Billy Gould (@mrgould) started using it to communicate about the Faith No More reunion.  Then Roddy Bottom (@roddybottom) joined.  Even Chuck Mosley (@chuckmosley) has an account now.  With the launch of the new website, Ipecac Recordings (@ipecacrec) is now on Twitter as well.

I often come across things of interest, but don’t get around to posting them until it’s old news or I’ve forgotten about them entirely.  So, with the recent popularity of Twitter, I realized that I can send out tweets much more frequently and more timely than I can update this site.  So for fresh content, follow @CacaVolante on Twitter.

Faith No More:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Faith-No-More/16942753414

Mr. Bungle:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mr-Bungle/16313132508

Mike Patton:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mike-Patton/7538616102

Ipecac Recordings:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ipecac-Recordings/5982142689

Fantômas:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fantomas/25005565812

Secret Chiefs 3:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Secret-Chiefs-3/38180335014

Dieselhed:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dieselhed/17435773262

Dengue Fever:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dengue-Fever/25531843272

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sleepytime-Gorilla-Museum/31670987384

They have four dates together before splitting up for a few solo gigs. Patton’s headlining shows are all with Italy’s Zu, and Fennesz’s are mostly festival dates. Patton fans in Brussels should note that a scheduled gig at VK for March 5 has been cancelled. But the question remains: When are these two gonna show North America some love?

Patton has also been collaborating with Dan the Automator under the name Crudo. The pair will perform at the 2008 Sasquatch! festival, running May 24-26.

Patton & Fennesz:

02-27 Oslo, Norway – Rockefeller
02-28 Sofia, Bulgaria – Universiada Hall
02-29 Warsaw, Poland – Proxima
03-01 Zaandam, Netherlands – De Kade

Patton:

03-02 Geneva, Switzerland – Usine *
03-03 Rome, Italy – Circolo Degli Artisti *
03-04 Turin, Italy – Ossigeno *
03-05 Brussels, Belgium – VK
03-06 Utrecht, Netherlands – Tivoli *
03-07 Verona, Italy – Interzona *
05-24-26 George, WA – The Gorge (Sasquatch!) #

* with Zu
# performing with Dan the Automator as Crudo

Source: Pitchfork

Editor’s Note: This was an old submission I failed to approve.  I realize these dates have all passed. Please accept my apologies while I play catch up.

The trailer for Perfect Place, and you can hear some of Mike’s Soundtrack.
http://www.movieweb.com/dvd/news/36/26336.php

This brings up an issue I see a lot. People post cool things they’ve found in the comments of completely unrelated articles. So unless you read through all the comments, you miss most of the “new” news that I haven’t either heard about or just not got around to posting.

I converted CV from a custom built web app to a standard blog to encourage a community so people could write their own stories and submit them. However, I can’t just leave it open for anyone to publish unmoderated due to the obvious spam that would soon take over the blog. Plus, honestly I just don’t have time anymore to check every submission, especially when WordPress doesn’t even notify me when I something to moderate. So I have been struggling with what to do with CV lately. Should I just kill it? Do people even really care anymore? The bands that CV was supposed to be about are long dead anyway.

But I was fortunate to grab a short domain name, so unless I get offered an ungodly amount of money, I have no plans of getting rid of it, so what to do with the cv.org web space? I could create a site for my canned vegetable collection, but that doesn’t seem all that interesting either.

The other day I had an idea. What about a setup like Digg? Allow people to post whatever they want, completely unmoderated, and then people vote on the stories to promote them or bury them if they are inaccurate or just plain crap. Plus, it would allow people to easily link to and promote their own sites. It would be take the burden off me and allow the CV community to control what they find cool and interesting. I think that would solve a lot of the problems and once again give CV a purpose. I’ve always wanted CV to be a community driven site and I think this may be the best solution.

So I think that’s what I’m going to do. In a few days, I will take this blog down (and archive it somewhere) and replace it with a community publishing system. Let’s see how that works. If it bombs, I can always fall back to my canned vegetables idea.

Update: I’ve decided against the community voting route. This site just doesn’t have enough traffic for that to really work. So I’m going to keep the blog going. I found some old stuff I thought was long deleted that used to be hosted here, so maybe I’ll get some of that back up here before long.

The trailer is located here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_67s1LNU_c

Ipecac Recording is no longer hosted on my server and will not be affected by this move.

No new releases bowed in the top 100 slots of the Billboard 200. The closest contenders include Mike Patton’s new project, Peeping Tom, entering with its self-titled Ipecac debut (No. 103, 10,000) and Les Claypool’s third solo studio album, “Of Whales and Woe” (Prawn Song), with 8,000 at No. 115 (his best chart position yet).

–Billboard Magazine

This is quite a bit better than the last Fantômas album, which sold a little under 6,500 units in its first week for a #158 debut.

On the other side of the planet, Peeping Tom debuted at #12 on the Australian Music charts. I don’t have the exact number of units sold in Australia, but a #12 debut ain’t bad.

In related news, the new Faith No More “You Fat Bastards/Who Cares A Lot?” DVD combo. sold a little under 1,500 units in the U.S. during its first week.

Submitted By: Mr. T (U.S. Charts), Allan Sheard (Billboard Article), & Cory Morton (Australian Charts)

Also, as a hidden benefit of Ipecac Recording using Google Groups for their announcement lists, you can now subscribe to Atom feeds for the lists. There is a feed for the news updates and a feed for the calendar updates.