May 2013
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EL PASO Show on May 10th for a great cause
February 2013
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Lock Jaw Night Vision live video from Milan, Italy...
December 2012
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Zechs Marquise Live & Interview from Zagreb...
Zechs Marquise live clip and interview from their show at Purgeraj in Zagreb, Croatia.
State IE: Zechs Marquise Live Review - Dublin and...
Zechs Marquise in Ireland
I enjoyed their show at the Workman’s Club so much that I found myself compelled to catch Zechs Marquise (video session above) live again. So I did. I went to see them play the Speakeasy in Belfast too. Both shows were excellent. A band who aren’t especially well know in Ireland, although signed to Sargent House/ Rodriguez Lopez Produtions they feature Marcel (The Mars...
November 2012
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Zechs Marquise Live from Budapest & Last Week of...
Zechs Marquise recorded live at A38 in Budapest, Hungary on the 12th of November 2012. Don’t miss Zechs still on Tour now in Europe.
ZECHS MARQUISE Nov 17, 2012 - Kristiansand, Norway @ Haandverkeren Nov 19, 2012 - Chemnitz, Germany @ AJZ Nov 20, 2012 - Brno, Czech Republic@ Fleda Nov 21, 2012 - Graz, Austria @ Forum Stadtpark Nov 23, 2012 - Dublin, Ireland @ Workman’s Club w/ No Spill...
Zechs Marquise "Guajira" Live Studio Session from...
Zechs Marquise performing live while in Brighton, UK the track Guajira from the album Getting Paid video courtesy of Bowlegs Music. - Don’t miss Zechs on tour NOW see all dates here.
Sight/Sound/Rhythm: Interview with Marcel...
Marcel Rodriguez Lopez is a Grammy Award winning multi-instrumentalist best known for his percussion and keyboard playing with the progressive rock group The Mars Volta, though this is just the tip of the iceberg as far as his musical accomplishments are concerned.
He is also the drummer and recording engineer for the group Zechs Marquise, which features two of his brothers, Marfred and Riko,...
October 2012
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Zechs Marquise European Headline Tour Starts...
Zechs Marquise will be heading to Europe for their first Headline tour in October in support of their latest release Getting Paid. Don’t miss your chance to be Mega Slapped. ZECHS MARQUISE EU TOUR 2012 Oct 19, 2012 - Oberhausen, Germany @ Druckluft Oct 20, 2012 - Stuttgart, Germany @ Zwoelfzhen Oct 21, 2012 - Hamburg, Germany @ HafenKlang Oct 23, 2012 - Antwerp, Belgium @ Trix Oct 24, 2012...
August 2012
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402 Productions: Live Review & Photos Zechs...
Zechs Marquise played direct support on the show and was the only other band on the bill. Their most recent release, Getting Paid, was one of our top picks in 2011. Their psychedelic jam rock styling mixed with 4/4 hip hop beats which then weave back into mind-warping interludes is completely awe-inspiring. I’m actually fairly disappointed in San Francisco’s lack of coming to shows early,...
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EL PASO Show August 15th - We Are Finally Home -...
August 15th - Zechs Marquise return from the road to play their last show before heading off to Europe. Joining us are our family and friends Fang Island, Adebisi Shank, Eureka The Butcher & Sadah Luna, System A and Dang. LET’S PARTY - Doors at 8pm / 18+ ZECHS LIVE USA Aug 10, 2012 - West Hollywood, CA @ Troubadour *!! Aug 11, 2012 - Las Vegas, NV @ LVCS w/ Magic Wands & The...
July 2012
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Zechs Marquise Meet Up with Fang Island & Announce...
Zechs Marquise will be keeping it live and on the road. Just finishing up their co-headline tour tonight, July 27th in Philadelphia with And So I Watch You From Afar they will then meet up with more Sargent House family for some US shows with Fang Island and Adebisi Shank. Then they head off for their first Headlining European Tour in support of their latest release Getting Paid. Let’s do...
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QRO Magazine's Live Review // Zechs Marquise //...
And So I Watch You From Afar and Zechs Marquise both trade in intricate instrumental music that often gets lumped into post-rock by default. However, one listen demonstrates how different these bands are from each other, as well as the rest of the post-rock world. Those with the luxury of catching their current summer co-headlining U.S. tour can witness this firsthand.
Given how intricate and...
