SACRAMENTO — Tool is an aberration in the modern music landscape. Every choice the L.A. band makes seems to counter conventional wisdom and trend. Many of the band’s songs cross the 10-minute mark with brooding instrumentals. A decade passed between albums. At concerts, enigmatic frontman Maynard James Keenan spends…

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…

Meg Myers performs at August Hall in San Francisco on Oct. 16, 2018. Photos: Joaquin Cabello. SAN FRANCISCO — Meg Myers brought her dramatic and enigmatic live show to August Hall for a dazzling Tuesday night performance, her first in the Bay Area in a number of years. Touring…