The Mars Volta to perform at College Street Music Hall in September
Tickets go on sale on April 28th
The Mars Volta w/ Teri Gender Bender
Saturday September 23, 2023 at 8:00PM – Doors at 7:00PM
College Street Music Hall – 238 College Street, New Haven, CT 06510
$49.50 – $99.50
All Ages
Tickets go on sale next Friday 4/28 at 10AM via www.collegestreetmusichall.com
The Mars Volta have officially released ‘Que Dios Te Maldiga Mi Corazón’ – an acoustic and reimagined version of their 2022 fan and critically acclaimed comeback album ‘The Mars Volta’.
Much more than a simple “un- plugged” version of ‘The Mars Volta’ – the bands self-titled seventh album and return as a band – this acoustic rendition furthers the mission of the source music, which drew into sharper focus the traditional Latin influences that have always inspired Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler- Zavala. This is, says Rodríguez- López, The Mars Volta’s version of a “folk record”, tracing the melodies and rhythms of the parent album back to their traditional Caribbean roots and challenging listeners to hear the group in an entirely new light.
Stream the album in full here:
The band previously released the singles “Blank Condolences (Acoustic)” and “Palm Full of Crux (Acoustic)”.
The upcoming new album isn’t simply more content, but a bold, radical, political album, and one that recontextualizes the music of the group’s powerful last album within the lineage of the Latin and Caribbean sounds that Rodríguez- López has been mining his entire career, only many ears couldn’t hear past the distorted guitars to know what was going on. The songs are re- orchestrated and set to the traditional Caribbean rhythms that Rodríguez-López grew up on.
Here, “Black Condolences” becomes an object lesson in this music, segueing be- tween three different traditional rhythms across its three-and-a-half minutes.
‘Que Dios Te Maldiga Mi Corazón’ track listing
- Blacklight Shine (Acoustic)
- Graveyard Love (Acoustic)
- Shore Story (Acoustic)
- Vigil (Acoustic)
- Que Dios Te Maldiga Mi Corazón (Acoustic)
- Cerulea (Acoustic)
- Flash Burns From Flashbacks (Acoustic)
- Palm Full Of Crux (Acoustic)
- No Case Gain (Acoustic)
- Tourmaline (Acoustic)
- Equus 3 (Acoustic)
- Collapsible Shoulders (Acoustic)
- The Requisition (Acoustic)
For Rodríguez-López, ‘Que Dios Te Maldiga Mi Corazón’ is a long-held dream, finally coming true. “I realized I could finally make a record like this now, I just had to make it happen,” he says. “That was the experiment. And it was super-fun. I feel like The Mars Volta is finally beginning – that’s why the last album was self- titled, because we’ve finally stripped everything away and arrived at what the whole concept was at the beginning. And this acoustic version comes from a profound place, with its own meaning and philosophy, and its own reason for be- ing.”
Today the band has announced additional headline dates set to take place this fall, including a stop at New Haven’s College Street Music Hall. The dates announced today will go on sale Friday, April 28 at 10AM local time. Tickets and more information is available at www.themarsvoltaofficial.com
In celebration of Record Store Day 2023, the band’s highly celebrated singles “Frances The Mute” and “The Widow (live)” have been re-mastered and will be available on vinyl exclusively at participating record stores worldwide
The Mars Volta are back.
The Mars Volta
Breaking a decade of omertà, The Mars Volta reawaken from their lengthy hiatus with an eponymous album that radically reshapes their paradigm.
Formed by guitarist/composer Omar Rodríguez-López and singer/lyricist Cedric Bixler-Zavala, The Mars Volta rose from the ashes of El Paso punk-rock firebrands At The Drive-In in 2001. On a mission to “honour our roots and honour our dead”, The Mars Volta made music that fused the Latin sounds Rodríguez-López was raised on with the punk and underground noise he and Bixler-Zavala had immersed themselves in for years, and the futuristic visions they were tapping into. The albums that followed were one-of-a-kind masterpieces, their songs of breath-taking complexity also possessing powerful emotional immediacy. After the group fell silent, a legion of devotees (including Kanye West) kept up an insistent drum-beat for their return.
Now – a year after La Realidad De Los Sueños, a luxurious 18-LP box-set compiling their back catalogue, sold out its 5,000 print run in under 24 hours – the duo are back, accompanied this time by keyboard-player Marcel Rodríguez-López, bassist Eva Gardner and drummer Willy Rodriguez Quiñones. The new album shakes loose some of The Mars Volta’s long-standing shibboleths, fearlessly defying all expectations and categorisations.
Instead, The Mars Volta pulses with subtle brilliance, Caribbean rhythms underpinning sophisticated, turbulent songcraft. This is The Mars Volta at their most mature, most concise, most focused. Their sound and fury channelled to greatest effect, The Mars Volta finds Rodríguez-López’s subterranean pop melodies driving Bixler-Zavala’s dark sci-fi tales of the occult and malevolent governments. Distilling all the passion, poetry and power at their fingertips, The Mars Volta is the most exciting and accessible music the group have ever recorded.
Teri Gender Bender
It is simply impossible to label Teri Gender Bender within a specific genre. This doesn’t come as a surprise looking at her musical accomplishments so far: Primarily known for her exceptional performances as frontwoman and multi- instrumentalist of Mexican garage punk band Le Butcherettes, she has also contributed vocals on numerous records for Omar Rodríguez-López, as well as collaborating with musical luminaries such as Melvins and Iggy Pop. As a solo artist, Teri has outgrown any kind of categorization, presenting herself non-binary, cheeky and colorful. She has moved far beyond common genre boundaries, inviting us to embrace and celebrate oneself’s weirdness and quirkiness.
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