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Live from Louisville
Zechs Marquise live at Headliner’s Music Hall on July 17, 2012. Audio by 45Sound and video shot by Andy Coles. Check out more videos from this show and more at 45 Sound
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Zechs Marquise Air the dirt with Dirty Laundry TV
Zechs Marquise stopped in to the Laundromat while in LA right after their tour with At The Drive In and aired their dirt to Dirty Laundry TV. DON’T MISS ZECHS MARQUISE ON TOUR NOW
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MTV IGGY // Family Time: Rockers Zechs Marquise on...
El Paso-based prog band Zechs Marquise released Our Delicate Stranded Nightmare in 2009 and the much tighter and more original Getting Paid on On Rodriguez Lopez Productions via Sargent House in 2011. Getting Paid received appreciative reviews but the band was often written about in terms of the bassist and the drummer’s older sibling Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and his prog-rock band The Mars Volta....
June 2012
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Zechs Marquise Add Another Tour in August with...
Zechs Marquise will be joining Fang Island’s headline tour promoting their new album Major coming out on July 24th, 2012 on Sargent House. Zechs will be meeting up with them right off the back of our tour with And So I Watch You From Afar . Joining us on a few shows as well will be Sargent House’s other Irish lads Adebisi Shank - P.A.R.T.Y.
ZECHS MARQUISE // FANG ISLAND & ADEBISI...
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Zechs Marquise: Violitionist Sessions 3 Questions,...
3 QUESTIONS
ONE: What is the music climate like right now in El Paso, Texas?
Marfred Rodriguez Lopez: I guess it’s random, really.
Matthew Wilkson: It’s super random.
Marcos Smith: There’s definitely not one genre that’s huge right now in El Paso. There’s a couple of venues coming up, so that’s good, but for the most part, it’s not like it’s all rock bands or all hip hop, it’s just a...
May 2012
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Zechs Marquise Announce Tour Dates to Co Headline...
Zechs Marquise will be touring this Summer with And So I Watch You From Afar our Sargent House brothers from Belfast, Ireland. We met them at SXSW this year and believe us they shred. These shows will be a lot of fun. There may still be a few more shows added so keep an eye out for updates HERE and always make sure to check directly with venue websites for door times/ set times and age...
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Best New Bands: Live Review of Zechs Marquise at...
…This show was also another confirmation of how Maps & Atlases have great taste in the supporting bands they bring on tour with them. Sister Crayon, opened, and then there was El Paso psych funk band Zechs Marquise. The core of this band is a trio of brothers; Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez, Marfred Rodriguez-Lopez, and Rikardo Rodriguez-Lopez, who also happen to have another brother by the...
Zechs Marquise live video of Crushing It from their album Getting Paid courtesy of Altar TV
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Zechs Marquise May Tour w/ Maps & Atlases & Sister...
Coming off playing a bunch of history making, sold out shows with At The Drive In in April, Zechs Marquise will head East to join up with Maps & Atlases and Sister Crayon for some shows. Then they will head home to El Paso to play the Neon Desert Fest along with label mates Le Butcherettes and many other great bands. * MAPS & ATLASES , ZECHS MARQUISE, SISTER CRAYON 5/14 Columbus, OH @...
April 2012
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State IE Feature: Zechs Marquise Interview & the...
It’s the return of American label Sargent House‘s podcast presented by 2XM’s Niahm Hegarty. This second edition features an interview of Marfred Rodriguez Lopez from Zechs Marquise, talking about his youth living around At The Drive-In and opening for their Texas reunion gigs (starts around 16:17 in) There’s also an interview of Marriages, a new band from Red Sparowes members Greg Burns, Emma...
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Zechs Marquise Interview/Show Review - Red 7...
Last summer I had the privilege of seeing Zechs Marquise in their infancy. The show was expansive, proggy, and thought provoking. The crowd was interested, but to say blood and fists were pumping would be a stretch. This past Monday, Zech’s opened for At the Drive In and their new material has lifted their live show to a completely new height. To say it’s simply the new material would be...
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This Is Not A Scene, It's A Review of Zechs...
One cursory glance at the cover of the latest album, Getting Paid by El Paso based Zechs Marquise would lead the listener to believe they were about to listen to an album of intense bass laden funk or an album of children’s songs by the Animal Kwackers. Three of the band members are brothers Marcel, Marfred and Rikardo Rodriguez-Lopez, who are brothers of The Mars Volta’s Omar, so a certain rich...
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Zechs Marquise to perform at Neon Desert Music...
Zechs Marquise just announced they will be playing with At The Drive In some shows in Texas before heading to Southern California also hitting Las Vegas on the way. In May they will head off to meet up with Maps & Atlases and Sister Crayon for 6 shows and a few of their own headliners to be announced soon. On May 26th they will play The Neon Desert Festival along side Rodriguez Lopez...
