Omar Rodriguez-Lopez releases Anthology in time for Record Store Day | Plays Austin Psych Fest (4/29)

From PR:

Telesterion, the extensive anthology of solo recordings by immensely prolific Grammy Award winning recording artist Omar Rodriguez Lopez (The Mars Volta, At The Drive-In) is available this weekend on Record Store Day, April 16th. And, today Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group plays the Coachella Festival in Indio, CA amid their lengthy North American tour with support from sibling band, Zechs Marquise. Please see current remaining dates below.

The extensive double CD, quadruple LP compilation Telesterion features 37 songs (38 on the vinyl version) showcasing the variety and breadth of explorative artistry spread across his 25 (and counting) solo albums harvested for this release.

For those unsure where to begin discovering Omar's vast catalog, this is a fitting introduction. Telesterion includes a 20-page booklet of artwork and text outlining the scope of his work, with liner notes by longtime friend and Rodriguez Lopez Productions art director Sonny Kay. See Sonny's recollection of their first meeting through to their current collaborations HERE.
For more information on Omar Rodriguez Lopez's multitude of endeavors, please CLICK HERE.

Telesterion will be available on CD & LP at participating retailers on Record Store Day, April 16th, 2011 and digital download on April 26th via Rodriguez Lopez Productions / Sargent House.

Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group Live:
4/15 Indio, CA @ Coachella Festival
4/28 Dallas, TX @ Southside Music Hall **
4/29 Austin, TX @ Austin Psychfest ** [TICKETS]
4/30 El Paso, TX @ Neon Desert Festival ** [TICKETS]

** with Zechs Marquise

SXSW 2011 Film Spotlight: Taken By Storm

Head to your record collection and grab a handful of albums at random. Chances are you'll be holding at least one piece of iconic imagery from English graphic designer, Storm Thorgerson.

Taken By Storm: The Art of Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis documents the life and work of the man responsible for so many of rock's visual masterpieces. His album cover resume includes Led Zeppelin, Yes, The Mars Volta, Muse and several others. But it his work with Pink Floyd where he is at his best. It is a nearly impossible feat to listen to any Floyd album and not conjure up images of factories, light breaking through prisms, or industry "suits" on fire.

Taken By Storm premiers tonight at 9pm at the Alamo Ritz with additional screening throughout the week.

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group Pro Shot Videos from NYC and LA

Check out these uncut videos from the Mars Volta side project during their sold out shows in New York and Los Angeles. You can view all of them [HERE]. More info on the Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group [HERE]

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez to release Xenophanes

Renown guitarist and musical mastermind Omar Rodriguez Lopez is set to release perhaps his most melodic and revealing album to date worldwide on November 10th, 2009 via his own Rodriguez Lopez Productions, with European release on September 28th. The disc, titled Xenophanes the first to feature lead vocals from the Grammy-winning guitar legend -- and we don't use the word "legend" lightly, Rolling Stone hails him among their "Greatest Guitarists of All Time", placing him on that issue's cover. Check out the first MP3, "Mundo De Ciegos" [HERE]

Wikipedia tells us that Xenophanes was a Greek philosopher, poet, and social and religious critic of the 5th century BC. His pantheistic conception of the Universe supposed that everything in existence has always existed. He rejected his contemporaries' notions of an anthropomorphic "god" (or hierarchy of gods) in favor of a concept not the least bit irrelevant to our 21st century mindset, that of a singular (and hence, all-encompassing) global consciousness. His unorthodox concepts were not widely acknowledged until many hundreds of years after his death, and suffice to say, their material concerns are primarily those which humans wage war over two-and-a-half millennia later. Little surprise, then, that this iconoclastic anomaly of a man should lend his name to a new concept album by The Mars Volta's hyper-prolific mastermind, Omar Rodriguez Lopez.

