The Mars Volta news

Gigs going on sale this week include lots of drumming and some disco. Tickets to all these should be available from 9am Friday. Scissor Sisters played two nights in Shepherd’s Bush last week, previewing new material along with some old favourites. They’ll be back in London on 23 October for a date at The Roundhouse. Tickets £32.50 + bf . Prog-rock legends The Mars Volta released their sixth ...

NOCTOURNIQUET The Mars Volta (Warner Bros.) FOLLOWING up on 2009’s album Octahedron which debuted at No. 12 on the Billboard 200, The Mars Volta’s sixth studio album, Noctourniquet, is inspired by the children’s nursery rhyme, Solomon Grundy, and the Greek mythology of Hyacinthus.

Delirium by Rachel Swan A lot of the hype surrounding Richmond's The Memorials had to do with their improbable credentials. The three band members — singer Viveca Hawkins, drummer Thomas Pridgen, and guitarist Nick Brewer — had learned to play music in church and school jazz bands, attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, backed a lot of famous musicians (including The Mars Volta and Cee Lo ...

Band to headline the second stage of Hyde Park bash

Let me preface this article by saying I had never listened to The Mars Volta before I wrote this review. By taking a track-by-track look at Noctourniquet , The Mars Volta’s latest album, I hoped to figure out who The Mars Volta actually are, what Noctourniquet is and decide whether or not I had just wasted the last hour of my life.

Warner Bros. (2012) The Mars Volta sprang forth from the '90s avant-punk of At the Drive-In.

The American rock group The Mars Volta will make its first appearance in Israel in a concert to be staged on June 11 at Hangar 11, at the Tel Aviv port.

By Ben Nance– The Mars Volta is back to once again polarize the music world with their weirdness. Some will praise their technical brilliance and see them as innovators of...

"Noctourniquet," the sixth studio album from the Mars Volta, debuted at No. 15 on this week's Billboard albums chart.

New album: Nocturniquet Artist: The Mars Volta Label: Warner Brothers Rating: 4 stars out of 5 The core members of The Mars Volta are vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala and guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez — both refugees from Texas alt-rock band At...

Noctourniquet (Warner) by Matthew Ritchie After recording the mostly forgettable and ostentatious Octahedron, the band is back in full force, sounding closest to the power and urgency that came with major-label debut De-loused in the Comatorium nearly 10 years ago. The album retains the bands signature sound of punk meets The Smiths meets prog-metal, yet sounds restrained compared to the rest of ...