A Perfect Circle in Portland!
Maynard James Keenan and Billy Howerdel bring A Perfect Circle to Portland’s Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall tonight! I’ll be there with camera in tow.
UPDATE 7/1: review & photos posted HERE.
Check back by the weekend (at the latest) for my photos, setlist and review… my goal for posting it is Friday/Saturday. In the meantime groove on some music from their albums and a Q&A with Billy Howerdel from Chris Young at Oregon Music News…
Also, check out the Maynard Cam™ YouTube of their rehearsal in Portland:
~Dan
Puscifer ‘Conditions of My Parole’ & Tour {new A Perfect Circle & Tool music, too}
As posted in SPIN this morning, Puscifer is releasing their second full-length studio album this fall. Album name – Conditions of My Parole. Street date – October 18, 2011. Puscifer is the brainchild of Tool/A Perfect Circle frontman and Caduceus winemaker Maynard James Keenan.
“Man Overboard,” the first single from the album, will be available via iTunes and other digital service providers on July 19. Conditions of My Parole was recorded in Jerome, Ariz. this spring with tracking done amidst the wine barrels from Keenan’s Caduceus Cellars. The album was produced by Keenan, Mat Mitchell, and Josh Eustis. Contributing musicians for the new album include the aforementioned Keenan, Mitchell, and Eustis as well as Carina Round, Juliette Commagere, Matt McJunkins, Jeff Freidl, Gil and Rani Sharone, Jonny Polonsky, Tim Alexander, Devo Keenan, Alessandro Cortini, Sarah Jones, and Jon Theodore.
From SPIN…
After the album drops in October, Puscifer will hit the road for a two-month tour. Maynard says he’s still working out the details, but fans can expect variety show-style gigs like the band’s last jaunt in 2009, but with “a lot of changes and new approaches. We’ll be doing a lot of filming and posting more videos online, too.”
Also news about APC and Tool…
But even when he’s deep into Puscifer mode, Maynard’s other projects are never far from his mind. After their summer tour, A Perfect Circle “might put out a track or two,” he says. “The energy is good, so there’s always the potential for a future.” And Tool? “We’re writing,” he says.
Read the SPIN article/interview HERE.
Carina Round & Maynard
A Perfect Circle’s Tour 2011
Yesterday, A Perfect Circle announced their tour dates for summer 2011:
- May 22 – Columbus, OH (Rock On The Range)
- June 29 – Portland, OR Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
- June 30 – Kent, WA Showare Center
- July 2 – Gibbons, AL Boonstock Festival
- July 4 – Winnipeg, MB Centennial Concert Hall
- July 6 – St. Paul, MN Roy Wilkins Auditorium
- July 8 – Detroit, MI Fox Theatre
- July 9 – Toronto, ON Edgefest
- July 12 – Boston, MA Bank Of America Pavilion
- July 13 – New York, NY Hammerstein Ballroom
- July 15 – New York, NY Beacon Theatre
- July 16 – Philadelphia, PA Penn’s Landing (Festival Pier)
- July 17 – Washington, DC Constitution Hall
- July 19 – Charlotte, NC Time Warner Cable Uptown Amphitheatre
- July 20 – Atlanta, GA The Tabernacle
- July 22 – San Antonio, TX Freeman Coliseum
- July 23 – Grand Prairie, TX Verizon Theatre
- July 25 – Phoenix, AZ Comerica Theatre
- July 28 – Los Angeles, CA Gibson Amphitheater
- July 29 – Sacramento, CA Memorial Auditorium
- July 30 – Berkeley, CA The Greek Theatre
- August 2 – Denver, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre
- August 9 – Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE
On-sale information coming soon. http://www.aperfectcircle.com/
I plan on catching Maynard, Billy & Co at the Portland gig. They’ve got a new website designed, with a blue, underwater/octopus theme. Here’s hoping some new music is around the corner, too. Also, in the email announcement, they hinted at some Puscifer news coming soon, too.
Puscifer Update 3/23: Per Carina Round’s email: “After that I will be heading into the studio with Maynard James Keenan’s ‘Puscifer’ to work on songs for the next release and rehearse up some goodies for a tour in the Fall.”