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Zechs Marquise Live " Mega Slap"
Zechs Marquise playing Mega Slap from their album Getting Paid, while on tour with Steve Choi of RX Bandits filling in for Matt Wilkson on this run. Family style. Thanks to Chuck Crittendon for video taping the show! Don’t Miss Zechs Marquise on TOUR - April/ May dates HERE
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Zechs Marquise Head West for Shows then East for...
Zechs Marquise are headed to Southern California in April for 3 shows and hitting Las Vegas on the way out before ending up at the mid week answer to Coachella The Desert Days Moon Block Party. In May they will head off to meet up with Maps & Atlases and Sister Crayon for 6 shows and a few of their own headliners to Be announced soon.
ZECHS MARQUISE LIVE 4/15 Las Vegas, NV @ Layla’s...
March 2012
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Zechs Marquise to perform at Desert Daze Festival
See Zechs Marquise perform in-between Coachella weekends at the Moon Block Party Desert Daze Festival April 12 - April 22, 2012 @ Dillon Roadhouse in Desert Hot Springs, CA.
APRIL 19 FREE THE ROBOTS, ZECHS MARQUISE, NOBODY, NOCANDO, DOT, EUREKA THE BUTCHER, AUDITORY APHASIA, CGAK
The festival grounds will include: - Outdoor stage - Outdoor Bar - Indoor Stage - Indoor Bar - Vendor Row...
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February 2012
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Sargent House & 1656 Music Official SXSW Show-...
Sargent House and 1656 Music presents our official SXSW show lineup for Friday, March 16th at Bat Bar - 218 E. 6th Street with the following bands. Deafheaven - 1:00am Zechs Marquise - 12:05am Chelsea Wolfe - 11:10pm And So I Watch You From Afar - 10:15pm Indian Handcrafts - 9:20pm Marriages - 8:25pm Gypsyblood - 7:30pm W/ special guest sets from Eureka The Butcher between bands
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Zechs Marquise to play Terroreyes TV Day Party @...
Zechs Marquise will be performing with lots of great bands at Music Makers on Friday March 16th. FREE Pizza!
More Zechs Marquise SXSW related dates to be announced soon!
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Premier Guitar's : What Are You Listening To
Zechs Marquise’s Getting Paid on the turntables over at Premier Guitar, nice one.
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SYFFAL Review: Getting Paid
You ever heard what a bass sounds like when it’s trying to gnaw at your fucking ears?
You ever heard a guitar and keys riff on the same riff at the same fucking time and have the riff turn into this head nodding, neck yanking riff that ends up combining the entire band together on one riff so that when the guitar that was once riffing turns around and just fucking murders a riffy...
January 2012
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Live Video: Zechs Marquise @ La Parada 10/7/2011
Some great footage of Zechs Marquise playing live in their home town of El Paso Texas for the vinyl release of Getting Paid.
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Eureka the Butcher announces Los Angeles & Austin...
See Eureka the Butcher & Sadah Luna live if you are in the Los Angeles or Austin areas:
2/20 @ Harvard & Stone - Hollywood, CA w/ Big Sir, Gregory Rogove & Devendra Banhart DJ’ing 2/22 Low End Theory @ The Airliner in Los Angeles
2/24 @ Hotel Vegas in Austin, TX
and listen/watch him broadcast live on: 2/21 Live Stream on Ham on Everything Radio
and follow...
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New Tracks From Eureka The Butcher!
Eureka The Butcher aka Marcel Rodriguez Lopez of Zechs Marquise and The Mars Volta has unleashed 4 new tracks of his solo electronic production project.
Check them out below:
Stay tuned for soon to be announced Los Angeles area dates in February!
MTV Iggy: Reviews Zechs Marquise's Video...
The Mars Volta sibling band Zechs Marquise’s new video for “Everlasting Beacon of Light” off their recently released sophomore album Getting Paid is like one of those epic dreams you wake up from hoping it means something — something super awesome.
Deep down you know it means you shouldn’t eat cheesecake and an entire Frito pie right before you go to sleep. But it leaves you with the...
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COS Premiere: Everlasting Beacon Of Light Video
With Omar Rodriguez-Lopez suddenly reforming At The Drive-In, his Mars Volta bandmate/brother Marcel has time to spend with his other project, Zechs Marquise. Based in El Paso, the latter Rodriguez-Lopez plays drums in the instrumental progressive rock band with his other brothers Marfred and Rikardo on bass and keyboards, respectively. Their sophomore album, Getting Paid, dropped late...
