LES CLAYPOOL Announces 2026 Tour Bringing Together PRIMUS, CLAYPOOL LENNON DELIRIUM and FROG BRIGADE

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Les Claypool will hit the road in summer 2026 with "Claypool Gold", a wildly ambitious, full-evening tour that brings together three of his most beloved and sonically adventurous bands — PRIMUS, THE CLAYPOOL LENNON DELIRIUM and LES CLAYPOOL'S FEARLESS FLYING FROG BRIGADE — for one mind-melting musical experience. Each night, all the bands will share the stage all at once for a fluid show featuring wildly different setlists and surprises.

The tour kicks off Wednesday, May 20 in Reno, Nevada, and will travel coast to coast with over 25 shows in cities including Seattle, Chicago, Boston, Austin, Atlanta, and Los Angeles, before wrapping with a July 4 celebration in Napa, California.

Coinciding with today's tour announcement is the release of a brand-new song titled "WAP (What A Predicament)" by THE CLAYPOOL LENNON DELIRIUM, Claypool's mutant-psychedelic project with Sean Ono Lennon. A warped meditation on morality, artificial intelligence safety, and the slippery slope of optimization without empathy — set against a sonic backdrop of fuzz-drenched groove and theatrical psych-rock — the track finds Claypool and Lennon in peak DELIRIUM form, alternately biting, bewildered, and barbed as they reflect on a world gone algorithmic.

"Like a president caught in shenanigans with the beauty queen," Lennon intones on the opening line, "I'm guessing they may not be so innocent as they'd have us believe." From there, the track spirals into existential musings on online chaos, virtual unreality, and the fragility of collective memory. "I'm not sure if history repeats," Lennon continues, "but I'm certain that it rhymes."