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Tool Are Coming to Phoenix in October

By Jason Keil
Aug 30, 2019

The details are inside.
Maynard James Keenan: Being Wrong Sucks

By Maynard James Keenan
Aug 30, 2019

Our final revisit of some the best New Times columns by Tool's frontman.
Maynard James Keenan: Why Arizona?

By Maynard James Keenan
Aug 29, 2019

The latest in our revisit of some the best New Times columns by Tool's frontman.
Intended Zing: Maynard James Keenan Would Like You to Stop Effin' Around

By Maynard James Keenan
Aug 28, 2019

The latest in our revisit of some the best New Times columns by Tool's frontman.
Maynard James Keenan: Events and Rituals

By Maynard James Keenan
Aug 27, 2019

Phoenix New Times is rerunning some of the best columns by Tool's frontman.
Maynard James Keenan: Rochambeau Myself

By Maynard James Keenan
Aug 26, 2019

Phoenix New Times is rerunning some of the best columns by Tool's frontman.
A Perfect Circle and the Pains of Being "Maynard's Other Band"

By Michael Palladino
Nov 16, 2018

The band's work still sparks fierce debate among Tool fans.
Maynard James Keenan Discusses Donkey Punch the Night

By Jason P. Woodbury
Jan 24, 2013

Right now, there's a Tool fan angrily venting about the lack of a new Tool album in some dark corner of the Internet. Right now, Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan is most likely working on something other than a new Tool album. As detailed in this week's Phoenix New Times...
Maynard James Keenan: Being Wrong Sucks

By Maynard James Keenan
Jan 2, 2013

Editor's Note: With a tip of the cap to the man, we bid Maynard James Keenan adieu. This is MJK's final column for Up on the Sun, as he's devoting 2013 to more music and more wine. You won't have to wait too long to hear some of the fruits...
Maynard James Keenan: Biodynamics For Dummies

By Maynard James Keenan
Dec 19, 2012

With few exceptions, knowing is better than not knowing. As they say, "Knowledge is power." If you believe this as much as I do, then you can understand why some of our historic monsters went to such great lengths to eliminate knowledge and why forward thinkers and the socially conscious...
Intended Zing: Maynard James Keenan Would Like You To Stop Effin' Around

By Maynard James Keenan
Dec 5, 2012

I base my life and my movements throughout it on quite a few assumptions. These may or may not be accurate, factual, or even realistic. And until they actually prove themselves to be inaccurate, I follow them without question. (Insert silly comment about assuming here.) Today's rant is centered on...
Maynard James Keenan: Villagers

By Maynard James Keenan
Nov 21, 2012

"Wine makes everyone hopeful." These are the inspirational words that appear on a sign that our friend Topper's mother bought for our tasting room. The sign showed up on "one of those days," and I promptly displayed it. This subject came up this past weekend while celebrating a respectable showing...
Maynard James Keenan: Events and Rituals

By Maynard James Keenan
Nov 7, 2012

The journey known as "Vintage 2012" is almost complete. Not finished, but it's most certainly arriving at a fairly calm station. No more 2 a.m. panic-related insomnia attacks, where I stare at the ceiling going over and over the logistics of a tiny workspace. I'm not about to kid myself;...
Why Arizona?

By Maynard James Keenan
Oct 24, 2012

Since the New Times is moving this column to coincide with the print edition, I thought I'd take a moment to re-introduce myself and give you a peek into why I've resided in Arizona for the past 17 years. It has a little to do with the glowing gray area...
Maynard Is Moving to Wednesday

By Jason P. Woodbury
Oct 15, 2012

By now you've probably grown accustomed to starting every other week with a dispatch from "Chicken Little" himself, Maynard James Keenan. Up on the Sun is proud to feature Keenan's column twice a month, and you folks have responded in a big way to the the winemaker/multimedia artist/musician/actor's musings. As...
What is Puscifer?

By Maynard James Keenan
Oct 8, 2012

What is Puscifer? (Besides being the International Multi-Media Project I've been developing since 1995?) Good question. We usually respond with the very dismissive and obviously evasive answer: "What is Puscifer is what Puscifer is." A less evasive version of the answer is that it is an "uncertain creative space where...
Maynard James Keenan: Rochambeau Myself

By Maynard James Keenan
Sep 24, 2012

I love a good comedy. Browsing through mental notes of quotable material, apropos for tedious moments brought on by the petty, the narrow minded, and the desperate, keeps me questionably sane. See also: Maynard James Keenan: These Are The "End of Days" See also: Maynard James Keenan: Up on the...
Maynard James Keenan: These Are The "End of Days"

By Maynard James Keenan
Sep 10, 2012

See also: Maynard James Keenan: Up on the Sun's New Columnist See also: Maynard James Keenan (Puscifer, Tool, A Perfect Circle) on The Importance of Keeping It Local See also: Can Maynard James Keenan Put Arizona Wine on the Map? See also: New Film Queens of Country Has a Bizarre...
Maynard James Keenan: Up on the Sun's New Columnist

By Jason P. Woodbury
Sep 7, 2012

Maynard James Keenan has a lot on his resume. He's a musician, known for leading Puscifer, Tool, and A Perfect Circle, an actor, record producer, comedian, multimedia artist, and winemaker in Northern Arizona, where he co-owns Arizona Stronghold Vineyards, and oversees Caduceus Cellars and Merkin Vineyards. Now he's got another...

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