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 ...

Tim Alexander of Primus was an innovator in the alternative music genre and helped move along the idea of less being more. He ...

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I've been playing the bass guitar for almost a decade at this point, and Les Claypool still melts my brain. The American bassist, singer, and songwriter of Primus fame has been destroying the confines ...

Les Claypool is set to perform in Napa as part of the Blue Note Napa Summer Sessions.

PITTSBURGH ― It was all about that bass Thursday at a sold-out Stage AE, with Les Claypool and his truly alternative rock band Primus eclectically rocking 5,500 fans under the clouds. Claypool's ...