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Miscellaneous

December 5, 2013, 12:22 pm
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Mike Patton was recently interviewed by Gonzalo Frías on Chilean TV Show 7mo Vicio. As Mike doesn't really give that many interviews anymore it's quite obvious that he has a lot of time and respect for Gonzalo who he has given lengthy interviews to in the past. The guy's talk about Ennio Morricone, Mondo Cane, Films and more in this 40 minute interview...



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A few fan filmed videos from the Mondo Cane show on the 24th November in Chile and the Moonchild show in Mexico on the 29th November have made it on to You Tube including 'Urlo Negro'...



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ON THIS DAY.......
5th December 2010,
At the venue immortalised by Mike Patton and Ennio Morricone last week, Estadio Bicentenario De La Florida, Chile. Faith No More played what was advertised as the last show on their Second Coming Tour.

On this day in 1997...
Faith No More ASHES TO ASHES. TFI Friday, UK. The presenter now on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show has stated his love for FNM on a few occasions.




On this day in 1992....
Faith No More played Sheffield Arena, UK, as part if their Angel Dust Tour. The show was broadcast on BBC Radio 1. And released on bootleg under the title 'It's Showtime'.
Here is CHINESE ARITHMETIC and RV from that show.

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Mike Patton to score "The Vatican Tapes"

January 9, 2014, 1:14 pm
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Mike Patton's career as a film composer continues to expand with the news that the singer/multi-instrumentalist will now turn his attention to scoring "The Vatican Tapes", a horror film starring Michael Pena ("American Hustle", "Tower Heist") and Djimon Hounsou ("Gladiator", "Blood Diamond").
Read more at At Blabbermouth
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Happy Birthday Matt Wallace

January 10, 2014, 2:10 pm
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Hey guys, I'm sure you will all join me in wishing a very happy birthday to the producer of FNM's first 4 albums Mr Matt Wallace! Enjoy your day Matt!
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FNM/Mr Bungle companion author Greg Prato interview links

January 13, 2014, 10:25 am
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Hey guys, first of all let me wish you all a very happy new year (I know I'm a bit late!), let's hope that  this year brings a lot more FNM news than 2013!


So how many of you got the Greg Prato FNM/Mr Bungle companion? Personally I have not read it so I cannot pass judgement, I was just interested to see what the general consensus of the book is.

Here are a couple of links in which Greg Prato discusses FNM/Bungle, firstly with two members of Vision of Disorder, and the second link from Chicago radio station WXRX...

http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/1/b/1/1b1552a54fd49b39/Episode_11.mp3?c_id=6543749&expiration=1389644042&hwt=2dcf440eb17af074f7c0ccca3f65867b

http://www.wxrx.com/LowBudgetMorningShow/2013/12/03/the-faith-no-more-mr-bungle-companion-author-greg-prato
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Koolarrow Updates

January 15, 2014, 1:00 pm
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Hey guys, welcome to the first Koolarrow update of 2014!
For those of you that follow KA you will probably have noticed the latest news 'blurb' put up on Koolarrow.com giving us great news of things to come in 2014, for those of you who haven't seen, or are new to this killer label run by Billy Gould here it is...

'For all of you falling KA, you probably know already that last year was an intense one for our artists on many levels: La Plebe’s European shows with Talco, Kultur Shock’s two EU tours, Talking Book in South America (including a killer show with CAF in Buenos Aires), Mexican Dubwiser’s US debut, Dubioza Kolektiv absolutely blowing up at home, finishing the year in a hometown Sarajevo concert that was nothing less than a milestone.
Which brings us to 2014, and I’m happy to say that it’s great to see our bands moving onwards and upwards. Lots of recording: Dubioza Kolektiv, Talking Book, Mexican Dubwiser, Como Asesinar a Felipes, there’s talk of another House of Hayduk…Kultur Shock never stops…and some really interesting developments…CAF backing Mexican Dubwiser (??)…La Plebe collaborating with Dubioza…
In case you haven’t realized by now, Koolarrow is a community as much as a label. We are modern people who celebrate our differences with respect, we cross artificial boundaries, and we make some fucking great music. This is what we will continue to do, THANK YOU for listening to us, supporting us, thinking outside of so called “industry channels” and bring some humanity to our musical culture.'
All of which brings us to the first bit of news, and Dubioza Kolektiv have announced new tour dates, if they are coming close by to you then try and get to see the guys live, it will be well worth your while!
New dates / Novi datumi 17.01. Sonar Live SIENA, IT
18.01. Fòcara, LECCE, IT
01.03. Spaladium Arena, SPLIT, HR
05.04. Kombank Arena, BEOGRAD, RS
12.04. Culture Club Revelin, Dubrovnik, HR
18.04. Club Grounds, Rotterdam, NL
19.04. Paaspop Festival, Schijndel, NL
05.07. Festival Les Feux de l'Eté, Pays De La Loire, FR
26.07. Puppet Rock Festival Festival, Plzeň, CZ
07.08. Hitch bar, Zadar, HR
02.08. Festival des Garennes, La Roche-Bernard, FR
14.08. Festival Musicalarue, Luxey, Landes, FR