Xenophanes tracklisting:

1. Azoemia
2. Mundo De Ciegos (MP3)
3. Ojo Al Cristo De Plata
4. Amanita Virosa
5. Sangrando Detrás De Los Ojos
6. Desarraigo
7. Asco Que Conmueve Los Puntos Erógenos
8. Oremos
9. Perder El Arte De La Razón Sin Mover Un Sólo Dedo
10. a) Flores De Cizaña
11. b) Maria Celeste

Monolith Fest Recap: The Mars Volta

Hope you all have enjoyed seeing all of our recaps from the Monolith Fest weekend. We saved the best for last and we truly mean it. Be sure to check out all six videos we took down below.

Intro to show + "Inertiatic"



"Eunuch Provocateur"



"Drunkship of Lanterns"



"Goliath"



"Viscera Eyes"



"The Widow"

Monolith Festival Recap : Preview

We had some flight delays today and didn't get to put everything together like we had planned too. We will start recapping this weekend starting later this afternoon. Till then we thought we would at least put up 1 of the 5 Mars Volta videos we took. Check it...

The Mars Volta announce US Tour (With Texas dates)

We already discussed our excitement over the bands headline date at this years Monolith Festival. Now the band has added dates including a few stops in Texas. As a rule we always see them when they are within 500 miles so planning for a trip to San Antonio is already underway. The Volta twice in one month! Here is the full list of dates.

The Mars Volta on Tour:

San Francisco CA Outside Lands Festival (Aug 29th)
Los Angeles CA Palladium (Aug 30th)
Los Angeles CA Palladium (Sep 1st)
Santa Barbara CA Santa Barbara Bowl (Sep 2nd)
San Diego CA Soma (Sep 4th)
Phoenix AZ Dodge Theater (Sep 5th)
St. Louis MO The Pageant (Sep 8th)
Minneapolis MN First Avenue (Sep 10th)
Chicago IL Congress Theater (Sep 11th)
Denver CO Monolith Festival (Sep 13th)
Dallas TX Palladium (Sep 16th)
Houston TX Verizon Wireless Amphitheater (Sep 17th)
San Antonio TX Municipal Theater (Sep 19th)

The Mars Volta to Headline Monolith Festival

As we mentioned a few weeks back the Yeah Yeah Yeah's will be headlining the first day of this years Monolith Festival held at Red Rocks on September 12th and 13th. The line up is pretty much perfect and today they just out did themselves. The Mars Volta were just announced to headline Sunday and words can't describe how happy this makes us. One of my favorite bands in the world performing at such an amazing venue. Wow. They also just added the Cool Kids, Wale and The Features today. Check out the full line up and get tickets below.

[Previously - Yeah Yeah Yeah's to headline Monolith]

[Official Site]

[Monolith on Twitter]

[Purchase Passes]

New Mars Volta Video :: "Since We've Been Wrong"

The Mars Volta just released their fifth album Octahedron this past Tuesday. The new album marks a different direction for the band and sounds incredible after listening to it a few times now. Here the video for the first single "Since We've Been Wrong".

[The Mars Volta Myspace]
[The Mars Volta Official Site]

Currently on tour overseas, The Mars Volta will return to the states at the end of August to perform at San Francisco's Outside Lands Festival.

New Material From The Mars Volta :: "Cotopaxi" & "Since We've Been Wrong"

Next month (more specifically on June 23rd), one of our favorite bands The Mars Volta are set to release their fifth album, Octahedron. The two videos down below, feature new songs, one entitled "Cotopaxi" (first single overseas) and the other, more mellow "Since We've Been Wrong" (first single in North America).

[The Mars Volta Official Site]

Octahedron Track List:
1. "Since We've Been Wrong"
2. "Teflon"
3. "Halo of Nembutals"
4. "With Twilight as My Guide"
5. "Cotopaxi"
6. "Desperate Graves"
7. "Copernicus"
8. "Luciforms"

The Mars Volta Won A Grammy!

This is a few days old but I was excited to see this pic. The Mars Volta won their first Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance  at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards. The band’s “Wax Simulacra” was up against Disturbed, Motley Crue, and Judas Priest. 

