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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

'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.

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 , ...

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.

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

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 - ...

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 .

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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