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“An ice cream truck drove by as I got done with the song. I was like, ‘We’re keeping that!’” How a custom SG gifted from The Mars Volta and a voice memo fed into Blackwater Holylight’s doomy shoegaze masterpiece

The Portland trio started out playing house parties. But a move to LA helped them evolve into an atmospheric powerhouse that’s the missing link between Deftones and Radiohead

Guitar World

“I was told to pack for three months, learn four albums' worth of material and be ready to leave in three days!” How bassist Eva Gardner landed the gig with Pink

The daughter of Creation bassist Kim Gardner, Eva Gardner was also a member of The Mars Volta

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“Young bass players should diversify their sound if they want to land gigs. Not everyone can be in Foo Fighters”: How Juan Alderete’s infatuation with bass gear made him one of the world’s greatest authorities on pedals and effects

The Mars Volta and Racer X tone wizard imparts decades of wisdom on stompboxes and all things bass effects

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That acclaimed movie about the Mars Volta and At The Drive-In is coming to UK cinemas

Omar & Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird tells the story of the friendship between Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala

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“I had three days to learn the entire set… One rehearsal. I met Pink at soundcheck right before the first show then I’m playing in front of thousands and thousands of people”: Eva Gardner on trial by fire with pop megastars and returning to the Mars Volta

Eva Gardner has played with Cher, Moby, Pink, Veruca Salt... the list goes on. Here she reveals how it all started with a bass from Andy Johns, how it's going with the Mars Volta – and what comes next

Guitar World

“I was bartending, and I was like, ‘Hey, Mom, can you just watch the bar for half an hour? I have an audition across the street’”: Mars Volta bassist Eva Gardner recalls her audition with one of the world's biggest pop stars

Gardner – who has also toured with Veruca Salt, Moby, and Cher – points out the differences between playing with alternative outfits and a global pop star

Guitar World

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now

Featuring Skunk Anansie, The Sheepdogs, The Mars Volta and five other robust defenders of the rock'n'roll faith

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Watch Paramore’s Hayley Williams join Deftones to sing Minerva in Nashville

Williams previously joined the nu metal-era idols for a performance of Passenger in 2010

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“My totalitarian rule might not be cool, but at least we’ve made interesting records. At least we polarise people”: It took The Mars Volta three years and several arguments to make Noctourniquet

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez challenged himself to stop aiming for perfection, and challenged old friend Cedric Bixler-Zavala to write direct lyrics. It wasn’t easy for either of them

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“That was legitimately the coolest thing that ever happened to me”: The odd tale of the Mars Volta gifting a CD-R of their upcoming, unreleased album to a fan

This Mars Volta-loving delivery driver got more than he bargained for when he received an order request from a ‘Cedric B’

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"Our band’s chemistry was really coming together. This whole new world opened up to us and we were off drugs. And then Jeremy died": The anarchic early years of one of rock's most enigmatic groups, The Mars Volta

An interview with The Mars Volta's Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala

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“It worries the hell out of me. We’ve been outcasts for our whole career. If what we do becomes some sort of trend, will we die with it?”: How Dream Theater became the kings of progressive metal – and stayed there

In 2009, Dream Theater released Black Clouds & Silver Linings – an album the prog metal giants claimed could give Slipknot and Trivium a run for its money in heaviness

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“Back at that time, Rolling Stone was promoting Limp Bizkit and Korn, two overtly misogynist bands”: The Mars Volta tell their story in revealing documentary

The Mars Volta discuss their story in revealing documentary

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The Mars Volta: ‘The world we were in was very sexist and homophobic’

An intimate new documentary takes us behind the highs and lows of a band who were touched by many tragedies

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Watch trailer for Mars Volta documentary exploring intense friendship between band's two stars

Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird takes deep dive into the friendship Mars Volta and At The Drive-In duo

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“Were Black Sabbath heavy metal? They were? Then I guess we are too”: How Tool pushed back the boundaries of metal and prog with 10,000 Days

Mystery, secrecy and Arsenal FC – the world of prog metal heavyweights Tool is like no other

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"Easier on the ears if you're a King Crimson fan than a Kiss fan": The Mars Volta confound the ears on frenetic debut De-Loused In The Comatorium

From the ashes of post-hardcore punks At The Drive-In something stirred, and it was proggy

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“I feel like if I don’t approach it from a fun angle right now, I’ll just freak out!”: The Mars Volta’s Philo Tsoungui plays drums to Rush, LimeLight after hearing it for the first time

The German-born drummer happened to use Neil Peart signature sticks, despite never having heard the Rush song before

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“This could be our best album yet”: Converge drummer compares upcoming music to Fugazi, The Mars Volta and Entombed, and we sorely need to hear it

Ben Koller says the metalcore firebrands’ next album “feels like the most evolved, natural and fully realised bunch of material we have ever written”

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System Of A Down and Deftones announce stacked one-night-only co-headline show

The two leading nu-metal-but-not-really bands will be joined by The Mars Volta, Viagra Boys and Vowws

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"Prog is all about musicianship and a lot of people might think we just make slow stuff, but there’s a lot of thought and precision. We grew up on The Mars Volta and Radiohead." VLMV make their case

An introduction to VLMV, slow-motion prog pop-playing duo making beautiful, soundtrack-like atmospherics.

Guitar World

“I’ve never considered myself a guitarist, and I’ve never liked the guitar”: Omar Rodríguez-López is one of electric guitar’s most reluctant heroes – here are his 10 greatest Mars Volta guitar moments

The last thing Omar Rodríguez-López wants is to be called a guitar hero, but sorry Omar, it’s true – and here are 10 reasons why...

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“You could record yourself on a computer”: John Frusciante once wrote Jimmy Page a letter asking him to appear on his best friend’s album

Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante wanted Jimmy Page to appear on The Mars Volta’s Frances The Mute album

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How The Mars Volta's De-Loused In The Comatorium brilliantly rewired prog rock for a new generation of punk rock kids

Released in June 2003, The Mars Volta's debut album De-Loused In The Comatorium is a prog-punk masterpiece

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Red Hot Chili Peppers: European tour first night photos and setlist

The Red Hot Chili Peppers' European tour has kicked off with a stadium show in Warsaw, Poland

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