The Mars Volta - Live - Improvisation/Abortion

The Mars Volta live at KROQ Wennie Roast 05-2005

Line up TMV @ KROQ, here:
Cedric Bixler-Zavala: Vocal, FX, Typewriter
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez: Guitar/Vocal
Juan Alderete: Bass
Jon Theodore: Drums
Isaiah « Ikey » Owens : keyboards
Marcel Rodriguez Lopez: Percussion
Paul Hirojos: sound Manipulation
adrian Terrazas_Gonzalez: Woodwind/Percussion


The Mars Volta was an American rock band from El Paso, Texas, formed in 2001. The band's final lineup consisted of Omar Rodríguez-López (guitar, producer, direction), Cedric Bixler-Zavala (vocals, lyrics), Juan Alderete (bass), Marcel Rodríguez-López (keyboards, percussion) and Deantoni Parks (drums). The band formed following the break-up of Rodríguez-López and Bixler-Zavala's previous band, At the Drive-In. They are known for their energetic live shows and their concept albums.

In 2009, the band won a Grammy Award in the "Best Hard Rock Performance" category for the song "Wax Simulacra."[1] In 2008, they were named "Best Prog-Rock Band" by Rolling Stone magazine.[2]

In September 2012, it was announced that The Mars Volta had entered a hiatus, with Rodríguez-López and Parks forming a new project, Bosnian Rainbows.[3] Four months later, the band announced their breakup.[4] Bixler-Zavala and Alderete subsequently formed a new band, Zavalaz. Rodríguez-López and Bixler-Zavala eventually reunited in 2014 for a new project, Antemasque.


KROQ Weenie Roast is a multi-artist music concert, presented annually in June by the Los Angeles, California, modern rock radio station KROQ-FM. Since its beginning in 1993, it has been traditionally held on a Saturday in June, except from 2005 to 2009 and since 2012 when it occurred in May.