Mr. Bungle performs at Fox Theater in Oakland on May 23, 2023. Nate McKinley/STAFF. OAKLAND — Mike Patton’s eclectic musical tastes were on full display Tuesday night at the Fox. The Mr. Bungle (and Faith No More) frontman kicked off a 90-minute set of relentlessly chugging thrash metal with…

Recipes are tricky things. A pinch too much of one ingredient and you’ve gone from flavor town to gak-ville in the blink of a taste bud. Even when the individual ingredients are delicious, sometimes the combination of flavors only appeals to a very specific palate. Tonic Immobility, the fifth…

The Nels Cline Singers, “Share The Wealth.” Guitar shredders are a dime a dozen. A quick perusal of Instagram reveals a seemingly endless string of bedroom guitarists who can unleash a firehose spray of pentatonic scales that sound like angry hornets. But a guitarist who lends his fretboard talents…