{"id":4243,"date":"2014-04-11T12:19:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T12:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/04\/11\/rhcp-bassist-flea-forms-antemasque-supergroup-with-the-mars-volta\/"},"modified":"2014-04-11T12:19:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T12:19:36","slug":"rhcp-bassist-flea-forms-antemasque-supergroup-with-the-mars-volta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/04\/11\/rhcp-bassist-flea-forms-antemasque-supergroup-with-the-mars-volta\/","title":{"rendered":"RHCP bassist Flea forms Antemasque supergroup with the Mars Volta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/b\/b8\/Flea_at_Prudential_Center.jpg\/220px-Flea_at_Prudential_Center.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"218\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following collaborations with Thom Yorke and Damon Albarn, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has now formed a new band with founding members of the Mars Volta and At The Drive-In.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Flea, the perma-topless slap bassist from Red Hot Chili Peppers, has been busy recently with extra-curricular activities in breaks from his regular band, forming a series of supergroups. First there was Rocket Juice &amp; the Moon, formed with Damon Albarn and Tony Allen to play whimsical Afrobeat, and also electronic outfit Atoms For Peace, with Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich.<\/p>\n<p>Now he&#8217;s playing in a combo with Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodr\u00edguez-L\u00f3pez, founding members of millennial math-punk stars At The Drive-In and prog rockers the Mars Volta. Their band, Antemasque, have posted a video trailer as well a pair of rehearsal videos, running through their song 4AM. Skateboarding brand Volcom reports that news of the song&#8217;s release will appear on the band&#8217;s Twitter page.<\/p>\n<p>4AM is more towards the energetic, poppy sound of At The Drive-In, with strident power chords and yelped vocals; Flea contributes virtuosic flurries of percussive bass notes amid chugging rhythm lines. The first of the rehearsal videos focuses on Bixler-Zavala&#8217;s vocals, while the second focuses on Flea, with some typically dextrous playing and chat about his pearl-inlayed axe.<\/p>\n<p>As well as being yet another project for Flea, the band marks a reunion of Bixler-Zavala and Rodr\u00edguez-L\u00f3pez, who split the Mars Volta after the latter formed a new band, Bosnian Rainbows. Bixler-Zavala voiced his frustration last year in a written statement posted via Twitter, saying Rodr\u00edguez-L\u00f3pez had resisted a Mars Volta tour to focus on his new project: &#8220;What am I suppose to do be some progressive house wife that&#8217;s cool with watching their partner go fuck other bands? We owe it 2 fans to tour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following collaborations with Thom Yorke and Damon Albarn, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}