Just as the Mars Volta prepare to release their new album on June 23rd, there’s news that a reunion of At the Drive-In is more a possibility now than ever before.
Earlier this week, Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man singer Frederick Blood-Royale interviewed Mars Volta singer Cedric Bixler Zavala in a very cool feature on music zine Drowned in Sound where artists interview other artists. Naturally, they were talking about the group’s fifth album, Octahedron when something very interesting happened.
As Blood-Royale discusses the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival with Zavala, he hazards a guess that they wouldn’t entertain any offers from the festival to reunite ATDI (something the festival tends to do) but Zavala’s response probably caught many by surprise.
“I don’t know what to say about that really. We’ve been making amends with a lot of the members and having some really good talks with them. And we’ve been trying to get our financial business in order because a lot of people have been ripping off that band really badly…as far as the business side goes. I wouldn’t mind it. Y’know, it might happen, we just have to iron out a lot of personal things. A lot of it we’ve dealt with already and I’ve apologized for a lot of things I’ve said and the way it ended…we’ll see what happens.”
Of course, let’s take one thing at a time here. The Mars Volta will be touring Europe to play many of the summer festivals but also are playing San Francisco’s Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival at Golden Gate Park on August 29, 2009.
You can read the entire Drowned in Sound interview here. Listen to Octahedron tracks “Since We’ve Been Wrong” and “Cotopaxi” on the band’s official MySpace page. Also make sure to check out Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man.
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