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Australian lads Pivixki will join Mike Patton for an eclectic night of music at the Great American Music Hall, San Fran on the 18th of May.

Pivixki/Pateras has been on Mike’s radar for a while and is a band that he has professed to favour.

Ipecac have also just announced the support act for the evening. Billy Gould and Jared Blum will be debuting their band ‘The Talking Book’.

Show Info:

PIVIXKI/Patton
Great American Music Hall
Wed. May 18 doors 7pm/show 8pm
Tickets are $21 advance/door

Tickets are on sale via www.gamhtickets.com

It’s sad news indeed. Hopes of ever seeing this band live have been dashed!

According to Carla Kihlstedt via her recent newsletter, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum will be breaking up after their final tour:

“It is true, that the Sleepytime Gorilla Museum is indeed closing its doors for good.

Our final shows are in San Diego, Los Angeles and two shows in San Francisco (3pm & 8pm) next week:

4/7 – San Diego, CA – Casbah (21+) – Purchase Tickets
4/8 – Los Angeles, CA – Troubador (All Ages) – Purchase Tickets
4/10 – San Francisco, CA – The Independent (21+) – Purchase Tickets – Two shows with two different sets, 3pm and 8pm

If you are planning on coming, please come prepared to participate! Have a look at the following message from Sleepytime telling you how:

Dear Fans,

We want you to join us for our final shows. And we mean JOIN us, specifically in a racket of celebratory and funereal music making.

How it may include YOU:

SINGING: the melody to ‘Bring Back the Apocalypse’ (see the handy notation here).

PLUCKING: YOUR guitar in the precise manner indicated in this instructional video at the end of a new song that might be titled “Smear.”

CHIMING: Herald the coming apocalypse by bringing your favorite collection of small hand bells (we’re not kidding) or other such device to play us out. Under no circumstances are you allowed to bring a saxophone. ..

..-SGM ..”

She also mentioned Tin Hat (trio) have some up coming tour dates:

“Tin Hat will be performing a few West Coast shows in preparation for recording our next album: a collection of poems by E. E. Cummings that we’ve set to music. It’s a new direction for us, and stepping into this new territory has been really rewarding for the band!

5/12 – Mill Valley, CA – 142 Throckmorton Theatre – Purchase Tickets
5/13 – Berkeley, CA – Freight & Salvage – Purchase Tickets 5/14 – Santa Monica, CA – McCabe’s 5/19 – Portland, OR – Mission Theater

www.tinhat.org”

Stubb-Buddy Walkingdudette was one of the lucky ones who attended Zorn’s Masada Marathon last Wednesday in New York and she managed to grab a few pics during the madness. She had good seats. Check it.

BroadwayWorld have posted the lineup of John Zorn’s special Book of Angels Masada Marathon taking place at the David H. Koch Theater, NY, this Wednesday evening (30/03).

WalkingDudette has mentioned she received confirmation from them that Mike Patton will also be involved with the evening as part of the Electric Masada set.

The show will consist of two 90 minute sets with an intermission between.

The lineup:

MASADA MARATHON – THE BOOK OF ANGELS

Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 8:00 p.m.

Masada Quartet:
John Zorn, saxophone
Dave Douglas, trumpet
Greg Cohen, bass
Joey Baron, drums
Mark Feldman, violin and Sylvie Courvoisier, piano

Banquet of Spirits
Cyro Baptitsta, percussion
Brian Marsella, keyboard
Tim Keiper, drums
John Lee, bass
Jason Fraticelli, bass

Mycale
Basya Schechter, voice
Ayelet Gottlieb, voice
Malika Zarra, voice
Sofia Koutsovitis, voice

Medeski, Martin and Dunn
John Medeski, keyboards
Billy Martin, drums
Trevor Dunn, drums (bass?)

