The Mars Volta

By Anne Noise Mars Volta’s Ouroboros strikes me as the perfect first entry for such a blog.  Driving home from work, solidifying the concept of what I wanted to write about in my head, this came up on Super Shuffle.  (So, thanks iPod.)  I immediatly remembered Mars Volta’s Beldam in Goliath as decent but fo...

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...

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...

Awash in strobes and backed by a surrealist banner of eyeballs and bird wings, The Mars Volta's Omar Rodriguez-Lopez proved to be the night's standout star. Dressed ever so properly in a crisp shirt, vest, and skinny jeans, the guitarist shredded at a ... I Like Music - Aversion

By Luke Lewis 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 ... The Mars Volta - Octahedron I Like Music

 CA Here it is again: (MusicRadar) Could At The Drive-In, that much-loved post-hardcore/quasi-progressive band that called it a day way too soon, be reuniting? Nobody's saying for sure, but singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala of The Mars Volta is dropping hints. ...

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...

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 ...

Ihre Vorgängeralben De-Loused In The Comatorium (2003 / produziert mit Rick Rubin), „Frances The Mute“ (2005), „Amputechture“ (2006) und „The Bedlam In Goliath“ (2008) sorgten als musikalische Meisterwerke für Furore. Nun ist es für die Ex-At The ...

 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, ...

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...

 NY - Grace Bastidas The Mars Volta songwriter and multi-instrumentalist has a new project: El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodríguez-López. And come Cinco de Mayo, we'll get to hear the first of three highly-anticipated albums the band produced in 2006. ...

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...

I was that asshole at the party who told the frat boy in the Mars Volta T-shirt that Relationship of Command is probably the best thing anyone ever associated with At the Drive-In will ever create, only to brush by their abundant blinks for the snack ...

By Patrick Right on the heels of El Grupo Nuevo De Omar Rodriguez Lopez, the Mars Volta are also preparing to release their fifth studio album on June 19th entitled Octahedron. I’m telling you guys, Mars Volta is either the hardest working band in rock or they are just a

The Mars Volta at Beaumont Club, 01/25/08 man, I love it when he crazy dances.. I wish I could of gotten good footage of the rest of the band but ... vids.myspace.com

 PA I would describe it a middle ground between At The Drive-In and The Mars Volta, but without the hypnotic melodies and emotive vocals of Cedric Bixler Zavala. And of course, the guitar work of Omar A Rodriguez-Lopez is a lot more unconventional. ...

 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 ...

By By BEN SISARIO Having a No. 1 album just isn’t what it used to be. This week Alicia Keys is back atop the Billboard chart with “As I Am” (J), but the 61,000 copies it has sold is barely above the historic low for a No. 1 album, Nielsen SoundScan reported. The “Juno” soundtrack, on Rhino, fell to No. 2, with 55,000 sol...

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

By DK About four years ago, I was introduced to the bands TOOL and A Perfect Circle by The Hippy.  He’s made numerous attempts to get me into bands over these years, but only a few have stuck (the other is System of a Down) while many others I merely tolerate to keep him happy (Rage Against the Machine...

Music Review: The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute. Kip Winger has had an interesting career to say the least. With a name that's hard to take seriously and a run in the glam rock scene of the late 1980s that skyrocketed him to fame, ...

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, ...

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...

By sherri Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, one of the founding members of The Mars Volta, has just inked a solo deal with LA-based, Stones Throw Records. His first release, Old Money, is loosely based on the concept of exploitative industrialists. The Power Of Myth How To Bill The Bilderberg Group Population Council’s Wet Dream Private Fortunes 1921 Family War Funding Vipers In The Bosom Old Money November 11, 2008 Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, one of the founding members of The Mars Volta, has just inked a solo deal with LA-based, Stones Throw Records. His first release, Old Money, is loosely based on the concept of exploitative industrialists. The 10-track collection is now available as a digital download. Track List: The Power Of [...]   [read the full post]

Say what you want about The Mars Volta (we here at Prefixmag have said plenty) -- the boys in the band must have balls as big as their 'fros to ...

