According to Antiquiet, A Perfect Circle will be playing one show in the US this year (provided the world doesn’t end), and that’s at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas on the 29th of December. Tickets go on sale on the 15th of September, and VIP tickets can be purchased from here. Edit: Sorry, the date is actually the 29th!
We all know, Maynard is a man of many talents, and soon to be added to his repitoire is blogging. That’s right, Maynard will be penning a bi-weekly column for the Phoenix New Times. According to the description: In typical Maynard James Keenan fashion, the column will feature his freewheeling examinations on whatever he feels like writing about, including music, wine, and…well, you’ll see. The column will debut on the… Read More »Maynard takes up journalism
MWDWN have an good interview with King Buzzo in which he talks about The Melvins (doing lots of shit), Fantomas (not doing anything for now) and Tool: As for The Melvins’ one-time collaboration with Tool on The Crybaby, he’s optimistic that the two bands might rejoin to write more original material but confirms nothing has been planned. “Well you know, I would do whatever they wanted to. They’re busy doing… Read More »King Buzzo talks about The Melvins, Fantomas and working with Tool
Update: Carina has retracted this mornings tweet: JK. No Australia. Prankster me. and: Sorry guys. Bad Joke. So I guess it isn’t happening after all… Posted just minutes ago by Carina Round on Facebook: See you soon Australia with Puscifer The post was accompanied by a link to the Soundwave page. I’m unsure if this means Puscifer are on Soundwave, as has been heavily rumoured lately, or that they are… Read More »Carina says Puscifer are playing in Australia
I don’t normally plug books on this site, but Alex Grey‘s coming book Net of Being promises to shed some further light on his collaboration with Tool. According to the Amazon description: How Alex Grey’s visionary art is evolving the cultural body through icons of interconnectedness • Includes over 200 reproductions of Grey’s artwork • Contains spectacular photos of Grey’s collaboration with the cult band TOOL plus his worldwide live-painting… Read More »Alex Grey’s Net of Being
Perhaps not the new album update all of us are expecting, but Volto! recently fed us some details on their new release, hopefully out there in next couple of months. Over the weekend they posted: the new album’s vinyl master discs were just cut today @ Bernie Grundman Mastering Studios, so it’s coming down the home stretch…. soon friendsupreme, very soon! ♥ And the over night the back cover of… Read More »Volto! new album update
I did my usual Toolarmy visit this morning, and noticed Blair had posted an update, which alludes to some progress on the new Tool album (and tacos): I went over to the loft a couple of days ago to find Danny in great spirits about the week’s writing sessions. Things went so well, in fact, that Tool’s drummer funded a 12-pack of crunchy tacos from Taco Bell for Thursday’s band… Read More »New Album update (of sorts)
Bored this morning? Here’s a track I never got around to listening to before from the Underworld Soundtrack – Bring Me the Disco King by David Bowie, and is it covered by Maynard James Keenan, John Frusciante and apparently also features Josh Freese. For your listening pleasure: Personally, I think it’s a pretty unremarkable song and cover version. I’m not familiar with the original, and Maynard vocals are limited to… Read More »Maynard in Bring Me The Disco King cover
The August Tool 2012 Newsletter is up on Toolband and this month Blair talks about entymology and some kind of secret band meeting. Anyone care to speculate what the meeting was about? Recording? Live DVD? The Pot video?
There seems to be a lot of speculation about whether or not Puscifer could be playing on Soundwave 2013 as well as A Perfect Circle. Many of the APC announcement tweets also seem to include Carina Round and other Puscifer members, which have lead some to believe there may be more to this tour than we think. And Maynard mentioned on a interview with Triple J this afternoon that he… Read More »Could Puscifer be playing Soundwave as well?