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Mars Volta - 2008 Tour Dates, new album

Mars Volta

Tickets go on sale Saturday at noon for a Mars Volta show at Terminal 5 on January 14th. Their new album The Bedlam in Goliath comes out January 29th. All tour dates, and more album details, below….

Mars Volta – 2007/8 Tour Dates
December 31st – San Francisco, CA – Bill Graham Civic Auditorium (New Years eve)
January 9th – Burlington, VT – Higher Ground
January 11th – New Haven, CT – Toad’s Place
January 12th – Providence, RI – Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel
January 14th – New York, NY – Terminal 5
January 17th – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore at the TLA
January 18th – Baltimore, MD – Rams Head Live
January 19th – Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall
January 21st – Toronto, ON – Phoenix Concert Hall
January 23rd – Detroit, MI – St. Andrews Hall
January 25th – Kansas City, MO – Beaumont Club
January 27th – Boulder, CO – Fox Theatre

The Bedlam in Goliath

Beginning the first week of January, visitors to the Amazon.com music page (http://amazon.com/music) will be the first to experience “Goliath The Soothsayer,” an online game based on The Mars Volta’s forthcoming The Bedlam In Goliath. The game will be available exclusively via Amazon.com from January 2nd through January 29th, the official street date for the new record. Pre-order is not necessary to play to the game.

“Goliath The Soothsayer” is based on the true story that inspired the narrative laid out on The Bedlam In Goliath. Like previous Mars Volta efforts De-Loused In The Comatorium and Frances The Mute, the album is a thematically linked whole, the songs chapters in a bigger story, inspired by real people, places and events. The Bedlam In Goliath chronicles The Mars Volta’s time with the “Soothsayer” a/k/a the Ouija board owned by vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala, and its mutation from a source of amusement during the tour supporting the band’s Amputechture album into a malevolent psycho-spiritual force that nearly tore the group apart, collectively and individually.

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