The Sparks Brothers, a documentary about Russell and Ron Mael directed by Edgar Wright premieres at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 30, 2021. The UK director of comedies such as Shaun of the Dead and Marvel blockbuster Antman who has always been a fan of the eccentric duo said, “I’d always been curious about doing a documentary. I was always impressed by directors who could seem to sort of be doing a feature film and a documentary in tandem, like Scorsese. But most

Faith No More's smash single from 'The Real Thing' was released on January 29th 1990 "Mean, Vicious, chunky and Funky, Faith No More continue to break barriers with their brain-scrambling amalgamation of seemingly counteracting styles. Rap with Metal? No problem mate. Funk with Hardcore overtones? Faith No More have it in hand. Hell, there's even a classical piano break at the end! FNM are the band to take Hard Rock into the '90s." - RIP Magazine 1990 Faith No More have over

Today Mike Patton turns 53 and we are celebrating his birthday with the ultimate A to Z. Patton from A to Z has been done before by several publications and we may have borrowed from previous attempts ( what else relates to X other than The X-Ecutioners? ). Not much of the info below is new to a Patton fanatic however it may prompt you to dig out a record you haven't played in a while or may be good to inform a naïve friend or two. We have provided a few alternatives for each

Duane Denison, Trevor Dunn, Mike Patton, and John Stanier return with their first full-length album in eight years. Tonic Immobility, in stores March 26th. Pre-order now at http://lnk.to/TomahawkTonic “Tonic Immobility could just be something in the air we’re feeling,” says Denison. “It’s been a rough year between the pandemic and everything else. A lot of people feel somewhat powerless and stuck as they’re not able to make a move without second guessing themselves or worryin

Faith No More performed at the second Brazilian festival Rock In Rio thirty years ago on January 20th 1991. By the end of 1990 FNM's music was achieving huge success with platinum album sales and head lining tours. However it was their performance in Rio de Janeiro which truly caught the larger world's attention. In 1985 headliners such as Queen, AC/DC and Yes had prompted the erection of The City of Rock stadium to house the one million people who attended the ten-day-long f

Faith No More released their debut single We Care A Lot on January 18th 1988. With it's thwacking drums , bass and heavy guitars. Faith No More's debut single, released in 1988, is funk metal with added punk sensibilities -both in the raw, untutored vocals of Chuck Mosley, the manic singer later replaced by Mike Patton, and in its gloatingly non-PC lyrics. A seminal alternative rock song, We Care A Lot still sounds electrifying. - Metal Hammer According to Q magazine when wri

On January 12th 1998 Faith No More released Stripsearch, the third single from Album Of The Year. Kerrang | May 1997 'Stripsearch' is a supremely atmospheric chunk ol sci-fi funk that succeeds despite the lack of any discernible chorus because it sounds just fantastic. Young Gods producer Roli Mosimann has worked his usual magic here, 'Album Of The Year' sounding so good that even if there wasn't a sniff of a decent melody anywhere (which is always a risk with Faith No More)

On January 10th 2016 we lost the incomparable talent that was David Bowie. Bill Gould has cited Bowie as an influence on his early life and beginnings in music. The first concert he attended at the age of ten was Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust incarnation at Long Beach, L.A in 1973. Bill Gould | Machine Music | 2015 "I think what really did it for me was there was a couple of albums that I heard that kind of gave me a strange…opened my eyes to what music was and what music could

Matt Wallace produced and engineered Faith No More's third studio album The Real Thing. Matt started working with members of FNM in 1982, he produced the band's first demo in his parent's garage, mixed sound on their first live show, and went on to be an essential part of We Care A Lot, Introduce Yourself, The Real Thing , Angel Dust and Sol Invictus. His skills behind the desk have helped to shape the unmistakable signature sound of the band. ...they took the world by storm