Pixies are now on their fourth bassist. Kim Deal left the legendary alt-rock band in 2013, and the late Muffs leader Kim Shattuck briefly took her place. In 2014, Paz Lenchantin, best known for her time in A Perfect Circle, took over as Pixies’ new bassist, and she became a full member of the band and played that role for a decade. Yes...

Pixies are heading out on a European tour celebrating their albums Bossanova and Trompe Le Monde this week, and they’ll do it with a new bass player. Veteran rock bassist Paz Lenchantin (pictured above center right), who’s also done stints with A Perfect Circle, Zwan, Entrance, and Silver Jews, has ended her decade-long tenur...

"Don’t watch this Trent": Tool/A Perfect Circle/Puscifer frontman Maynard James Keenan admits to some selective stealing from Nine Inch Nails in new video interview

Perhaps you recall Zwan, the band that Billy Corgan briefly led after the temporary end of the Smashing Pumpkins. For Zwan, Corgan recruited his longtime Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin alongside Slint’s Dave Pajo, Chavez’s Matt Sweeney, and a Perfect Circle’s Paz Lenchantin. The band lasted two years and made one...

Now that the new Tool and A Perfect Circle albums are out of the way, Maynard James Keenan is back to focusing on Puscifer, the one-time bizarre sideshow that now seems like the project he's most invested in. The first Puscifer album in five years, Existential Reckoning, is set to drop at the end of…