King Buzzo plays acoustic set at Seattle’s Neumos June 20

Northwest legend Buzz “King Buzzo” Osbourne, founder of The Melvins, will play an acoustic set tonight, June 20 at Neumos.

The show is in support of King Buzzo’s acoustic LP “This Machine Kills Artists” released June 3 on Ipecac!

The Seattle Times recently talked with King Buzzo about the album and the notion the legendary noise purveyor going acoustic.

While most musicians — most people — are dead asleep, Buzz Osborne, who plays Neumos Friday, is already wide awake.

“Most days, I leave before the sun [comes up] and go play 18 holes of golf with the working-class people at the municipal courses around Los Angeles,” he says via telephone from his house in Hollywood. “They just think I’m some weirdo. It’s funny.”

Golf?

Can this be the same musician who taught a young Kurt Cobain his first few guitar chords and introduced Dave Grohl to his eventual Nirvana bandmates? Never mind practically inventing the sludge and stoner metal subgenres on 1991’s seminal “Bullhead” and ’93’s “Houdini” — to name just two of 19 Melvins LPs.

Yes, it is. And on his new solo album, “This Machine Kills Artists,” (an allusion to Woody Guthrie) he plays acoustic guitar.

Has King Buzzo gone soft?

To read more visit the Seattle Times.

For a taste of King Buzzo’s acoustic offerings check out “Drunken Baby” below.