Puscifer to release new album in October. Tour to follow.

 PUSCIFER, the project ringleader Maynard James Keenan describes as "'Twin Peaks' in the desert," will release "Conditions Of My Parole" on October 18 via Puscifer Entertainment.

"Man Overboard", the first single from the album, will be available viaiTunes and other digital service providers on July 19.

"The Verde Valley is an intrinsic part of what PUSCIFER is," explainsKeenan. "It's equal parts 'Twilight Zone', 'Mayberry' and 'Road Warrior'. The ghosts and aliens, Republicans and Democrats, cowboys and artists living side by side with hostile creatures such as scorpions, spiders, rattlesnakes, javelina and hippies are just a few of the spicy ingredients that give 'Conditions Of My Parole' its unique flavor."

"Conditions Of My Parole" was recorded in Jerome, Arizona this spring with tracking done amidst the wine barrels from Keenan's Caduceus Cellars. The album was produced by Keenan, Mat Mitchell, and Josh Eustis. Contributing musicians for the new album include the aforementioned Keenan, Mitchell, and Eustis as well as Carina Round,Juliette Commagere, Matt McJunkins, Jeff Freidl, Gil and Rani Sharone, Jonny Polonsky, Tim Alexander, Devo Keenan, Alessandro Cortini, Sarah Jones, and Jon Theodore.

PUSCIFER's debut album, the infamously censored "V is for V*****"(2007), charted on both the rock and dance singles charts simultaneously (the full album at #9 on the Billboard Rock Album and "C*ntry Boner" at #1 on Billboard's Dance Singles Chart). "V is for V*****" entered The Billboard 200 at #25. The band turned multimedia troupe carried outKeenan's vision of an evening that seamlessly combined music, recorded skits and live character sketches over two U.S. tours which were described as an "X-rated episode of 'Hee-Haw'" (Spin) and "a performance art spectacle equal parts comedy cabaret show and guerilla theater" (Las Vegas Review-Journal). Keenan has often stated in interviews that his concept for PUSCIFER required nearly two decades to pass before the technology was available to create the live performance.

A North American tour kicks off in early November, with more information to come.

Josh Freese sitting out A Perfect Circle's summer dates.

Blabbermouth.net is reporting that session drummer supreme Josh Freese will sit out A PERFECT CIRCLE's live shows this summer due to his touring commitments with WEEZER. Sitting behind the kit for A PERFECT CIRCLE's upcoming dates will be Jeff Friedl (ASHES DIVIDE, DEVO).

A PERFECT CIRCLE guitarist Billy Howerdel told FreeGotham.com in a recent interview that the band now has definite plans to record a new album, saying, "[It is] in the works, but not for this summer. I think the idea was to try and get the juices flowing a bit and get back into [A PERFECT CIRCLE] mode a bit and go from there. See what happens in the New Year. We have intentions of recording new material."

As for whether any new tunes will be previewed on the band's upcoming tour, Howerdel said, "We are gonna hear at least a song, I would say. One of them is very, very close to being done. And from there, things could come together once we get on the road and start hashing through some of the other ideas and they could quickly become a song and find their way onto the live stage."

A PERFECT CIRCLE is touring North America for the first time in six years this summer. The tour kicked off with a May 22 headlining appearance at the Rock On The Range festival in Columbus, Ohio, before the main schedule begins on June 29 in Portland, Oregon.

These will be the band's first live dates since a mini-tour they did last fall, in which they played each of their three studio albums over the course of three nights in five cities.

A Perfect Circle announce new US tourdates

New A Perfect Circle tourdates (on-sale June 3, no pre-sales):

Aug. 1 - Salt Lake City - Kingsbury Hall;
Aug. 8 - Cincinnati - PNC Pavilion @ Riverbend;
Aug. 10 - Wallingford, CT - Oakdale Theatre

Foo Fighters, Deftones, A Perfect Circle confirmed for Lollapalooza 2011

Deftones, Foo Fighters, A Perfect Circle will be among the acts performing at Lollapalooza 2011 at Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois Aug 5th thru 7th. More information is availble at www.lollapalooza.com.

