The Mars Volta have fully returned. Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López founded the Texan prog-rock band in 2001, after the demise of their other band At The Drive-In, and they spent a decade-plus expanding the outer reaches of the sounds that they could make together. But then the Mars Volta went dormant for a decade, as Bixler-Zava...

Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López tell us about almost asking Peter Gabriel to work on their new self-titled record, and the At The Drive-In reunionThe post The Mars Volta on going “pop” and those Kanye West rumours appeared first on NME.

This week: looking at what the future holds for big gigs

Presidential hopeful and ex-punk Beto O’Rourke used to be in a band with Cedric Bixler-Zavala of At The Drive-In and the Mars Volta. It's a big part of his whole "cool guy" campaign, along with skateboarding and going to the dentist. In March, he said "it would be an honor to have the Mars Volta…

We're about a month away from the most consequential midterm elections of my lifetime. In Texas, Representative Beto O'Rourke -- a former punk rocker who used to be in a band called Foss with Cedric Bixler-Zavala, before Bixler-Zavala formed At The Drive-In and the Mars Volta -- seems to have a pretty good chance of…