In the late 1970s, Tesco Vee was an elementary-school teacher in Michigan who led something of a secret life, first as a fan of punk rock and then as the frontman of one of the most notorious and ...

Tesco Vee has stretched his bawdy bile over three decades now as leader of the Meatmen, the Hate Police, and a few other concerns his lawyer would rather we not talk about. Whipping up face-slapping ...

After first reuniting in 2008, Michigan hardcore legends The Meatmen returned last year with their first album of original music in 18 years, Savage Sagas, and they’re still as crude and politically ...

In HateSong, we ask our favorite musicians, writers, comedians, actors, and so forth to expound on the one song they hate most in the world. The hater: As the frontman for The Meatmen, Tesco Vee (born ...

Tesco Vee is not just a pioneer — the leader of the Meatmen made himself the singularity when it comes to shock-rock. Over three decades, this animated agitator ruthlessly discharged the crudest ...

Punk rock has changed a lot through the years. Though the genre has always had subversiveness at its core, recent punk has shifted from abject vulgarity to riotous protest anthems to wry, self-aware ...

The Intersection is in downtown Grand Rapids MI, only a block away from Founders, one of America's greatest small breweries. Many bands have been missed while a thirsty concertgoer ducked in for a ...

The Meatmen are back! They're nastier than ever! On the new album, Savage Sagas they beat people up, smoke weed, go to low-rent strip clubs and talk about genital disease. But little do people know ...

There wasn’t a more offensive punk band in the early ’80s than The Meatmen. Even in a market cluttered by hardcore bands popping up in droves in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., the Lansing, Michigan ...