Bar Kokhba
Mark Feldman, violin
Erik Friedlander, cello
Marc Ribot, guitar
Greg Cohen, bass
Joey Baron, drums
Cyro Baptista, percussion

INTERMISSION

Secret Chiefs 3
Trey Spruance, guitars
Timb Harris, violin
Jai Young Kim, keyboards
Jason Schimmel, guitar
Trevor Dunn, bass
Ches Smith, drums
Erik Friedlander, solo cello

The Dreamers
Marc Ribot, guitar
Kenny Wollesen, vibes
Jamie Saft, keyboards
Trevor Dunn, bass
Joey Baron, drums
Cyro Baptista, percussion
Uri Caine, solo piano

Masada String Trio
Mark Feldman, violin
Erik Friedlander, cello
Greg Cohen, bass

Electric Masada
John Zorn, saxophone
Mike Patton, vocals
Marc Ribot, guitar
Jamie Saft, keyboards
Trevor Dunn, bass
Kenny Wollesen, vibes
Joey Baron, drums
Cyro Baptista, percussion
Ikue Mori, electronics

More info along with ticketing info here

photo credit: fixwhatusee

“This is what we do for a living, and we’re fortunate enough to have a job that we like. It could be a lot worse. A job playing music—hey, that’s what I wanted to do when I was a kid. I feel fortunate.”

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America’s Funny man and archenemy of Britney, Beiber and generic corporate twitter accounts, Neil Hamburger tweeted recently that he has “Wrapped up filming for an upcoming Fantomas project”.

Not sure what this would be, some form of film clip? If so, does this indicate there is completed Fantomas material? Who knows, but apparently there is #nofurtherinformationforthcoming.

Let the speculation begin!

Update: The speculation has begun. Is this for a Fantomas movie?

Update 2: No! Neil confirmed it’s something for the Fantômas New Year’s show DVD that’s currently work in progress (as mentioned by Greg Werckman in the recent American Noise interview).

Ipecac recently announced Mondo Cane will be playing a show in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The details:

Mondo Cane

September 17, 2011

Teatro Coliseo

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Tickets go on sale March 31 at Theater’s Box Office (without service charge) or Ticketek (www.ticketek.com.ar)

This announcement follows hot on the heels of the revelation of the Secret Chiefs 3, Umlaut, MadLove South American tour happening this August. Lots of quality about to happen in that part of the world!

photo credit: Rodrigo Quiñones

The Melvins will be releasing a new live album titled “Sugar Daddy Live” recorded at The Busta-Guts Club in Downey, California. The album is due out on May 31st.

Tracklist:
1. Nude with Boots
2. Dog Island
3. Dies Iraea
4. Civilized Worm
5. The Kicking Machine
6. Eye Flies
7. Tipping The Lion
8. Rat Faced Granny
9. The Hawk
10. You’ve Never Been Right
11. A History of Bad Men
12. Star Spangled Banner
13. Boris

They also have their Japanese Tour poster available from Secret Serpent:

According to Trevor Dunn’s gig calendar on his website, he is due to play with “Zorn’s Dreamers, Electric Masada, The Secret Chiefs 3, and Medeski Martin and Wood (subbing for Wood)” at Zorn fest, Lincoln Center NYC on March 30.

Not sure if this means he will be playing with SC3 or on the same bill as, but it’s great to see him due to play with Secret Chiefs again after all these years (and the semi-estrangement).

A little bit more info and full line up can be found here. If anyone has any more info please post in comments.

Thanks to APVrresto for the tip

UPDATE: And a better site with more info, NYCopera.com:

“Written in a flash of creativity during three months in late 2004, the 316 compositions in John Zorn’s Book of Angels contain some of his most lyrical and inspiring music. Performed by a wide variety of ensembles over the past seven years, the music has generated 17 CD recordings to date, with three more scheduled for release in 2011. This special marathon concert brings together 12 different groups of wildly divergent backgrounds – jazz, rock, classical, world music, jam band, a cappella vocals and more – for one spectacular evening of music from this prolific songbook.

