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Maynard James Keenan

Articles related to Maynard James Keenan, singer of the bands Tool, A Perfect Circle and Puscifer.

Gear Stories With Sylvia Massy

I stumbled across an article on Mix today by Sylvia Massy (producer of Undertow) in which she talks about the challenges associated with recording Maynard’s voice on the album.  Well worth reading, especially for tech heads: Tool’s Undertow album is filled with blood-vessel-popping screams, like on the song “Crawl Away.” I had heard them in rehearsals, I heard them onstage. But in the studio, Maynard’s screams were lackluster, even with… Read More »Gear Stories With Sylvia Massy

Goodbye 2009, Hello 2010!

It’s that time of the year again, where I bore you with the highlights of 2009, based on my shitty taste in things in general!  Disagree with me?  Did I miss something I really shouldn’t have?  Let me know!  Eventually we’ll have a survey so that we can all vote on this kind of stuff. Music The year was probably a reasonably quiet year for music I thought.  According to… Read More »Goodbye 2009, Hello 2010!

Blood Into Wine Trailer & Premiere

A new Blood Into Wine trailer was released last week when I was away and I never quite got around to sharing it with you guys: Well worth checking out if you haven’t yet done so, as it seems like this may quite an interesting movie. The movie itself will premiere at the W Hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona on the 19th of February 2010.  Head over to the Blood Into… Read More »Blood Into Wine Trailer & Premiere

Puscifer Spring Dates Posted

Maynard has released dates for the Spring Puscifer tour, and as promised include US East Coast dates, and also includes a Canadian date in Toronto: Mar 2nd, 3rd Atlanta, GA CW Center Stage Mar 5th, 6th Washington DC, Lincoln Theater Mar 8th, 9th Philadelphia, PA Theater of the Living Arts Mar 11th New York, NY Grand Ballroom Mar 12th New York, NY TBA Mar 13th New York, NY Apollo Theater… Read More »Puscifer Spring Dates Posted

Caduceus Wins Awards

According to a couple of tweets on the caduceuscellars account, a few of their wines have picked up some awards: 2007 Primer Paso: Critics Choice & Consumers Choice Awards from Arizona Wine Growers Association 2007 Primer Paso: Peoples Choice Award (award by whom we don’t know!) Congratulations to Maynard, Eric and the whole Caduceus/Merkin team on their effort. Now how about getting some of that wine Down Under? Interested in… Read More »Caduceus Wins Awards

More Wine Signings and Blood & Wine Release Date

Maynard will do some further Wine Signings this December is SW USA according to Blabbermouth: Dec. 06 – 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. – Tucson, AZ (3360 E. Speedway Blvd.) Dec. 08 – 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. – Santa Barbara, CA (3761 State St.) Dec. 09 – 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. – Las Vegas, NV (6689 Las Vegas Blvd.) I imagine more details, and possibly more dates will come later. In… Read More »More Wine Signings and Blood & Wine Release Date

Puscifer EP Released

Puscifer’s new EP "C" is for (Please Insert Sophomoric Genitalia Reference HERE) is now available for download from iTunes and Amazon.  According to a recent post on Toolband it’s digital only for now, but may come out on vinyl someday.  Also out is the previously released D is for Dubby featuring Lustmord remixes if V is for Vagina. Have you had a chance to listen yet?  If so, feel free… Read More »Puscifer EP Released

More Puscifer Reviews

Maynard seems to be tweeting every decent Puscifer review at the moment, including this good one of the show in Oakland from Spinning Platters. I also have a review from Fourtheye reader Lt. Aldo Raine.  Not sure which army he’s a member of, but he seems to like his drugs & alcohol: When I went to Oakland last night I was there to do one thing and one thing only.… Read More »More Puscifer Reviews