Faith No More‘s Mike Patton and master turntablist DJ QBert staged their first-ever collaboration this weekend in San Francisco, where the duo performed a pair of impromptu concerts at the city’s The Chapel venue. More
Chuck Mosley, former frontman of several bands including Faith No More and Bad Brains, died on November 9. According to a statement from his family, he died from addiction-related causes after a long period of sobriety. He was 57 years old. Mosley became frontman of Faith No More in 1984 and recorded two albums with the band, including their 1985 record We Care a Lot and 1987’s Introduce Yourself. He was fired from the group in 1988… More
Faith No More‘s keyboardist Roddy Bottum composed a mini-opera called The Ride, for the Experiments in Opera (EiO) “Story Binge” series, which premieres December 15th at New York City’s Merkin Concert Hall. The opera is about two gay men from different generations who bicycle from San Francisco to Los Angeles for an AIDS charity.
“The older generation of gay men who dealt with AIDS as a life threatening disease and were in the trenches for the first generation of the disease helped their friends get through life or death situations,” Bottum told EiO. “The generation of gay men today who are on PrEP drugs and TRUVADA don’t really view the disease as life…