The Mars Volta is (2007):

Omar Rodríguez-López
Cedric Bixler-Zavala
Isaiah "Ikey" Owens
Juan Alderete
Thomas Pridgen
Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez
Adrián Terrazas-González
Paul Hinojos

Official website: here
MySpace: here

The Mars Volta grew from the band De Facto, which featured Cedric and Omar during, and after, their time with acclaimed punk act At The Drive-In. Moving from Texas to Long Beach, California, the band's sound evolved and their first release, the Tremulant EP, was released via GSL in 2002.

Studio LPs:
De-Loused in the Comatorium (2003)
Frances The Mute (2005)
Amputechture (2006)
The Bedlam in Goliath (2008)

Upcoming events

• Latitude Festival Saturday, Sat 19 Jul at Southwold Henham Park with Elbow, Sigur Rós, Seasick Steve

Releases

• The Bedlam In Goliath - album, out 28/01/2008 on Universal Music. 1 review (read/post)
• Amputechture - album, out 11/09/2006 on Universal Music. 1 review (read/post)
• Coachella (DVD) - album, out 19/06/2006 on Anti. 1 review (read/post)
• Scab Dates - album, out 07/11/2005. (post review)
• The Widow - single, out 14/03/2005 on Universal Music. 1 review (read/post)
• Frances The Mute - album, out 21/02/2005 on Universal Music. 1 review (read/post)
• Roulette Dares - single, out 26/01/2004. (post review)
• Inertiatic ESP - single, out 29/09/2003 on Universal Music. (post review)
• Deloused In The Comatorium - album, out 23/06/2003 on Universal Music. 1 review (read/post)
• Tremulant EP - ep on Southern Lord. 1 review (read/post)

Past events

• Fri 14 Mar at London Brixton Academy. (post review)
• Thu 13 Mar at Manchester Apollo. (post review)
• Tue 11 Mar at Glasgow Carling Academy. (post review)
• Mars Volta ATP Nightmare Before Christmas, Fri 02 Dec at Camber Sands Pontins. (post review)
• Sun 13 Mar at London Brixton Academy. 1 review (read/post)
• Sun 13 Apr at London Astoria 2 formerly Mean Fiddler. 1 review (read/post)
• Wed 27 Mar at Manchester Academy 3 (formerly Hop & Grape). 1 review (read/post)

News

• 09/04/2008: Latitudinal readiment tableau: Mars Volta announce one-off Roundhouse show
• 04/04/2008: Mars Volta and Grinderman among new Latitude additions
• 04/02/2008: Chart round-up: Adele-ightful result for hyped songstress
• 11/01/2008: A Week in Drowned in Sound: 11/01/08
• 27/11/2007: Ternary glyph operetta: Mars Volta dates
• 20/11/2007: Emogame? Mars Volta create video game
• 23/10/2007: Mars Volta ready next dubiously titled longplayer
• 06/07/2007: Big Day Out 2004: Line-Up Announced
• 06/07/2007: Reading 2002: More bands announced!!
• 19/02/2007: El-P's I'll Sleep When You're Dead: full tracklisting

Features

• 01/02/2008: A Month In Records: January 2008
• 04/01/2008: The Mars Volta: a well-dressed "pop corpse"
• 02/01/2008: It's great in 2008, yeah: DiS's anticipated albums
• 06/07/2007: DiS does ATP's Nightmare Before Christmas
• 05/10/2006: DiS is 6! Our 66, part 1
• 15/12/2004: Mars Volta Frances The Mute: revealed!
• 17/09/2003: DiS E-Content Special
• 26/07/2003: Leaving the past behind

Links

• Yellow Datsun - official site

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