
The debut Fantomas album - Patton’s first major release since leaving Faith No More - was intended as a literal musical transcription of a comic book, one which the listener is not privy to, but instead has to decode in the stampeding drums, electric-shock guitar-bursts and gibbered vocals - all postmodern ‘KAPOW’s and ‘KERRUNCH!’s Delirium Cordia was a wordless opera based around an implied story about surgery sans anaesthesia. Suspended Animation tried to make a sonic cartoon about the month of April - each ‘song’ another Tom and Jerry-style japefest depicting an individual day, and sounding fairly accurately like Carl [...]

Such dapper fellows. Sorry about the headline that can't make up it's mind on tense when it comes to Faith No More, but I honestly don't know if they consider themselves broken up again or if they're just on another long sabbatical. * Either way, have you ever really thought about just how unlikely their success was? Think of it; Faith No More started off as a Bay Area artsy-ish metal / funk multi-racial combo who might've gone down as a one-hit wonder [...]
FAITH No More frontman and sonic experimentalist Mike Patton's soundtrack to recent big screen release The Place Beyond The Pines is almost eerily exact at what it does. The soundtrack is a brooding, scene-setting, cinematic collection, spilling over with atmosphere and tension. As a soundtrack to a cerebral crime drama, it's perfect. Sadly, even with a few selected songs from the likes of Bon Iver and The Crying Shames tacked on the end, as an album to stick on in your car or at home, it just doesn't work - you're better off heading to the flicks [...]

C’è un momento in Blue Valentine , un momento in cui loro litigano in ospedale, in cui ricordo di aver messo pausa ed essermi detto va bene, respiriamo un attimo e andiamo avanti. Blue Valentine è uno di quei film che guardi una volta e non te li dimentichi abbastanza da non volerli rivedere mai più; è uno di quei film, piuttosto rari, di cui si può ricordare il momento preciso in cui è scesa la prima lacrima o si è sentito quel tonfo al cuore solito quando ci si affeziona troppo alle storie tristi. C’è [...]
The Place Beyond the Pines - although known as "that new movie where Ryan Gosling plays a bank robber who really likes Metallica" - features a score by Mike Patton, and that score is now streaming at Pitchfork. It's typically atypical work for Patton; if you're expecting something schizophrenic and wacky like his score for Crank [...]
Mike Patton, master of pretty much everything worth being the master of, wrote the entire score to the upcoming film "The Place Beyond the Pines." You should check it out. Check out the score, that is. I have no idea if the movie sucks or not and I really don't care enough to find out. ...

Faith No More / Mr Bungle frontman, Mike Patton has provided the soundtrack for new film The Place Beyond The Pines . The movie, directed by Derek Cianfrance and starring Ryan Gosling, is set to be released in cinemas later this week. It's Patton's second venture into the film world, after working on the music for 2009 flick Crank: High Voltage . You can listen to the score in full, via Pitchfork Advance, here [...]
Nearly a quarter of a century after Faith No More's The Real Thing made him a star, Mike Patton still provides the most mesmerizing stage shows imaginable.
A dark-snarling-rocker, avant-garde-artiste-extraordin aire, maniacally-grinning crooner, possessed of a sinister disposition and an undulating, catlike movement - these are all terms that accurately describe Bay Area native Mike Patton. Outside of the impressive trail that he and his bandmates in alt-metal band Faith No More blazed, through early 90s metal and the foundations of heavier alternative music, [...] The post Show Review: Tomahawk with Retox at the Great American Music Hall, 2/15/2013 appeared first on Spinning Platters .
maybe today is the last day of a short month but don't feel bad February 28th , you are not the lastest day of them all. just next month, there will be a 29th, a 30th, and a 31st day. they will always be older than you finally, after a waaayyy too long wait, a new post! no. what i mean is this: finally, after a waaayyy too long wait, we can hear some NEW MUSIC from some old favorites. [...]
Tomahawk, a musical super group consisting members of Faith No More, Jesus Lizard, and Battles, have finally came out with a new album. With their new release Oddfellows, Tomahawk continues to do what they have always have done best: ... Continued
READ the full review of Oddfellows, by Tomahawk, HERE Have a Cerberus roundup coming soon but this also published recently. It's a music review. Of the album Oddfellows. By Tomahawk. On Ipecac. It's words. Incidentally, there's a nice one-sided 7-inch ... Continue reading
Alone on Valentine's Day? We got the soundtrack for your pudwhack!
The band rebounds from 2007's disappointing Anonymous .

El segundo sencillo que comparte Tomahawk de su nueva producción Oddfellows es la canción que d nombre al álbum.. En el video podemos ver a la banda tocando de modo similar al clip que lanzaron para " Stone Letter ", pero esta vez con las imágenes intervenidas por dibujos que recuerdan a los comics de Spawn . La banda de Mike Patton estará de tour por Estados Unidos y Australia, así como Brasil, Argentina y Chile. Ojalá [...]
Is it the most disgusting thing you've ever seen?
Mike Patton and company make Oddfellows a step back toward their experimental and alternative rock sound, abandoning the Native American music influences that made Anonymous such a strangely spicy album. However, it's still a pretty odd, catchy collection of tracks-with a few undeniable potholes, unfortunately. WATCH THE REVIEW
When we last heard from Tomahawk on 20072s Anonymous , the group had set aside some of its more eclectic tactics for an album inspired by Native American imagery and concepts that founding member Duane Denison had encountered while touring with Hank Williams III. Prior to this self-described detour, the band also parted ways with original bassist and former Melvin Kevin Rutmanis. Now, after six years, the veritable supergroup has returned with its fourth release, Oddfellows. And just to be clear, this is not a reunion. If anything, Oddfellows marks a re-launching of [...]
Sunday, Mike Patton turned 45 years old. Tomorrow, the fourth album by his long-running project Tomahawk, entitled Oddfellows, will be released. To say I've got a little bit of Patton fever is a... Continue reading "Happy Birthday, Mike Patton: His 5 Greatest Albums" >