Reuters - Nov 9, 2007
The most recent video from hard rocker Maynard James Keenan finds him onstage in an Oak Ridge Boys outfit and fairly alarming hairpiece, singing a twangy number about sleeping with what is more or less...
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With Tool entrenched on the road in support of its latest effort 10,000 Days, guitarist Adam Jones says the alt-metal act is tossing around ideas for a band movie. It has to be a collective thing as...
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Tool, 10,000 Days (Volcano) The idea that you can challenge the listener may have been lost on a majority of the recording industry, but it s one the members of Tool seem to hold sacred crafting...
More »USRN - Jun 22, 2003
(6/22/03, 7 a.m. ET) -- The mother of Tool and A Perfect Circle vocalist Maynard James Keenan died on Wednesday (June 18). Both bands official websites, toolband.com and aperfectcircle.com, show a picture...
More »USRN - Jul 9, 2002
(7/9/02, 7 a.m. ET) - Tool is busy preparing for its tour, which kicks off July 11 in Bakersfield, California. Maynard Keenan and crew are holed up in the San Fernando Valley working on production and...
More »USRN - Feb 27, 2002
(2/27/02, 8 p.m. ET) -- In a surprise win during the pre-telecast awards at Wednesday s 44th Annual Grammys, Coldplay s Parachutes took home the Grammy for best alternative music album, besting Radiohead...
More »USRN - Oct 2, 2001
(10/2/01, 4 p.m. ET) -- Tool played to a sold-out Madison Square Garden on Monday (October 1), the first of the band s two shows at the venue. In light of the recent terrorist attacks in New York and...
More »USRN - Jul 23, 2001
(7/23/01, 4 p.m. ET) -- Fans wishing to catch the bill of Tool and King Crimson have only two opportunities left to buy tickets: August 8 in Portland, Oregon, and August 15 in San Diego. Shows in Denver...
More »USRN - Jun 26, 2001
(6/26/01, 3 p.m. ET) -- Tool has set its August dates with King Crimson starting August 3 at the Red Rocks Amphitheater just outside of Denver. The nine-date tour with the prog-rock legends will run through...
More »USRN - May 31, 2001
(5/31/01, 12 p.m. ET) -- Tool is in the final stages of planning an August tour with prog rock veterans King Crimson. The bands will play seven or eight West Coast dates together. Tool is stoked about...
More »USRN - May 29, 2001
(5/29/01, 5 p.m. ET) -- Tool s chart-topping Lateralus materialized after vocalist Maynard James Keenan returned to the band, following a reinvigorating experience in his other group, A Perfect Circle...
More »USRN - May 25, 2001
(5/25/01, 1 p.m. ET) -- Tool is making a special appearance at the U.K. installment of OzzFest, featuring Black Sabbath as the headliners. Other bands on the bill for Saturday s (May 26) date at the Milton...
More »USRN - May 24, 2001
(5/24/01, 12 p.m. ET) -- On the heels of the release of the chart-topping Lateralus, Tool kicks off its European tour tonight (May 24) in Tilburg, Netherlands, and the band will be overseas through June...
More »USRN - May 23, 2001
(5/23/01, 4 p.m. ET) -- Five albums debut in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 this week, with Tool s Lateralus arriving at Number One on sales of more than half a million copies in its first week of release...
More »USRN - May 23, 2001
(5/23/01, 7 a.m. ET) -- Tool will debut in the top spot of the Billboard 200 album chart with Lateralus. The album sold more than 550,000 copies in its first week, according to the band s label. It marks...
More »USRN - May 21, 2001
(5/21/01, 6 p.m. ET) -- Tool took the stage at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City and played two 50-minute sets on Sunday (May 20), just 17 hours after the venue cleaned up the scattered Ring Dings...
More »USRN - May 2, 2001
(5/2/01, 7 a.m. ET) -- Tool will hit the road with veteran prog-rockers King Crimson in August, according to Tool s website and a spokesperson for the group. Tool is reportedly planning to play seven...
More »USRN - Apr 19, 2001
(4/19/01, 12 p.m. ET) -- The notoriously press-shy Tool took time to answer fans questions about its May 15 release Lateralus in a webcast on Tuesday (April 17). One of the 38 questions posed to the...
More »USRN - Apr 16, 2001
(4/16/01, 12 p.m. ET) -- Tool has added a May 15 show taking place at the Tabernacle in Atlanta, the same day as the release of the forthcoming album Lateralus. The band will then follow that date with...
More »USRN - Mar 30, 2001
(3/30/01, 10 a.m. ET) -- Tool s new album Lateralus, slated for a May 15 release, just may be the band s most adventurous and progressive to date. The first single from the album will be Schism, which...
More »USRN - Mar 22, 2001
(3/22/01, 9 p.m. ET) -- Beck, Tool, Bob Dylan, and the revamped Guns N Roses are among the acts scheduled for the Roskilde Festival, taking place in the Danish town of the same name from June 28-July...
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