According to a recent post by Blair on Toolband: Fans of the band will notice some TOOL music in the soon to be released trailer for "Captain America." Further research by Moose revealed that the track will be 46 & 2, though as far as I can see the trailer hasn’t been released yet. Does this mean the song will appear on the official soundtrack? Have Tool sold out? Movie… Read More »Captain Tool
Update: I just read on Facebook this is no longer happening! Will be rescheduled for July if possible. Radio show will still be going ahead without him I presume! Just a gentle reminder that Justin will be the special guest on Rynne’s Children of Saturn radio show today, due to start in about 90 minutes. Who knows what will happen! More details can be found here.
A bunch of small non-Tool updates for you all this morning. Firstly Blair advised us via Toolband that Tool tour mates Rajas will be playing a handful of shows in June: June 15th – Portland @ Rotture June 16th – Seattle @ The Comet June 18th – Vancouver B.C. @ Funky Winkerbeans June 23rd – Calgary, Sled Island Fest @ Royal Canadian Legion #1 June 24th – Edmonton @ The… Read More »Rajas, Puscifer, Yow, Saturn
June has come quickly this year, and with it comes the next Tool newsletter. Get your decoder rings and/or Taco Bell discount vouchers out! Blair fields a few questions I’m sure some of you will find interesting, including an update of sorts on the status of the Tool website: Q: “Hey Blair, how are you? As you mentioned you keep getting mostly ‘when the f**k is the new album going… Read More »June Tool Newsletter
Maynard’s not the type to sit idle, and recently as well as working in vineyards, rehearsing with A Perfect Circle and writing with Tool, he’s been working on some new Puscifer material. According to a recent tweet it would appear that this work is no complete and a release “window†set: Finishin up new puscifer tracks. mixin this month w hopes of an Oct release. It’s sounding pretty tasty. Fairly… Read More »Puscifer Update
Children of Saturn is a radio show run by Rynne (Danny’s girlfriend) every Monday night (US time) or Tuesday morning (11am AEST) and features a range of special guests and cool tunes. This weeks show, which starts in a couple of hours features Evil Joe Barresi, who you may recall worked with Tool on 10,000 Days. While I have no idea what he’s going to talk about tonight, there’s a… Read More »Evil Joe on Children of Saturn tonight!
Blair has released the May 2011 Tool Newsletter on Toolband this morning in which he discusses the Rapture, and then makes a prediction of his own regarding the release of the next Tool album…
Josh Freese made several tweets today suggesting that he won’t be playing on the upcoming A Perfect Circle tour (though he did play at the recent festival show): Sad 2 report that 4 the 1st time ever Im having 2 sit out a tour with @aperfectcircle. I’ll explain more in next day on my site (if ya care) m not stopping playing with them though. All is well. We had… Read More »Josh Freese to miss A Perfect Circle tour?
Just got an email from the A Perfect Circle mailing list which confirms a further three shows during August for the upcoming tour: August 1, Salt Lake City, UT – Kingsbury Hall August 8, Cincinnati, OH – PNC Pavilion August 10, Wallingford, CT – Oakdale Theatre Great news especially for those in Utah that have been waiting with baited breath for that show to be confirmed! Tickets go on sale… Read More »New A Perfect Circle shows in Utah, Ohio and Connecticut
In all the carry on surrounding Danny’s 50th, we forgot to celebrate another significant milestone – 10 years of Lateralus (thanks to hodge for the reminder). For many of us this is our favorite Tool album (it is for me) and to celebrate I ask you all to post your thoughts on this excellent album in the comments below. For me I remember the first time I heard Schism when… Read More »10 Years of Lateralus