The Melvins Announce Fall U.S. “Stop Your Whining Tour” With Special Guests Redd Kross

The Melvins cap off 2025 with the “Stop Your Whining Tour,” a six-week outing with special guests Redd Kross for a double shot of underground rock royalty.

Known for their crushing riffs, genre-defying experiments, and off-kilter sense of humor, the Melvins continue to defy expectations four decades into their career. The band, currently featuring Buzz Osborne, Dale Crover, Steven McDonald (also of Redd Kross), and Coady Willis, remains one of the most influential and unpredictable forces in heavy music. Their recently released album, Thunderball (https://themelvins.lnk.to/Thunderball), delivers the “most irresistible, huge-sounding tunes” (Kerrang!) and as AllMusic said, is as “utterly uncompromised and full of swampy vigor” as ever.

Joining them for the full tour are L.A. icons Redd Kross, whose kaleidoscopic blend of punk, retro glam, and garage rock has earned them a cult following since the early ’80s. Redd Kross were recently the subject of both a book (“Now You’re One Of Us: The Incredible Story of Redd Kross”) and documentary (Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story).

Tickets are on-sale this Friday, May 16 at 10 a.m. local time, with an exclusive artist pre-sale beginning Wednesday, May 14 at 10 a.m. local time (code: VENUS). Tickets are available via Ipecac.com/tours.

Stop Your Whining Tour:

• September 9 Flagstaff, AZ Yucca North
• September 10 Santa Fe, NM Meow Wolf
• September 12 Boulder, CO Fox Theatre
• September 13 Fort Collins, CO Aggie Theatre
• September 15 Sioux Falls, SD Bigs Bar
• September 16 Moorhead, MN Harold’s On Main
• September 18 Madison, WI High Noon Saloon
• September 19 Davenport, IA The Raccoon Motel
• September 20 Indianapolis, IN The Vogue
• September 22 Columbus, OH A&R Music Bar
• September 23 Huntington, WV The Loud
• September 24 Morgantown, WV 123 Pleasant Street
• September 25 Toledo, OH Frankie’s
• September 26 Buffalo, NY Electric City
• September 27 Brooklyn, NY CBGB Festival
• September 29 Providence, RI Fete Music Hall
• September 30 Hamden, CT Space Ballroom
• October 1 Asbury Park, NJ The Stone Pony
• October 2 Bethlehem, PA Musikfest Café at the ArtsQuest
• October 3 Lancaster, PA Tellus 360
• October 4 Washington, DC Black Cat
• October 6 Raleigh, NC Lincoln Theatre
• October 7 Asheville, NC The Orange Peel
• October 8 Knoxville, TN Bijou Theatre
• October 10 Pensacola, FL Vinyl Music Hall
• October 11 Jackson, MS Duling Hall
• October 12 Memphis, TN Minglewood Hall
• October 13 Little Rock, AR Revolution! Music Room
• October 14 Tulsa, OK Cain’s Ballroom
• October 15 Oklahoma City, OK Beer City Music Hall
• October 17 San Antonio, TX Paper Tiger
• October 19 Roswell, NM The Liberty
• October 21 Tucson, AZ Club Congress

A European leg precedes the U.S. dates with performances slated at the ArcTanGent, Rock Im Wald, and the Blue Moon Festival:

• July 18 Brighton, UK Chalk
• July 20 Liege, BE Reflektor
• July 21 Frankfurt, DE Batschkapp
• July 23 Athens, GR Technopolis
• July 25 Michelau, DE Rock Im Wald
• July 26 Cottbus, DE Blue Moon Festival
• July 27 München, DE Technikum
• July 30 Rome, IT EUR Social Park
• July 31 Milan, IT Magnolia Estate
• August 1 Feldkirch, AT Poolbar Festival
• August 2 Bagnes, CH Palp Festival
• August 5 Lokeren, BE Lokerse Fessten
• August 6 Köln, DE Live Music Hall
• August 7 Berlin, DE Huxleys Neue Welt
• August 8 Hamburg, DE Große Freiheit 36
• August 9 Utrecht, NL Tivoli/Vredenburg
• August 11 Norwich, UK Waterfront
• August 12 London, UK Electric Ballroom
• August 13 Manchester, UK Manchester Club Academy
• August 14 Bristol, UK ArcTanGent Festival
• August 15 Birmingham, UK XOYO
• August 16 Sheffield, UK Leadmill
• August 18 Dublin, IE Vicar Street

The Melvins are currently on the road with Napalm Death, co-headlining the “Savage Imperial Death March II” tour:

• May 13 Grand Rapids, MI The Intersection
• May 15 Cincinnati, OH Bogart’s
• May 16 Louisville, KY Mercury Ballroom
• May 17 Nashville, TN Brooklyn Bowl Nashville
• May 18 St. Louis, MO Red Flag
• May 19 Chicago, IL Metro
• May 20 Milwaukee, WI The Rave II
• May 22 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue – Main room
• May 23 Des Moines, IA Wooly’s
• May 24 Kansas City, MO Madrid Theatre
• May 25 Omaha, NE The Waiting Room
• May 27 Denver, CO Summit
• May 29 Salt Lake City, UT Metro Music Hall
• May 31 Bozeman, MT The ELM
• June 1 Spokane, WA Knitting Factory Spokane
• June 2 Seattle, WA The Showbox
• June 3 Portland, OR Revolution Hall
• June 4 Eugene, OR McDonald Theatre
• June 6 Reno, NV Virginia Street Brewhouse
• June 7 Berkeley, CA Cornerstone Berkeley

About the Melvins

The Melvins are one of modern music’s most influential bands. Having formed in 1983 Montesano, Washington, the group – founded by  vocalist/guitarist Buzz Osborne, with drummer Dale Crover joining a year later – has been credited with merging the worlds of punk rock and heavy music, forming a new subgenre all their own. Over their 40-plus-year career, they’ve released more than 30 original albums, numerous live records, and far too many to count singles and rarities. Recent releases include Thunderball, a Melvins 1983 release that sees Osborne reunite with the band’s original drummer, Mike Dillard, 2024’s Tarantula Heart, an album that Osborne wrote songs based on a series of improvisational live sessions,the six-song 2022 Bad Mood Rising, and Five Legged Dog (2021), an ambitious 36-track acoustic collection that reimagines their heaviest songs alongside covers of their favorite artists.