Faith No More has inspired a tabletop role-playing game
You might remember a story from back in 2022 about a new role-playing game based on Faith No More. It was originally called The Real Thing after the band’s 1989 album. I quote
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The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: 18 bands who successfully changed lead singers
When someone in your band decides to leave, gets fired or, heaven forbid, dies, you have a problem. It’s an issue if any member leaves, but if we’re talking about your singer, that’s
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What does a professional vocal coach think of Mike Patton’s singing with Faith No More
Professional vocal coach Elizabeth Zharoff, otherwise known as the Charismatic Voice, has built an online reputation of reacting to and analyzing the vocal styles of various rock singers. Here she is looking at
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Random music news for Friday, July 22, 2022
A vodka pipeline? Resourceful. Same thing with music news for July 22, 2022. Faith No More’s Mike Patton is opening up about his mental health issues, specifically his agoraphobia. Eddie Vedder has throat
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 950: 18 bands who successfully changed lead singers
When someone in your band decides to leave, gets fired or, heaven forbid, dies, you have a problem. It’s an issue if any member leaves, but if we’re talking about your singer, that’s
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Musicians “Come Together” to support Ukraine
A new musical supergroup, Lifeline International, is releasing a new cover of a Beatles classic to help benefit UNICEF’s efforts in Ukraine. The efforts of COP International Records founder Christian Petke and producer
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This is cool: 19-year-old Courtney Love fronting Faith No More
It’s a well-known piece of Faith No More and Courtney Love lore that she was briefly the band’s lead singer for a short time in 1984. This, however, is new to me. The
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Random music news for Thursday, September 16, 2021
Maybe this is my problem. Anyone got some good bacteria? Moving to music news for September 16, 2021… There will be no more Faith No More and Mr. Bungle shows for a while
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Ongoing History Daily: Life after music
The music business is a dangerously fickle place, which means for the majority of performers, their luck runs out and they find themselves having to find a new non-musical career. Here are a
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Random music news for Monday, May 31, 2021
It’s Memorial Day in the US but music news never sleeps, you know? Here’s what’s happening for May 31, 2021. Kanye: Keepin’ it weird. Can it get any worse for Marilyn Manson? Yes.
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Here’s another quarantine track featuring some strange bedfellows
My all-time favourite Faith No More track is “We Care a Lot” from 1985 featuring original singer Chuck Mosley. It’s now been covered by a quarantined crew featuring members of Anthrax, Filter, Korn,
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