ON THIS DAY, September 21st, 1993, MELVINS released their fifth studio album, Houdini, through Atlantic Records. Houdini was the Melvins’ first major label album, with the band signing to Atlantic Records in late 1992. “It came on the whole tidal wave of Nirvana stuff,” Melvins frontman Buzz (King Buzzo) Osbourne said, “and I’m sure if it weren’t for that, we wouldn’t have had interest from a major at all.” As Buzz states, once Smells Like Teen Spirit hit in late 1991, record labels dove headlon