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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...

Will Lavin - 28th May 2019

Music News

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...

Tom Skinner - 7th November 2018

Blogs

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...

Tom Connick - 20th March 2018

Music News

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...

Anna Matheson - 11th February 2018

Music News

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

Rob McCallum - 12th July 2016

Music News

The Mars Volta’s Cedric Bixler-Zavala says he used to spend ‘$1,000 a week on weed’

"I was a monster," says frontman of drug habit

NME News Desk - 30th June 2015

Music News

Mars Volta frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala denies band are to reunite

Singer takes to Twitter to reveal he's working on material with new band Antemasque

Dean Van Nguyen - 11th June 2015

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