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Isaiah "Ikey" Owens is better know these days as the keyboardist of the Mars Volta.

For those of you who made it out to Art Amiss XI last night, check back a little later today for a new installment of Flyer Face s, especially if we took your photo.

Free Moral Agents, with Zechs Marquise, Tin Horn Prayer and Braden Smith, 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 18, Old Curtis St.

His guitar does most of the talking. With twelve studio albums worth of Latin-drenched prog jams swirling in the creative space beneath his afro, this revered guitar legend has the whole "prolific musician" thing down pat.

Two years after the release of Dashboard Confessional's last studio album The Shade of Poison Trees, singer/songwriter Chris Carrabba slips further into his Christian rock-tinged emo-project with Alter the Ending, 12 more tracks about promiscuous women, loneliness and the sweeping feeling of summer love.

Image via Street Dogs MySpace page. Photo: Bryan Sheffield. Street Dogs hail from Boston's Dorchester neigorborhood, and are damn proud of it.

When he's not hosting a talk show on HBO, making documentary films about religious hypocrisy or writing books, sardonic Bill Maher returns to his first love -- stand-up comedy.

Some Local Election Thoughts - I really disagree that Flaherty could not have done more.

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The Mars Volta performs Oct. 26, 2008, at Voodoo fest. This yeara s lineup includes Eminem, The Flaming Lips and KISS.

Beck, the Strokes, and the Pixies have all played UCSD's 4700-capacity multipurpose RIMAC arena.

The U.K.'s Metal Hammer magazine recently conducted an interview with guitarist Dan Jacobs and singer Alex Varkatzas of the California-based rock band ATREYU about the making of the group's new album, "Congregation Of The Damned" . Watch the chat below.

We've just got a tip that deadpan dandy and Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas has made his debut solo album Phrazes for the Young available for streaming on We7.

October 23rd, 2009 by Jeff Hahne in Live Reviews , Photos , setlist The Deal: Progressive rockers perform energetic hour-and-45-minute set for a crowd of roughly 700.

After The Infamous Sugar was forced to cancel its performance tonight at Berkeley Cafe , the apologetically rock 'n' roll bill was reduced to a three band lineup with a surprise "supergroup." This evening's showcase is presented by the folks at New Raleigh , and doors are set to open at 9 p.m. with the show scheduled to start at 10.

After a comeback from a liver transplant six years ago, superstar Spanish crooner Camilo Sesto is in the midst of a retirement tour that will bring the 63-year-old balladeer to the County Coliseum at 8 p.m. Saturday.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada-based hard rockers PRIESTESS have signed a deal with New York City's Tee Pee Records for the release of the band's sophomore album, "Prior to the Fire" . Recorded in Los Angeles with producer David Schiffman , "Prior to the Fire" underlines PRIESTESS ' hard-hitting songwriting, memorable hooks and earth-shaking ability to ...

Members of The Mars Volta Tour Together in Zechs Marquise and Free Moral Agents This November Considering how The Mars Volta 's songs are so complexly intertwined, it would only make sense that the band's ever-expanding family of related projects are bound together as well.

In recent years, there's been a significant resurrection of progressive rock music thanks to such bands as Coheed & Cambria, the Mars Volta, Muse, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and even to a certain degree Radiohead.

BLK JKS gained popularity in South Africa a few years back for being black and having a predilection for progressive rock music - apparently an unusual combination, despite the best efforts of Jimi Hendrix and Lenny Kravitz.