Rolling Stone — New on shelves this week is the latest progtastic adventure from the Mars Volta. However, on their fifth album Octahedron, singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala and guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez scale back the theatrics for more mellow and acoustic nine-song ... more info

The Good, The Bad and The Unknown — Not only does today see the 5th studio album by Austin's dynamic duo Omar and Cedric. Octahedron marks the 5th album featuring Omar on lead guitar...to come out this year. With three solo albums and side project featuring Cedric on vocals...and the... more info

NME - Radar — Well Euro view By far and a long way the classiest festival. You can just hold your camera up anywhere inside the Sonar By Day complex and get a shot that looks like the asylum scene from A Clockwork Orange... Plus, they have art at. The questi... more info

All About Jazz — This interview is part of the book/dvd project "Under your skin" which will include Interviews with: Anthony Braxton, Ornette Coleman, Zap Mama, Chuck D / Public Enemy, Korn, Les Nubians, Taj Mahal, Yusef Lateef, Dj Vadim, Bob James, Living Colour, M... more info

Rolling Stone — Weirdly arriving just before a new Mars Volta album, Cryptomnesia (Rodriguez Lopez Productions) is nominally a side project by the band’s guitarist-composer. But El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez are really a five-piece Volta, including singer... more info

Sky News — Gabon's president Omar Bongo Ondimba has died in a Spanish clinic. more info

MTV.com News — Young Buck shows 'respect' to the G-Unit but still wants out, in Mixtape Daily. By Shaheem Reid, with additional reporting by Rahman Dukes and Tim Kash Lil Wayne Photo: Getty Images Main Pick Preview: Young Buck's Back on My Buck Sh-- Nu... more info

Live Daily — For the second time this year, The Pretenders [ tickets ] will take to the road in support of their recently released album "Break Up the Concrete," accompanied this go-round by Cat Power [ tickets ] and Juliette Lewis [ tickets ]. The English ro... more info

PopSugar — Click to ReadAngelina Jolie Urges the UN to Act on Darfur In an op-ed for Time magazine out today, Angelina Jolie attempts to lend some publicity to the crisis in Darfur. Today, the United Nations Security Council will look into the case against Sud... more info

All About Jazz — Inspired Turkish Master Omar Faruk Tekbilek Remixed for Rare Elements The divine is everywhere, in the breath of a reed flute, the clank and hum of machines, or the slammin' beats of an electronic track. This is Turkish virtuoso Omar Faruk Tekbileks... more info