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Mike Patton

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians: The Complete List

    See also: * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians: Honorable Mentions Here they are -- the 20 greatest San Francisco musicians ever: 20. Cameron Paul Lists of pioneering American DJs often mention the usual suspects in New York and Chicago, but go back to the '70s and '80s and you'll find ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians, Nos. 10-6

    See also: * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians, Nos. 20-16 * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians, Nos. 15-11 Throughout this week, we're counting down the greatest San Francisco musicians of all time. Having already honored the likes of Etta James, Mike Patton, and Michael Tilson ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians Ever, #20-16

    Choosing the best S.F. musicians is kinda like forcing yourself to choose your favorite Bay Area bridge: Whatever you pick, there's always a good reason to go with another answer. San Francisco has a well-earned reputation as one of the world's rock 'n' roll meccas, but its contributions to music ha ... More >>

  • Music

    February 1, 2012

    Secret Chiefs 3: Show Preview

    Choosing the best S.F. musicians is kinda like forcing yourself to choose your favorite Bay Area bridge: Whatever you pick, there's always a good reason to go with another answer. San Francisco has a well-earned reputation as one of the world's rock 'n' roll meccas, but its contributions to music ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    Mike Patton and Secret Chiefs 3 Deliver a Rousing Take on Scott Walker's "Jacky"

    So here's a little energetic vibration to rev up your afternoon: Mike Patton, guesting with Secret Chiefs 3 -- the project of Trey Spruance, Patton's Mr. Bungle collaborator -- covering (the hell out of) Scott Walker's "Jacky." (Which is itself an English-language take on the late, great Jacques Bre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    Mike Patton's New Weird Project Is an Album Inspired By The Solitude of Prime Numbers

    ​ Last year, it was Mondo Cane, an album in which Faith No More bandleader Mike Patton covered Italian oldies. This year, the S.F. musical adventurer plans to release an album of music inspired by The Solitude of Prime Numbers, an Italian novel by Paolo Giordano. The full title of the 16-song ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    Top 6 Movie Parodies in Music Videos (Thanks, Foo Fighters)

    Remember the quietly xenophobic, right-wing propaganda movie that was Falling Down? The one where Michael Douglas has a meltdown in Los Angeles and goes on a mini-rampage (against mostly immigrants) in his white shirt and horn-rimmed specs? The movie was extraordinarily silly on a number of levels, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2010

    Hardly Strictly Bluegrass: 10 Bands You Should Not Miss

    ​San Francisco's annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival is kind of like a choose-your-own-adventure novel. You could pick any number of themes to select the acts you want to see -- old punk pioneers, roots music up-and-comers, etc.-- and follow one through all three day's lineups. You coul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2010

    Mike Patton To Make 'Mondo Cane' U.S. Live Premiere at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

    Not that you really needed another reason to go to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass this year. But just in case some of you weren't planning on showing up to the festival on Sunday, October 3, here's a pretty good reason to: Mike Patton, Nor-Cal weirdo, Faith No More kingpin, and musical force of nature, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2010

    Five Bay Area Hip-Hop Stars Who Should Be Really Stinkin' Rich

    Is this what it takes?​On Tuesday, Forbes published its list of hip-hop's 20 highest earners: Jay-Z at number one, naturally, with $63 million, and Senegalese crooner Akon edging out Lil Wayne by a milli -- Weezy's cash-accruing steez have been impressively unabated by his recent jail sentenc ... More >>

  • Music

    April 7, 2010

    Faith No More's second coming

    Is this what it takes?​On Tuesday, Forbes published its list of hip-hop's 20 highest earners: Jay-Z at number one, naturally, with $63 million, and Senegalese crooner Akon edging out Lil Wayne by a milli -- Weezy's cash-accruing steez have been impressively unabated by his recent jail sentenc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    Mike Patton's Mondo Cane Disc Says Ciao to Italian Oldies

    Along with corralling his Faith No More bandmates into appearances at Coachella and The Warfield, musical chameleon and Bay Area legend Mike Patton has been brushing up on his Italian. The adventurous Patton's upcoming album Mondo Cane indulges his love for '50s and '60s Italian oldies, and f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2010

    The Rondo Brothers Take Up Residency at Coda

    ​Considering the artists that the Rondo Brothers have worked with--Dan The Automator, Mike Patton, Loquat, etc.--it's easy to imagine their LastNiteRuled residency at Coda in the Mission living up to its name. Housed in the newish "jazz supper club" that took over the space vacated by Levende Loun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2010

    Big San Francisco Reunion News: Faith No More to Play the Warfield

    ​Mike Patton has sparked a million crazy music projects over the decades, not to mention an uncompromisingly eclectic record label, but he'll perhaps always have his biggest following in fans of Faith No More, the San Francisco hard-rock-and-then-some act he became the frontman for in the late '80 ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 7, 2009

    Can Somebody Please Start a Riot?

    ​Mike Patton has sparked a million crazy music projects over the decades, not to mention an uncompromisingly eclectic record label, but he'll perhaps always have his biggest following in fans of Faith No More, the San Francisco hard-rock-and-then-some act he became the frontman for in the late '80 ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 7, 2009

    What What-ers?