Rock On The Range 2011 stage schedule released

Rock On The Range lineup/stages announced
Friday May 20th
The FYE Stage:
Steel Panther
Danko Jones
Lez Zeppelin


Saturday May 21st
Monster Energy Main Stage:
Avenged Sevenfold
KoRn
Staind
Alter Bridge
Hinder
Sick Puppies
Rev Theory
Finger Eleven

The FYE Stage:
Danzig
Escape The Fate
My Darkest Days
Crossfade
Asking Alexandria
Trust Company

Jagermeister Mobile Stage:
POD
Black Veil Brides
2 Cents
Egypt Central
Bad City
Downplay


Sunday May 22nd
Monster Energy Main Stage:
A Perfect Circle
Disturbed
Stone Sour
Bullet For My Valentine
Black Label Society
All That Remains
Saving Abel
10 Years

The FYE Stage:
Hollywood Undead
A Day To Remember
Trapt
Cavo
Pop Evil
Hail The Villain

Jagermeister Mobile Stage:
The Damned Things
Fu Manchu
Evans Blue
Art Of Dying
Red Fang

A Perfect Circle announce US tour

A Perfect Circle have announced their US tours:

05/22 Columbus, OH – Rock on the Range
06/29 Portland, OR – Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
06/30 Kent, WA – Showare Center
07/02 Gibbons, AL – Boonstock Festival
07/04 Winnipeg, MB – Centennial Concert Hall
07/06 St. Paul, MN – Roy Wilkins Auditorium
07/08 Detroit, MI – Fox Theatre
07/09 Toronto, ON – Edgefest
07/12 Boston, MA – Bank of America Pavilion
07/13 New York, NY – Hammerstein Ballroom
07/15 New York, NY – Beacon Theatre
07/16 Philadelphia, PA – Penn’s Landing – Festival Pier
07/17 Washington, DC – Constitution Hall
07/19 Charlotte, NC – Time Warner Cable Uptown Amphitheatre
07/20 Atlanta, GA – The Tabernacle
07/22 San Antonio, TX – Freeman Coliseum
07/23 Grand Prairie, TX – Verizon Theatre
07/25 Phoenix, AZ – Comerica Theatre
07/28 Los Angeles, CA – Gibson Amphitheater
07/29 Sacramento, CA – Memorial Auditorium
07/30 Berkeley, CA – The Greek Theatre
08/02 Denver, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre
08/09 Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE

A Perfect Circle planning US summer tour

We can exclusively reveal that A Perfect Circle is in the process of planning a US tour in the summer of 2011. Expect more information to be revealed soon. The band is currently slated to headline the 2011 Rock on the Range festival in Columbus, OH.

A Perfect Circle leader claims “band will record again” as soon as he can find a studio.

Resurrected supergroup A Perfect Circle along with preparation for some festival appearances this year has written a few new songs. Band leader Billy Howedel said in an interview with The Pulse of Radio that he would get more done if he had a place to work:

“I kind of had the biggest void of writing in the past few years I've ever had. I don't really have a great place to work. I had a house with a studio and sold that, and so I don't have this readily available studio. And it's the worst reason in the world to not be doing it, but we're basically an unsigned band, we can kind of do what we want and put it out how we want and we can kind of turn it around pretty quickly....that is if I find a place to start working.”

A Perfect Circle came out of a six year hiatus last fall to tour and is going to perform at The Rock On the Range Festival May-21-22 in Columbus, OH. The band is also going to co-headline The Edgefest in Toronto July 9^th.

The band also includes singer Maynard James Keenan (Tool/Puscifer), James Iha (The Smashing Pumpkins), Josh Freese (Nine Inch Nails, The Descendants) and Matt McJunkins (Ashes Divide, Puscifer).

A Perfect Circle to tour in the summer of 2011

Tool frontman Maynard Keenan's side project A Perfect Circle has confirmed to perform on July 9th in Toronto Canada for the EdgeFest. This will likely mean that A Perfect Circle will have some type of tour this summer. More info on APC is sure to follow on the heels of this announcement.