On April 2, 2011, band manager Steve Rennie confirmed that their next album had been named If Not Now, When? .
In interviews conducted backstage at the Soundwave Festival in March 2011, Claypool said of the new Primus album “we’ve recorded it, we just need to polish it”, and that the release date “should be around May or so”. He also described the new material as being “very reminiscent of Frizzle…
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Incubus announced in March 2011 that the new album was complete and would be released in “August or September” according to Brandon Boyd. Boyd also stated that “this new record is different from anything that we’ve done.”
Primus continued to tour throughout 2011, playing a number of dates in North America in May and June, including the Bonnaroo Music Festival , followed by a tour of Europe from late June to mid July. They then returned to the U.S.A. to play a few more music festivals leading…
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On January 5, 2011, the band announced that they had recruited TV on the Radio guitarist and producer Dave Sitek as a replacement for Duff McKagan . Sitek was set to record the bass for the band’s fourth studio album, entitled The Great Escape Artist . On January 14, 2011,…
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In 2011, the band had what McGrath described as not “the highest-grossing year for Sugar Ray”.
The band has been confirmed to do a short South American tour in October, performing at venues such as the SWU Festival in Brazil, the Maquinaria Festival in Chile, and Pepsi Music Festival in Argentina. It was the first time the band played in those countries.
During an interview with the Chilean newspaper La Tercera in October 2010, De la Rocha allegedly confirmed that a new album was in the works, with a possibility of a 2011 release. De la Rocha is reported as saying, “We are all bigger and more mature and we do not…
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The band played a handful of South American tour dates in October 2010, also debuting the song “Surface to Air”.
In September 2010, Suicidal Tendencies released the album No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family which consists of re-recordings of tracks from the Join the Army album and of old No Mercy songs, plus the previously released “Come Alive”.