I'm a huge fan of a band called The Mars Volta (surprise). I own every studio album, ep, live album, live ep, and bonus track. I even have managed to find one of their albums on vinyl (Amputechture if you were wondering). ...

 TX - The At the Drive-In song "One Armed Scissor" and The Mars Volta song "L'Via L'Viaquez" are two of 84 songs players can play on the new video game. ...

For the uneducated, The Mars Volta is a “prog-rock" band out of Los Angeles. Formed out of the now defunct band At The Drive-In, its core members are guitarist Omar Rodrguez-Lpez and singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala. ...

By Kev Kharas Posted:. Mars Volta. Fresh from announcing a foray into the computer games market, big-rock conquistadors The Mars Volta have announced three live shows for early next year. The band will be over to push new album The Bedlam of Goliath, ...

 MO - Oct 1, 2008 It's the opposite of all of these instances that makes The Mars Volta's "The Bedlam in Goliath" one of the best albums I own. ...

By liz pelly Say what you want about The Mars Volta, but they can make some music. Despite losing longtime drummer Jon Theodore and taking a much more intense approach with their new album, The Bedlam In Goliath, Sunday's show at the Orpheum Theatre ...

By Caro Amazonically and beat-wise, Bogotá and Brazil aren't so far from each other after all. The Mars Volta - Aberinkula · Aberinkula The Mars Volta: The Bedlam in Goliath A little overstimulation can sometimes be good. ...

 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, ...

By TicketTours Progressive rockers The Mars Volta are ready to hit the road again on a 12-date tour in support of their new album "The Bedlam In Goliath." The third leg of their North American tour kicks off on September 12 in Columbus, OH, ...

By Andrew Blackie At the Drive-In is over and buried, and the longer its two chief members, Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López, try to protract its shadow over their new outlet, the more The Mars Volta suffers for it. 2006’s Amputechture hit ...

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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.

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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...

By Kamrat M 1. “Ilyena” 2. “Wax Simulacra” 3. “Goliath” 4. “Aberinkula” 5. “Soothsayer” IGN’s Ratings for The Bedlam In Goliath RatingDescription out of 10click here for ratings guide8.1OVERALL Dom gillar den, men har lagt in ett fejkat artwork och tror att första skivan heter De-Loused in th

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

The Mars Volta will be back in the US this April. The shows below go on sale this weekend. Here are the details: April 21st - St. Paul, MN - Roy Wilkins Auditorium Presale starts Thursday, February 14th at 10am here Tickets go on sale to the public Saturday, February 16th at Noon here

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...

Review: "I'm starting to feel a miscarriage coming on," Cedric Bixler-Zavala announces in a tremulous bark in "Goliath," well into the crowded cerebral-metal violence of the Mars Volta's fourth studio album. It is late warning. Torsos already fly as thick and fast as the wasp-army guita...

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author holy_diver - I would say 2002&#146s Tremulant EP saw The Mars Volta&#146s humble beginnings, but I wouldn&#146t exactly call these musicians, or their music, humble. . . not in the least bit. What you have here is an unrefined, unstable schemati...

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author holy_diver - The Mars Volta accomplished something truly amazing with their 2001 debut LP, Deloused at the Comatorium. Taking the pseudo-dub styled electronics of De Facto, merging it with progressive jazz-fusion, and adding a nice rainbow...

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...

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...

Edmonton-based hardcore act The Wolfnote has posted some new music.Reluctant Records will be releasing The Wolfnote's critically acclaimed final release 'Sacred Bodies' on vinyl format. This album was produced, engineered and mixed by Alex Newport who also worked with The Icarus Lin...

Running With Scissors is bringing a new sound to the local scene, playing an experimental and progressive vibe that finds the band on a track similar to that of The Mars Volta or Incubus. Tempo changes, stylistic changes, and no shortage of fun guitar effects make this song interesting and...