Meanwhile Dubioza's latest album 'Apsurdistan' is available at the bands website http://dubioza.org

Next up, and huge Congratulations to Danny Walker for making OC Weekly 10 best metal drummers...he played drums onFlattbush's latest recordings!! Check out the full list here


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On this day...1991 Rock in Rio II

January 20, 2014, 12:49 pm
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On this day.....20th of January 1991 and FNM play one of their most legendary shows...Rock in Rio II in Brazil, what are your memories of the show? Were you there? Let us know, and in the meantime enjoy the show again below.


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Koolarrow Updates

January 22, 2014, 2:07 pm
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Hey guys, welcome to more updates from Billy Goulds Koolarrow Records.

First up, and The Mexican Dubwiser has official merchandise on sale at http://www.bangs.mx

Next, and Dubioza Kolektiv have been adding more tour dates to their 2014 schedule...
Dubioza kolektiv 2014 Tour! More dates coming soon!

12.02 Hayal Kahvesi Beyoğlu, İstanbul, TR
13.02 Hayal Kahvesi-Ankara, Ankara, TR
15.02 Hayal Kahvesi, Bursa, TR
16.02 Hayal Kahvesi, İzmir, TR
18.02 Hayal Kahvesi Adana, Adana, TR
19.02 Hayal Kahvesi, Gaziantep, TR
20.02 Hayal Kahvesi, Mersin, TR
01.03 Spaladium Arena, SPLIT, HR
05.04 Kombank Arena, BEOGRAD, RS
12.04 Culture Club Revelin, Dubrovnik, HR
18.04 Podium Grounds, Rotterdam, NL
19.04 Paaspop Festival, Schijndel, NL
26.04 Welcome in Tziganie, Auch, FR
18.05 Kokopelli World Festival, Gullegem, BE
05.07 Festival Les Feux de l'Eté, Pays De La Loire, FR
26.07 Puppet Rock Festival, Plzeň, CZ
02.08 Festival des Garennes, La Roche-Bernard, FR
07.08 Hitch bar, Zadar, HR
14.08 Festival Musicalarue, Luxey, Landes, FR
29.08 Maimunarnika, Sofia, B
Just added...
3 brand new Dubioza kolektiv dates in Italy! 

13.03 Irlanda in Festa / Palanord, Bologna, IT
14.03 Irlanda in Festa / Gran Teatro GEOX, Padova, IT
15.03 Irlanda in Festa / PalaGeorge, Montichiari, Brescia, IT



Chilean band Como Asesinar a Felipes have been confirmed to play at this years South by Southwest festival in Austin,  SXSW
You can also find the guys on Instagram now, with lots of cool band pics and also that killer artwork they are known for!!

http://instagram.com/operacionCAF
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Chuck Mosley and the VUA to tour this spring

January 23, 2014, 11:48 am
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Chuck Mosley and the VUA will be hitting the road in the US this coming spring. In a message posted on Facebook earlier Chuck had this to say:
'It's been a really long time coming, but vua is finally hitting the road this spring. Dates will be announced soon, so keep in touch. So far, all dates are in the US but everyone involved is hopeful for some overseas shows as well. What songs do you want to hear VUA play in your town?'

Chuck Mosley and the VUA  ft Roddy Bottum 'We Care a Lot'

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Tomahawk announce new show

January 23, 2014, 12:10 pm
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Tomahawk have just announced a new show on Friday 21st March, here is a statement from the boys:
'Hey! Where you been? We are playing a show in 2014!!!! Here is our world tour!
March 21st in Veracruz Mexico at the AMAZING Cumbre Tajin festival with TOOL. Going to be a blast!'
More info and tickets at this link.Here

In other Tomahawk news Duane Denison celebrated his birthday on Tuesday...Happy Belated Birthday Duane!!
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Happy Birthday Mike Patton

January 26, 2014, 9:58 pm
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Today we wish Mike Patton a very happy birthday!!
From everyone here, Happy Birthday Mike!

