Mike Patton

The Five Strangest Artists You Never Knew Courtney Love Worked With

Fall Out Boy is set to save rock and roll, and they're bringing a few friends along with them. Apparently, saving rock and roll requires the combined efforts of prose auteur Pete Wentz, "Rocket Man" Elton John, and, of course, Courtney Love. What? Courtney Love? Yes. As the video announces, "it's C ... More >>

Five Rock Supergroups That Actually Worked

NOt long ago, we finally saw the release of the long-awaited album from Radiohead/Red Hot Chili Peppers supergroup Atoms for Peace and it got me thinking: supergroups are a tough trick to pull off. We all fantasize about our favorite musicians playing together, but when it actually comes to fruition ... More >>

Happy Birthday, Mike Patton: His 5 Greatest Albums

Sunday, Mike Patton turned 45 years old. Tomorrow, the fourth album by his long-running project Tomahawk, entitled Oddfellows, will be released. To say I've got a little bit of Patton fever is an understatement. Maybe some still only know him for Faith No More's rap-metal classic "Epic," which still ... More >>

Frank Zappa and Other Quicksand Artists

Tonight House of Blues will be graced by Zappa Plays Zappa, led by the late Papa Frank's oldest son Dweezil, who inherited some of his father's guitar skills. Zappa Plays Zappa is the preeminent traveling Zappa tribute show going, and Dweezil's love letter to his father's body of work, which has onl ... More >>

The 5 Best Shows In Houston This Week: October 29-November 1

Mike Watt & the Missingmen, Rivers Fitzgerald's, October 29 Mike Watt is like a human perpetual-motion machine, constantly in motion and usually on the road somewhere. He recently played ACL fest in Austin's Zilker Park with his "day job" of a few years now, bassist in Iggy & the Stooges, and is alr ... More >>

The 10 Most Rocking Songs In Children's Entertainment

Here's the thing about children's entertainment, it's designed to appeal not only to the lowest common denominator, but the toughest audience known to man. Don't believe me? Try playing your favorite song to a toddler, even something that is an acknowledged classic like the Pretenders' "I'll Stand ... More >>

They're Ba-a-ack!: The Six Best Coachella Reunion Performances

Over the weekend, we experienced one of the most exciting musical events of the year: The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. One of the main features of the festival is the reunion aspect. For most of Coachella's lifespan, it has featured at least one classic band back together for the first ti ... More >>

Which Metal Bands Should Reunite?: Revocation Tells Us

Tony Norkus/ www.facebook.com/Revocationn​The music industry has lit up with some pretty high-profile reunions in the past few months. At The Drive-In and Refused both announced comeback shows within days of one another, and even Black Sabbath decided to reconvene for a new album and a world t ... More >>

Fa La La La La: Favorite Records Rocks Off Got for Christmas

​No matter what year it is or how old you are, if you love music, there is nothing like finding some new music tucked under the tree or crammed into your stocking. iTunes gift cards are easy. So are gift cards to Tiffany's, but we bet your girl would be a lot more receptive to the blue box. Th ... More >>

Last Night: Dir En Grey at House of Blues

Photos by Marc Brubaker​One could be forgiven for not immediately recognizing that a dark, avant-guard metal band from Japan would hold tremendous appeal for the fairer sex. After all, Dir En Grey's precise, downtuned riffage sounds more ideally suited for misfit burnouts unaccustomed to a wo ... More >>

Dir En Grey

The Adolescents: Still Punk Rock Kids From The Black Hole

"We were little pricks, but bored out of our minds..." The Adolescents on the 2007 Warped Tour​For 30 years, seminal Orange County punk band the Adolescents has unleashed anthemic teen angst, since mutated into wise adult aggravation, in intermittent bursts. Sure, members come and go at revol ... More >>

Seeking Joy

Jill Scott returns to the studio after various screen projects and a son.

Musicians Do More In Bed Than Just... Sleep

​Today is the anniversary of one of the most unusual events in a most unusual decade. On May 26, 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono began their "Bed-In for Peace" at Montreal's Queen Elizabeth Hotel. It was the second of such boudoir-bound protests (or, if you prefer, media stunts); the couple folded ... More >>

Inquiring Minds: Henry Rollins Has A Lot To Say. Surprised?

​Since his debut in 1981 as Black Flag's fourth, last and best lead singer, Henry Rollins has been the emissary of intelligent hardcore punk rock and its accompanying ideals. Through his five-year history with the band, from the LPs Damaged to In My Head, he brought an animalistic, poetic spirit t ... More >>

Listology: Nava of The Last Place You Look's Favorite Vocalists

This weekend Thee Armada gets a proper send-off at the band's supposed final show ever at Warehouse Live Saturday night. Armada singer Josh Caddy is moving on to another band, and his bandmates are calling it a day. Some of Houston's best alt-rock bands are opening, including The Last Place You Loo ... More >>

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Mostly Metal: Isis vs. Mastodon

As you might read in the print edition of this week's Press, the experimental metal band Isis will be at the Meridian tonight. All of Isis' albums since 2002's Oceanic have explored similar territory: long, unhurried songs that blend doom-metal with the noodly, spacey guitar work characteristic of p ... More >>

Noise's Handy Holiday Local-Music Gift Guide

Buckethead

Guitar hero shreds the strings faster than you can say, “Is that a bucket on his head?”

Tonight: The Melvins and Big Business at Warehouse Live

The Wayback Machine: 15, 10, and five years ago in Houston music

Northern State, with American Princes

Our Favorite Albums of 2007

Panning for gold in an avalanche of 2007 releases

Team Sleep

By the End of Tonight

Instrumental rockers in need of a new drummer

Big Mac Boogie

Would You Like Fries with Those Lyrics?

Choosing Her Battles

Norah Jones

Norah Jones becomes her own person

Giant Squid

Concert preview

Dub Trio

Dub Trio performs Thursday, March 8, at Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, 713-225-5483.

Bond in a Bikini

Scott Faingold Listens to Everything

And comes up with a random smattering of tortured musings

Between the Cracks

Profiling local bands

Ennio Morricone

Crime and Dissonance

The Hanukkah Songs

Wherein we find the coining of our new favorite word: Jewpergroup

Breaking the Scene Barrier

Kid 606 prowls into town with Paws Across America

Fantômas

Suspended Animation

Take Me Out...

...to the ball game. Lauding baseball-in-rock's finest moments.

Up from the Underworld

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

Up from the Underworld

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

Page Turning

Helmet is back, with only its head intact

Björk

Medúlla (Elektra)

Surgical Strike

Mike Patton's Fantômas exits the OR with a visceral disc

Billy Talent

Tuesday, February 17

Rock No More

Mike Patton chops through traditional song forms with a mighty Tomahawk

Rap Avengers

Dälek may destroy hip-hop in order to save it from commercialism

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