Mike Patton

The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 9/27/13

For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which we update daily.

Music Fall Picks 2013

Ed Schrader's Music Beat Are Experimental Rock Chameleons

Live and on record, Baltimore duo Ed Schrader's Music Beat--singer/floor Tom drummer Ed Schrader and bassist/singer Devlin Rice--come on strong, elemental, like a force of nature. On last year's album debut Jazz Mind (Load) and a smattering of splits and singles, a winning formula emerged: rudimenta ... More >>

Death-Metal Band The Faceless Draw Criticism for Becoming Less Death-Metal

By Jason Roche When music from Los Angeles metal group The Faceless' newest album, Autotheism, began to leak out into the blogosphere last summer, fans were divided, and so were critics. "A botched experiment of sorts," opined SputnikMusic.com; "razor sharp," countered ThePRP.com. The group's prev ... More >>

What's the Difference Between Tomahawk and Taylor Swift? Our Chat With Legendary Guitarist Duane Denison

Nearly six years after their last album, 2007's Anonymous, Tomahawk return this week with fourth offering Oddfellows: more phantasmagoric rock to weird you out and rev you up all at once. Tomahawk's cast of music luminaries--singer Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle), guitarist Duane Denison (Th ... More >>

Ten Big Deal Albums We're Hella Excited For

Hey: Albums! In case people still care about these things, here's a batch of potentially interesting releases arriving in the coming weeks and months:

The Melvins, Globe-Trotting Men of Metal

Destined to be in the Guinness book of world records, or die trying

Laurie Anderson (7) Takes On Norah Jones (10) As The First Round Of SOTC's March Madness Begins To Wrap Up

​The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—finishes up this week, with the Round of 32 scheduled to kick off Monday. (The schedule and results so far are he ... More >>

Five Cover Songs To Take You Into Your Weekend

Antony's heartwrenching take on "Crazy In Love" last night capped off a week where cover songs were seemingly dropping into my lap on a daily basis. Why not take time out of your schedule to enjoy them now?

Avoiding the Holiday's Most Cloying Carol

Hold the drumming, boy

Four Excellent New Christmas Songs That Are Guaranteed To Be Drummer Boy Challenge-Safe

This week in the Voice I discussed The Little Drummer Boy Challenge, a sort of Frogger pitting your ears against "Christmas creep." The rules are simple: If you haven't heard "The Little Drummer Boy" in any form—including Justin Bieber's recent, Busta Rhymes-assisted update of the song—s ... More >>

Live: Yoko Ono And Son Bust Out The Rolodex (Lou Reed! Patti Smith! Antony!) For Japan

Better Than: Getting harassed by Lou Reed's manager. There's many perfectly valid reasons to find Sean Lennon deeply dubious. The main knock on the guy is that he uses the obscene wealth and ridiculous connections to date models, to hang around in feathered fedoras, and to release solo albums per ... More >>

You Have One Day Left to Ensure That New York State Isn't Taken Over by Psychopaths

​In the evergreen words of world-renowned sociological scholar Mike Patton, WE CARE A LOT. As such, we wanted to remind you that if you have yet to register to vote, your voter registration must be postmarked by tomorrow, October 8th.

'Moving Sounds Festival Presents Fennesz'

Download A Free El-P Camu Tao EP, Forever Frozen In Television Time

​King of Hearts, the long-awaited posthumous solo debut from Def Jux rapper-producer Camu Tao (who died of cancer in 2008), is finally coming out August 17. To whet your appetite, the label's offering a free download of a 2005 EP called Forever Frozen in Television Time, credited to Central Se ... More >>

How One Williamsburg Bar Welcomed All Those Faith No More Fans: Hey "Nerds That Never Got Over High School"

​Mike Patton may've teased the sold-out crowd at Monday night's Faith No More show by calling us "hipsters," but the malnourished layabouts who normally sashay down Bedford Ave really weren't the show's demographic. The East River Park was far more populated by aggro jocks, khaki cargo shorts, ... More >>

Live: Faith No More Invade Williamsburg, Still Care A Lot

Faith No More East River State Park Friday, July 2 We are gathered here this evening with our backs to the sunset to watch a reunited Faith No More play the East River State Park, a former shipping dock in Williamsburg consisting of seven mostly un-shaded acres, part concrete slab, part lawn, par ... More >>

Interview: Brooklyn Noise Legend J.G. Thirlwell Talks Reviving Steriod Maximus's Ectopia for Celebrate Brooklyn

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Brooklynite J.G. Thirlwell is one of the unlikely highlights of this year's Celebrate Brooklyn series. The industrial living legend and genre-hopping nu-composition hero is lugging his manic 20-piec ... More >>

It's That Performa Time of Year Again

Brendan Fowler, grindin'​The third edition of the absurd festival of performance art and excess that is RoseLee Goldberg's Performa 09 is underway in New York. And as always, a bunch of musicians are moonlighting, including DNA's Arto Lindsay (his "SOMEWHERE I READ" Performa kick-off processio ... More >>

The Great Jazz-Drummer Takeover of 2009

Here are four percussive big shots not too shy to run the show

Live: Faust Bring Joyful Damage to the Music Hall of Williamsburg's WFMU Fest

Twitpic via Eardrumnyc​Faust WFMU Fest/Music Hall Of Williamsburg October 1 Dear American experimental underground, Faust has a message for you: You're no fun. Last night was a rollicking, all-smiles 90-minute set from a bunch of Germans who were making weird records when Mike Patton was sti ... More >>

THROAT OF MANY COLORS

See why Björk is crazy for Tanya Tagaq

Bjork and Timbaland: Together at Last

The Rage Against the Machine Reunion: Some Historical Perspective

White People Love Gnarls Barkley

Preview: OutKast's New Album Idlewild

Cookie Monsters of 'Rock'

TV on the Radio turn their frustrations into defiantly fascinating art

The Italian Maestro Outlasts Giallo Celluloid, Triumphs Over El Presidente

Letters

Castrato Beatbox Upstart Coughs Up Both Heat and Humidity

Sonic Refuges

Rock and roll could never hip hop like this and vice-versa et cetera, part 400something

Breath Fed

Mom conceives new uses for her lungs, mouth, and throat

Hip-Hop Hooray

Glitches With Attitude