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June 2009

The Melvins USA Tour in August/September

According to Blabbermouth, The Melvins will be touring with the band Down (featuring that douchebag from Pantera) in August and September this year.  The article mentions “select U.S. markets” so I’m guessing it won’t be an extensive tour, probably just the larger cities.  Dates will be posted once I get them.

More Guitar Lessons with Buzz

King Buzzo from the Melvins has recorded another interview/guitar lesson with MetalKult.  As usual it’s a great interview, especially if you dig Buzz’s sense of humour.  He also dishes out advice on how to play Houdini tracks Honeybucket and Hooch. Rumour has it on the Melvins BBS that The Melvins could be touring with Down in the US later this year.

Isis European Tour Dates

Ipecac has announced a new batch of Isis tour dates including plenty of European ones: July 3, 2009 Roskilde, Denmark Roskilde Festival July 5, 2009 Cergy, France Furia Sound Festival July 6, 2009 Eindhoven, Netherlands Effenaar July 8, 2009 Bochum, Germany BHF Langendreer July 9, 2009 Stuttgart, Germany Wagenhallen July 10, 2009 Dresden, Germany Beatpol July 11, 2009 Munich, Germany Feierwerk July 12, 2009 Bern, Switzerland Dachstock July 13, 2009… Read More »Isis European Tour Dates

Lustmord discusses Tool, Melvins

isdfx from Toolarmy pointed me towards an interesting interview with Lustmord on All Things That Rock.  Here’s an excerpt: (Lustmord) Adam Jones is another good example of not so much the instruments he plays, but the person himself and the attitude and the aesthetic he brings to it. We had talked about him maybe not using a guitar because he makes great electronic music and really interesting experimental work outside… Read More »Lustmord discusses Tool, Melvins

Bad news for Minnesotans

According to a recent post on the 93XRocks website: We had been promised a Tool concert in August, but 93X has just learned that the band was not able to schedule in a date for St. Paul, as earlier planned. Band management tells 93X that: “The band had every intention of playing St.Paul but they just couldn’t get the routing to work for this very short two-week mini tour.” Bad… Read More »Bad news for Minnesotans

Tool Date in New Hampshire?

Jza10304 from Toolarmy posted today that a new Tool date in Manchester, New Hampshire is now showing up on Ticketmaster.  The gig will be at the Verizon Arena on the 2nd of August. Wait for official confirmation before getting too excited, but seems good to me!

New Tour Dates

Been away hiking through the Flinders Ranges the last couple of days, so have been a bit slack with the updates. In case any of you have missed it, there have been a couple of new dates confirmed on the upcoming Tool summer tour.  Toronto has been confirmed, and a new show in Cincinnatti has been added: AUGUST 5/09 – Toronto, ON – Molson Amphitheatre / ON-SALE 6/13 AUGUST 7/09… Read More »New Tour Dates

Offline by Matthew Santoro

Posted on Toolband/Army today is a quick article talking about a new Sci-Fi movie from Matthew Santoro called Offline. The movie, as well as looking pretty cool apparently takes some influence from Adam Jones: My goal was to make a dark and gritty sci-fi/horror based cybernetic dream experience type thing with a couple of good friends, a camera, some duct tape, and a computer. Pure Gorilla as they call it.… Read More »Offline by Matthew Santoro

Maynard James Keenan on Comedy

Leonard Pierce from the Milwaukee Decider has an interview with Maynard up today, this time discussing comedy, including his attempts at comedy, and some comments on the genre in general: D: Who’s the funniest non-comedian you’ve ever worked with? MJK: A guy who should have his own talk show, if you could just get—you know how it is, you have guys who once you aim a camera at them, all of… Read More »Maynard James Keenan on Comedy