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Video: The Mars Volta - Cicatriz ESP (John Frusciante vocals & guitar enhaced)Original at YouTube
• Sun, Jan 18
By rss@youtube.com (ab07538) Author: ab07538 Keywords: Cicatriz ESP The mars volta John Frusciante Flea Jon Theodore Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Cedric Bixler Zavala Isaiah Iken Owens Jeremy Michael Ward Deloused in the comatorium prog rock Added: January 18, 2009
Video: Drum Cover to: The Mars Volta - Cassanda GeminiOriginal at YouTube
• Sun, Dec 28
By rss@youtube.com (Balsagot66666) Author: Balsagot66666 Keywords: The Mars Volta Frances Mute Cassandra Gemini Drum Cover At the drive in Sparta De facto Progressive rock prog Poland Radom Krakow Cedric Bixler Omar Rodriguez Lopez Thomas Pridgen Jon Theodore Added: December 28, 2008
Video: Cedric Slams with the Crowd (Zero Fest Monterrey '08)Original at YouTube
• Sun, Nov 9
By rss@youtube.com (scatterbrain92) A Cedric Bixler-Zavala from THE MARS VOLTA classic, he tries to slam with the crowd and later he throws his shoes at the audience. Watch out for Cedric's quote at the end ... PRICELESS . Sorry for the shaky image ... I was being pushed and kicked while recording this .
Video: The Mars Volta - Wax Simulacra (Zero Fest Monterrey '08)Original at YouTube
• Sun, Nov 9
By rss@youtube.com (scatterbrain92) The Mars Volta playing WAX SIMULACRA live at Zero Fest in MONTERREY , MÉXICO. PS: At the end of the show, I won a guitar pick The Mars Volta's Staff threw to the crowd . Keywords: The Mars Volta Wax Simulacra Bedlam In Goliath Cedric Bixler Omar Rodriguez Thomas Pridgen Coca Cola Zero Fest Monte...
Video: The Mars Volta - The Widows Live at Vive Cuervo Salon 2008Original at YouTube
• Sat, Nov 8
By rss@youtube.com (rocksgaiden) The Widows Live at Vive Cuervo Salon 2008 in Mexico City Author: rocksgaiden Keywords: Cedric Bixler Omar Rodriguez Lopez The Widows Mars Volta Frances the Mute Added: November 8, 2008
Video: Viscera Eyes - The Mars VoltaOriginal at YouTube
• Sat, May 10
By rss@youtube.com (NeedleZ666) A slide show of Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez to "Viscera Eyes", by The Mars Volta. This video has a "sister" video by my friend Patrick. Here is the URL. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi-bxf32a_s Comments greatly appreciated!
Mars Volta: Octahedron
Original at InTheNews.co.uk
• Tue, Jun 16
It's hard to know where to start trying to explain the Mars Volta, but that's partly the point of this sprawling prog-rock monolith. The brainchild of former At The Drive-In members Omar Rodriguez Lopez (guitar and producer) and Cedric Bixler Zavala ...
Stream Tracks From The Mars Volta's New Album, 'Octahedron'
Original at NME.com
• Sun, Jun 14
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
Could At The Drive-In Reunite?
Original at antiMUSIC.com
• Fri, Jun 12
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. ...
Could At The Drive-In reunite? - MusicRadar.com
Original at The place for music makers
• Thu, Jun 11
Could At The Drive-In reunite? 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. Bixler-Zavala, who has taken ...
Album Review : Octahedron
Original at Rolling Stone
• Mon, Jun 8
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...
Review: The Mars Volta - Octahedron
Original at Crave Online
• Mon, Jun 8
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 ...
Album Review: The Mars Volta - Octahedron
Original at FemaleFirst.co.uk
• Wed, May 27
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, ...
Cedric dancing - too hot!
