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Tool (Band)

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    Q&A: Extra Life's Charlie Looker On Dream Seeds, Being A Music Schoolteacher And Thinking Antony Is Awesome

    Charlie Looker—schoolteacher, classical music composer, guitar improviser, ex-ZS member, Antony and Morrissey enthusiast and visionary behind Brooklyn's niche-less trio Extra Life—is celebrating the release of Dream Seeds (Northern Spy) in his typical, adverse fashion: on a bill with bl ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 22, 2012

    Chevelle

    Charlie Looker—schoolteacher, classical music composer, guitar improviser, ex-ZS member, Antony and Morrissey enthusiast and visionary behind Brooklyn's niche-less trio Extra Life—is celebrating the release of Dream Seeds (Northern Spy) in his typical, adverse fashion: on a bill with bl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2012

    Scientology's OT Powers! A Hubbard Holiday Miracle

    Scientology watchers, we have a special treat for you this holiday Monday. Recently, one of our readers who is a longtime former Scientologist mailed us a treasure trove: Copies of early Advance! magazines, a complete run from issue 11 in 1971 to issue 56 in 1979. (That's L. Ron Hubbard's photo of ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 25, 2012

    Tool

    Scientology watchers, we have a special treat for you this holiday Monday. Recently, one of our readers who is a longtime former Scientologist mailed us a treasure trove: Copies of early Advance! magazines, a complete run from issue 11 in 1971 to issue 56 in 1979. (That's L. Ron Hubbard's photo of ... More >>

  • Music

    October 26, 2011

    New York's Finest '90s Rock Tribute Acts Get Their Halloween Costumes Ready

    Grunge days, revisited

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    Live: The Creators Project Brings Florence, Justice, And Lots Of Art To DUMBO

    Benjamin Lozovsky​The Creators Project October 15-16 Better than: A representative of the Intel Corporation laboriously explaining to me the superiority of their microprocessors. If you're suspicious that The Creators Project is all just a way for the Vice Empire to class up its image beyo ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 30, 2011

    PAINT IT BLACK

    Lustmord caps off the Unsound Festival

  • Music

    March 2, 2011

    Carrie Brownstein, Renaissance Grrl

    Life after Sleater-Kinney includes a comedy sideline and a new not-supergroup

  • Voice Choices

    October 13, 2010

    ALTERNATIVE ART

    Rock stars can do more than just rock

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2010

    This Weekend! James Maynard's Blood Into Wine, Reverend Horton Heat, Glee Live!, Holy Fuck, Nice Nice, Ninjasonik, So So Glos, Ava Luna, Bushick Rooftop Fest, And Much Much More

    Tonight, the second viewing of Blood Into Wine, the documentary on Tool frontman James Maynard Keenan's brass-knuckled corkscrew domination of the Arizona winemaking frontier, aptly commences at the City Winery. Meanwhile, cowboy punk Reverend Horton Heat delivers his second sermon of "epically s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2010

    Week in Review: Uniformly Awful

    In yr face. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week the world learned how dangerous a truffle-flavored french fry really can be, we watched in horror as the New York Times Magazine penned a brutal takedown of M.I.A.--who retaliated by going after the journalist who wrote it, of course. Were you pe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2010

    Q&A: Tool's Maynard James Keenan on Blood Into Wine, the New Documentary About His Adventures in Winemaking

    "But hopefully they'll end up waking up one day, open up that bottle of wine and go, 'Holy shit. He's right,' and give me a nod rather than drop to their knees." ​With mindless celebrities attaching their name to any vanity project that comes their way--Cadmium-laced Miley Cyrus bracelets pri ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 18, 2010

    One for the winos

    Tool frontman takes on a new side project

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    A Presidential Menu; a Caveman's Kitchen Tool

    This week in food blogs ... Grub Street found out what President Barack Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi ate at the $15,000-a-plate Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee dinner at the St. Regis. Eater learned firsthand just how hard it is to get into Provocateur without a reservation ... even ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 6, 2010

    'Rocks Off Concert Cruise Presents Nashville Pussy+Green Jelly'

    This week in food blogs ... Grub Street found out what President Barack Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi ate at the $15,000-a-plate Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee dinner at the St. Regis. Eater learned firsthand just how hard it is to get into Provocateur without a reservation ... even ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 6, 2010

    HELLBOY

    Can a Tool artist get even darker?

  • Voice Choices

    March 9, 2010

    Puscifer

    Can a Tool artist get even darker?

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2009

    News Roundup: Surfjan Stevens Announces Intimate Tour, Lollapalooza, Them Crooked Vultures, Mike Seeger Dies

    ​--Sufjan Stevens has announced an intimate fall tour. In what Asthmatic Kitty Records are calling an "east-of-Lake-Minnetonka tour," the run focuses on eastern states, kicking off September 21st at Philly's 250-capacity Johnny Brenda's. Stevens wraps the tour with four New York dates: October ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2009

    All Points West Sunday: (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To See Coldplay)

    I wore straight-up hiking boots to this motherfucker, clunky and impenetrable, and sloshed invincibly across acres of gushy, foul-smelling New Jersey mud like a hovercraft, like a Range Rover, like God moving across the face of the waters. The mud is what we'll all remember about APW, first broug ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2009

    All Points West Saturday: Mud, Tool, and the Mighty My Bloody Valentine

    The goal for day two of All Point West, at least in the eyes of the promoters, was to make you forget that just 24 hours ago, you or someone you know got drenched. And probably complained about it, or warned you to stay away. So they cut a deal: if you bought a Friday ticket, you could come back S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2009

    Free All Points West Alternatives Galore

    ​ Big gigantic music festivals featuring people with names that even those living deep in the Amazon forests or on the wild, wild plains of New Zealand have heard of tend to suck up most of the cultural airspace when they come to town--All Points West being no exception here. But this is an ex ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    July 28, 2009

    WESTWARD, HO!

