"Listening is one of the hardest things for a musician to do. ‘Cause once you’ve achieved some things, you think you know it all. But you don’t know shit. So keeping your ears open and your mind open is the most important thing. Listen to others and then you’ll get better" - Mike Patton said in a Forbes interview, talking about the newest Tomahawk record. He also named a few artists he saw reinventing himself through their career: "I will say Tom Waits for sure has been one of those guys that jumps off always. And he catches another one. Nick Cave, another guy. I mean the guy can barely even sing. But he’s making amazing music and really, it’s compelling. And it’s orchestrated in a great way. I should say Bjork, too. Bjork really did that. I saw her grow up as a kid and then become whatever the hell she is now". Invisible Oranges recently made a Patton profile, going into his numerous projects.

"In a nutshell, I feel the fact that most people live their lives half inside a screen, probably made by a slave, is a very weird thing. I feel the fact that most people have so willingly forfeited control over most of their lives to bunch of self-interested Californian billionaires is a completely insane" - Australian musician Anthony Pateras told the Quietus in an interesting interview about the theme of the latest album by tētēma, his collaborative project with Mike Patton. He elaborates further on: "I feel the cost of social media is not free; it takes a massive toll on the mental health of everyone who uses it, in turn making them not only anxious and depressed, but extremely distracted and self-absorbed. I feel this has resulted in otherwise intelligent human beings doing and saying stupid and cruel shit to each other like always, but just a lot faster and in public. Lastly, when I’ve been very outspoken about this at various points, I've received looks of bewilderment in return, because people say it helps them remain ‘connected’. People were connected before corporations sold our friendships back to us!".

"Mike Patton and Jean-Claude Vannier have made an album enjoying a long distance bromance... They seem to have come from across the decades, and from different musical cultures and milieu", the Quietus says about 'Corpse Flower', collaborative album by Faith No More's Mike Patton and French composer Jean-Claude Vannier. But, stil, it's "a production of […]

'Chansons D'Amour' sounds like some Faith No More ballad, with Patton singing in a Leonard Cohen-esque voice, all with a French vibe. It's coming out on Patton and Vannier's debut album 'Corpse Flower', out in September.

Mike Patton of Faith No More, Tomahawk, Fantomas and Dead Cross has announced a new album with Jean-Claude Vannier, the French composer and producer best known for his work on Serge Gainsbourg’s 'Histoire de Melody Nelson', the Quietus. The duo will release its debut collaboration 'Corpse Flower' on September 13 via Ipecac. “I would send […]