Tool's new album Fear Inoculum is poised to drop later this month after an absurd 13-year wait. It might have come out sooner, if singer Maynard James Keenan wasn't multi-tasking the vocal recordings while tending to his precious wine grapes. In an interview the band gave to Australian music site Tone Deaf, Keenan discussed the delicate balance between working on the new Tool album in his home studio...

L7 co-founder Donita Sparks is the first person to admit that she turns into a giant ham the minute she steps on stage. Of course, she doesn’t have to say as much because the grunge-adjacent, all-female punk band’s stage show speaks for itself. During a sold out two-night run at the Brooklyn venue Elsewhere this summer, Sparks was damn near feral, thrusting her flying V guitar into clamoring fans,...

It’s been a long wait for the new Tool album—and it’s been worth it. On Fear Inoculum, Tool’s first album in 13 years, the band remain defiantly contrary to the auto-tuned, digitally-quantized world in which we now live. They continue to blur the lines between art, psychedelia, alt metal, and prog rock with undiminished curiosity and skill. This commitment to blazing their own path has already...