Days after playing the Bonnaroo festival in The Mars Volta alongside his brother Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, multi-instrumentalist Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez will hit the road once again. This time he joins another of his siblings, bassist Marfred Rodriguez-Lopez in their expansive prog-rock outfit Zechs Marquise.
Zechs Marquise will release 15-track debut album Our Delicate Stranded Nightmare on vinyl and CD on August 25th through Rodriguez Lopez Productions. The El Paso, TX based quartet brings its sounds to the east coast in July, opening for RX Bandits.
Zechs Marquise formed in El Paso, Texas during the spring of 2003 when brothers Marfred and Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez came together with childhood friends Matthew Wilkson and Marcos Smith. The group soon named itself after a popular Japanese anime character and hit the studio to record its first album during the late summer months of 2004. That studio effort was later scrapped and in June 2006 the band instead released 34:26. By fall of 2006, Zechs was touring the west coast consistently, sharing the stage with such acts as Daedelus, Busdriver, The Album Leaf, (DJ) Nobody, Daddy Kev, The Gaslamp Killer, and Totimoshi. In March 2009, the band made its first trip to Europe, opening for the Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group, in which Marcel is also a player.
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dates:
July 17 Meridian – Houston, TX
July 18 House of Blues – New Orleans, LA
July 20 Club Firestone – Orlando, FL
July 22 Culture Room – Ft Lauderdale, FL
July 23 Firebird – Jacksonville, FL
July 24 Jannus Landing – St Petersburgh, FL
July 25 Masquerade – Atlanta, GA
July 26 Cat’s Cradle – Carrboro, NC
July 28 Recher Theatre – Towson, MD
July 29 Theatre of the Living Arts – Philadelphia, PA
July 31 Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY
http://www.zechsmarquise.com
http://www.myspace.com/zechsmarquise
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