Tool News

So I just did a phoner with Tool/A Perfect Circle/Puscifer dude Maynard James Keenan.

The band, which performed Tuesday at UCF Arena, hasn't released any new material for six years, yet still attracted a sell-out crowd at the Orlando show.

Maynard James Keenan was losing his patience with life in Los Angeles when a friend suggested that he look into an arty little hillside town in Arizona.

The last time Maynard James Keenan and Co. were in town - July of 2009 at Charlotte's Bojangles Coliseum - the Tool singer felt under-the-weather and the band shuffled through the same setlist they'd been playing for a couple of years.

"Telling Ghosts" , the new video from PUSCIFER , the eclectic music-meets-comedy troupe helmed by Maynard James Keenan , can be seen below.

Heavy metal music has been around so long now, it might not seem quite so threatening anymore.

FRIDAY Ani DiFranco Earnest and disarmingly humorous, singer-guitarist DiFranco is the epitome of the independent artist, building a loyal following through touring and releasing her work on her own label, Righteous Babe.

Tool took the dark elements of underground metal, placed them in an ambitious, artsy context and made it all accessible.

You guys know the drill by now. Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan and his buddies lost in the dusty expanses of Arizona, drunk on the wine sourced from his vineyard, making a hazy racket like David Lynch wrestling with a scorpion.

LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy makes "a lot of coffee." Just how much? Enough to develop a gourmet espresso brand.

Calling Tool the "thinking-person's metal band," to use that oft-cited quote, is frankly insulting to the sprawling world of metal, a vast genre with cave-like nooks and crannies.

Alternative metal band Tool may not make the headlines as often as, say, System of a Down or Metallica, but when the Los Angeles quartet makes any sort of announcement, both casual fans and devotees alike pay very close attention.

Miss Tool? So do we. Until they finally hit us with the long awaited follow-up to '10,000 Days,' we will have to make due by watching this fan-shot video of their recent performance in Reno, Nevada.

Miss Tool ? So do we. Until they finally hit us with the long awaited follow-up to '10,000 Days,' we will have to make due by watching this fan-shot video of their recent performance in Reno, Nevada.

Maynard James Keenan of the band Tool performs at Rexall Place in Edmonton, Alta., on July 7, 2010.

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PUSCIFER , the eclectic music-meets-comedy troupe helmed by Maynard James Keenan , will perform on the Thursday, February 16 episode of ABC-TV 's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" . PUSCIFER will return to the road on February 23 in support of its recently released album "Conditions Of My Parole" . The band's live performances are not to be missed.

Hitting a Tool show is a little like stepping back into the mid- to late-'90s, in all the best ways.

Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan leaned hard into his mic stand, strangling it in his grip, as if he were bracing himself in the face of some terrible force: an oncoming funnel cloud, an approaching typhoon, a charging yeti, perhaps.