Original at v1.flirtsz.net
• Sun, Mar 29
Cedric Bixler-Zavala and The Mars Volta improvising at a concert in Hamburg/GER in 2008. His moves are just unreal! (Sorry for the bad quality..) v1.flirtsz.net
Voodoo Fest jinxed by Halloween weddings - The Times-Picayune
Original at NOLA.com
• Fri, Mar 27
The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA Cedric Bixler-Zavala, the lead singer for The Mars Volta, jumps into the crowd during his performance. Due to lackadaisical planning by the folks behind Voodoo Fest, the massive music bash is encroaching on the matrimony of four New Orleans couples. ...
Omar Rodriguez Lopez
Original at Hour.ca
• Wed, Mar 25
Canada The Mars Volta have always possessed a Rush-like appeal to me; that is, vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala completely ruins the plot when he opens his mouth. As such, Old Money, replete with an undercurrent of anti-capitalist paranoia, is like the hairy, ...
Cedric Bixler Zavala going nuts on stage
Original at vids.myspace.com
• Wed, Mar 18
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
New Orleans Voodoo fest to fall on Halloween
Original at Daily Comet
• Sun, Mar 1
LA AP Cedric Bixler-Zavala, the lead singer for The Mars Volta, jumps into the crowd during his performance Oct. 25 at the tenth annual Voodoo Experience in New Orleans' City Park . By STACEY PLAISANCE Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS – The Voodoo ...
Quatre Téte - Art Of The State
Original at adequacy.net
• Thu, Feb 26
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. ...
Paparazzi in the Ghostland
Original at Internet DJ
• Wed, Feb 11
- Behrens woos us with a vocal quality similar to the stylings of Cedric Bixler-Zevala (The Mars Volta) and a stage personality reminiscent of Freddie Mercury ...
Local Band's Win Gives El Paso Boost
Original at KFOXtv.com
• Mon, Feb 9
TX It's a moment every music band dreams of. After eight years in the music scene, The Mars Volta, wins the Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance. The band was started by two El Pasoans, Omar Rodriguez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala. "It's the style of music I ...
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez — Old Money
Original at Chart Attack
• Fri, Jan 30
Canada It's the latest solo effort from the band's guitarist and principal composer/arranger, who's also prolific and scarily talented. Heck, this basically is The Mars Volta, minus Cedric Bixler-Zavala's vocals. (Bixler-Zavala appears on the album, ...
Led Zeppelin Retrofit
Original at IGN
• Fri, Jan 9
CA - others were complete piss takes (some of the suggestions ranged from Billy Corgan to David Lee Roth, Cedric Bixler-Zavala (The Mars Volta), Corin Tucker ...
Youth and Beauty Brigade: Decemberists Make Welcome Return to West ...
Original at Interference.com
• Sat, Nov 29
- Nov 29, 2008 Suddenly, The Mars Volta’s Cedric Bixler-Zavala is starting to look like a real slacker.) The antics might have seemed a bit much had Meloy not been buoyed ...
· atravésdelpuente ·: The Fall on Deaf Ears - The Fall on Deaf ...
Original at atravesdelpuente (Blogspot)
• Mon, Nov 24
By A traves del puente 3. Do You Speak Braille 4. Calls of Defilement 5. Talking Radio Talking Star. Publicado por A traves del puente a las 23:55. Etiquetas: At The Drive-In, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, De Facto, Sydbarrett67, The Fall on Deaf Ears, The Mars Volta ...
Music Review: The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Original at Blogcritics
• Tue, Nov 18
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, ...
Planet Prog!
Original at PeaceT(b)lo(g)
• Tue, Nov 18
By Domenico At the Drive In (ATDI) resulted in two new bands, namely “Sparta” and “The Mars Volta”, where the singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala and the main guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López from ATDI ended up to free their vocational orientation to the ...
Taringa! - (The Mars Volta)Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
Original at Taringa.net
• Fri, Nov 14
By 629187 Durante este tiempo vio que su vida no iba a ningún lado, entonces llamó a su amigo Cedric Bixler-Zavala quien le sugirió que regresara a El Paso. Con ayuda de Bixler-Zavala, pudo regresar a El Paso donde se unió a At The Drive-In como ...
