Now’s Your Chance: Host an official Mars Volta listening party

Get out your aluminum-foil neutrino-blocker helmets and pink bodysuits, Lee’s Summit— it’s time to claim your place in prog-rock history.

In a move of social-media marketing savvy, the Mars Volta is drumming up hype for its upcoming, June 23 Warner Bros. release, Octahedron, by holding a contest to allow 10 to 15 fans to host listening parties in their homes. Here are the rules:

Fans must submit an entry vying to host one of the listening parties. Entries can be submitted in any form, from youtube videos, illustrations, writings, to anything that expresses why the entrant deserves to be a “Host.” “Official Hosts” will have their party pics posted on The Mars Volta’s website (thebedlam.net). One host and a guest will also be awarded a chance to see The Mars Volta perform anywhere in the US. Entries must be submitted by June 3rd to OctahedronParty@gmail.com

Get into the mood by streaming two new songs at the album’s dedicated site, IntotheOctahedron.com.

And then, I recommend you go with something along the lines of The Mutants of 2051 A.D.

“Fleshy-headed mutant, are you friendly?”