British guitarist James Blackshaw's latest release is a seamless 74-minute piece stemmed from a commission for a live score for the 1914 silent movie Le Faux Magistrat. It's his most audacious attempt ...

The post Ipecac Recordings Celebrates 25th Anniversary with Fantômas Reissues appeared first on Consequence. Ipecac Recordings, the indie label co-founded by Greg Werckman and Mike Patton, is ...

Fantômas is the Lord of Terror, the Genius of Evil, the arch-criminal anti-hero of a series of 32 pre-WWI French thrillers written by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain. He carries out the most ...

Ipecac Recordings, the label founded by Greg Werckman and Mike Patton, celebrates its 25 th anniversary today, April 1. To celebrate, Ipecac has announced a series of special-edition vinyl releases ...

This week we venture into the outdoor produce market of contemporary music, there to compare apples and oranges: two collections of reinterpretations of classic and semi-classic film music, rooted in ...

Fantômas begins as many a good tale begins: with listeners crowding around a fire. In this case, guests of the venerable Marquise surround a retired magistrate who ...

Since Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre first introduced the character in 1911 in a series of novels, French pop culture has seen many iterations — some truer to the original than others — of ...

Mr. Bungle and Melvins have been on tour together this month, which means that all the members of the supergroup Fantômas -- Mike Patton, Trevor Dunn, and Dave Lombaro on the Mr. Bungle side, and Buzz ...

André Hunebelle/Gaumont In the late 1960s, Soviet people, still deprived of Hollywood blockbusters, adored the French action comedy films mocking the Bond saga. But some people took it to a whole ...