A Perfect Circle, Primus and Puscifer perform together during their Sessanta Tour concert at Rady Shell in San Diego, Calif. on April 18, 2024. Derek Tobias/STAFF. BERKELEY — There’s a variety of ways to spend a milestone birthday. You can take a trip, for example, or get together with…

Puscifer, Courtesy: Travis Shinn The shroud of mystery surrounding experimental rock outfit Puscifer is fitting for the uncertain and unsettling times of a pandemic crossed with mass civil unrest. The band, whose core is made up of Maynard James Keenan (Tool, A Perfect Circle), Carina Round and Mat Mitchell,…

Tool, “Fear Inoculum.” Tool has a distinct advantage of desaturation. The band established a sound beyond duplication, released a handful of well-received albums, and then went silent for 13 years. Fiercely progressive yet entrancingly visceral, the quartet played by its own rules since day one—which apparently extends into its…

Photos: Alessio Neri SAN JOSE — A Perfect Circle performed Wednesday at San Jose State University, promoting the band’s forthcoming album, Eat the Elephant. It may be no coincidence that the band’s long-overdue fourth album (it has been 14 years since A Prefect Circle last release a long-player)will be released on…