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A California appeals court heard arguments Tuesday in a case pitting genre-bending rock band Faith No More against its former lead singer, after a California record label swooped in to claim rights to ...

Faith No More keyboardist Roddy Bottum has reveled online that the band is “kind of on semi permanent hiatus.” The musician, who’s been in the band since 1981, wrote a post on his Substack ...

The same year MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice and Warrant were sitting pretty atop the pop charts, a little-known band from San Francisco called Faith No More stormed MTV and turned the music world upside ...

As the world nears a decade since Faith No More’s last large-scale live show, founding member Billy Gould has admitted that he’s as unclear about the band’s future as anyone. Gould ...

It also struck me as a dick move, since the band didn’t let Bowen onstage to play his own song. But that’s the story of Faith No More: They care a lot, but they need to take the piss out of ...

Keyboardist Roddy Bottum said the band was operating on a “semi-permanent basis” in October. Faith No More started in 1979 and performed under the name Sharp Young Men until 1983. They ...

And then, remember how Faith No More never really returned, even though Mr. Bungle kind of did? Well, the band’s keyboardist Roddy Bottom finally addressed some of the hubbub by saying how the band is ...

Faith No More looks to be done as a band for the foreseeable future, as drummer Mike Bordin believes. Despite the band reuniting with lead singer Mike Patton in 2009, they have not played together ...

but Faith No More's cancelled tours were never rescheduled, and the quintet's current status is unclear, even to bassist Bill Gould, who formed the band with his best friend Bottum in 1979 ...