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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Rob Verhorst/Redferns Tool were the band who shouldn’t have made it. Their logo was a ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Tool aren’t so much a rock band as – to paraphrase Winston Churchill – a mystery wrapped in an ...

Tool is a band that is a bit hard to describe. They’re definitely an alternative metal band with progressive rock elements. However, their sound, lyricism, and concepts stray into the existential and ...

Tool are currently on tour in the U.S. and the road has a habit of testing one's ability to keep themselves entertained during swaths of downtime. For Maynard James Keenan, however, that spilled over ...

Tool are in full tease mode, it seems. Maynard James Keenan said he hopes the album will be released by May or June. We're guessing it's not May, since we would have likely heard something by now. But ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Tool is one of the most commercially successful hard rock/metal ...

CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio -- Blossom Music Center will play host to a triple shot of alt-rock royalty on Sunday when Tool singer Maynard J. Keenan, his buddies in Primus, along with two of his side ...

Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan is not a fan of cell phones at shows. This we already know. In 2018, he came under fire while touring with A Perfect Circle for enacting a strict “no cell phones” ...

On April 17, Maynard James Keenan will take the stage in Phoenix on his 60th birthday. It’ll be the second night of Sessanta at Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre, Keenan’s birthday tour that brings ...

In addition to its San Antonio performance, Puscifer will premiere two on-demand concert films on Friday, October 28. Credit: Travis Shinn If you’ve ever wanted a look inside Tool frontman Maynard ...