Check out our Facebook page to see some Mike Patton moments posted throughout the day
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Faith No More Spanish Mag Cover Story

January 27, 2014, 1:45 pm
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In the February issue of Spain's Popular 1 Magazine, Faith No More are the cover story (which is the mag's largest cover story ever - 22 pages long), and includes new interviews with Chuck Mosley as well as Greg Prato, the author of the new FNM/Bungle book 'The Faith No More & Mr. Bungle Companion.' I believe it's all in Spanish.
If readers would like to order a copy of the magazine, Popular 1's editor, Cesar Martin, said people can email him directly at correopopular1@hotmail.com. 
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New Chuck Mosley Interview

January 29, 2014, 12:37 pm
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Former FNM frontman Chuck Mosley has recently given Greg Prato an interview for bravewords.com, in which they talk about Chucks new music, his autobiography and his relationships with his ex band mates. Greg has very kindly given us permission to publish the interview here too, so, enjoy the read!!

Special Report by Greg Prato

The Mike Patton-fronted version of FAITH NO MORE is the one that scored the group's big commercial breakthrough, with the rap rock hybrid, 'Epic'. But this was not the first time FNM was rappin' and rockin' - the man who Patton replaced, Chuck Mosley, was doing so on such earlier tunes as 'Chinese Arithmetic' and their early anthem, 'We Care A Lot'. And it was the Mosley version that lay the groundwork for FNM's later success, as evidenced by their first US coast-to-coast tours (including a jaunt opening for the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS), their first shows overseas, and such metal-meets-alternative classic albums as 1985's We Care A Lot and 1987's Introduce Yourself (interesting tidbit - it was at a Mosley-fronted FNM show that a still-teenaged Patton passed off a demo of his band, Mr. Bungle, which got FNM's attention, and eventually, helped lead to him replacing Mosley).


Ever since exiting FNM in 1988, Mosley has been spotted in several projects over the years - issuing a pair of albums as the leader of the group CEMENT (1993's self-titled debut and 1994's Man with the Action Hair), as a solo artist fronting VUA (2009's Will Rap Over Hard Rock for Food), and perhaps most intriguingly, as HR's replacement in the BAD BRAINS from 1990 through 1992 (frustratingly, no studio recordings from this union were ever issued). And in 2010, Mosley joined most of his former FNM bandmates on stage for a five-song mini-set at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco.

Recently, Mosley spoke with BraveWords correspondent Greg Prato (who is a longtime Faith No More fan, having penned the 2013 book, The Faith No More & Mr. Bungle Companion), about new music, his own autobiography, and if he'd be down for a FNM reunion in the future.

BraveWords: What are you currently up to?

Chuck Mosley: "We are working on new music. We just found out yesterday we are going to go out and do some touring in the States here. We're working on going down to Australia for two or three weeks. The hardest nut to crack right now is England and Europe; we're trying to get over there. We're doing everything ourselves - it's Doug [Esper, Chuck's friend] and me, basically. He helps me do everything and gets me going. He administrates and brainstorms with me, and helps me online. We're just doing everything ourselves, because we don't have any representation right now. So we're just doing whatever we could on our own. Which is true with a lot of bands these days, because of the internet and what it's done to the state of the record business."

BraveWords: What about working on new music?

Chuck Mosley: "Got a lot of new music. We just haven't afforded ourselves a time to sit down and crank it out. But we are totally planning on going into some studio. Ideally, we would like to go out to…my guitar player, Tim Parnin, his brother is an engineer and producer out in LA, and he is who we want to record our next album. But right now, until we have some more money, we're just going to do whatever we can and record out here. We're looking for a good live performance we can record, and we're going to try and put out an LP with live music and some new material recorded in the studio - between two and five new songs. We have a couple that we haven't gotten to rehearse and bring together as a band yet that I wrote, and we have a couple of jams that the band came together with as a whole. So mainly, with our time, people are busy doing other things, as well. We end up only practicing when we have a couple of shows lined up, so that's when we get together. But we're trying to get ourselves some time right now to put aside to be able to do that. And then together with any shows we have coming up in the next six months, we're going to shoot for the best recording."

BraveWords: Are there any titles yet for the new songs?

Chuck Mosley: "No, because that's like the last thing. [Laughs] It's like a fart in the wind. Being a songwriter is what I am, and a lyricist and all that stuff is the least important thing to me for some reason. The words just come out. And luckily up until this point, there's always been a tape recorder running, or all my lyrics would have been different. They might not have been as good…they might have been better, I don't know. But mostly, all of my lyrics come when the band is jamming, my vocals wind up being like one of the instruments, just like, 'Yeah, blah, blah, blah.' The tape recorder is going, and when it sounds like what I'm saying - depending on the phrasing - that's how I come up with my lyrics. It's usually one of the last things that come up. So the title is even behind that. Actually, I could say this much - the second Cement album, The Man with the Action Hair, I thought that was a really good album. But when we went and started a worldwide tour on that album, during the first week is when I broke my back, so the album got shelved. So if VUA gets to do more albums, we're always going to try to put one or two of those Cement songs from The Man with the Action Hair on each record. I think the next one slated is 'Killing an Angel,' we want to do over."

