The Latest Breaking News from the Mars Volta

The Mars Volta announce Lucro Sucio; Unfinished Business, their first live album in over twenty years

The Mars Volta's new live album Lucro Sucio; Unfinished Business, is the result of an interactive campaign with the band's fans

Metal Hammer · Jul 1

“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 · Mar 25

“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

Guitar World · Mar 18

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

Louder · Apr 14, 2025

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

Metal Hammer · Mar 27, 2025

“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

Louder · Mar 26, 2025

“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’

MusicRadar · Mar 4, 2025

"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

Louder · Feb 20, 2025

“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

Metal Hammer · Nov 23, 2024

“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

MusicRadar · Nov 19, 2024