Chuck Mosley, the singer and frontman on the first two albums from influential alt-metal band Faith No More, has died. Mosley—who was kicked out of the band after the release of 1987's Introduce Yourself—drifted around the funk-rock world for years, playing with groups like Bad Brains, and his own band Cement. A…
Rap-rock, nu-metal, rap-metal, shit-metal, douche-rock. Whatever variably damning epithet you wanted to call it (just don’t call it late for its shift at Lids), the hybrid genre broke out in the mid- to late 1990s as a cathartic, unintelligible yaaaargh youuuu reaaadyyyy against the increasingly strained earnestness…
The only Record Store Day exclusive I was looking to pick up this year was the first U.S. vinyl release of R.I.P., The Zombies’ lost follow-up to Odessey And Oracle. Since The Zombies had broken up before Odessey was even released, the story of how R.I.P. came to be is an odd one, but it explains the uneven musical…
Riot Fest, the music festival that, presumably in deference to its punk rock roots, continues to be a public nuisance into its second decade of existence, has announced the initial lineup for this year’s events in Denver’s National Western Complex August 28-30, Chicago’s Douglas Park September 11-13, and Toronto’s…
Even when the band was racking up radio hits and Grammy nominations, Faith No More always seemed like deliberate outsiders—outside the mainstream, outside any particular scene, outside musically. Grunge couldn’t claim the San Francisco band, because it was too metal. More mainstream metal fans found Faith No More’s…
Bumbershoot, the annual celebration of all the cool art and music that Seattle has to offer—plus some artists and musicians who are willing to travel to Seattle—has just announced its 2015 lineup, and it’s a who’s who of people who are willing to travel to Seattle. The festival begins on September 5, with The Weeknd…
As reported by Noisey (via Rolling Stone), Roddy Bottum—the keyboard player for Faith No More—has written an opera about Bigfoot. And no, you probably didn’t just have a stroke. This is a real thing that’s really happening. Titled Sasquatch: The Opera, the show will premiere as part of the “Story Binge” project from…
Faith No More will release a new album this spring, its first in 18 years. The “Epic” group will release Sol Invictus May 19 via Ipecac and Reclamation Recordings. The group’s last record, Album of The Year, came out in 1997.
Last fall, Faith No More released their first new music in 17 years, a single called “Motherfucker.” (Way to reannounce yourselves, gents.) The band has been working on a new album as well, and has just quietly announced a string of North American tour dates mostly in venues that will likely sell out in minutes.…
Ahead of a 2015 full album, Faith No More has released “Motherfucker,” its first publicly available studio effort in 17 years. Produced by bassist Billy Gould, the new album will be released on Faith No More’s own Reclamation Records label.
Back in May, Faith No More teased—via Twitter, of course—the possibility of more activity, and possibly even a new album. This was big news for fans of the band, who’ve waded through a ton of side projects in the 17 years since Album Of The Year. The band offered a brief spasm of reunion shows in 2009, but has…
Faith No More broke up pretty quietly in 1998, after a solid run that included some commercial success (1989’s The Real Thing) and plenty of diehard fan love. More than a decade later, in 2009, the band reconvened—minus guitarist Jim Martin, who had split in 1993—for a bunch of big shows. A well-received world…