BraveWords: From what I understand, you're working on an autobiography, right?

Chuck Mosley: "Everybody always says I should write a book, because of all the things I have done - not just playing in bands, but all of the situations I've gotten myself in. Y'know, have you ever been in similar situations, where you ask yourself, 'What the hell are you doing here? How did I get here?' Well, I have, a lot of times. I think because of the mixed bag of culture that I was brought up in/as. I've just done a lot of things - crazy things. Not all good. But nothing really evil. Lived a lot of lives in my life. Everybody's always saying I should write a book, so we're doing that. And it starts with when my parents met, and a little of their background. Their whole coming together was responsible for what I am and who I became. I certainly wish a little more of them would have rubbed off on me, but it didn't. But it made me who I am today. It starts with when they met - at some kind of socialist/communist get-together in the '50s. Because they were interracial - my mom was Jewish and my dad was black and American Indian. So that was something controversial in itself. And then how they came together, kind of like the Brady Bunch - my dad had a daughter and my mom had two daughters, and all they were missing was a boy, so they went out and adopted one, and it was me. And things they tried to teach me - things that stuck and things that didn't stick, and what happened to me growing up. A lot of it is about the time I was growing up in. I've got a clear memory of a lot of things when I was young - of the '60s and love-ins. I read Anthony Kiedis' book [Scar Tissue], and I realized that our lives are mirrored with each other in a lot of circumstances. I mean, he talks about a lot of things, and we were at the same place - literally - at certain times in our lives. It's really weird. It was interesting, but then it also started to discourage me a little bit, because I don't want people to already to have read this kind of stuff. But we did different things - he talked about going to love-ins I believe…maybe not love-ins, but being around hippies in the '60s. But it sounds like his parents were a lot different than mine. Mine were very…except for the interracial thing and certain civil laws, my parents were pretty law-abiding. A lot more than I guess his dad was. But were really hard-working, just down-to-earth people, but they hung out with a lot of hippies and crazy people growing up. It's just a book about how I came to be me, who I am, and circumstances that I put myself in growing up, and what led to me being semi-in the public eye. I guess I wouldn't call myself a rock star, but a rock satellite - one that orbits around the stars."

BraveWords: When do you think the book will come out, and does it have a working title?

Chuck Mosley: "It had a really good title - I had it written down, and I've never been able to remember it, because it was about the length of a paragraph. So no, we don't have a working title. And I have no idea when it's going to come out, because we haven't decided where we want to end it, and we want to end it on a good note. But y'know, I haven’t had the easiest life - there's been a couple of letdowns here and there. [Laughs] So we're trying to see how and when or where it will end. I would say some time in the next five years. We'd like to give it a little more time - unless something happened. A little more of a fabulous ending. [Laughs] My life is very ordinary. I'm a musician right now, and I have a family and I cook. It's kind of boring right now."


BraveWords: So right now, as a job you're pretty much a cook?

Chuck Mosley: "Yeah, but I'm not even working right now. I just cook for my family. I'm actually more of just a 'house husband.' I take care of the kids, get them to their appointments and hospital. They take care of themselves pretty good now, so I kind of just do the bills. This is becoming my job - trying to get our band out there. I'm going out and talking to different bands. There are a lot of bands that are having to do it themselves, which is how I did it when we were starting. I guess it's having to come back to that."

BraveWords: But as I found out by interviewing musicians for my book, The Faith No More & Mr. Bungle Companion, there seems to be a lot more people nowadays that appreciate those first two Faith No More albums that you sang on. I think you'd be surprised by the amount of interest when you do shows and issue a new album.

Chuck Mosley: "There would be. Yeah, I totally believe that - if somebody knew where we were playing or that we had an album for sale. I do acknowledge and appreciate the interest. I've been pretty much playing constantly since those days. The biggest gap was actually the last thirteen years now, while waiting for this record [Will Rap Over Hard Rock for Food] to be done. My point is 17/18-year-olds, all the way up to my age, have never stopped coming to our shows. We went and played in Chile, there were people from like 16 on up. People that I would be surprised know who I am. I totally noticed that. I sound pretty negative, don't I?"

BraveWords: From the things you were telling me, I see your point though - your career and life has had a lot of ups and downs. That's why I think your autobiography would be a cool thing to read.

