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Jim Ward walked up to Chuck Ragan during a recent stop on "The Revival Tour" and announced he was going for a walk.

The Revival Tour is scheduled for Tuesday, November 10. Revival Tour Old hardcore rockers don't die - they just learn to play "This Land is Your Land." At least, that seems to be the operating principle behind this newly annual roots-rock hootenanny.

Strap yourself in, hold on, and feel free to scream. Few musical experiences match the roller coaster ride that is THE MARS VOLTA, and in 2010, they'll loop the loop in Australia for the fourth time.

October 23rd, 2009 by Jeff Hahne in Live Reviews , Photos , setlist The Deal: Progressive rockers perform energetic hour-and-45-minute set for a crowd of roughly 700.

There are simply no other bands doing what the Mars Volta do today and everyday.

Mellow down easy: The Mars Volta. Details: 8 p.m. Thursday, September 17, atVerizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas , 713-230-1600 or www.livenation.com . The Mars Volta The Mars Volta is far too weird for its own popularity, but somehow Omar Rodriguez-Lopez , Cedric Bixler-Zavala and their virtual lazy Susan of band members have turned virtuosic, ...

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler Zavala of the Mars Volta get dark and loud on their newest CD.

The music of The Mars Volta is like truck-stop coffee at the tail-end of an all-nighter: Surges of energy that are a little too ragged and uneven for maximum enjoyment, yet appreciated to the point of craving as it's going down.

When the Mars Volta unleashed its 2002 debut EP, Tremulant , some critics cheekily tagged the band "Punk Floyd." Given that vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala and guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez cut their teeth in the castle-storming emo-core outfit At The Drive-In, it seemed natural that "punk" would the predominant word in their freshly hatched group's ...

Legendary Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd are pulling into Casino del Sol's AVA for their first Tucson show since nearly selling out the Tucson Convention Center with ZZ Top in late 1999.

Russian-born New York City-based singer-pianist Regina Spektor brings her distinctive, classical-influenced piano and impressive vocals to Metropolis on Sept.

Where: Legends When: Thursday, 4: 30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Tickets: $15 in advance at Lyle's Place, the Strathcona Hotel, Backstage and www.ticketweb.ca Threes, the third and latest effort from Sparta, sounds an awful lot like U2 in spots.

Love 'em or hate 'em, El Paso's The Mars Volta are an undeniable force to be reckoned with.

Ashley Tisdale, "Guilty Pleasure" Tisdale's debut, "Headstrong," was released in 2007, when several things were different.

American Idol finalist Chris Daughtry never met a clich he couldn't steamroll his way over on angst-driven post-grunge rock.

Since the Mars Volta's magnetic debut EP, 2002's Tremulant , At the Drive-In expat tandem Omar Rodriguez Lopez and Cedric Bixler Zavala have followed a career trajectory that parallels a round of Tetris : musical shapes of various size and color falling with ever-increasing speed and complexity.

At first glance, Jack White's latest side project, the Dead Weather, seems like a pointless enterprise.

It seems we have a more whimsical Mars Volta on our hands since the release of its new album "Octahedron." The band's new sound is a complete change of pace since its "At The Drive In" days, but the guys continue to build steam.

T in the Park audiences in for a something a little different as progressive rock band The Mars Volta take to the T in the Park stage next weekend.

There will come a time, many many years from now, long after the dust has settled, when we look back at this point in music's vast history, and Omar Rodriguez Lopez will be left standing.