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Ten Years of ATP
A two hour prog marathon from The Mars Volta and Cedric Bixler-Zavala didn't even work up a sweat. Dodgy seventies garb, funked up bass solos and relentless ...
Sun, Dec 27 | from ClashMusic.com
The Mars Volta: Another New Drummer
For more on the internal operations of The Mars Volta, check our exclusive feature/interview with bandleader Omar Rodriguez Lopez here.
Mon, Nov 30 | from JamBase
Album Review: Omar Rodriguez Lopez – 'Xenophanes' (Rodriguez Lopez Productions) - Lime Wire
Album Review: Omar Rodriguez Lopez – 'Xenophanes' (Rodriguez Lopez Productions) Lime Wire (blog) It must be simultaneously exhausting and exhilarating to be Omar Rodriguez Lopez. Between The Mars Volta and his solo projects, ...
Fri, Nov 13 | from blog.limewire.com
That's the ticket: Bill Maher to bring stand-up show to the Plaza Theatre
The Mars Volta keyboardist Isiah "Ikey" Owens' band Free Moral Agents will open. With one album under their belt, another about 70 percent finished and ...
Fri, Nov 6 | from El Paso Times
Concert update: Zechs Marquise EP tour opener; Puscifer cancels
It's moved along quite nicely," says bassist Marfred Rodriguez-Lopez, Omar's younger brother, and older brother of Zechs Marquise multi-instrumentalist Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez, who also plays for Omar's band. They're joined by friends and guitarists Matthew Wilkinson and Marcos...
Tue, Nov 3 | from El Paso Times
Review: The Mars Volta's Octahedron Rises Above The Bedlam in Goliath
Octahedron feels to me like work on the verge of something bigger, and even more epic. Not just the next Frances the Mute, but an even more challenging and thrilling level of sound and performance. This is what defines them as one of the few truly progressive bands to be called “Progressive...
Mon, Jun 22 | from neweraartist.com
Album Review : Octahedron
Artist: The Mars Volta Album: Octahedron Review: For a band that experiments with glossolalia and pig scalps, the Mars Volta open their latest with a rather straightforward image. "Do you remember how you wore that dress?" sings Cedric Bixler-Zavala in "Since We've Been Wrong," a mostl...
Mon, Jun 8 | from Rolling Stone
Review: The Mars Volta - Octahedron
Emerging from a minute's forty worth of silence at the onset, album opener Since We've Been Wrong pensively eases into play as Cedric Bixler-Zavala's delicate melody matches phrases with Omar Rodriguez-Lopez's orchestral atmospherics, offering weighted ...
Mon, Jun 8 | from Crave Online
The Mars Volta - Octahedron Album Review
UK The vocal melodies are better than what they were in The Bedlam In Goliath, and that's definitely a good thing, as I found that album a little bit taxing, little bit dull. This is a nice, interesting listen. And the drums are fantastic, as ever, ...
Fri, May 29 | from Contactmusic.com
Album Review: The Mars Volta - Octahedron
UK However, despite their being a lack of 'storytelling' on this album, Cedric Bixler-Zavala said: "It's more mellow. It's a little more of what we consider our 'acoustic' side." To be honest, this is about as acoustic as an experimental can get, ...
Wed, May 27 | from FemaleFirst.co.uk
Podcast: Remember
The Mars Volta – “Cavalettas” NEW BALMORHEA VIDEO Here’s Austin’s own Balmorhea’s newest video for “Remembrance” off their excellent third LP All Is Wild, All Is Silent. Enjoy! Comments? NEW MARS VOLTA ALBUM NEWS AND COVER ARTCheck that bad boy out! Word on the street is (very early, bl
Mon, Apr 20 | from cannibalcheerleader (WordPress)
New Mars Volta CD? Eight-headed monster or diamond in the rough?
The word "vacation" does not seem to be in the rather extensive and often cryptic vocabulary of The Mars Volta, the EP expats whose new album "Octahedron" comes out June 23, less than two years after their fourth studio effort, "The Bedlam in Goliath," and its recent, Grammy-winning sing...
Wed, Apr 15 | from El Paso Times
El Grupo Nuevo De Omar Rodriguez Lopez = The Mars Volta + Zach ...
Though the first album was completed shortly after The Mars Volta's Amputechture in 2006, it wasn't until last year that Mr. Random Word Generator, aka Cedric Bixler Zavala, added his vocals to the mix. No word on personnel, or release date for the ... Music Nuevo From Rodriguez Lopez CMJ.com
Wed, Mar 4 | from brooklynvegan
Podcast: Critic's iPod year end edition, pt. 3
More of what I liked in '08 ... Long Division" Death Cab for Cutie Some People" Goldfrapp Yes" Coldplay Silence" Portishead The List" The Knux Wannabe in L.A." Eagles of Death Metal Goliath" The Mars Volta Heavy Petting" Dead Confederate Joke About Jamaica" The Hold Steady
Sat, Dec 20 | from Seahawks Insider (News Tribune)
Music Review: The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
While the lyrical ideas presented in Frances the Mute seem disjointed and often make no sense, Bixler-Zavala’s vocals are amazing throughout. Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who played bass on the Mars Volta’s debut album, ...
Tue, Nov 18 | from Blogcritics
Concert review | The Mars Volta Rockers' set made up for old letdowns
OH - Sep 13, 2008 All the while, guitarist and co-founder Omar Rodriguez-Lopez drove the nonstop cacophony, not only playing zillion-note solos as in past performances, ...
Sat, Sep 13 | from Columbus Dispatch
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