Chuck Mosley: "Yeah, just trying to figure out where to end it on. You can call some of the things that have happened are depressing or whatever. I try not to have a bitter outlook on everything. When you come right to the brink of something like that, and then get denied, it leaves a stain. But on the other hand, I've got a really great family. I've been with the same girl for 29 years, we have two beautiful daughters. Things are good. It's just that my mom always said, 'Have something to fall back on.' But she was the one that kind of pushed me into [music]. Technically, I did - when I was like three years old, I was really into THE BEATLES and THE ROLLING STONES. I was always around older people and hippies growing up. And Batman for some reason, the theme song from the TV show. So they got me into piano lessons when I was three-and-a-half years old. My mom's dream was for me to become a classical pianist, but I kind of went the other direction. When I did go in the other direction, she always told me, 'Have something to fall back on.' Well, for me, I guess that would have been cooking - but that talent came a little bit later. But I never did. So my point is I'm only good at music and cooking…I don't know what else someone like me would do, to keep me happy. In one sense of the term, I’m pretty happy - I love playing shows still. But on the other hand, I worry to death about what are my kids going to do and how am I going to take care of them when I'm gone, if I die tomorrow and all that crap. We don't have a nest egg or a 401k or any of that kind of stuff. I've never learned how to save money really good, so it's scary as hell."


BraveWords: Well, something else that myself and I'm sure a lot of Faith No More fans are curious about - what is your current relationship like with them, and the possibility of reunion shows that include you and Jim?

Chuck Mosley: "Well, first off, the relationship is really good with all those guys. Actually, Roddy, we never really stopped talking from the time I was in the band until now. He's actually the godfather to my oldest daughter. But I haven't spoken to him in about six months or so - that's the longest we've gone without talking. I guess he moved or something. But in the meantime, I've been talking to Billy a lot. He's been kind of being 'a rabbi' to me on the phone and online, and trying to help me as much as he could, to get our band out there and heard. And a lot of advice. Because me and him were really close. I knew Billy before I joined that band. We were like best friends before that, and then we became like a married couple and got sick of each other. Antagonistic. But now it's come around, and his band, TALKING BOOK, played with us down in Chile, and it was a lot of fun seeing him and hanging out. It was really cool. It brought back a lot of memories. Our relationship is a delicate one, but it's really good. It really feels good when I talk to him. But the other guys, Jim I talked to a few years ago…it's actually been about eight or nine years. He called me up out of the blue one night and we talked for a few hours. That was the last time I talked to him. Mike Bordin, the last few times at Ozzfest was here, he always invited me and took me backstage with him and brought me out to the shows, and we hung out. It was always good. Mike Patton has always been nothing but nice to me. Of course he's going to be nice to me, he's not going to act any other way. He seems nice. I hear different things and stuff from people, but he's always been really nice to me. So, the relationship's good. But about a reunion? I'd be all down for it. Of course I would be. I have a recurring nightmare ever since I've been in the band that that happened, and I totally choked when it came showtime. But they actually did invite me back, as you know, and Jim too. I don't know what happened with Jim, I don't know the circumstances why he didn't show up. I kind of do, but it's not really my place to say. I was hoping he would have been there. I totally missed him not being there. But it was a lot of fun. I was real nervous though because of my recurring nightmare and because of the fact that it was going to be the show at the Warfield and then Coachella. But Coachella, the time that they had to play made it impossible for them to have me come up and do that. And then we were going to do two songs [at the Warfield show], and it turned into like five or six songs. During soundcheck, we just kept on playing all the older songs. Billy was like, 'Oh, let's do this one,' and we ended up playing a whole bunch instead of two. So most of the time I was playing, performing I just got really nervous, trying to remember all the lyrics. I kind of froze as far as animation and everything. But it was a lot of fun though. It was a good feeling. I'd do it anytime they invite me. I'd do it for nothing, pretty much, as long as I could afford to. But of course, I'd hope that they paid me lots of money and a tour would be great…but who cares. [Laughs] I’m just kidding!"

Upcoming Chuck tour dates:

March
2 - Chicago, IL - Live Wire
5 - Sauget, IL - Pop's
6 - Springfield, MO - Nathan P. Murpheys
7 - Emporia, KS - Emporia Granada Theatre
10 - Little Rock, AR - Vinos
12 - Memphis, TN - Hi Tone

(Photos - Matt Glad) 


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Miscellaneous

February 5, 2014, 12:26 pm
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 Alarm Magazine issue #41 and Mike Patton is the cover story


 

Next up and here is a direct link to a new podcast entitled Dead Bloated Morrison in which Chuck Mosley is the guest! Click here

Faith No More's debut album 'We Care a Lot' has finally made it to mp3 download available on Amazon (thanks to Travis for the tip)

Our friends at FNM4EVER have lovingly put together a one hour video of FNM including a special version of evidence
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Koolarrow Updates

February 13, 2014, 2:00 pm
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Hey guys, news just in from Koolarrow Records is that Como Asesinar a Felipes are to tour California! As far as I'm aware these will be the bands first US shows and I'm sure they will be very well received. Keep an eye on Koolarrow.com and Como a Asesinar a Felipes website for updates on the exact dates.


