Stereogum — Now in it's third year, Denver's Monolith Festival has laid out its plan to lure the mountain west region's indie minded music fans to Red Rocks for a noteworthy weekend of bloggable bands. Headlining the two-day festival are Yeah Yeah Yeahs and t... more info

411 Mania — Plus Girl Talk, Of Montreal, Method Man and Redman, Phoenix, OK Go, The Walkmen and tons more... more info

Rolling Stone — Photo: REBEL Media/WireImage The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Mars Volta, Girl Talk and Of Montreal headline this year’s Monolith Festival, hitting Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre on September 12th and 13th. Plus, Arctic Monkeys announce more dates in supp... more info

NME — Full lineup of Colorado festival is announced more info

My Old Kentucky — The 2009 Monolith Music Festival at Red Rocks in Denver, CO has just about completed this year's lineup. There are a few more bands that apparently will be added, but most all the big guns seem to be in.As I have said previous, I have discovered, ove... more info

NME — Band play curtailed set on NME / Radio 1 stage more info

JamBase — Ancestors will release follow up critically acclaimed debut album with Of Sound Mind on October 6 "LA Quintet Ancestors are suitably lysergic, their debut consisting of two conceptual, organ-striated heavy rock odysseys." -MOJO "Come to Neptune Wit... more info

Rollo & Grady — Amoeba Records - Hollywood 1.) Elvis Costello - Secret Profane & Sugarcane 2.) Mars Volta - Octahedron 3.) Michael Jackson - Essential Michael Jackson 4.) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 5.) Michael Jackson - Thriller 6.) Grizzly Bear - Veckatimes... more info

Thrash Hits — The Mars Volta Octahedron Mercury Records 22 June 2009 by Stephen Milnes Few artists nowadays release enough material for five albums, even fewer release enough for five albums in six years while working on multiple side-projects - Omar Rodriguez-Lop... more info

JamBase — New Album From The Mars Volta's Omar Rodriguez Lopez Omar Rodriguez Lopez The inaugural recording from Omar Rodriguez-Lopez's low-profile compound in Zapopan, Mexico, Xenophanes (due in September) is the first album which finds him at the helm... more info