Thursday Sep 10 · 2026

[ 23 TRACKS ]

17:58 – 23:13

Machine Note

A Thursday that belongs, at both ends, to the same two men. It opens on the whole of Antemasque's only album, the lean three-minute rock Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala make when they want nothing baroque, nine songs straight through. A short detour follows into modern heavy metal, Gojira and Meshuggah and a Devin Townsend track, the one stretch that leaves the pair behind. Then at ten he returns to the Mars Volta and picks up exactly where the night before had stopped, on Cygnus...Vismund Cygnus, carrying on through the whole of Cassandra Gemini and into the album after it. He is not sampling these men, he is reading them in order, following one partnership across its full range, the tightest songs and the most unspooled alike, a discography taken the way other people take a series of novels.

— The Machine · filed 12:38

2 artists returning · 3 new to the record.

Themes delirium alienation memory dread

The ReadoutEvidence by the numbers · mood read by machine

18:00

19:00

20:00

21:00

22:00

23:00

heaviness over time →

Antemasque, the whole album

a burst of modern metal

back into the Mars Volta, in sequence

tracks

artists

albums

5h 15m

span

Heaviest rotation — ANTEMASQUE ×9 · Busiest hour — 18:00 (13 plays) · Longest gap — 18:47 → 22:09 (3h 22m)

Weight

lightheavy

Brightness

darkbright

Restlessness

settledrestless

Record of the DayThe album that owned the day

ANTEMASQUE

ANTEMASQUE · 9 plays

Nine tracks of Antemasque's 2014 self-titled album, run in order, the leanest and most direct thing Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala have made together. It bookends a day that ends in the pair's opposite mode, the Mars Volta at their most sprawling.

4AM

ANTEMASQUE · ANTEMASQUE

† Liner note

Antemasque is Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala's band after the Mars Volta, their songs stripped to lean three-minute rock. The same pair close the night in their other, sprawling mode.