The Mars Volta Interview at Austin City Limits

The Mars Volta - ACL Music Festival Coverage
Music Video Codes at Roxwel

Thanks to Roxwel! They will be adding more as the weekend goes on so check it out.
http://www.roxwel.com/show/acl.html

Request: The Mars Volta Set List / Austin

Wanted to put up the other video we got from the show. This is from the beginning of the set with the band performing Roulette Dares. Keep an eye out for the security flashing me about the camera. I think it adds to the video. Also, someone asked for the set list from the Austin show the other night and this is what it was.

Roulette Dares
Viscera Eyes
Wax Simulacra
Goliath
Ouroborus
Tetragrammaton
Agadez
Cygnus
Aberinkula
Drunkship of Lanterns

Last Night : The Mars Volta @ Austin Music Hall

This was the best photo I could get from the show last night. Security was going after people with cameras stronger than they were going after people that had drugs. That and the fact that I didn't dare get any closer for fear of getting crushed, guess I'm getting old or it could have been the annoying crowd...

The energy level was high and at one point Cedric threw two full cymbal stands into the crowd and sent everyone into a frenzy. Hopefully no one was hurt although I would assume they were. The new drummer Thomas Pridgen is amazing and I have to argue with my fellow blogger Cause=Time who said he wasn't that good. The entire band plays around him in a very nurturing/inspired way and he adds a certain style to the show that I didn't think they could get back after losing Jon Theodore. The band played for nearly 3 hours! and kept the set even with material from all four albums.

And I have to get this off my chest. I hate the Austin Music Hall. Terrible venue. Ahh better...

Here is some video from last night...

The Mars Volta Tonight!!

I thought we'd say it one more time, as if we didn't say it enough. One of our favorite bands, The Mars Volta are playing tonight at Austin Music Hall! I'm so excited! If for some reason you don't have tickets, don't freak out. Tickets are still available. The show starts at 8 pm.

[Photo courtesy of greggilliot]

The Mars Volta Are Coming To Austin On April 10th!!!

Yup, you read the headline right. It's ok to scream like a little girl. The Mars Volta are playing the Texas triangle. Tickets go onsale this Saturday (3/1) at 10am [here] and will cost $42. There will be a pre-sale on Thursday at 10am, no info as to what the password is yet. Check The Mars Volta official website for ticketing information for the other shows.

Tourdates:

April 7th – New Orleans, LA – House of Blues
April 8th – Dallas, TX – Palladium Ballroom
April 10th – Austin, TX – Austin Music Hall
April 14th – Houston, TX – Verizon Wireless Theater

• Wax Simulacra-mp3
• Goliath-mp3

The Mars Volta Concert On The Radio

The Mars Volta just released their newest cd called The Bedlam In Goliath yesterday. The band will have their very first live radio concert broadcast from their show in Irvine, CA on Indie 103.1 tonight. That's right, TONIGHT!!! The exact time of the broadcast has yet to be announced, but I'm sure they'll update that later in the afternoon. Short and sweet.

*****Update- Indie 103.1 website says the show will be broadcast at 8 pm (I'm gonna go ahead that's pacific time)******

[Here] Indie 103.1 (They have a listen live button)

[Myspace] The Mars Volta

Mars Volta plays Wax Simulacra - Letterman - Jan 17, 2008

Here you go...Keep coming back

The Mars Volta Interview on The Sauce

In case you have fucked up Digital Cable service like me, or don't live in Canada...

The Mars Volta on Letterman 1/17

The band will finally make their 1st appearance on late night television. The band will more than likely be performing Wax Simulacra on Late Night with David Letterman on January 17th so mark your calenders or set your DVR. It's the bands second television appearance ever, following their amazing performance on the Henry Rollins Show last year.

[The Mars Volta]




Sylvester Stallone is the main guest that night, weird...

Update*** You can watch the video now by clicking on my logo or click [here]