Primus & Ty Segall at Vina Robles Amphitheatre

Onward & Upward Summer Tour 2025

The night after Independence Day comes with an indescribable alternative metal twang. Thrash-funk? Prog? Experimental? You tell us. This Saturday, the 5th of July, Primus will jumpstart their “Onward & Upward” Summer Tour 2025 at the Vina Robles Amphitheatre of Paso Robles, California. With opening support from special guest Ty Segall, the 25-city trek’s first night out will be a momentous chapter for the Grammy-nominated trio, following their romp on Sessanta alongside Maynard James Keenan’s projects: Puscifer and A Perfect Circle.

It’s the dawn of a new age for Les Claypool and Ler LaLonde, having found the “greatest drummer on Earth” in John Hoffman. Back to being a trio, Primus vows to unveil their reinvigorated sound, drawing from three decades of genre-blurring music of post-punk, avant-garde, and self-classified “psychedelic polka” (as considered by Claypool) stylings. The band is best known for the runaway hits off their back-to-back Platinum albums in the early 1990s, Sailing the Seas of Cheese and the Billboard 200 Top 10 Pork Soda. Some road-worn staples to anticipate feature such gripping songs as “My Name is Mud,” “Jerry Was a Race Car Driver,” “John the Fisherman,” and the confoundingly humorous “Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver,” with newer fare up to the short-but-satisfyingly-eccentric The Desaturating Seven.

“Hitting the road this summer with Hoffer at the helm. This fiery, cheerful, octopus-like drummer from Shreveport, Louisiana, has breathed a very potent breath of freshness into this band we call Primus,” bass-playing frontman Les Claypool wrote.

At Hoffman’s request, Primus will also unpack some deep cuts that have been kept away from the stage for several years. As to what these are, you’ll have to secure a spot at their upcoming performance first to find out!

Garage rock revivalist Ty Segall (“My Lady’s On Fire,” “Fantastic Tomb,” “Every1’s a Winner”) enters the Primus fray with a prolific catalog of broadly defined records to pull from, with his recent Possession album at the helm. Their stage, the boutique Vina Robles Amphitheatre, features oak-dotted sightlines of hillsides on California’s Central Coast. Concert-goers cite first-class amenities and hospitality with every visit, packaged in an intimately designed hotspot for the best live music acts around. Get tickets now before the last-minute surge!