Last year, the long-dormant Mars Volta seemed to be up to something. Socials teased something new, which turned out to be the career-spanning boxset La Realidad De Los Sueños. That was a limited release, but we also got a stream of unreleased material from their 2003 debut De-Loused In The Comatorium. After all that, things went quiet again &am...

The Mars Volta's Blacklight Shine arrives after the appearance of a mysterious "Volta Cube" in a park in Los Angeles

The Mars Volta haven’t put out an album since 2012’s Noctourniquet, but last year they became more of an active concern with the release of a career-spanning box set, which included a collection of previously unheard demos. Now the group is teasing their first new music in a decade with a cube installation in Los Angeles.

Earlier today, the Mars Volta tased something called “La Realidad De Los Sueños,” sparking speculation that perhaps the band, who have been broken up since 2013, might have something new in the works. Instead, La Realidad De Los Sueños (“the reality of dreams”) is the name of the career-spanning box set ...

What’s going on with the Mars Volta? The tangled and ambitious prog-rock band, led by Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López, has been broken up since 2013. But last year, Rodríguez-López released The Clouds Hill Tapes, a triple-LP collection of his solo material recorded at the Clouds Hill recording studio in Hamburg, Germa...