The film, which focuses on the friendship between guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López and frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala, was largely assembled from footage Rodríguez-López began shooting as a ...

The Mars Volta believe in ghosts. Their debut full-length, De-Loused in the Comatorium, attempts to relate the story of a departed friend’s journey through life and death, a friend who the band ...

The Mars Volta really understand the whole prog-rock thing: unapologetic excess, esoteric self-referentiality, endless songs filled with sudden tempo changes and bizarre rhythms. The Bedlam in Goliath ...

So what are you to do when your band is about to hit it big, and then it breaks up mere moments later? In the case of post-punk outfit At The Drive-In, the answer was to start a new band. Former ATDI ...

The Lone Star State’s own The Mars Volta prog-rocked a packed house at Verizon on Thursday night as Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez owned the stage with a characteristic high-energy ...