Skip to content

A Perfect Circle

Maynard chats with Lars and other Eat the Elephant related interviews

Plenty of Maynard James Keenan in the press at the moment, the most interesting of which are a chat with Lars Ulrich from Metallica, and a piece for The Australian. Firstly, Maynard speaks in a video interview with Lars Ulrich.  It’s a reasonable broad interview, touching on A Perfect Circle, as well as it’s relationship with the other bands in Maynard’s arsenal: Also out in the last week, Andrew McMillen… Read More »Maynard chats with Lars and other Eat the Elephant related interviews

Maynard speaks as Eat the Elephant publicity train ramps up

In case you’d forgotten, the new A Perfect Circle album Eat The Elephant comes on April 20, and as we’d expect both Billy and Maynard are featuring quite heavily in various forms of media at the moment as the promote it.  Two of the better articles I’ve come across recently are below. The first is an interview with Revolver magazine, in which Maynard speaks at length about the writing and… Read More »Maynard speaks as Eat the Elephant publicity train ramps up

A Perfect Circle release Disillusioned video and announce James Iha replacement

In amongst all the Tool news (as well as me being away) I never got around to posting about the new A Perfect Circle video for their track Disillusioned.  The video follows a similar theme to the lyrics, and serves as an observation of societies obsession with electronic devices. The band has also announced that James Iha will be sitting out the next tour due to commitments with the newly… Read More »A Perfect Circle release Disillusioned video and announce James Iha replacement

A Perfect Circle to play Coachella 2018

The lineup for Coachella 2018 was announced today, and included on the diverse lineup is A Perfect Circle.  They join the Sunday list, which also includes Portugal The Man, ODESZA, Kasmai Washington, Vance Joy and some white rapper best not mentioned. Coachella takes place over two weekends in April.

A Perfect Circle release Disillusioned

A Perfect Circle have released another track from their yet unnamed new album, this one called Disillusioned. Take a listen and let me know what you think in the comments below.  I’m expecting the reaction will be as mixed as those to The Last Jedi… Should you feel the need to purchase this track on vinyl (with The Doomed) then you can pre-order it here.  

Tool to headline Rock on the Range 2018

Tool have been announced as one of the headline acts of the Rock On The Range festival, held in May 18-20 in Columbus, OH.  The join such luminaries as Avenged Sevenfold, Godsmack and Breaking Benjamin.  If that’s not enough to get your juices flowing, also on the lineup are much better (but lesser know acts) Quicksand, Baroness, Code Orange and Power Trip. Oh, and A Perfect Circle are also playing,… Read More »Tool to headline Rock on the Range 2018

Weekly Update 21-Nov-2017

Long time no news!  Updating weekly appears to be a weak point of mine, but here’s the latest and greatest.  Highlights include: Justin’s Goblin Master bit at Primus shows Daily Grail discuss the importance of Occult Rock A Perfect Circle release video for The Doomed Tool Newsletters: Still a thing! Albums of the last few weeks: Godflesh, Converge, Polaris, Merchant Oh and in case you missed it, Adam said Tool… Read More »Weekly Update 21-Nov-2017

A Perfect Circle announce UK dates

A Perfect Circle have announced a couple of shows in the UK – one in Manchester on the 12th of June, and another in London on the 13th.  i think it’d be a safe assumption that we’ll see more European dates, I expect some of which will be festivals.  Here’s the poster: Speaking of festivals – word is the Download Festival is coming to Australia in March next year.  Given… Read More »A Perfect Circle announce UK dates

Billy talks about the coming Perfect Circle album

In a new interview Billy Howerdel from A Perfect Circle talks about progress on their next album.  For those who want the tl;dr version: writing is pretty much done, and they are using Dave Sardy to produce it: How is that process affecting work on the new recording? It’s great to be able to sit back and have someone at the helm driving the computer. It frees me up to… Read More »Billy talks about the coming Perfect Circle album