Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Vincent Cornelli The Mars Volta are on tour. Last night (10/8) they stopped in NYC to play a 90-or-so minute set at Roseland Ballroom..."good times. I was basically dead center...maybe 20 or so rows back. crowd was pretty... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Bob Mould @ ATP NY (more by Ryan Muir) tonight in NYC * DANCE * Valleys @ Bruar Falls * Os Mutantes, DeLeon @ Webster Hall * The Mars Volta @ Roseland Ballroom * Drummer, Royal Bangs, Bottle Up &... more info

All About Jazz — On Saturday evening October 24 at 8:00 p.m., Juan Alderete, Thomas Pridgen and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of The Mars Volta will perform at a concert at Hollywood's Key Club which will include a presentation of Bass Player magazine's Lifetime Achievement A... more info

Stereogum — While we were rocking the Catskills, enjoying what Wayne Coyne said was "the greatest collection of underground music ever assembled," dozens of other great indie bands (and a few hip-hop luminaries) put on a much larger mountain festival in Morri... more info

Culture Bully — To those who paid the $30+ bill to enter the door, the brevity of it all was the only gripe worth mentioning once all was said and done. Although it left more than a few audience members a bit unhappy, the condensed show likely helped Cedric, Omar an... more info

Rolling Stone — • M.I.A., Dead Weather Heat Up Outside Lands • DMB Team With Fergie at Outside Lands • Mars Volta, Mastodon Pummel Outside Lands • Pearl Jam Ignite Outside Lands • Blink-182 Pay Tribute to DJ AM • Incubus, The National Rock Outside Lands ... more info

Live Daily — Perfect weather added to the perfect storm of festival cheer on day two (8/29) of the 2009 Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Saturday's crowd filled out substantially--with fans turning out to see such names ... more info

Rolling Stone — The Mars Volta wrapped day two at Outside Lands’ Twin Peaks stage with a thundering and delirious 90-minute set that drew Metallica’s Lars Ulrich and Robert Trujillo and their U.K. tourmates Mastodon to the side of the stage to gawk. The band, le... more info

Live Daily — On the eve of their tour kick-off, progressive alt-rockers The Mars Volta [ tickets ] have expanded the US headlining outing behind their recently released new album, "Octahedron." The Texas-born, Mexico-based group begins the summer and fall excu... more info

Rolling Stone — Photo: Dyson/WireImage(Vedder), McDonald/Getty(Matthews) Right now San Francisco is rockin’ at the Outside Lands festival — Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, Tenacious D, M.I.A., Mastodon, the Mars Volta and dozens more bands will take the stage in... more info