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Rock A Rolla Issue #35 Interview with Zechs...
“Getting Paid was a learning process, just like everything else we’ve gone through. We basically recorded it twice to make it better.”
This issue, The Mars Volta’s Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez, drummer in El Paso instrumental outfit Zechs Marquise, fills us in on his band and their latest, sophomore album, Getting Paid.
“We wrote and recorded the songs, and then learned to play them live,” he...
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grisl names Zechs marquise "Getting paid" #1 album...
Here at Grisl we wanted to provide our own version of year end list for your/our enjoyment. They are not all cut from the same mold. Some are music based, some travel based and some whatever was on the writer’s mind. 2011 was an amazing year on multiple levels. So, explore some of the music you may have missed, read some of the cool stories, reminisce on some amazing shows, get pissed you...
December 2011
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Alarm Magazine Names Their Top 50 Albums
Zechs Marquise: Getting Paid (Sargent House /Rodriguez Lopez Productions, 9/27/11)
<a href=”http://zechsmarquise.bandcamp.com/track/static-lovers” _mce_href=”http://zechsmarquise.bandcamp.com/track/static-lovers”>Static Lovers by Zechs...
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Ryan's Rock Show Best 11 of 2011 - Getting Paid
07. Zechs Marquise Getting Paid (Sargent House/Rodriguez Lopez)
Out of all the instrumental bands that released albums this year, Zechs Marquise is our favorite. We watched them tear strippers a new hole at a gentleman’s club in L.A. months back, and have had Getting Paid blaring through our gramophone ever since. Simply put, Zechs Marquise is “Crushin’ It!.”
SEE...
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Our Stage Names Getting Paid in its List of The...
Zechs Marquise live clip of Mega Slap from the album Getting Paid.
“Speaking of artists this very column might have hipped you to, Zechs Marquise is mainly known for their connection with the weird and wonderful world of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, of The Mars Volta fame. ZM is chiefly occupied by Omar’s brothers, and Getting Paid‘s punchy, powerful mix of jazz fusion, progressive rock, ’70s...
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Zechs Marquise make Remezcla's top 25 Tracks of...
Our original Best Songs of 2011 list was over twice as long and we wish to include them all, but twenty-five is the number, folks, and not all are suited for the Best of 2011 title. These below were the ones that were set on repeat in our heads, we bonded to, we celebrated and got piss drunk, made us laugh, made us cry and made us fall in love.
# 25 “Everlasting Beacon of Light” by Zechs...
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Verbicide Review: Getting Paid
In the Rodriguez-Lopez family, musical talent is a strong and vibrant trait. Zechs Marquise’s Malfred and Marcel Rodriquez-Lopez are the younger brothers of The Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez. It appears that the influence of their older brother’s work with Cedric Bixler-Zavala and The Mars Volta have had a large affect on their own musical aspirations and style, especially...
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Dirty Impound New Artists To Notice: Zechs...
Getting Paid (released September 27) is a work best enjoyed dressed in a velvet suit whilst sucking down whippets on a round sofa as monkey butlers peel grapes and mix cocktails. At least that’s the sort of strange scenes from the gold mine that shake loose inside one’s mind while the second album from Zechs Marquise spins. This beatifically bug-fuck album dips into early 70s Miles Davis...
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The Horn: Live Review: Zechs Marquise at Antone's...
Zechs Marquise performed at Antone’s in Austin, Texas on Friday, Nov 9th, 2011. Opening up for the prog-rock outfit were locals Parking and Equals…
…Zechs Marquise is like the Japanese anime character they are named after: unpredictable and unrelenting in their lightning-fast transitions between funked-out interludes and psychedelic rock passages. Rodriguez-Lopez brothers...
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Entrevista II Puerto Rico Indie: Interview...
Dos cosas que hay que superar al escuchar inicialmente sobre Zechs Marquise: la pronunciación de su nombre (digamos que “sex markís” se aproxima lo suficiente; nombre compartido con un popular personaje de la serie de animé Mobile Suit Gundam Wing) y el parentesco con una figura muy influyente y respetada dentro del rock alternativo e independiente.
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El quinteto de El Paso reúne a...
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Riverfront Times Show Pick for 12/6 In St. Louis :...
Let’s get the name-drops out of the way: 60 percent of El Paso, Texas, outfit Zechs Marquise’s members are younger brothers of the Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, and the group releases its music on Rodriguez Lopez Productions via affiliate label Sargent House. Like the Mars Volta, the band is mostly instrumental and exists in the space between prog and punk....
