ATO Records/Prawn Songs is excited to release Primus' video for "Tragedy's a' Comin'", the first clip off Green Naugahyde, out now. The video, which premiered in a three-part series on IFC.com (part 1, part 2, part 3), was directed by Mark Kohr, who helmed Primus' classic videos for "Tommy the Cat" and "Jerry Was A Race Car Driver".
The video focuses on a lobster's impending demise, soon to be boiled and fed to members of the upper crust, serving as a metaphor for global impending doom. The clip also features Les Claypool in a lobster suit, acting out the last moments of the crustacean on the beach. When discussing the making of the video with IFC, Claypool remarked "I spent so many years dodging goofball bullets from doing the 'Wynona's Big Brown Beaver' video that I don't resist it anymore. I got to put on a giant lobster suit, and that doesn't happen every day."
Green Naugahyde debuted at #15 on the Billboard Top 200, the highest chart placement for the band in 16 years. In support of the record, Primus recently wrapped up tour featuring two sets per evening, one of which being Green Naugahyde in its entirety. This past weekend, Primus was featured on NPR's Weekend Edition, praising Claypool as "equal parts odd and prolific."
Primus 
have confirmed a headlining tour for this summer, starting on May 19th at the Murat Theater in Indianapolis, IN and wrapping up at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, TN. The tour comes in anticipation of their upcoming album, with a late spring/early summer release on ATO/Prawn Song Records. The as-yet untitled album will be their first full-length album of brand new music since 1999's Antipop
.
Primus formed in the late '80s in Northern California, releasing their first album, Suck On This
, in 1989. They signed to Caroline Records and released the now classic Frizzle Fry in 1990. As part of the alternative rock explosion of the '90s, the band signed to Interscope and gave the world some of the biggest records of the decade, includingSailing The Seas Of Cheese, Pork Soda
, Tales From The Punchbowl
and The Brown Album
, had several Billboard top 10 debuts, garnered a Grammy nomination and wrote the internationally loved and enduring theme song for South Park.
Primus tour dates are below:
3/18 -- Santa Cruz, CA - The Catalyst
5/19 - Indianapolis, IN - Murat Theater
5/20 - Memphis, TN - Minglewood Hall
5/21 - Gulf Shores, AL - Hangout Festival
5/23 - Houston, TX - Verizon Wireless Theater
5/24 - Austin, TX - Stubb's
5/25 - Dallas, TX - Palladium
5/27 - Fayettevile, AR - Arkansas Music Pavilion
5/28 - Omaha, NE - Downtown Benson St
5/29 - St. Louis, MO - Pageant
5/31 - Raleigh, NC - Memorial Auditorium
6/01 - Charlotte, NC - The Fillmore
6/03 - Orlando, FL - Hard Rock Live
6/04 - Miami, FL - The Fillmore
6/07 - Clearwater, FL - Ruth Eckerd Hall
6/08 - Jacksonville, FL - Florida Theatre
6/09 - Charleston, SC - N. Charleston Performing Arts Center
6/10 - Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
