvins. Somewhere along the way, Mike and the Melvins – King Buzzo (guitar/bass/vocals), Dale Crover (drums/vocals), and Kevin Rutmanis (bass/vocals), at the time – decided to make a record together, and gave the project the imaginative moniker Mike and the Melvins. Sub Pop, ever on the hunt for music’s Next Big Thing, enthusiastically agreed to fund and release the super-group’s debut, and recording commenced sometime in 1999. It’s at this point that things get hazy. Three Men and a Baby by Mike & The MelvinsApparently, one or more of the following happened: Some “junior-high level bullshit.”A house was built, a barn was raised, children were born.Typical record-label skullduggery.A scorching case of whooping cough. Surgery. Lots of surgery.Shocking and poorly-timed gear theft. Some other st