The Mexican Dubwiser's upcoming album 'Electric City' is due for release this Spring in the US. The album will feature a whole array artists including Billy Gould, Pato Machete, Ulises Lozano and Rocky Dawuni. In addition to this, Mex Dub has just announced a killer contest for all budding video producers!
 "to all students, friends and people in LOS ANGELES: we are having a VIDEO CONTEST for all of you. Send a video proposal for a NEW MEXICAN DUBWISER SINGLE to: dubwisesessions @ gmail . com and the winner will have the chance to make the video for the single and recive $700 US Dllrs."


The New single 'Bad Behavior' from Mexican Dubwiser's brand new album 'Electric City' coming soon, featuring Billy Gould, Ulises Lozano (from Kinky) and Myron Glasper. Stay tuned for more info.

Check out this Kool full show of Dubioza Kolektiv from January this year in Sienna Italy...

Dubioza Kolektiv @ Sonar, Siena, Italy.
Show manager B-Side.
Live streaming www.concertera.tv
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Radkey cover 'Digging The Grave'

February 23, 2014, 12:14 pm
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 Missouri garage punks Radkey have released their cover of Digging The Grave!
 The track is a b-side to the trio’s recent single 'Feed My Brain' and was recorded in Kansas City with Justin Mantooth, and mixed by Arctic Monkeys producer Ross Orton.
Check it out below and leave us your thoughts.

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Digging The Grave...19 years!!

February 28, 2014, 7:41 am
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It was 19 years ago to the day that 'Digging the Grave' was released. Below is an excerpt from one of our 'focus on the song' pieces.




February 28th 1995.....Digging The Grave the hits the shelves and my CD player. Almost three years we've waited for new FNM material, yeah we were blessed with Another Body Murdered but this single was the prelude to a whole shiny new album complete with highly anticipated guitars, new haircuts and a sense of refreshed attitude.
 
Ok first impressions: where the hell is Roddy Bottum? Is this really Trey on guitar? Have FNM finally given up trying not to be a rock band? Damn this song is raw and it's hard, three minutes of ear-bashing, jump around the room brutality.....this is pretty good!! In true FNM style it's different, unexpected and spectacular. It keeps up the fashion ofFNM's ability to progress their sound further with every debut single from each album. If you compare this song toFrom Out Of Nowhere or Midlife Crisis, even though the characteristic FNM elements are present the songs are so diverse it's like listening to a different band.
 
To say the band lost their most 'metal' contributor in Jim Martin this song is bursting with guitar riffs from the eccentric hand of Trey Spruance but it’s a world away from Mr Bungle. The song carves his short-lived mark on FNM's sound. We might think he was trying too hard to 'fit into' the band but we we're proved wrong by the following album.
Mike Patton's vocals are nothing but perfection. He still has the schizophrenic shifts between growl and operatic that we are used to from Angel Dust, but he is angrier, more lunatic than ever. The noises that man can produce are astounding, like a human guitar on overdrive he screams the living shit out of the middle eight!! His harmonies on the chorus are particularly amazing also and they are tighter than anything before.
Only the rhythm section is truly reminiscent of the Angel Dust sound with Bill Gould feverishly pounding on his strings. And we can only imagine how many cymbals, drum skins and sticks Mike Bordin went though to create that ferocious beat.
 
"On that track I wanted to get that sound we had on our first records but tighter, faster and harder. The middle section of that track came from the beat me and Bill came up with before we started trying out guitarists." - Mike Bordin
 
The lack of keyboards was explained when the band did interviews about KFAD. Roddy faced a few personal demons and lost loved ones and wasn't as involved with the writing and recording of the song. We can wonder how the song would have differed had Roddy been more involved. He appears in the video playing guitar and also played live throughout the touring. Without elaborating on this troubled period of Roddy's life, he did say this in response to a question on FNMblog Q&A recently.
 

http://www.faithnomoreblog.com/2013/01/roddy-bottum-fan-q-and-the-answers.html
 

"Yeah, I understand how that album is revered but it's not my favourite. I wasn't that present in the song writing and i was going through some tough stuff at the time" - Roddy
 
The most notable difference in this song to previous FNM material is the production. The band  decided to useAndy Wallace producer of many revered rock albums, a shift from long time producer Matt Wallace. He took them to an isolated studio in New York where according to band they had 'controlled cabin fever'. His skills deliver a more disciplined and compressed overall mix which changes the feel of the band's music radically from what we've heard before.
 
"It seemed ultimately self defeating to continue to do records with the same producer. Matt did some great stuff with us but over the course if your career why limit yourself to one person? We're the kind of band that prides itself on our diversity, versatility, change." - Roddy
 
Patton has never really elaborated on the lyrics to DTG, but finding piece in death and looking for a place to hide are an obvious interpretation.
Patton had this to say on the lyrics from KFAD in 1995.
 
