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Tuesday Jul 7 | The Sidelines

Mars Volta deliver another twisted success

It seems we have a more whimsical Mars Volta on our hands since the release of its new album "Octahedron." The band's new sound is a complete change of pace since its "At The Drive In" days, but the guys continue to build steam.

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Related Topix: Progressive-Rock, The Mars Volta, Pop/Rock

Sat Jul 04, 2009

Sunday Herald

High Volta

T in the Park audiences in for a something a little different as progressive rock band The Mars Volta take to the T in the Park stage next weekend.

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Related Topix: Progressive-Rock, The Mars Volta, Pop/Rock, Bollywood

Fri Jul 03, 2009

JamBase

Omar Rodriguez Lopez: Genius Set Free

There will come a time, many many years from now, long after the dust has settled, when we look back at this point in music's vast history, and Omar Rodriguez Lopez will be left standing.

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Related Topix: Progressive-Rock, The Mars Volta, El Paso, TX, Drugs, Pop/Rock

Thu Jul 02, 2009

Ultimate-guitar.com

El Grupo Nuevo De Omar Rodriguez Lopez: Cryptomnesia [Reviews]

Released: May 5, 2009 Genre: Math rock Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions Number Of Tracks: 11 Even from the creators of such bands as Hella and The Mars Volta, it still comes as a surprise as to what they can do.

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Related Topix: Progressive-Rock, The Mars Volta, Pop/Rock

Fri Jun 26, 2009

The Pitch

New releases, Tuesday , June 23

Dinosaur Jr 's Farm is currently charting at #1 over at KJHK, Pitchfork gave it an 8.5 , and it's on Jagjaguwar, home to such current indie rock faves as as Okkervil River and Sunset Rubdown.

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Related Topix: Okkervil River, Indie, Pop/Rock

Wed Jun 24, 2009

Times Online

Free download as they unveil Octahedron

Guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and singer/lyricist Cedric Bixler-Zavala made 'concept' albums, this one is more traditional Robin Eggar Exclusive: for a free download from The Mars Volta, scroll to the bottom of this article The Mars Volta are simultaneously throwbacks and futurists to whom the three-minute song is an alien concept.

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Related Topix: Progressive-Rock, The Mars Volta, Texas, Pop/Rock

Tue Jun 23, 2009

New York City's Hometown Newspaper - ...

New Music Tuesday: The Mars Volta's 'Octahedron'

The Mars Volta: Their penchant for speed has given way to a more sedate pace on their latest disc.

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Related Topix: Progressive-Rock, The Mars Volta, Pop/Rock, Music, Entertainment

Mon Jun 22, 2009

Ultimate-guitar.com

Mars Volta Compare Being In At The Drive-In To Taking Crack [News]

The Mars Volta 's Omar and Cedric have compared their time in At The Drive-In to a " first sexual experience " or " the first time taking crack.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Sat Jun 20, 2009

XtraMSN Real Estate

Rock duo Mars Volta unveiling disappearing act

When guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and vocalist/lyricist Cedric Bixler-Zavala left At the Drive-In to form the Mars Volta, the duo burst out of the confines of post-punk into a kind of sprawling, Latin-infused prog that has been called everything from utterly brilliant to completely inscrutable.

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Related Topix: Progressive-Rock, The Mars Volta, Avantgarde, When, Pop/Rock, Punk, Mute

Tue Jun 16, 2009

NME.com

Stream Tracks From The Mars Volta's New Album, 'Octahedron'

Cedric Bixler-Zavala's talk of a potential At The Drive-In reunion was music to the ears of those who felt the Texan hardcore mob lost their thrilling, life-changing urgency when they split up and subsequently morphed into prog-rock adventurers The Mars Volta.

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Related Topix: Progressive-Rock, The Mars Volta, Pop/Rock

Mon Jun 15, 2009

Aversion

At The Drive-In to Reunite?

One of Aversion's fantasies might be coming true: The Mars Volta goes on the back burner.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Progressive-Rock, The Mars Volta

Sun Jun 14, 2009

Punkbands dot com

Jim Ward Responds To At The Drive-In Talks

Jim Ward of Sparta, Sleepercar and At the Drive-In responded to his former bandmates talk of reconciliation earlier this week.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Fri Jun 12, 2009

ContactMusic.com

at the Drive-in Reunion - 'it Might Happen'

'IT MIGHT HAPPEN' Fans of cult punk act AT THE DRIVE-IN have been given renewed hope of a reunion following comments frontman CEDRIC BIXLER-SAVALA has made in a new interview.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Sat Jun 06, 2009

The Santa Barbara Independent

From Texas to Glasgow

SINCE THEY'VE BEEN GONE: Sure, it hasn't been all that long since 2008's The Bedlam in Goliath reaffirmed the musical worth of Omar RodrA guez-LA3pez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala 's The Mars Volta , but that certainly doesn't mean I'm not waiting with baited breath for the release of its follow-up. While the duo's fifth studio creation, Octahedron , ...

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Gone, Progressive-Rock, The Mars Volta, Theater, Arts, Sparta, IL

Thu Jun 04, 2009

Ventura County Reporter

Alive in the superunknown

Is it a compliment to describe a band as "challenging"? It's a term that can place an artist among music's perpetual innovators or its pretentious assholes.

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Related Topix: Progressive-Rock, The Mars Volta, Pop/Rock

Fri May 15, 2009

Aversion

Vintage Video - At the Drive-In

Before The Mars Volta and Sparta, At the Drive-In was terrorizing late-night television.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Fri May 08, 2009

OC Weekly

[Sound Guy] Long Beach's Repeater and a Zillion-Selling Producer Try to Shake Up the Music Biz

As of right now, Repeater are probably the luckiest band on Earth. They're recording an album with producer Ross Robinson, who has produced albums by Korn, Soulfly, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot and Sepultura, earning him the dubious nickname "The Godfather of Nu Metal." Not exactly Repeater's speed - their influences are closer to post-punk and new wave - ...

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Related Topix: Metal, Sepultura, Pop/Rock, PlayStation 3, Video Games, Music, Entertainment

Tue Apr 21, 2009

El Paso Times

Frontman for band Sleepercar is promoter

He's been in a cutting-edge, post-hard-core rock band , fronted a more commercially accessible group , then started his own roots-rock band .

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Blog News, El Paso, TX, El Paso Metro, Entertainment

Fri Apr 03, 2009

The Battalion

Guest Columns

In response to the articles on music Monday, asking, "what this generation of artists can do to redeem themselves." I contend that it's not a shortage of talent or the artist's lack of training causing these musical doldrums.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Progressive-Rock, The Mars Volta, Opinion

Thu Mar 19, 2009

The Moscow Times

Chaos, Bedlam and Guitar Rock Moscow

The Moscow Times>> Issue 4107>> Arts & Ideas Stop The Silence.ru Rodriguez-Lopez to shred Moscow.

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Related Topix: Rage Against the Machine, Pop/Rock, Against, Hardcore, Progressive-Rock, The Mars Volta

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