Beto O’Rourke might just be the coolest candidate in US Senate history. It’s a well-known fact that he grew up playing in punk bands with At The Drive-In’s Cedric Brixler-Zavala, and he also jammed with Willie Nelson at the songwriter’s annual Fourth Of July picnic this year in Austin. Now, as Splinter points out, the…

El Paso city councilman Beto O'Rourke is running for Ted Cruz’s Senate seat as a Texas democrat. Prior to his political come-up, O'Rourke played in punk bands like At The Drive-In. Yesterday, he put those skills to use when he performed at Willie Nelson’s annual Fourth Of July Picnic in Austin, along with Margo Price…

Just last year, things were not all good between Mars Volta/At The Drive-In co-leaders Cedric Bixler Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López. Last January, the Mars Volta announced their breakup when Bixler Zavala let fly with a series of bitter, wounded tweets, angry that Rodríguez-López had gone off to tour with his new band Bosnian Rainbows: &...

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez opens up about his relationship with bandmate Cedric Bixler-Zavala    

The Field lends his minimalist hand to this rendition of At The Drive-In’s hit “One Armed Scissor.” While the original is one of the best ways to open an album — intense immediacy, a battle cry for the triptych of urgency that kicks off Relationship Of Command — the Field’s subversion o...