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Ten Years of ATP

27 Dec 2009 17:26:25 PST

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 ...

Original story at ClashMusic.com .

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The Mars Volta: Another New Drummer

30 Nov 2009 12:47:34 PST

For more on the internal operations of The Mars Volta, check our exclusive feature/interview with bandleader Omar Rodriguez Lopez here.

Original story at JamBase .

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Album Review: Omar Rodriguez Lopez – 'Xenophanes' (Rodriguez Lopez Productions) - Lime Wire

13 Nov 2009 09:22:16 PST

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, ...

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That's the ticket: Bill Maher to bring stand-up show to the Plaza Theatre

06 Nov 2009 17:49:23 PST

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 ...

Original story at El Paso Times .

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Concert update: Zechs Marquise EP tour opener; Puscifer cancels

03 Nov 2009 23:07:56 PST

Written by Doug Pullen
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...

Original story at El Paso Times .

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Review: The Mars Volta's Octahedron Rises Above The Bedlam in Goliath

22 Jun 2009 11:12:10 PDT

Written by Stefan
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...

Original story at neweraartist.com .

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The Mars Volta news and blogs - February 26, 2010

26 Feb 2010 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit The Mars Volta news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• End Of Year Round Up - June -- from ClashMusic.com
• The top 10 albums of the decade - Shield -- from subscription
• The Mars Volta - Ouroboros -- by Anne Noise from the-bedlam-in-goliath « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• Concert update: Sesto retirement tour, 'Rent' extended, Melendez, Marquise and more -- by Doug Pullen from Pullen My Blog
• Concert update: EPSO goes country, Vikki Carr tix, Mezklah, Dozals, TMV -- by Doug Pullen from Pullen My Blog
• The Mars Volta: Octahedron's Streaming On MySpace -- from Ultimate-Guitar.Com
• The Mars Volta at the Majestic Ventura Theater -- from The Santa Barbara Independent
• Mars Volta: Octahedron -- from InTheNews.co.uk
• Jim Ward semi-responds to At the Drive-In talks -- from Kill Your Stereo
• Stream Tracks From The Mars Volta's New Album, 'Octahedron' -- from NME.com

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Album Review : Octahedron

08 Jun 2009 09:52:56 PDT

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...

Original story at Rolling Stone .

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Review: The Mars Volta - Octahedron

08 Jun 2009 08:39:54 PDT

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 ...

Original story at Crave Online .

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The Mars Volta - Octahedron Album Review

29 May 2009 08:31:49 PDT

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, ...

Original story at Contactmusic.com .

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Album Review: The Mars Volta - Octahedron

27 May 2009 03:06:34 PDT

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, ...

Original story at FemaleFirst.co.uk .

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Check out Dios Kilos' trippy psychedelic rock

14 May 2009 12:13:45 PDT

Written by Doug Pullen
Bassist Paul Hinojos played with the holy triumvirate of EP prog-rock — At the Drive-in, Sparta and The Mars Volta. Guitarist-keyboardist Gabe Gonzalez is with former ATDI/Sparta member Jim Ward’s band Sleepercar. The lineup’s rounded out by guitarist Rafa D. Jazzo, and drummer Eric Sal...

Original story at El Paso Times .

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Podcast: Remember

20 Apr 2009 17:27:00 PDT

Written by cannibalcheerleader
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

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New Mars Volta CD? Eight-headed monster or diamond in the rough?

15 Apr 2009 01:51:35 PDT

Written by Doug Pullen
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...

Original story at El Paso Times .

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El Grupo Nuevo De Omar Rodriguez Lopez = The Mars Volta + Zach ...

04 Mar 2009 17:41:54 PST

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

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Review: Omar Rodriguez Lopez

25 Feb 2009 12:23:08 PST

CA Before Omar Rodriguez Lopez of The Mars Volta went into the studio to record the band’s landmark 2008 album Bedlam In Goliath, he retreated into his own to record Despair, a nightmare collection of screeching feedback and monstrous auditory ...

Original story at Crave Online .

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Podcast: Critic's iPod year end edition, pt. 3

20 Dec 2008 06:06:06 PST

Written by Ernest Jasmin
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

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Music Review: The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute

18 Nov 2008 15:27:00 PST

Written by Matt Wright
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, ...

Original story at Blogcritics .

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Music Review: The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute

18 Nov 2008 11:54:29 PST

Written by Matt Wright
If there is one CD among contemporary bands that everyone should check out, it is Frances the Mute by the Mars Volta. Released by Gold Standard Laboratories (Universal Music Group) in 2005, this follow-up album continued the Mars Volta’s tradition of eclectic progressive rock.I must adm...

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Concert review | The Mars Volta Rockers' set made up for old letdowns

13 Sep 2008 04:06:28 PDT

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, ...

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Mars Volta, Surprised By Latest LP's Success, Already Writing Material For Next Two Records

23 Apr 2008 05:00:00 PDT

We really don't understand it at all,' guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López says of Bedlam in Goliath's #3 debut. When the Mars Volta's latest, The Bedlam in Goliath, debuted at #3 on Billboard's albums chart, no one was more perplexed than the band's guitarist, Omar Rodríguez-López.

Original story at mtv.com .

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The Mars Volta Show

09 Apr 2008 12:25:06 PDT

These guys are completely insane, talented and they have some kind of stamina. My friends and I discussed at length how in the world they do what they do live, especially guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and drummer Thomas Pridgen. I think we decided they inject themselves with guerilla blo...

Original story at Tiger Weekly .

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Review - TMV's "The Bedlam In Goliath"

18 Feb 2008 17:41:02 PST

Written by mike.quell
The Bedlam In Goliath is everything Amputechture should have been. Key Tracks: Metatron - 8:11 Ilyene - 5:35 Goliath - 7:15 Download the album for $9 - The Bedlam In Goliath The biggest news that this album has to offer is that most of it was created with the guidance of

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Mars Volta Pride Themselves On Being Difficult, Prepare For Onset Of Bedlam

29 Jan 2008 01:43:00 PST

We have the ability to attract and repel at the same time,' frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala boasts. 'Otherwise, you're just going to be, like, this Neil Diamond act.' The criticism doesn't bother frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala, who, along with Rodriguez-Lopez, left seminal punk experim...

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Mars Volta To Release 'The Record That Did Not Want To Be Born'

05 Nov 2007 05:00:00 PST

But the band's forthcoming LP, The Bedlam in Goliath, takes concept records to a whole new level. Due in stores January 29, Bedlam deals with a present Volta guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez — who also produced the LP — gave frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala after returning from a trip to Jerus...

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Smoking Section: Ryan Adams, Alicia Keys, The Mars Volta and More

17 Jun 2007 05:54:35 PDT

Written by Austin Scaggs
Welcome back, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez! The Mars Volta mastermind – who just released a solo album, Se Dice Bisonte, No Bufalo, featuring Chili Pepper John Frusciante – has moved back to America after a stint in Amsterdam. The guitarist found a place in Brooklyn, where he’s putting the final...

Original story at Rolling Stone .

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