The Mars Volta: Cedric Bixler-Zavala (l) and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
Ya boy's been asleep. Narcoleptic, even, when it comes to The Mars Volta.
I admitted it on Twitter last week: I've totally been sleeping on this group, which iTunes describes as "part-metal, part-funk, part-prog rock, part-dada art project". So now, I'm trying to make up for lost time, not that I've heard just how effin' awesome these Latin brothas are.
Their new album, Octahedron, drops June 23 here in the States. This is their post-Grammy win for Best Hard Rock Performance for "Wax Simulacra", taken from The Bedlam In Goliath.
Most of the following tour dates are in Europe, with the exception of the Ventura, Bonnaroo and San Francisco dates:
Jun 9 2009 Majestic Ventura Theater — Ventura, California
Jun 13 2009 Bonnaroo Music Festival — Manchester, Tennessee
Jun 18 2009 ICA-London — London
Jun 20 2009 Hurricane Festival — Scheessel
Jun 21 2009 Southside Festival – Neuhausen ob Eck
Jun 23 2009 Volkshaus — Zurich
Jun 26 2009 Idroscalo Festival — Milan
Jun 28 2009 Olympia — Paris
Jun 29 2009 Stahlwerk — Dusseldorf
Jul 2 2009 Arivka Festival — Arivka
Jul 3 2009 Roskilde Festival — Roskilde
Jul 5 2009 Rock Werchter Festival — Werchter
Jul 6 2009 Den Atelier – luxembourg
Jul 8 2009 Paradiso – Amsterdam
Jul 10 2009 T In the Park Festival — kinross-Shire, Scotland
Jul 11 2009 Oxegen Festival — Dublin
Jul 13 2009 Somerset House — London
Aug 29 2009 Outside Lands Festival — San Francisco, California
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