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LIVE: The Mars Volta @ Troxy, London

Outside it’s a sticky Sunday night, but the real heat is coming from the anticipation inside Troxy.  Within the hallowed walls of the renovated 1930s cinema, its pastel lit art deco windows creating an elegance at odds with the slightly mushy carpet, there’s a palpable buzz for

The Mars Volta – ‘THE MARS VOLTA’

On their album sleeves it reads ‘The Mars Volta is the partnership between Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala’. That partnership ended in 2012, abruptly. They quickly reunited, playing in noisy bands Antemasque and At The Drive-In, but it has taken ten years to write that epigraph again.

Protest The Hero release deluxe edition of ‘Pacific Myth’

Canadian rockers Protest The Hero have announced the release of a deluxe edition release of their EP ‘Pacific Myth’. The songs on the EP were originally released on a one-per-month basis via a Bandcamp subscription, starting back in the autumn of 2015. The tracks have been re-mixed and re-mastered, and sensitively corralled

This station is now operational: An At The Drive-In user guide

The Mars Volta @ Sonisphere

Here’s some shots of the Mars Volta weirding the fuck out of Sonisphere 2011, in the best way possible. Rad.