Puscifer’s video for “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which stars Maynard James Keenan and Dina Martina, can be viewed below.
The six-minute clip, which was directed by Mike King, arrives as Puscifer’s seven-song EP, Donkey Punch The Night, is released–you can get it on iTunes here. The collection includes covers of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” and Accept’s “Balls To The Wall,” as well as two new songs: “Breathe” and “Dear Brother.” The set is rounded out by remixes of three of the songs.
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This week sees new shit from The Acacia Strain, Shai Hulud, Puscifer, Red Fang, Suffocation, Portal, and more hitting stores. Check out the list of releases below and let us know which ones you’re snagging a copy of and which record should be the Album of the Week. Pick your favorite and feel free to vote as many times as you want. Voting ends on Monday, February 25, at noon, when the results will be announced.
UPDATE: The poll is closed. For the result, click right here.
]]>Puscifer, the Northern Arizona-based band helmed by Maynard James Keenan (Tool, A Perfect Circle), will release an eight-song EP titled Donkey Punch The Night on February 19 via Puscifer Entertainment.
“While continuing our tradition of releasing a few new songs at a time,” explained Keenan, “I also had an itch that needed scratching, and that itch was ‘Balls To The Wall.’ Which was followed by an even harder to reach itch known as ‘Bohemian Rhapsody.’ And scratch them we did.”
The collection features two new songs written by Keenan and Puscifer cohorts Mat Mitchell, Carina Round and Josh Eustis: “Breathe” and “Dear Brother,” as well as two covers: Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” and Accept’s “Balls To The Wall.” Donkey Punch The Night was recorded in Jerome, Arizoza, in Keenan’s Caduceus Cellars (www.caduceus.org) with the same roster from 2011′s Conditions of My Parole (Keenan, Mitchell, Round, Eustis, Matt McJunkins and Jeff Friedl) and guests Zac Rae (piano), Juliette Commagere (vocals), Josh Morreau (bass) and Claire Acey (vocals).
Remixes of the four songs round-out the release with contributions from Los Angeles techno wizard Drumcell, Big Black Delta (aka Jonathan Bates, formerly of Mellowdrone and touring guitarist for M83), Sonoio (Italian multi-instrumentalist Alessandro Cortini of Modwheelmood and touring keyboard player for Muse and NIN) and Central American DJ, Silent Servant, who is well known for his mash-up of post-punk and techno.
Donkey Punch The Night track list:
1. Bohemian Rhapsody “O.G. Mix”
2. Breathe
3. Dear Brother
4. Balls To The Wall “PIllow Fight Mix”
5. Breathe “Drumcell rework”
6. Dear Brother “Denton rework” (Big Black Delta)
7. Balls To The Wall “Silent Servant El Guapo Mix”
8. Bohemian Rhapsody “Sonoio rework”
Puscifer recently announced their first tour dates outside of North America with the band performing three shows in Australia as well as performances at Lollapalooza Brazil and Lollapalooza Chile.
February 22 Brisbane, Australia The Tivoli
February 26 Sydney, Australia Enmore Theatre
February 28 Melbourne, Australia The Palais Theatre
March 31 Sao Paulo, Brazil Lollapalooza Brazil
April 6 & 7 Santiago, Chile Lollapalooza Chile *
*Puscifer performance date TBA
]]>Puscifer, led by Tool and A Perfect Circle’s Maynard James Keenan have added two dates to their upcoming North American tour. The band will now play in San Francisco on March 16 and in Riverside, California, on March 17. Tickets for the San Francisco performance will go on sale on January 13, while details for the Riverside show will be revealed shortly. You can view the full list of dates below.
The eclectic music-meets-comedy group released their sophomore album, Conditions of My Parole, last October.
Puscifer Conditions of My Parole Tour dates:
Let’s also take this moment to recognize the photographers, credited below each photo, who risk life and lens to go in the pit and capture the mayhem as it happens. For those about to shoot, we salute you!
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Puscifer, led by Tool and A Perfect Circle frontman Maynard James Keenan, made their network television debut last night on CBS’ Late Show with David Letterman. The band played the title track off their new album, Conditions of My Parole. Watch the video below and tell us what you think of it in the comments.