"I can't actually write words before music. Words are the last thing: before the words, I hear sounds. Sometimes the words have no connection to anything; they just have to fit into the sound. I'm sure a lot of what was going into the words on the new record were things we all were going through at the time. Kind of subtle ways of getting revenge on those people.  People you see everyday, situations your in everyday that maybe it's better if you don't confront them. Everyone will know what its about but no one will talk about it. It's a beautiful thing" - Mike Patton
 
 


The video is directed by Marcus Raboy who also directed the video for Another Body Murdered, and who is more associated with the RNB and hip hop genre. It is a masterpiece and very FNM!! Dark, mysterious and abstract it has the same atmospheric characteristics as Midlife Crisis and Epic. It is clearly cinematic and mixes footage of 50s fedora wearing type character jumping off rooftops with the band just thrashing it out in what looks like an abandoned warehouse. The band look down right incensed: Patton curled up in a ball on the floor, Puffy beating the crap out of his kit with a look of intense concentration, Billy head down eyes screwed up and Dean with his sheepskin jacket looks comfortable in his new position. But the most notable is Roddy enthusiastically strumming away on guitar. The video has similarities to many 50s crime thrillers including those of Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Wells, Patton's and Raboy's interest in cinema would account for this. Of course this passion of Patton's was most obvious in the Last Cup Of Sorrow video two years later. 


The single was released on 12" coloured vinyl and a double cd pack with artwork by illustrator Eric Drooker. The full illustration was revealed when the album was released as an image taken from Drooker's book Flood! A Novel in Pictures from 1992. The snarling police dog on the cover is a perfect accompaniment to the suggested violence of the song itself, creating a perfect package. 
 
 


' Like the rest of the singles released from the album, it failed to chart in the US. However, the song became the band's fourth-highest charting single in the UK.  The single reached number 16 on the UK Singles Chart, and number 12 on the Australian ARIA Charts; becoming the 91st most-played song on Australian radio that year.' - Wikipedia.
 
The album was very important to the band personally and they were very positive about it.
 
"The new album was a catharsis for us. We made a record that was very liberating. I think we really learned how to use our power as a unit. I mean, I have a total submarine view of it, but I see it as more if a release type thing. There is a great amount of stress let off on this album" - Bill
 
"The new record is like being hit with a fucking fist, with one finger sticking out. This is the best record we've ever done. But it doesn't just come out of your butt on a plate. The songs, the performance, the recording process, the tones, the mix, the mastering. It's a whole bunch of shit that makes a good album". - Mike Bordin
 
The importance of this song in FNM history is really how the departure of Jim Martin affected the band's image and sound. Would the band still have the edge without the tension between members that helped to create previous albums, would a happy FNM camp produce the same results?
When Bill was asked on how the writing process differed without Jim he had this to say.
 
"We've never written stuff with Jim, as a band. Usually we'd give him a tape and he'd put stuff to it because he didn't like practicing with us much" - Bill
 
According to Puffy in an interview with an Australian radio station the departure of Jim helped them focus on the new material more. 'Very to the point, very straight forward and very strong'
Here's that audio interview. 
 


But it wasn't entirely plain sailing and the process still was fraught with difficulties; Roddy's personal problems, Trey's departure and a nasty car accident. Patton wasn't happy with appointment of his Mr Bungle co-member in the first place.
 
"Trey didn't come highly recommended by the only guy in the band that knew him. Patton said, 'he's a great guitarist, he'll do the job, but he's not dependable and he'll fuck us up ultimately due to his lack of any sense of responsibly'" - Bill
 
Although Bill also says how happy they were with the end result.
 
"It's heavier, it's more direct and it's the first record where we had the guitar the way we wanted it. Now it feels we're a dog who's been let of the leash" - Bill
 
A lot of fans miss Jim greatly from the band but there is no denying Trey is a outstanding guitarist and his input created a new phase in FNM's history. And they pull it off, DTG is an awesome tune it is all out barefaced aggressive rock!! Like the bark of Drooker’s police dog it tells no lies and there’s no fucking about. 


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Miscellaneous

February 28, 2014, 10:56 am
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In a recent write up on Metal Descent focusing on the top 25 Alternative Metal Albums Faith No More's 'Angel Dust' appears at number 1 with 'The Real Thing' coming in at Number 12. Mr Bungles 1991 self titled album 'Mr Bungle' is also in the list, as is Tomahawks 'Tomahawk' and their latest offering 'Oddfellows'. Follow the link to read the full list http://metaldescent.com/the-25-best-alternative-metal-albums/

Meanwhile Max Cavalera of Soulfly and Cavalera Conspiricy has had some kind words to say of FNM and Jim Martin in a recent interview with Greg Prato for Songfacts.com




Songfacts: Which songwriters do you admire?

