At the Drive-In has posted a tweet suggesting that they are reuniting after 11 years apart.
“Attention! To whom it may concern: AT THE DRIVE-IN will be breaking their 11-year silence,” reads the tweet on their Twitter page. “THIS STATION IS NOW … OPERATIONAL.”
That’s a reference to the El Paso post-hardcore band’s 2005 hits and rareties collection, “This Station is Non-Operational.”
The band, which disbanded in 2001, launched its Twitter account in the fall. It also has a new website, atdimusic.com., which currently bears an image of a boom box bathed in red.
There are also rumors that they’ll kick off their reunion at the Coachella festival in April, though there’s been no formal announcement.
A source close to the band says that announcement could come Tuesday.
Coachella, which takes places in Indio, CA, will be spread over two weekends this year, April 13-15 and 20-22.
Remember last year that ATDI/The Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodriguez Lopez led his group — which included ATDI/TMV singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala — on a tour that included Coachella, SXSW and El Paso’s first Neon Desert Music Festival.
Guitarist Jim Ward was unavailable for comment.
Ward, you might recall, reunited his post-ATDI band Sparta for two shows Nov. 17-18 at his El Paso club Tricky Falls.
Meanwhile, there are reports that Rodriguez Lopez and Bixler Zavalez’s other band, The Mars Volta, will release a new album in 2012. It could be the album that was expected but not released last year.
Gigwise quoted this from a Jan. 8 report:
“New Volta almost done. Vocals done. Just trying to rebutcher it and finish guitar. In studio until this week then on to Mexico to add more quantum entanglement to it. The sonogram of the little beast is looking very good.”
Cedric posted both confirmations today on his YouTube page:
“YES ATDI IS REUNITING FOR SOME SHOWS AND YES A MARS VOLTA ALBUM WILL DROP VERY SOON AS WELL.”
