Faith No More's bass player, CEO of Koolarrow Records, and importer of Balkan rakija Billy Gould birthday is today. We are celebrating with an alphabetical run through of some of his coolest endeavors. Photo Ryan Tuttle A IS FOR THE AUDACITY OF HYPE Jello Biafra, the legendary lead singer of The Dead Kennedys, and Bill first worked together in the Mexican metal band Brujeria during the early nineties. Biafra then asked Faith No More to contribute a cover of Let's Lynch The La

The second Faith No More record and the final to feature Chuck Mosley on vocals was released thirty seven years ago on April 23rd 1987. "....A colossal, oppressive and obsessively violent rock noise. That's intimidating and disturbing in the extreme..." - Melody Maker "A tremendous piece of work, unpredictable, explosive and unclassible." - The Real Story Voted as one of Sounds Magazine's most important albums of the year in 1987 and considered an inspiring masterpiece by m

On April 18th 1988 Faith No More released their second single Anne's Song . The song featured on their second album Introduce Yourself . 'A dancing 12 inches of pure abnormality that rips around the room accompanied by one of the finest voices ever to come out of a broken vocal pipe. It just bludgeons its way along hitting everything form its path and grinning inanely while doing so. One day all absurdities will be made this way. Single of the week. Brilliant.' Sounds 1988 T

WADE WORTHINGTON Founder and original keyboard player/backing vocalist with Faith No Man, who became Faith No More, 1979-1983 Metal Hammer | 5 Mar 2026 “My first band was The Spectators, but that fell apart and then there was Sharp Young Men, which then became Faith No Man. I had this ad up in the local record store in Berkeley [in the Bay Area], and the first person to answer was [bassist] Bill Gould. We’d been at a frat party and seen [drummer] Mike Bordin play. We ended up

The Mike Patton and Avett Brothers collaboration kicked off their eighteen date North American Tour yesterday (April 10) in Lousiville, Kentucky. The setlist included original songs from the AVTT/PTTN album but also some covers. The group played a great rendition of the classic Commodores song Easy (of course made extra special by Faith No More ), a version of Mr. Bungle 's Retrovertigo , a full band cover of Digging The Grave and Patton dueted with piano on Ashes To Ash

On April 3rd 1993 Faith No More released their four track EP Songs To Make Love To . The maxi-single includes the cooler version remix of Easy which adds a horn section (Roddy Bottum sample patch), Das Schutzenfest , Midnight Cowboy and the band's cover of the Dead Kennedy's classic Let's Lynch The Landlord . Metal Hammer | April 1993 Faith No More have always been an odd bunch and this EP confirms that! They have already released their smooth version of the Commodores cl