MTV2 will be teaming up with Revolver magazine to present the premiere hard rock and heavy metal awards show, the first annual Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods Awards, which will storm through Los Angeles' Club Nokia on Tuesday, April 7. The event will feature Ozzy Osbourne, Killswitch Engage, Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan and more, and will be aired on MTV2 as a one-hour special on Saturday, May 2.
"We're working really hard to make this an event worthy of the music it celebrates," Revolver editor in chief Tom Beaujour tells HeadbangersBlog.com. "Metal deserves this and deserves to have it done f---ing right." Read more...
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Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan has posted footage on his MySpace of a staged press conference about the first schedule concerts by his side project Puscifer. The shows themselves will take place February 13 to 15 in Las Vegas at the Pearl concert theater at the Palms Casino.
The humorous clip was filmed in black and white by Mike King of Flea Circus Films and depicts Keenan as a military general answering inane questions by clueless journalists, two of which mispronounce the band's name. A third is more interested in finding out information about Tool and A Perfect Circle than he is in learning anything about Puscifer.
Laura Milligan, Paul Greenberg, Jackie Harris, Paul Koslowski, Mark Fight and Ron Lynch co-star in the video, which Keenan describes as "sort of a Dr. Strangelove spoof." Click more to watch. Read more...
The cryptic, multifaceted singer of Tool, Maynard James Keenan, recently joined forces with Flaming Lips member Steven Drozd to record a cover of Elton John's hit "Rocket Man" for the soundtrack to the new film "The Heart is a Drum Machine." The rest of the original score was written by Drozd. Read more...
Tool singer Maynard James Keenan has done a lot of experimenting with trip-hop beats and tongue-in-cheek vocals recently with his group Puscifer, so it's a bit of a relief to hear that he's rocking out again with LA superduper group Jubilee. Recently, Keenan recorded the vocals for the song "I Don't Have an Excuse, I Just Need a Little Help" along with frontman Aaron North at Shabbey Road. The beat for the tune was composed by Trent Reznor and The Liars drummer Julian Gross played over the programming. "I Don't Have an Excuse" will be the B-side of the band's second single "In With the Out Crowd." Jubilee's first single was "Rebel Hiss." The band's upcoming debut album will also feature contributions by Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters), Josh Homme and Joey Castillo (Queens of the Stone Age), Carla Azar (Autolux), Josh Freese (A Perfect Circle) and others.
Click "more" for a video of Keenan in the studio recording "I Don't Have an Excuse, I Just Need a Little Help." Read more...
