The Mars Volta

The tenth annual Voodoo Music Experience, set for the weekend of October 24-26, has added several significant names to their already-outstanding lineup. Joining headliners Nine Inch Nails, R.E.M., and Stone Temple Pilots are Brooklyn indie-experimentalists TV On The Radio, space-funk hip-hop group N.E.R.D., prog-metal screamers The Mars Volta, 90's alt-rockers the Butthole Surfers, as well as several more. Also of note is the addition of the Deep Soul/Raw Funk Revue which will meld Memphis' Charles Walker and the Dynamites with New Orleans natives Big Sam's Funky Nation for what is bound to be an amazing collaboration.

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The Bedlam in Goliath is the fourth full length LP from progressive rockers The Mars Volta hitting an all time high for the group, at #3 on the Billboard charts. Readers familiar with the group's catalog will not be disappointed with their most aggressive album to date. Latin-infused psychedelic textures are the Volta's signature sound. Drawing on past experiences of death and addiction for their previous records, The Bedlam in Goliath echoes a strange run in with a Ouija type game called the Soothsayer. Lead singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala purchased the game while on a trip through Jerusalem.

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