Omar Rodriguez Lopez Announces North American Tour Dates

Immensely prolific Grammy Award winning recording artist Omar Rodriguez Lopez (The Mars Volta, At The Drive-In) announces spring 2011 North American headlining tour dates with his Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group, bookended by performances at next week's SXSW Music Festival in Austin, TX and the Coachella Festival in Indio, CA in April. Sibling band, Zechs Marquise will support most shows.

In April, Omar will also release a quadruple LP/double CD collection culled from his multiple solo and collaborative albums. The extensive 37-song (38 on the vinyl version) compilation of the guitarist's work, titled "Telesterion" showcases the variety and breadth of explorative artistry spread across his 25 (and counting) solo albums harvested for this release.

For those unsure where to begin discovering Omar's vast catalog, this is a fitting introduction. "Telesterion" includes a 20-page booklet of artwork and text outlining the scope of his work, with liner notes by longtime friend and Rodriguez Lopez Productions art director Sonny Kay.

Omar Rodriguez Lopez's genre-defying sixteen-year career has resulted in more than 40 albums, a Grammy Award and being deemed among Rolling Stone's "Greatest Guitarists of All Time." His seminal and critically acclaimed band, At the Drive-In, redefined popular rock music at the end of the last decade. Since that time, in addition to being both a solo artist and leader/composer/producer of the The Mars Volta, Rodriguez Lopez has produced groundbreaking recordings for the likes of Juliette Lewis, Le Butcherettes and collaborated with Hans Zimmer, John Frusciante, and Erykah Badu, to name a few. In the early years of the new millennium, Rodriguez Lopez began filmmaking, familiarizing himself with the process by way of producing two unreleased films (2001's "A Manual Dexterity" and 2003's "Letters from Dystopia") in lieu of any formal training. His third film, "The Sentimental Engine Slayer," is the director's debut feature release that had its US premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2010. Despite a virtually continuous commitment to the process of recording and touring with his various bands, Rodriguez Lopez has managed to complete two more films since principal production on "The Sentimental Engine Slayer" wrapped in 2007; "El Divino Influjo De Los Secretos" and "Boiling Death Request" are both currently in post-production.

"Telesterion" will be available everywhere on Record Store Day, April 16th, 2011, via Rodriguez Lopez Productions/Sargent House.

Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group Live:

• 3/19 Austin, TX @ Emo's Annex (Sargent House / RLProductions showcase) **
• 3/21 Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald's **
• 3/22 New Orleans, LA @ HOB Parish **
• 3/24 Knoxville, TN @ Bijou Theater **
• 3/25 Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse **
• 3/26 Asheville, NC @ Orange Peel **
• 3/27 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club **
• 3/28 Philadelphia, PA @ TLA **
• 3/29 New York, NY @ Highline Ballroom **
• 3/30 Cambridge, MA @ Middle East **
• 3/31 Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom **
• 4/1 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop **
• 4/2 Newport, KY @ Southgate House **
• 4/3 Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge **
• 4/10 Mexico City, MX @ Vive Latino
• 4/12 San Francisco @ Great American Music Hall
• 4/15 Indio, CA @ Coachella Festival
• 4/28 Dallas, TX @ Southside Music Hall **
• 4/29 Austin, TX @ Austin Psychfest **
• 4/30 El Paso, TX @ Neon Desert Festival **

** with Zechs Marquise

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