Featuring: Marc Ribot, Uri Caine, Dave Douglas, John Medeski, Secret Chiefs 3, Greg Cohen, Joey Baron, Cyro Baptista, Kenny Wollesen, Jamie Saft, Erik Friedlander, Mark Feldman, Sylvie Courvoisier, Trevor Dunn, and many others.”

Mike Patton returns to the gaming arena with the voicing of Jackie Estacado’s “inner demon”, The Darkness in the games imminent follow up, aptly titled “The Darkness II”.

“It feels really good to be the bad guy, and The Darkness is as bad as it gets”

Check out the full article at gamespot.

Lusty is back at it again providing us ravenous fans with the latest news. This time it’s over at American Noise in the form of a lengthy chat she had with Greg Werckman, Mr Patton‘s partner and Ipecac Recordings frontman.

Among other things, Greg talks about the the state of the music industry, life in the digital age of music (from a small label’s perspective), upcoming Ipecac releases and some news on Mike Patton projects.

On digital music:

“digital is getting really close to matching CD sales. The bands that tour sell a lot of CDs. It’s really kind of funny because a lot of people say ‘Oh the CD is dead,’ but it’s not. When our bands play live, they sell a lot of CDs at the shows.”

On social media:

“I remember Shawn (Vezinaw), who runs our Los Angeles office saying, “I need Mike to take pictures when he’s on the road with his phone, they don’t need to be good, just anything so I can put them on Facebook.” And Mike and I both thought that was kind of goofy. But Mike started doing it. He’d take a picture of a meal he had and Sean would put it up there and there would be hundreds of responses to it. It’s seems odd but you got to do it.”

On The Melvins:

“I still think, as popular as The Melvins are, that they are just ridiculously overlooked. I don’t think there’s a better hard rock band going and that includes the huge bands that play arenas like Metallica or whatever. The Melvins are rock and roll.”

On Mike Patton’s current projects:

“He did the score for the Italian filmThe Solitude of Prime Numbers so we’re going to be putting out that soundtrack. A couple of shows he’s done over the years we’ve taped: there’s a Fantômas New Year’s show that we’re working on that’s going to be this really cool, really funny live DVD that we’ll be putting out.

He’s in the early stages of working on some new Tomahawk music and some new Fantômas music, more Mondo Cane—he’s literally working on six or seven records right now. He’s also got this project (that we’re not putting out) called Nevermen, that’s coming out on Lex Records. It’s with Tunde from TV on the Radio and Dose One from the Anticon world. It’s just going to be three vocalists. It’s just a weird, kind of cool record. He’s also signed up to reprise his role in the Darkness II video game.”

Check out the full interview at American Noise

It’s a day for reminiscing, here at stubbadub. A year ago today, Gronk and I were with a bunch of you good people at the Hordern Pavillion, Sydney, for Faith No More‘s first sidewave. But, after wallowing in many a bittersweet memory today, it’s time to look to the future, and so to the up-and-coming Secret Chiefs 3, MadLove and Umlaut tour of South America, rumoured to be set for August.

Recently Trevor Dunn spoke MadLove with theoffline.com. The interview, shown below, touches on Trevor’s brief  involvement with ex-Korn guitarist and born again christian, Head…no comment, his lack of involvement with Secret Chiefs 3 and the jazz influenced dynamics of the band he has crafted, MadLove .

Meanwhile, amid torrential rain and Melbourne floods, Umlaut took to the stage at the Evelyn, on February 4, and unleashed a few new tracks on the wet, happy crowd. Could these unreleased songs be a taste of the new album? We can only hope.  Below is one said track, titled Trutes, courtesy of Jean Lizza aka Mother Hubbard. Check out her youtube channel for more, including the epic number RIP Richard Dunn.

Stay tuned for more details on the South American tour, but first, here is a look back at the Secret Chiefs 3 lineup that toured Australia in 1998, back when music  programs in Australia were actually decent. Recovery…we miss you. Renunciation, featuring Trey Spruance, Danny Heifetz, Trevor Dunn and Bär McKinnon: