Despite slapping down the years on a variety of bass guitars, most of which have been custom jobs from Brooklyn luthier Carl Thompson in various string and fretted/fretless configurations, in 2011 ...

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Primus got plenty of of airtime on MTV and college radio in the 1990s, thanks to songs like "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver." By the start of the next decade, though, the San Francisco band was ready for ...

Wish You Were There is a new column on Crossfade highlighting pictures and videos from around the web of the weekend’s biggest shows. One of the most anticipated gigs in town this past Saturday was ...

“It’s all just devil music,” he quipped. Then the bassist who founded the rock band whose eclectic music mixes funk, progressive rock and some punk leanings took the question more seriously. “It's ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

RUSH’s longtime bassist, Geddy Lee, has announced the upcoming Paramount+ docuseries dubbed Geddy Lee Asks: Are Bass Players Human Too? The program will roll out in four parts beginning on Dec. 5.

Originally formed as an one-off for San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, Les Claypool’s Duo de Twang is a rootsy, countrified experiment, but one that’s no less strange for its supposed ...

Leslie Edward "Les" Claypool (born September 29, 1963) is an American musician and writer, best known as the lead vocalist and bassist in the band Primus. Claypool's playing style on the electric bass ...

Les Claypool (far right) has had plenty of extracurricular pursuits since the last Primus album. Green Naugahyde is the band's first long-player in over a decade. Primus got plenty of of airtime on ...