Listen: Antemasque – “4AM” "& "Hanging In The Lurch"

Former At The Drive-In/Defacto/Mars Volta heavyweights Cedric Bixler and Omar Rodríguez-López return to the scene with a new band called Antemasque. The project reunites the veterans with Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, who of course has played on several Mars Volta records and other various projects with the duo. “4AM” is most certainly closer in sound to the work that has been heard post ATDI in that there is a strong 70’s psychedelic rock influence to it while "Hanging In The Lurch" probably has more in common with ATDI.

Here is some bonus video footage of the band during the creative process...

Video: Bosnian Rainbows – “Turtle Neck”

Bosnian Rainbows is a new band featuring Teri Gender Bender (Le Butcherettes), Nicci Kasper (Kudu, KRS-ONE), Deantoni Parks (John Cale, The Mars Volta), and Omar Rodriguez Lopez (The Mars Volta, At the Drive-In). The group formed during the summer of 2012 and will release their self-titled debut LP June 25th 2013 on Sargent House. While the four members respective pedigrees are as distinctive as the names they're attached to, the group itself is an entity all its own, unlike any other project any of them have been in. Check our lead single “Turtle Neck” who’s video is made up of photographs taken around the world while on tour.

Video: The Mars Volta - "The Malkin Jewel"

The Mars Volta released a video for the 15 minute “Malakin Jewel” off of their latest LP, Noctourniquet, this morning. Keeping things elegantly simple the black and white video focuses on the band performing live and can be viewed below...

Video: AT THE DRIVE-IN’S FULL COACHELLA SET in HD

Coachella’s first weekend is finally over, and while everyone is talking about Tupac’s hologram, I find this to be a lot more exciting. At The Drive-In performed  an energetic 40 minute set featuring tunes from their final two LP's, Relationship of Command and In Casino Out.  Make sure to enjoy lead singer’s Cedric Bixler-Zavala’s onstage banter, on topics ranging from Peter Saarsgard’s mom to Urban Outfitters but don’t wait too long because these video’s have been getting pulled from the internet extremely fast by Johnny Law.

Setlist:

01:05 Arcarsenal
04:34 Pattern Against User
08:09 Chanbara
11:35 Lopsided
15:30 Sleepwalk Capsules
19:17 Napoleon Solo
24:20 Quarantined
31:30 Enfilade
37:36 One Armed Scissor

Video: At the Drive-In's First Reunion Show

The reunited At the Drive-In played their first show in over a decade last night at Red 7 in Austin and we have footage to share. Check out the boys playing Relationship of Command's "Quarantined", "Enfilade" and "One Armed Scissor" below. If you didn’t catch the hugely influential band the first time round more and more dates will inevitably be added to this reunion tour giving you the chance to do so now. 

At The Drive-In | Quarantine


At The Drive-In | Enfilade


At The Drive-In | One Armed Scissor

Listen: The Mars Volta - "Noctourniquet / Zed and Two Naughts"

Psych punk rockers The Mars Volta will release their latest LP, Noctourniquet, on March 27th. The band dropped a track today that closes out the LP to give us a little taste of what’s to come. “Zed And Two Naughts” is somewhat reminiscent of their Deloused days can be heard below…

It’s also worth noting that Sonny Kay handled cover art duties for the band.

At the Drive-In Reunite

Looks like one of my all time favorite bands have reunited for some shows in 2012. In 2009, founding At the Drive-In member Cedric Bixler-Zavala teased a possible band reunion, explaining they'd been "making amends" something I have heard at least once a year every year from common friends but now it's actually happening.  The band's website reads, "ATTENTION ! To whom it may concern: AT THE DRIVE-IN will be breaking their 11 year silence. THIS STATION IS .... NOW ....OPERATIONAL."  Referring to a lyric from the seminal Relationship of Command LP. They've also have begun Tweeting again.

The boys are set to play two dates at Coachella this year, April 15th and 22nd but there is no word on a new album or material in general.  I kind of have mixed feelings about this, I’ve never met a bigger fan of the band than myself, I was petty obsessed with all their records and have seen them live many times so I prefer to keep the memory as is. It is  interesting to see the extent  of all the love, something that always existed but became much more apparent after they broke up.  I remember when they were around and touring on the regular I couldn’t even  give tickets away for free due of the lack of interest from most people although those that were fans were always hardcore in showing it!

At The Drive-In Website Intro from MONDIAL on Vimeo.

Video:The Mars Volta Premiere New Material Live

The Mars Volta are always a mixed bag for me, they have released material that I love and material that really didn’t speak to me at all but it can always be said that I’m interested in what they are up to.

During a July 3rd show in Helsinki, Finland, TMV took to the stage at Circus for an 80-minute set, 60 of which was apparently made up of all new material. Check out my favorite of the bunch “Walk The Plank” below…