Maynard James Keenan is celebrating his 60th birthday again next month, but Northwest Arkansas is getting the real gift. Sessanta 2.0 -- the sold-out tour that brought Puscifer, Primus and A Perfect ...

Stuck in a two-block line of people waiting to get into Primus‘s sold-out show at the Fox Theatre, a guy in his mid-twenties told a friend incredulously, “My cousin said he’s never heard of Primus. He ...

Primus singer and bassist Les Claypool says that the idea for the band's seventh studio album, a cover of the soundtrack to the 1971 film adaptation of Roald Dahl's Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, ...

Many musicians dedicated to the craft know what it’s like to spend years grinding through hundreds of local gigs annually. But what if one day, you suddenly found yourself as the drummer for one of ...

As the title of this feature might suggest, ’90s nostalgia is in full swing, and one of the orders of the day is reexamining the aesthetic reputation of bands we liked when we were teenagers but of ...

Following a much less rainy second day at Riot Fest 2014, goofy funk-metal legends Primus played a sold-out aftershow at Concord Music Hall in Logan Square. Bassist/vocalist Les Claypool and guitarist ...

are hitting the road, including a stop in Spokane, and for part of the show they're going to cover Rush's 1977 prog-rock classic A Farewell to Kings in its entirety. "Primus — A Tribute To Kings" will ...

It’s arguably the darkest, most psychedelic children’s movie of all time – covered by the oddest, most idiosyncratic rock act of its generation. Primus’ take on Willy Wonka on Primus and the Chocolate ...

Primus are getting ready to hit the road again playing Rush's A Farewell To Kings album in its entirety. A combination that's already proved successful when they did it last year. In a new interview ...

Primus plays surprisingly well on a leash. Defined by the free-form rants and bass heavy alt-funk of Les Claypool, the confined structures of Primus' current set might seem a bit restricting, ...

The way he talks about his job, you might think Les Claypool is a chef, not the leader of the alt-rock trio Primus. "Lots of bits of pasta have been thrown at the wall, and some of it's sticking," the ...