Max: I like riff-making people. Some of my favorite ones are Tony Iommi, Chuck Schuldiner from Death, James Hetfield - you know, he did some great riffs. I like a lot of the new bands I'm listening to right now. They all have great riffs, like I Declare War and Acacia Strain and Man Must Die, Psycroptic. I like Jim Martin from Faith No More - I thought he was a great guitar player. He also wrote some great stuff. There was some amazing stuff in Faith No More. 
Read the full interview here...Songfacts


I'm a bit late to the party on this, but the 'elusive' Trey Spruance has been talking with SF Weekly Blog about Mr Bungle and had this to say about any reunion "What's hard about it is I am of the belief that we could do that again; much more so. There are plenty of skills that have been developed in the last 14 years. There are a lot of musical ideas and a lot of fluency with each band member now that's better than it was before. But, as you see, people in the band all look at it differently. You have to be synchronized if you're going to do something like that. The synchronization just hasn't quite happened yet"
Read the full interview here 

Next up and former FNM vocalist Chuck Mosley is hitting the road again, here are the tour dates...

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A happy fan

March 16, 2014, 3:36 pm
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Thank you for this Natalie


I would like to say a huge thank you to faithnomoreblog for their amazing admins, not only did I get a free ticket to the zorn/Patton gig, but I spent time with Scotty chatting with him about all things Patton. It's funny that after many years have past and we grow up, how meeting a mentor (Patton)takes us back to the faith no more days again. One of the songs was a ballad dedicated to Lou reed, it was so reminiscent of the vocals and keyboards in the real thing days. Mike was pretty tired, but as the professional he is, had his full microphone kit on him when returning to the hotel, he stopped for a few pics. Half an hour before the gig I saw the post about the free ticket (zonked out on the couch, resigned to another boring night watching the tube). Within 10 minutes, receiving the great news I flung off down the highway. Yes, Patton for me was a highlight, but also meeting such a dedicated fan allowed me to connect with the Patton buzz of days gone past!
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Help Roddy Bottum

March 17, 2014, 9:35 am
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Dear Friends,
Today I start my training for the AIDS LifeCycle 2014.
I'm reaching out to you all cause you were so generous last go round, two years ago.
The ride is June 2nd for a week, 545 miles on a bike from SF to LA.
I'm training this year in New York City.
You've heard about the winter we're having, it ain't easy but i'm SO happy
and grateful that i can pull this off and be able to help people in need.
If you can at all help,
you know the score....
it's a simple process, give what you can, the amount doesn't matter.
Click on the link at the bottom of this email and give what you can...
I'm eternally grateful to you for joining me in this selfless exercise to raise awareness and help make the world a better place.
Lotsa love,
Roddy Bottum

Roddy's personal page
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Koolarrow Updates

March 17, 2014, 12:33 pm
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Como Asesinar a Felipes begin a four date tour of California on the 19th of March.
The guys will be hittin The Independent in San Fracisco with Chilean friend and co-collaborator ANA TIJOUX and KUMBIA QUEERS on the 19th, then it's onto the SubMission Gallery, along with RAUL Y MEXIA, DJ KOOL KYLE,  REPORTE ILEGAL and Koolarrow’s very own MEXICAN DUBWISER, who will be introducing his new release “Electric City” on the 20th.
Then it's onto LA for what promises to be in Bills words 'another blow out!!' As the guys play the Blue Monkey along with The Mexican Dubwiser for his official record release party.
Then it's onto Fresno along with Dubwiser.

Dates..
MARCH 19th The Independent San Francisco
MARCH 20th SubMission Gallery, San Francisco
MARCH 21st Blue Monkey, LA
MARCH 22nd Fulton 55, Fresno




As mentioned above, The Mexican Dubwiser will be kicking off the celebrations for his upcoming album 'Electric City' in LA this coming Friday. The album is set for an April release via Koolarrow records and Kin Kon Records.
Those familiar with contemporary Latin music recognized some heavyweight names among the collaborators on Dubwisers debut 'Revolution Radio.' For ELECTRIC CITY some return and some new are added to the bill. El Gran Silence, Randy Ebright of Molotov, Francisco Javier lead singer of Tropical Panama, plus Pato Machete, Celso Piña, Ulises Lozano + members of KINKY, Serko Fuentes, also it has some of Los Angeles finest MCs of the underground scene like Rocky Dawuni, reggae artist from Ghana, Africa. Soul singer: Myron Glasper of Myron & E (Stone Throws Rec). Hip Hop’s MC Longevity. New York resident: Treasure Don straight out of Jamaica + many more surprises.

ELECTRIC CITY first single is BAD BEHAVIOR a collaboration feat Ulises Lozano, Billy Gould and Myron Glasper on vocals. Check out the single here...
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