{"id":3258,"date":"2025-06-30T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/fishbone-still-have-a-bone-to-pick\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T15:00:00","slug":"fishbone-still-have-a-bone-to-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/fishbone-still-have-a-bone-to-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishbone Still Have a Bone to Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The initial single from Stockholm Syndrome <\/em>(June 27), Fishbone\u2019s first new album in nearly two decades, arrived shortly before last year\u2019s presidential election. The bluntly titled \u201cRacist Piece of Shit\u201d pulls no punches regarding the ska-funk-metal pioneers\u2019 feelings toward our current president and his supporters, even if musically, it\u2019s a relatively unambitious (though scorching) tune. Eight months and a lot of bad news later, Fishbone\u2019s still fuming, but they\u2019ve worked hard to channel that fury into heavy, complex, and deeply idiosyncratic music that can stand up to their best material from the late 1980s and early \u201990s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The band began as a bunch of junior high misfits in South Central L.A. nearly 50 years ago, releasing their debut album, In Your Face,<\/em> in 1986. After hitting their commercial peak in the early \u201990s with two stints on the Lollapalooza tour and the metal-forward album Give a Monkey a Brain and He\u2019ll Swear He\u2019s the Center of the Universe<\/em>, they went through a tumultuous series of breakups, reunions, diss tracks, and stylistic evolutions, while never quite reaching the massive popularity of their peers in the scene: Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane\u2019s Addiction. Only singer Angelo Moore and keyboardist-trombonist Christopher Dowd remain of the band\u2019s founding lineup, and Stockholm Syndrome<\/em> (released June 26) marks the first of the band\u2019s eight albums to not feature bassist Norwood Fisher (Tracey \u201cSpacey T\u201d Singleton re-joined the band in 2024 after more than two decades away). Despite the changes, Fishbone sounds as extravagant and eclectic as ever, still envisioning punk and metal as Black music by incorporating the syncopations and harmonies of ska, funk, doo-wop, soul, and early R&B.<\/p>\n

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