Clickmusic — The band announced for the 10 Years Of ATP Festival this December. more info

The Mars Volta, BEAK (featuring Geoff Barrow of Portishead) and Afrirampo are confirmed for the Ten Years of ATP Festival, which takes place this December in Minehead and is on sale now. more info

NME — Portishead's Geoff Barrow will also make an appearance at the event more info

JamBase — San Francisco's Outside Lands Music & Art Festival Announces Stage Schedule JoJo Hermann - WSP :: Outside Lands 2008 by Weintrob Over 70 musical acts have been crammed into a three-day schedule for the 2009 Outside Lands Festival, set to take plac... more info

A Walking Disast3r — Just over a month from now The Monolith Music Festival will take residency at the beautiful Red Rocks Amphitheater showcasing some of the finest indie, electro, hip-hop, alternative music bands in the world. This will be my third time covering the e... more info

Perfect Porridge — I’ve been enjoying The Mars Volta’s fifth full length studio album, Octahedron, which came out in June on Warner Bros. Records. The album debuted on the Billboard charts at #12, which says a lot about TMV’s growing popularity — and hopefully... more info

Altsounds — Following on the heels of a triumphant appearance at last month's Bonnaroo festival and the recent announcement of a Sunday September 13 headline slot at this year's Monolith Festival, The Mars Volta has announced a full U.S. tour. The tour will kic... more info

Monsters and Critics — Following an appearance at last month's Bonnaroo festival and the announcement of a Sunday September 13th headline slot at this more info

My Old Kentucky — For four years and through four albums, Portugal. The Man has consistently been a proponent of not-giving-a-fuck.Fans of the Alaskan band, formed from the ashes of atypical post-hardcore act Anatomy of a Ghost, have learned to expect only one thing f... more info

Live Daily — Progressive alt-rockers The Mars Volta [ tickets ] will launch a full headlining tour next month behind their recent new studio effort, "Octahedron." The trek gets underway with an Aug. 29 appearance at San Francisco's Outside Lands Music and Art... more info