Gardner – who has also toured with Veruca Salt, Moby, and Cher – points out the differences between playing with alternative ...

The Mars Volta‘s fiery, psychedelic new album Lucro sucio; los ojos del vacío is out now (read our review), and now that they’ve wrapped up their tour supporting Deftones, they’ve announced ...

The upcoming release of the Mars Volta’s ninth studio album has been unconventional to say the least. In the wake of its title - 'Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos del Vacio' - leaking early online ...

The Mars Volta have unearthed a new apparatus: a headlining North American tour. The El Paso prog rockers announced their tour Friday — the same day they dropped their ninth album, "Lucro Sucio ...

By Jon Pareles The Mars Volta has never operated according to expectations. Instead, the band’s story has been as convoluted and mercurial as its music. For a decade, the band has mostly been quiet.

The Mars Volta – the most far out, wig-flipping sonic explorers to win a Grammy and the only ones named after an obscure Fellini reference – are born. And so a new, vastly different ...

The Mars Volta headlined a two-night stand at the Factory in Deep Ellum to launch a tour that runs through November. The El Paso group played the way it did before its ten-year hiatus—a ...

Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala tell Best Fit about embracing change as The Mars Volta enter a new era. In July 2020, when I broached the idea of a Mars Volta revival with its guitarist ...

Set times conflicts include T-Pain vs The Mars Volta vs Thundercat on Friday, and Carly Rae Jepsen vs Four Tet vs Yves Tumor on Sunday. ‘Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird,’ a new ...

Being a fan of The Mars Volta can be a bit of a polarizing thing, depending on the company you find yourself in. Formed by close friends and collaborators Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodríguez ...

On the duo’s first album in 10 years, Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala mellow out, abandoning their unhinged prog opuses for a kind of airy, Caribbean yacht rock. From the very ...