Hoffman made his live debut with Primus at the Tool in the Sand festival in March 2025 in Punta Cana , Dominican Republic, alongside Tool drummer Danny Carey . Hoffman’s first tour with Primus was the Sessanta V2.0 Tour with A Perfect Circle and Puscifer , which took place from…
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To replace Alexander, at least 6,200 drummers were auditioned, with the final round including Thomas Lang , Thomas Pridgen and Nikki Glaspie ; the band documented the audition process in a documentary web series called “Primus Interstellar Drum Derby” on YouTube . Ultimately, Claypool announced Dirtfoot drummer John Hoffman as…
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On October 17, 2024, Alexander unexpectedly announced to his bandmates that he would be leaving the band, effective immediately. Alexander stated that he had “lost his passion for playing”, with no further elaboration. Primus officially confirmed his departure on October 29, 2024; the band also announced that they were planning…
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Primus contributed to the song “Pablo’s Hippos” on Sessanta E.P.P.P. , a split EP with Puscifer and A Perfect Circle , released in March 2024 to coincide with the Sessanta tour featuring all three of the aforementioned bands. On a tour stop at the Sick New World festival, the band’s…
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On August 9 and 10, 2022, Primus played the South Park 25th Anniversary Concert alongside Ween and South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker . It was broadcast on Comedy Central on August 13 and on Paramount+ on August 14.
In an August 2021 interview with The Spokesman-Review , Claypool confirmed that a new Primus album was in the works: “Some ideas are being thrown around, but we’re not there yet. We will have a new album at some point. We’re focusing on this tour and Farewell to Kings .…
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At the beginning of 2020, the band announced that they would be doing a tour in which every night they would cover Rush ‘s 1977 album A Farewell to Kings in its entirety. The tour was postponed twice. Once due to the fact that Primus joined Slayer on their retirement…
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On July 31, 2017, Primus announced their ninth studio album The Desaturating Seven and a US tour. On that same day, the album’s first single “The Seven” was also released. The album is inspired by the children’s book The Rainbow Goblins , written by Italian author Ul de Rico ,…
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In mid-October 2016, the band performed at the fifth annual Desert Daze music festival in Joshua Tree, California.
In late October 2015, the band released the first music video from their Primus & the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble album, for the track “Candyman”.