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Maynard James Keenan has handily extended his reputation as metal’s premiere weird-merchant with Conditions of My Parole, the second full-length by his oddball dust devil Puscifer, via his like-titled record label. Holding a motley assemblage of outlaws hostage in his Merkin Vineyards in the Arizona desert (including indie rocker Carina Round and spasmodic Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore), Conditions plays like Deliverance directed by David Lynch, a tumbleweed pile-up where Revolting Cocks outlaw-boogie meets creeptactular banjo picking. “I can juggle 16 projects and know where the sugar levels are on my fermenting juice while I’m writing a song,” Keenan says, “but I can’t actually play banjo and sing.”REVOLVER Your first album was titled “V” Is for Vagina, and you have other releases with titles that reference Viagra and the C-word. This is the first Puscifer record without a filthy title…
MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN You don’t know that. Maybe it’s an anagram. Maybe if you rearrange the letters, some kind of poop joke will come out.
And you wrote and recorded half the record in your wine cellar.
The house is attached to the winery, so we had little stations everywhere. The drums, being set up in a big room, it was kind of boomy and cement—it was cool.
Do you think the vibrations affected the wine?
Well, there’ve been studies. If you play certain kinds of sounds to water as you freeze it, you’ll notice the crystals as they form are much more delicate and geometric when you play better music for them. You play like classical music for them, the crystal structures are more organized and defined. When you play 311, they just look like chunks. It just bums out and won’t freeze. When we do ours it looks like a Rubik’s Cube.
Do you ever find any wildlife out there in the desert?
Are you kidding? Fox, coyote, javelina, there are mountain lions and there are cougars. There’s bears around, but not that close. If you’re in Arizona and you see a red-tailed fox almost come up to you, it seems tame. Don’t pet it, because it’s feral. It’s about to bite you.
When you’re out there, what do you and your bandmates do to bond?
Just in that setting, you can’t help but bond when you’re sitting on the porch with a glass of wine and you can see all the stars clear as day. You can’t see those in Chicago or L.A.… You see other kinds of stars, the kind that are puking on the sidewalk.
How many times a day does someone ask you about a new Tool record?
At least 20… Wait, what time is it? 22. Twenty-two times. For most people, where I started was there. Most people assume the success of anything I do is based on Tool, when they don’t realize that I was successful at things long before Tool. Tool didn’t get me in Westpoint, Tool didn’t get me distinguished graduate from basic training, Tool didn’t get me on the student council, and Tool didn’t get me my 12 varsity letters. But the public eye assumes that’s the thing I should be doing. I just hold my tongue and do what I do.
Maynard James Keenan’s Puscifer project have announced dates for their North American tour, beginning in November. The band, who are touring in support of sophomore release, Conditions of My Parole, are expected to announce more dates shortly.
In addition to the Tool and A Perfect Circle frontman, Puscifer’s touring lineup will also include Mat Mitchell, Josh Eustis, Carina Round, Matt McJunkins, and Jeff Friedl. Carina Round will also act as support for all currently scheduled dates. You can check out a full list of currently scheduled performances below Maynard’s promo video for the tour.
Before they hit the road, however, Puscifer will be making their television debut with a Halloween night performance on The Late Show with David Letterman.
Puscifer tour dates:
11/07 Seattle, WA, Paramount Theatre
11/09 Salt Lake City, UT, Capitol Theatre
11/10 Denver, CO, Paramount Theatre
11/12 St. Louis, MO, Peabody Opera House
11/14 Minneapolis, MN, State Theatre
11/15 Chicago, IL, Cadillac Palace Theatre
11/17 Cleveland, OH, Lakewood Civic Auditorium
11/18 Toronto, ON, Sony Centre for the Performing Arts
11/19 Detroit, MI, Royal Oak Music Theatre
11/22 Boston, MA, Orpheum Theatre
11/23 Philadelphia, PA, Tower Theatre
11/25 Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn Academy of Music
11/26 Washington, DC, TBA
11/27 Charlotte, NC, TBA
11/29 Knoxville, TN, Tennessee Theatre
11/30 Atlanta, GA, Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center
12/06 Los Angeles, CA, Orpheum Theatre
12/09 Las Vegas, NV, TBA
12/11 Phoenix, AZ, TBA
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