New Mars Volta Album in August
Start teasing that hair out, because Amputechture, the third full-length from the Mars Volta, will be released August 22 on Universal. A follow-up to 2005's Frances the Mute, the new album features eight tracks that, in typical MV fashion, are long-- some of them 10 to 17 minutes-- with the entire album running over 76 minutes. We hope 70 of those minutes consist of flute solos. You can hear one of the songs, "Viscera Eyes", on the band's MySpace page.
Produced by Mars principal Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and mixed by Rich Costey, Amputechture (oh so punny!) also features contributions from guitarist John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and Paul Hinojos (who tours with MV and used to play with Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Rodriguez-Lopez in At the Drive-In).
Jeff Jordan designed Amputecture's Andrew Wyeth-on-acid cover art. Titled "Big Mutant", the painting depicts three working class fellows carrying the head of some sort of um, big mutant.
Architecture of Amputechture:
01 A Vicarious Atonement
02 Tetragrammaton
03 Vermicide
04 Meccamputechture
05 Asilos Magdalena
06 Viscera Eyes
07 Day of the Baphomets
08 El Ciervo Vulnerado
This summer and fall, the Mars Volta sets out with the Red Hot Chili Peppers on a very corporate-sounding tour of North America, playing arenas such as the Taco Bell Arena, the Pepsi Center, and the Quicken Loans Arena. Not that we were expecting house shows.
Noisy vicariousness follows:
08-07 Santa Cruz, CA - Catalyst
08-11 Portland, OR - Rose Garden *
08-15 Boise, ID - Taco Bell Arena *
08-16 Salt Lake City, UT - Delta Center *
08-18 Denver, CO - Pepsi Center *
08-21 Phoenix, AZ - Glendale Arena *
08-22 San Diego, CA - iPay One Sports Arena *
08-24 Oakland, CA - Oakland Arena *
08-27 Fresno, CA - Selland Arena *
09-14 Vancouver, British Columbia - GM Place *
09-16 Calgary, Alberta - Pengrowth Saddledome *
09-17 Edmonton, Alberta - Saskatchewan Credit Union Center *
09-20 Winnipeg, Manitoba - MTS Centre *
09-25 Toronto, Ontario - Air Canada Centre *
09-26 Toronto, Ontario - Air Canada Centre *
09-28 Montreal, Quebec - Bell Centre *
10-01 Quebec City, Quebec - Pepsi Colisee
10-17 East Rutherford, New Jersey - Continental Airlines Arena *
10-18 East Rutherford, New Jersey - Continental Airlines Arena *
10-20 Boston, MA - TD Bank North Garden *
10-21 Albany, NY - Pepsi Arena *
10-23 Philadelphia, PA - Wachovia Center *
10-24 Philadelphia, PA - Wachovia Center *
10-26 Atlanta, GA - Gwinnett *
10-30 Columbus, OH - Schottenstein Center *
10-31 Cleveland, OH - Quicken Loans Arena *
11-02 Grand Rapids, MI - Van Andel Arena *
11-03 Detroit, MI - Palace of Auburn Hills *
11-05 St. Paul, MN - Xcel Energy Center *
* with Red Hot Chili Peppers
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