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Mars Volta announces more 2008 tour dates

By Kasia Galazka on 8:32 PM on December 9, 2007

The Mars Volta are sure making good use of their freshly printed 2008 yearly planners, rattling off tour dates in backward chronological order. In addition to the smattering of international dates that will follow the release of The Bedlam in Goliath on Jan. 29, the band just added the top piece of its sandwich. The U.S. dates will support Goliath the month before it is released. All this without mentioning the new Mars Volta video game, early in the new year. Overwhelmed by prog-rock news yet? Us too. Sink your chompers into these U.S. dates: January 9 - Burlington, Vt.... read more

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Mars Volta - the video game

By Jeremy Goldmeier on 2:59 PM on November 20, 2007

The Mars Volta have faced accusations of pretension before. And the band's latest announcement won't exactly silence those critics. Ever the explorers of strange new ground, TMV plans to release an accompanying video game to its latest opus, The Bedlam in Goliath, on Amazon.com's music page. The electronic adventure, entitled Goliath The Soothsayer, becomes available on Jan. 2. Okay, so it sounds a bit wacky, but clearly there's a rational explanation for this odd promotional device. Isn't that right, Mars Volta press release? "The Bedlam In Goliath chronicles The Mars Volta's time with the "Soothsayer" a/k/a the Ouija board owned... read more

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The Mars Volta provokes Bedlam on new album

By Jeremy Goldmeier on 10:56 AM on October 23, 2007

It's hard to imagine a more polarizing act working today than The Mars Volta. For every critic who declared 2005's Frances the Mute "practically a compulsory purchase," there was another who was prepared to terminate his relationship with band masterminds Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez. Then there are the fans, who range in devotion from cultish zealotry to urine-throwing hatred. So get ready for the sparks to fly when The Mars Volta releases its new album, The Bedlam in Goliath, on Jan. 29. Considering that the title is probably the most lucid of TMV's career, there could yet be hope... read more

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