Guardian Music — From Mozart to the Mars Volta: opera star Renee Fleming tells Jamie-James Medina about her new covers album, featuring songs by Arcade Fire, Willy Mason and Death Cab for Cutie more info

Guardian Music — American soprano Renée Fleming has dazzled opera fans for decades. Now, suddenly, she's growling rock songs by the likes of Muse and Arcade Fire. Here she tells us why… Earlier this year New York musical manager Peter Mensch played a guessin... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — "El Grupo Nuevo De Omar Rodriguez Lopez (for the spanish-challenged, that's The New Group of ORL) is the melding of Omar Rodriguez Lopez (The Mars Volta, At the Drive-In), Zach Hill (Hella), Jonathan Hischke (ex-Hella), Juan Alderete de la Peña... more info

Guardian Music — Celebrated opera singer covers songs by Arcade Fire, the Mars Volta and Death Cab for Cutie on new albumSoprano Renée Fleming has learned "a completely different style of singing" for a forthcoming pop album, which features covers of Muse, Arcade ... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — Neon Indian's booking agent apparently ducked out on a previously scheduled Boston show so the band could hit up Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. I'm not surprised by that considering they did they exact same thing to us for our upcoming SXSW party (oh... more info

The Playlist — This week, Mars Volta guitarist and co-leader Omar Rodríguez-López will find his new film "This Sentimental Engine Slayer" being premiered at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam.The film is written, directed, and produced by Rodrígu... more info

Altsounds — Australia’s KARNIVOOL embarked on the magnanimous tour of their homeland last week as they began the already SOLD OUT BIG DAY OUT music festival along with sonic powerhouses Muse, The Mars Volta, The Horrors & Mastodon. This is the VOOLÃâ€... more info

Guardian Music — The Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist has allegedly left the band and will be replaced by Josh Kinghoffer, according to reportsJohn Frusciante has quit the Red Hot Chili Peppers, according to reports. After about two decades as the Peppers' lead guitar... more info

Scotsman.com — THE MARS VOLTA **** HMV PICTURE HOUSE, EDINBURGH more info

MTV.com News — Mos Def, RZA, the Black Keys can be found collaborating at the hip-hop mogul's new art gallery/ music studio.By Steven Roberts The Black Keys Photo: Nonesuch Damon Dash recently took MTV News on a tour of his new Lower Manhattan art galler... more info