    Like Coachella, and just a ferry ride away

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2009

    Set Times for All Points West Announced

    ​ Despite a free Polvo/Obits show on Friday at the South Street Seaport and a dreamy sounding Saturday show in Prospect Park at which Dean & Britta will be performing their scores to Andy Warhol's screen tests, this week and weekend in NYC belongs to All Points West. On Saturday, APW announce ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    Jay-Z Is Replacing the Beastie Boys at All Points West

    Indeed. Earlier this week came the terrible news of Adam Yauch's cancer diagnosis and the subsequent cancellation of all upcoming Beastie Boys tour dates -- including their opening-night headlining spot at next week's All Points West festival in Jersey City. Their replacement: Jay-Z, making "his U.S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2009

    Hey Listen, the New Coldplay Video Is Really Cool, and We're Not Gonna Take Any Crap About It

    As we get closer to next weekend's three-day All Points West fete (and we mourn the terrible news that forced the Beastie Boys' cancellation), we're* finding it easier to admit that the band we're most eagerly anticipating is, yes, Coldplay. Yes, more than Tool. Shocking, we know. Perhaps this styli ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 17, 2009

    KALI TO NEW YORK

    One of New York's great anti-pop heroines wields her influence

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2009

    What's Happening This Week--A Good Herring Day; Learn How to Surf & Turf

    As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city (and, this week, in Jersey). Sign up for it here! Herring & Aquavit Festival Russ & Daughters June 17, 6-9 pm Sample a world of herring, including herring with mustard and dill, curr ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 20, 2009

    Isis+Pelican

    As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city (and, this week, in Jersey). Sign up for it here! Herring & Aquavit Festival Russ & Daughters June 17, 6-9 pm Sample a world of herring, including herring with mustard and dill, curr ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 14, 2009

    GOLDEN GATE GYPSIES

    Williamsburg embraces other weary travelers

  • Music

    October 16, 2007

    Emo "Elder" Statesmen Jimmy Eat World and Thrice

    Emo "elder" statesmen are dependably accessible, or not

  • Music

    December 12, 2006

    Beat on the Brat

    How to program your baby's musical tastes and pretend to not be trying

  • Music

    October 31, 2006

    Chin-Scratching Headbangers Need a Kick in the Ass

    How to program your baby's musical tastes and pretend to not be trying

  • Music

    September 12, 2006

    Tool: An Appreciation

    Support for alleged "subliterate kid metal for morons" arises from an unlikely source

  • NYC Life

    September 5, 2006

    Going to the Chapel

    Support for alleged "subliterate kid metal for morons" arises from an unlikely source

  • NYC Life

    July 26, 2005

    Flippin' Out

    What does the collar on a summer shirt signify? Interpretations go neck and neck.

  • Music

    June 28, 2005

    Yiddish For Crazy

    Getting funky in time signatures an abacus can't compute

  • Music

    May 24, 2005

    Mapquest

    Three-woman desert session mines metal's shifting sands

  • Music

    July 6, 2004

    Live Dead

    Concert biz endures summer; Clear Channel screws bands

  • Music

    June 3, 2003

    Music

    Concert biz endures summer; Clear Channel screws bands

  • Music

    January 14, 2003

    Whiskers in the Dark

    Mama's Got a Litterbox, Daddy Never Sleeps at Night

  • Music

    November 12, 2002

    Music

    Mama's Got a Litterbox, Daddy Never Sleeps at Night

  • Music

    March 26, 2002

    The Gothfathers, Part II

    From Bauhaus to Our House

  • Theater

    December 11, 2001

    Theater

    From Bauhaus to Our House

  • Music

    September 18, 2001

    Fade to Black

    The End of Frivolity as We Know It

  • Music

    August 21, 2001

    Heard It on the X

    There Is No Such Thing as Nü Metal, and It Has an X-Tremely Funny Face

  • Music

    August 29, 2000

    Time’s Lonesome Fugitives

    There Is No Such Thing as Nü Metal, and It Has an X-Tremely Funny Face

  • Music

    August 29, 2000

    Music

    There Is No Such Thing as Nü Metal, and It Has an X-Tremely Funny Face

  • Music

    July 13, 1999

    Nookie Monster

    There Is No Such Thing as Nü Metal, and It Has an X-Tremely Funny Face

  • Music

    January 19, 1999

    Moment by Moment

    How Jungle Is--and Isn't--the 'New Jazz'

  • News

    July 21, 1998

    Fanning the Fame

    How Jungle Is--and Isn't--the 'New Jazz'

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