“You come and see us and it’s three hours of getting punched in the face.” You’ve said that you give the musicians their parts with little or no preparation in the studio. Is that still your working ...

The Mars Volta have launched a stream of their new album. The record is titled Octahedron and is due out June 23, 2009. It comes just after Bedlam in Goliath in 2008. Check it out on their myspace ...

There will be no general consensus of opinion for “Octahedron,” the latest release by The Mars Volta. The band is consistently referred to as “progressive,” although it depends on which definition of ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...