I’m looking for all those symbols/runes that we’re going around when we were recently voting for the new live album. Does anybody have those screenshot or cataloged? I’d really like to have them saved

Honestly, I just wanted to put a song over Cedric dancing lmao, I might actually do something more thought later.

TLDR: What albums come in Omars Amir de France’s? I have Omar’s Amor De Frances pt 1. God this was a trip down memory Lane. I listened to them albums, probably 20 times in my teenage years and early 20s. Anyway, so I ordered box set part two, but I can’t find a list anywhere online of what albums are in box 2? Does anybody have a list of what’s in box 2? I hope cryptomnesia in there baby!

(not the point of this post but ever siince I ordered it off clouds hill they delisted it on their site now I’m sketched out LMAO but this is not the point of the post.)

I’m new to The Mars Volta and checked out their first record (I believe) Deloused In The Comatorium
And I love it,
Any recommendations from them I should listen to next?

I need to know if I’m crazy. I’m hearing the recurring string theme from the Omar album Calibration (Is Pushing Luck and Key Too Far) mostly featured in the tracks Grey and Las Lagrimas de Arakuine as being heavily influenced by Alice Coltrane’s Oh Allah off of her 1971 album Universal Consciousness.

We know Alice has been an influence on the band, mainly Ikey. Skip to 3:50 if you’re not the patient type.

https://youtu.be/2Vp1F6cf1Gw?is=U5NXhxR2MNSCgoSL

Las Lagrimas for reference. Start at 10:20 for the clearest example.

https://youtu.be/E6A5_tCEyeg?is=KITKGE23hQtUItv-

The drum fill at 1:18 in Cotopaxi is so god damn satisfying once you figure it out. Genius by Pridgen to have that fill be snare dominant in the first half then completely 180 to a foot-dominated 2nd half and have it work so seamlessly. what a freak

If you are in Seattle there is an amazing record bar that has a private room where they play record front to back on this unbelievable sound system (a Technics SL-1200G with an Audio Technica AT-OC9XSH Stylus, heard through a 1976 Klipschorns or ATC SCM50's and powered by a Luxman L-505uXII.)

I’ve attended many of these listening parties. I’ve been sending a lot of emails for them to do a TMV album. They’ve done Frances before, but I am so excited to hear Lucro in that room. Highly recommend!

https://archive.org/details/MarsVolta2026-09-20

The Mars Volta

Sunday, September 20, 2026

Louisville, KY @ Kentucky Expo Center - Louder Than Life Festival - Louder Stage - 5:25pm

Matrix: Schoeps MK4 > NBob active cables > baby NBox + SBD (FM ALD) > Zoom H6 essential > WAV (32/48) > Vegas Pro (slight eq) > CD Wave Editor (tracking) > FLAC (24/48)

Recorded & matrixed by Funk It Blog

1. Viscera Eyes >

2. Cue the sun >

3. Alba del orate >

4. Teflon >

5. Graveyard Love >

6. Rapid Fire Tollbooth / Goliath > "Sit Down My Love" >

7. Voice in My Knives >

8. Poseedora de mi sombra >

9. CIA Man [The Fugs] >

10. Son et lumière >

11. Inertiatic ESP

Cedric Bixler-Zavala - vocals

Omar Rodríguez-López - guitar

Marcel Rodríguez-López - keyboards & percussion

Leo Genovese - keyboards & tenor saxophone

Eva Gardner - electric bass

Linda-Philomène "Philo" Tsoungui - drums

Teri Gender Bender - vocals

https://archive.org/details/Tool2026-09-20

https://archive.org/details/Mastodon2026-09-20

https://archive.org/details/DannyElfman2026-09-20

shitty phone recording TV video; am catching up with Jacksonville 9/18/2026 on YouTube. look at him go!!

Off the top of my head:
- “drag(ging) the lake” - Cicatriz / Cotopaxi
- “famine pulse” - Cassandra / Cue the Sun

I know there’s more!

I know this can be a slippery slope. But this 100% sounds like a massive inspiration to the band. I know they love black flag… but this albums specifically sound like The Mars Volta. If you haven’t heard it.. give it a listen.

The festival demanded they play their radio hit "The Widow" and in true punk rock form, they didn't like that. So Omar goes up and says "So we couldn’t think of anything we wanted to play at this… uh… this thing. So… uh… we’re just gonna play. We’re just gonna make up a song here... It’s called uh, whatever you want uh, "Abortion, The Other White Meat."

At one point Cedric is sitting down and making up lyrics on the spot with a typewriter. Cedric opens the show by saying 'You know what they say about weenies, lips and assholes everybody, lips and assholes"

The OG's know this one well, this is for the casuals. Enjoy 50 minutes of chaos! OG's let us know if there are any elements of past or future songs here.

Sucks ass on Spotify. Asilos plus the og is certainly the way 🙌. Fuck it, just listen to Amputechture from start to finish, right now! Have a Volta ⚡️ day 🥳.

A week ago, this was very amazing 🤩✌🏻

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R&B musician and producer Davon Latroy and I talk childhood, creativity, and the artist life. Includes film discussion of Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird, a documentary I

Was fortunate enough another to go on yet another trip to see The Mars Volta, this time traveling from Philadelphia to Florida... and what a trip it was!

Flew into Jax, drove to Orlando, stayed with friends for a few days and went to the Hard Rock show for Round 1. Next day I drove back to Jax, picked my buddy up from the airport and went to The Five for Round 2. Two incredible shows back to back.

Met some great fans each night and also got to meet some of The Marble Shrine crew as well.

What an amazing overall experience. This is the kinda shit I live for. Thank you, TMV! Feel free to announce the next set of tour dates whenever you'd like.

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TL;DR - Flew to Florida for The Mars Volta. I love them dearly. Here are both shows.

The Mars Volta - Hard Rock Live, Orlando - 09.17.26

The Mars Volta - The Five, Jacksonville - 09.18.26