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  Mars Volta's Cedric Bixler-Zavala Started Another Band

  May 15, 2013 – Former Mars Volta frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala has formally launched his new band, Zavalaz. His previous project famously imploded in January when guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López announced his new endeavor Bosnian Rainbows. …
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  Cedric Bixler-Zavala Talks At the Drive-In Reissues, His Real Mars Volta Role

  April 24, 2013 – At the Drive-In's 2001 breakup was as abrupt and tense as the band's music — the El Paso, Texas, five-piece, valorized for their volatile post-hardcore sound, dynamic live show, and, sure, mightily impressive Afros, had just released their third studio album, Relationship of Command, an overwhelming critical success and commercial breakthrough. With little word as to why, the band split shortly before a U.S. …
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  Omar Rodriguez-Lopez's Bosnian Rainbows Announce Debut With Grainy, Cryptic Video

  March 6, 2013 – When the Mars Volta officially broke up earlier this year, frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala loaded his departure announcement with a swipe at Bosnian Rainbows, the new band from Omar Rodríguez-López, his former Volta and At the Drive-In companion."Thank u 2 all VOLTA fans u deserved more especially after the way u rooted for us on [2012's Noctouriniquet]. I tried my hardest to keep it going," Bixler-Zavala tweeted. …
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  Mars Volta Break Up as Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Unveils Bosnian Rainbows

  January 24, 2013 – The Mars Volta are no more. Frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala made the announcement last night via an absurdly long series of tweets, which we guess is somewhat fitting given the band's proggier inclinations. …
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  Watch the Mars Volta's Stark, Mesmerizing 'The Malkin Jewel' Video

  June 18, 2012 – Edited by guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, this video for the Mars Volta's malevolently ebbing, flowing "The Malkin Jewel" is wonderfully contradictory. Filmed before a live audience in dramatic black and white, the band prowls through the 15-minute-plus song, which was the first single from the recent Noctourniquet. …
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  See At the Drive-In Play Their First Show in 11 Years

  April 10, 2012 – Omar Rodríguez-López has bluntly acknowledged that the reunion of his pre-Mars Volta band with Cedric Bixler-Zavala is money-oriented, nostalgia-driven, and unlikely to give birth to new material. Sure enough, At the Drive-In's first performance together in 11 years, which went down last night at Austin's Red 7, featured no previously unheard songs. …
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  The Mars Volta, 'Noctourniquet' (Warner Bros.)

  March 30, 2012 – Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of the Mars Volta has spoken recently with atypical clarity about the reunion of his old band, At the Drive-In, which is set to play Coachella alongside the Black Keys and Swedish House Mafia. "We're not getting any younger, and there's been an offer of money every year," the guitarist told England's NME. …
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  Mars Volta's 'Malkin Jewel': An Unexpected Garage-Rock Stomper

  February 13, 2012 – The Mars Volta's sixth album, Noctourniquet, comes out on March 27 with a storyline evidently drawn from Greek myth, Superman comics, and obscure British rockists. …
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  The Mars Volta's March LP 'Noctourniquet' Promises to Be Confounding

  January 17, 2012 – Prog-rock fans could be in for an exciting 2012. Earlier this month came word that At the Drive-In, the influential pre-Mars Volta band of Cedric Bixler Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López, would be reuniting after an 11-year break to perform at Coachella. …
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  WATCH: Mars Volta Perform 3 New Songs

  July 28, 2011 – After a two-year break, El Paso, TX, outfit the Mars Volta have wrapped their yet-to-be-titled sixth studio album, tentatively slated for release in early 2012, and they showed off some new songs, full of their convulsive prog-punk-rock-salsa fusion, earlier this month while touring Europe. …
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