Check it out, Cryptomnesia vinyl!

Alright fans, we've been waiting for this ever since the news dropped. Here is an early photo of the final print. We can 100% expect a link within' the week. I'll keep researching it for ya!

/nuts in his pants

Track Listing for Octahedron!

Heya fans,

This afternoon I was buzzing through the twitter servers and found a link to the amazon page for the new album. There they seem to have posted accurate track names. We know there are 8 tracks and Amazon has 8 listed, they are:

1. Since We've Been Wrong

2. Teflon

3. Halo of Nembutals

4. With Twilight as My Guide

5. Cotopaxi

6. Desperate Graves

7. Copernicus

8. Luciforms

These might be fake, but I'll keep everyone posted. In the meantime, tell everyone you know to buy ear protection because aural-rape is likley to ensue.

New Mars Volta Album Officialy Announced

"OCTAHEDRON" NEW ALBUM BY THE MARS VOLTA, JUNE 22, 2009!

Can it be true, 2 tasty treats from omar and cedric in such a toight time frame? Ballin!

MORE TO COME.

Cryptomnesia Track Listing

New info about the upcoming album! In stores May 5th!\

Cryptomnesia Track List:

1. TUBERCULOIDS
2. HALF KLEPTOS
3. CRYPTOMNESIA
4. THEY'RE COMING TO GET YOU, BARBARA
5. PUNY HUMANS
6. SHAKE IS FOR 8TH GRADERS
7. NOIR
8. PAPER CUNTS
9. ELDERLY PAIR BEATEN WITH HAMMER
10. WARREN OATES
11. FUCK YOUR MOUTH

Kudos to Omar & Cedric for coming up with these song titles, i nearly shat. Good job boys - I love your work.

New teaser posted below.

Cryptomnesia II Promo Vid

The Social presents - Rusko

Just wanted all of you folks to know that last night was an epic evening in Toronto. I saw a producer/dj named Rusko from tha UK.

Side story - last week I blew my car audio listening to a Rusko live set.

The Social on Queen held the event. They offer $2 drinks before midnight - 75,000 drinks later...

The set was beyond grimey. Rusko came on around midnight and spun his own filth, played the bass and - big shocker - they blew the sound system. Dope-Sonic!

The show was amazing - Toronto clearly has a dubstep scene thats been revitalized.

Below is the only good photo I was able to snap, it's Rusko playing the bass!

Cryptomnesia

This is an important notice from a Volta fan.

A new band has been formed! Zach Hill, Jonathan Hischke, Juan Alderete de la Pena, Cedric Bixler Zavala and Omar Rodriguez Lopez.

Checkout the teaser below, this band sounds exactly like a volta album - it drops May 5th.
w00t!

Cryptomnesia I Promo Vid

New Best Friend: Ilyena

I'm not sure what to think of the title - who is Ilyena? I don't know.

This song was one of their first singles, and is personally one of my favourite on the album. Since the older albums, they've shy'd away from beautiful progression and intricately orchestrated peaks and valleys. This song showcases what the band should continue to do - think their music through, take their time, and have another bong hit.

Ilyena is the most radio friendly song of the album - and I saw the results immediately.

Many of the people around me are aware that TMV is amazing and I love the band. A few days after this song dropped on the radio and MuchMusic, I had co workers, family and friends asking about the new album and if it sounded anything like the new single. I was shocked, this song is an actual hit - who woulda thunk it? It's amazing, a lot of the people who loved the song, were... get this... girls... nice.

Even at the show I noticed there were plenty of hunnies all over the place, mostly on drugs - but that's beside the point. Outside of the concert all types of girls have been humming:

If you could see, where I've been,
You'd touch the hand that's touching sin.

I mean come on - I know you love this part too, everyone does! Sexual lyrics, epic drum roll, huge climax - it's what every woman craves. That's a fact. Shit, it's what my ears crave. This song is so catchy, so well organized and so up and down that it's hard to get sick of it.

The Mars Volta is changing the way people listen to music - and the influence is spreading. More people are turning to progressive styles of music - leaving traditional song structure weeping for mercy. On Omar's most recent solo project "Calibration", we're seeing Thomas Pridgeon and Marcel the bassist dip deep into dark drum and bass. The chops, the breaks, the fills, the tricks, the drops, the bass, the sheer complexity and not to mention creativity - will create new music. Be worried.

Enough rant - the song is sweet. The meanings are obvious - Goliath speaking to the band - everything you hear is about his terrible sinful life, his regrets, his curse, and lastly the bands obsession with talking about it.

Keep on rocking - you people. Quick mention, if you haven’t listened to "Calibration", Omar's newest solo release, do yourself a favour and HIT THAT UP!