The Mars Volta Confirm U.S. Tour Dates

The Mars Volta are taking their show on the road. The Grammy-award winning duo of guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López and vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala will set the tour in motion August 29 at Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco.

The new tour is in support of their latest album Octahedron, which was released on June 23.

Following Outside Lands, the prog-rockers head to Los Angeles for two-nights at the Hollywood Palladium on August 30 and September 1. The tour finale wraps up in San Antonio, TX on September 19.

See below for the complete tour schedule.

The Mars Volta 2009 Tour Dates:

• 08/29 – San Francisco, CA @ Outside Lands Festival
• 08/30 – Los Angeles, CA @ Palladium
• 09/01 – Los Angeles, CA @ Palladium
• 09/02 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Santa Barbara Bowl
• 09/04 – San Diego, CA @ SOMA
• 09/05 – Phoenix, AZ @ Dodge Theater
• 09/08 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
• 09/10 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
• 09/11 – Chicago, IL @ Congress Theater
• 09/13 – Denver, CO @ Monolith Festival
• 09/16 – Dallas, TX @ Palladium
• 09/17 – Houston, TX @ Verizon Wireless Theatre
• 09/19 – San Antonio, TX @ Municipal Theater