    ​Mike Patton has sparked a million crazy music projects over the decades, not to mention an uncompromisingly eclectic record label, but he'll perhaps always have his biggest following in fans of Faith No More, the San Francisco hard-rock-and-then-some act he became the frontman for in the late '80 ... More >>

  • Music

    August 12, 2009

    Tanya Tagaq modernizes Inuit vocal traditions

    ​Mike Patton has sparked a million crazy music projects over the decades, not to mention an uncompromisingly eclectic record label, but he'll perhaps always have his biggest following in fans of Faith No More, the San Francisco hard-rock-and-then-some act he became the frontman for in the late '80 ... More >>

  • Music

    March 18, 2009

    Free-Jazz Punishment

    ​Mike Patton has sparked a million crazy music projects over the decades, not to mention an uncompromisingly eclectic record label, but he'll perhaps always have his biggest following in fans of Faith No More, the San Francisco hard-rock-and-then-some act he became the frontman for in the late '80 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2009

    Faith No More Reunites, Mike Patton Scores Hollywood Film

    The Real Thing: Mike Patton This just in: rocker Mike Patton--lead singer for Faith No More, Mr. Bungle and Fantomas, and founder of alt.whatever label Ipecac--has just completed his first major motion picture film score, for the imaginatively-titled "Crank 2: High Voltage." We're guessing it's not ... More >>

  • Music

    December 31, 2008

    Experiment in Terror

    The Real Thing: Mike Patton This just in: rocker Mike Patton--lead singer for Faith No More, Mr. Bungle and Fantomas, and founder of alt.whatever label Ipecac--has just completed his first major motion picture film score, for the imaginatively-titled "Crank 2: High Voltage." We're guessing it's not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2008

    Fantômas to Play New Year's Show at GAMH

    The Real Thing: Mike Patton This just in: rocker Mike Patton--lead singer for Faith No More, Mr. Bungle and Fantomas, and founder of alt.whatever label Ipecac--has just completed his first major motion picture film score, for the imaginatively-titled "Crank 2: High Voltage." We're guessing it's not ... More >>

  • Music

    July 2, 2008

    Subatomic Scratch

    The Real Thing: Mike Patton This just in: rocker Mike Patton--lead singer for Faith No More, Mr. Bungle and Fantomas, and founder of alt.whatever label Ipecac--has just completed his first major motion picture film score, for the imaginatively-titled "Crank 2: High Voltage." We're guessing it's not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2008

    Mike Patton, Dan the Automator Set to Turn Hip-Hop on its Head (Again) Next Week at GAMH

    The Real Thing: Mike Patton This just in: rocker Mike Patton--lead singer for Faith No More, Mr. Bungle and Fantomas, and founder of alt.whatever label Ipecac--has just completed his first major motion picture film score, for the imaginatively-titled "Crank 2: High Voltage." We're guessing it's not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2008

    Last Night: Atmosphere at the Grand

    The Real Thing: Mike Patton This just in: rocker Mike Patton--lead singer for Faith No More, Mr. Bungle and Fantomas, and founder of alt.whatever label Ipecac--has just completed his first major motion picture film score, for the imaginatively-titled "Crank 2: High Voltage." We're guessing it's not ... More >>

  • Music

    February 13, 2008

    Dub Trio

    Another Sound Is Dying(Ipecac)

  • Music

    January 23, 2008

    1015 Folsom edges toward the live rock market

    Another Sound Is Dying(Ipecac)

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2008

    Ipecac Records Toys Around with Their Bands

    Another Sound Is Dying(Ipecac)

  • Music

    April 18, 2007

    Another Marley makes his mark in the reggae business

    Another Sound Is Dying(Ipecac)

  • Music

    April 4, 2007

    Hesher's Pet

    Isis holds metal to smarty-pants standards

  • Music

    February 28, 2007

    Hella

    ThereÕs No 666 in Outer Space (Ipecac Records)

  • Music

    November 8, 2006

    Wolf Eyes

    Human Animal (Sub Pop)

  • Music

    July 19, 2006

    Oneida vs. Raconteurs: one big riff deserves another

    Human Animal (Sub Pop)

  • Home Entertainment

    July 5, 2006

    Bond in a Bikini

    Human Animal (Sub Pop)

  • Music

    December 14, 2005

    Ennio Morricone

    Crime and Dissonance

  • Music

    February 23, 2005

    Mike Patton / The X-ecutioners

    General Patton vs. The X-ecutioners

  • Music

    December 29, 2004

    Kaada & Patton

    Romances

  • Year End

    December 15, 2004

    Up From the Underworld

    This year, blood-soaked extreme metal took its rightful place in the world of heavy music.

  • Music

    May 26, 2004

    House of Tudor

    This year, blood-soaked extreme metal took its rightful place in the world of heavy music.

  • Music

    April 21, 2004

    Hard Gore

    The avant-garde all-stars of Fantômas push the bounds of music -- and good taste

  • Music

    April 30, 2003

    Hear This

    Tomahawk is perhaps the first great prog rock-punk band

  • Music

    January 1, 2003

    Hear This

    Ipecac Records' fourth annual New Year's Eve Binge and Purge Fest celebrates the label's almost perverse diversity

  • Music

    April 5, 2000

    Milk Cult

    Project M-13

  • Music

    December 29, 1999

    Hear This

    Goodbye Sober Day

  • Music

    July 7, 1999

    Hear This

    Goodbye Sober Day

  • Music

    February 24, 1999

    Riff Raff

    Goodbye Sober Day

  • Music

    August 19, 1998

    Riff Raff

    Goodbye Sober Day

  • Music

    December 17, 1997

    Hear This

    Goodbye Sober Day

  • Music

    January 15, 1997

    Hear This

    Goodbye Sober Day

  • Music

    August 7, 1996

    SF Weekly Picks

    Goodbye Sober Day

  • Calendar

    July 3, 1996

    Night+Day

    Goodbye Sober Day

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