The Mars Volta Archives

Kanye West hints that he’s worked on an album with The Mars Volta

"The Mars Volta we need to finish the album"

At The Drive-In’s Omar Rodríguez-López: “I can hear an incredible amount of suffering in my old songs”

The legendary guitarist talks US politics, old music, and new project 'The Clouds Hill Tapes'

Mark, My Words: why rock needs to have more ‘quickies’

It sits there, as unavoidable as death itself. Sometimes it's in the middle of the album, like a rail replacement bus service, sometimes it's...

Mars Volta and Marilyn Manson bassist Juan Alderete is in a coma following bicycle accident

The musician has suffered a traumatic brain injury

The Mars Volta’s Cedric Bixler-Zavala says Scientologists poisoned his dog after his wife accused Danny Masterson of raping her

Chrissie Carnell Bixler filed a lawsuit against Masterson in 2019

Cedric Bixler-Zavala says The Mars Volta reunion will focus on “new shit”

Cedric Bixler-Zavala has revealed what fans can expect, after confirming that The Mars Volta are reuniting. READ MORE: 5 Weird Ways Bands Chose To Call...

Watch Beto O’Rourke play in a punk band with At the Drive-In’s Cedric Bixler-Zavala in 1994

Beto O'Rourke, the politician who almost defeated Ted Cruz for a US Senate seat in Texas, used to play in a punk band with At the Drive-In's founding...

The bands shaping the future of heavy music

Few groups come as burdened by stereotype as the metalhead. From long, scraggly hair, beards and dirty denim, to back-patches and boozing, they’re a...

Cedric Bixler-Zavala teases the return of The Mars Volta

Cedric Bixler-Zavala has teased a comeback of The Mars Volta. The band, who formed in 2001 and released six studio albums, broke up in 2013...

The Mars Volta’s Omar Rodriguez-Lopez says band are alive and well: ‘There’s so much to do there’

Claims the band will “eventually” work together again