A Perfect Circle Take New Step

Maynard James Keenan will keep Tool in the shed for at least another few months, as the oddball frontman's other band A Perfect Circle releases Thirteenth Step on September 16th.

Since the release of its debut album, Mer de Noms, three years ago, A Perfect Circle has had a few chairs vacated and filled. Out are guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen and bassist Paz Lenchantin (who joined Billy Corgan's new band, Zwan). And joining Keenan, guitarist Billy Howerdel and drummer Josh Freese is Jeordie White, who formerly recorded as "Twiggy Ramirez" for Marilyn Manson.

A Perfect Circle have lined up a twelve-date club tour to showcase the new material, starting July 26th in Denver.

Track listing for Thirteenth Step:

The Package
Weak and Powerless
The Noose
Blue
Vanishing
A Stranger
The Outsider
Crimes
The Nurse Who Loved Me
Pet
Lullaby
Gravity

A Perfect Circle tour dates:

7/26: Denver, Ogden Theater
7/28: Dallas, Grenada Theater
7/30: Atlanta, Roxy Theater
8/1: Norfolk, VA, The Norva
8/2: Washington, DC, 9:30 Club
8/3: Boston, Berklee Academy of Music
8/5: New York, Irving Plaza
8/6: Philadelphia, Theater of Living Arts
8/8: Cleveland, Odeon
8/9: Detroit, St. Andrew's Hall
8/10: Chicago, Cabaret Metro
8/11: Minneapolis, Pantages

ANDREW DANSBY
(July 8, 2003)