“Still here for now, Los Angeles,” Tool’s Maynard James Keenan said to greet his audience Sunday night at Staples Center, and what a Tool-ish welcome that was: Going on to refer obliquely to ...

It’s the rare arena-filling band whose singer avoids the center stage and a spotlight for the entire two-hour concert. But Tool are that atypical group who manages to make a show work on their own ...

Tool has never been much for sentimentality. The band’s first New Jersey concert in seven years, touring on its first new album in more than a decade? Who cares, let’s jam. Maynard James Keenan, the ...

No matter how long Tool disappears from the public eye – and its two most recent studio albums were released 13 years apart – the quartet endures. It’s almost as if Tool transcends time and genre, ...

“Hello, Denver! Or wait, we can’t say that. Denver area, I guess. We’ll go with Colorado. Hello, Colorado!” That’s how Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan greeted the audience at the October 3 concert ...

Maynard James Keenan, the enigmatic lead-singer of the prog-rock band Tool, knows how it feels to be revered. During Tool’s first North Texas concert in almost four years, a packed-to-the-ceiling ...

Despite his flashy look of spiked hair and painted face, singer Maynard James Keenan often stood at the back of the stage. LINCOLN — Tool does not simply play a concert. Oh, no. That’d be too simple.