Doing Saturday Brunch with At The Drive-In this weekend – recorded at the 2012 Lollapalooza Festival and recorded on August 5, 2012.
At the Drive-In was an American post-hardcore band from El Paso, Texas, formed in 1994. The band’s most recent line-up consisted of Cedric Bixler-Zavala (vocals), Omar Rodríguez-López (guitar, vocals), Paul Hinojos (bass), Tony Hajjar (drums) and Keeley Davis (guitar, vocals). After several early line-up changes, the band solidified into a five-piece, consisting of Bixler-Zavala, Rodríguez-López, Jim Ward, Hinojos and Hajjar.
At the Drive-In released three studio albums and five EPs before breaking up in 2001. Their third and final album before their split, 2000’s Relationship of Command, received a number of accolades and is cited as a landmark of the post-hardcore genre, alongside producing the successful single “One Armed Scissor“. Following the breakup, Bixler-Zavala and Rodríguez-López formed the Mars Volta while Ward, Hinojos, and Hajjar formed Sparta; Hinojos would later join the Mars Volta.
At the Drive-In reunited in January 2012 and played the 2012 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, as well as the 2012 Lollapalooza Festival. In 2016, the band reunited for a second time, with guitarist and occasional lead vocalist Jim Ward no longer participating. He was replaced by Sparta’s Keeley Davis. The band released their fourth studio album, in•ter a•li•a, in 2017. The band announced an indefinite hiatus in November 2018.
If you haven’t already, check them out and listen to what you missed.