Album Review: (The Bedlam in Goliath)Original at Current.com
• Fri, Nov 14
The Mars Volta, few words aptly describe the sound that Omar Rodríguez- López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala have procured over the past five years ... current.com
The Melvillain Blog: The Mars Volta<br><i>De-Loused in the ...
Original at The Melvillain
• Thu, Nov 13
By Melvillain When Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala silenced At the Drive-In in the midst of its popular emergence, there was no question that the two artists would return with new music as exciting as their previous band. ...
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez - Minor Cuts And Scrapes In The Bushes Ahead
Original at Indieducky.Com
• Sun, Nov 9
Having risen to fame with and walked away from At The Drive-In, Omar Rodriguez Lopez went on to create the experimental rock behemoth that is The Mars Volta with fellow ex-At The Drive-In band mate and best friend Cedric Bixler-Zavala. ...
Help! I Lost My Mind at Voodoo
Original at Red Shtick
• Fri, Nov 7
LA - Nov 7, 2008 The “Monkey” (The Mars Volta’s lead singer, Cedric Bixler Zavala) wouldn’t stop. As a matter of fact, the band never stopped making noise for an entire ...
Buzzine » Voodoo Music Experience - Day 2
Original at Buzzine
• Mon, Nov 3
I had heard lore of The Mars Volta’s live shows as well as first hand accounts of the now legendary At the Drive In performances (Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriquez-Lopez’s critically acclaimed but ill-fated first project) where ...
El Paso bands' songs appear on 'Guitar Hero World Tour' video game
Original at El Paso Times
• Thu, Oct 30
TX - Oct 30, 2008 Activision, the creators of "Guitar Hero," Cedric Bixler Zavala, lead singer of The Mars Volta and former singer for At the Drive-In, shown performing with ...
The Mars Volta: Cedric Bixler | Psp Backgrounds Free
Original at Psp Backgrounds Free
• Wed, Oct 29
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The Mars Volta, where melodies go to die - The Times-Picayune
Original at NOLA.com
• Sat, Oct 25
The Mars Volta, where melodies go to die The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - Cedric Bixler-Zavala's banshee wail makes Geddy Lee sound like Barry White. Guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez soloed endlessly, repeating flurries of high ...
The Mars Volta, where melodies go to die - Keith Spera - Times ...
Original at The Times-Picayune
• Thu, Oct 23
The contemporary prog-rock ensemble uncorked one high-speed, hard rock freak-out and mash-up after another. Cedric Bixler-Zavala's banshee wail makes Geddy Lee sound like Barry White. Guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez soloed endlessly, ...
SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT: DON’T YOU THINK THE MARS VOLTA DESERVES YOUR ...
Original at MetalSucks
• Thu, Oct 23
By Kip Wingerschmidt It seems this whole madcap mess began with De Facto, the future-forward dub side project from guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala, two of the visionary members of 90s post-punk outfit At The Drive-In (and I ...
Jazz News: Detour Festival | 10.04.08 | Los Angeles
Original at All About Jazz
• Sat, Oct 18
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. ...
The Mars Volta: a well-dressed "pop corpse" / In Depth // Drowned ...
Original at Drowned In Sound
• Wed, Oct 8
By Mike Diver Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López have a selection of healthy-eating foodstuffs laid out on top of a table; their PR officer offers some my way, but I decline, content with my tea. (Truth is that it all looks a little scary ...
The Parlor Mob
Original at Relix
• Wed, Oct 8
NY - Oct 8, 2008 epic eight-minute-and-a-half showcase of Melicia's vocal range (reminiscent of The Mars Volta frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala) and finally to the catchy, ...
The Mars Volta's Cedric Bixler-Zavala Attacks Catholicism - GIGWISE
Original at Gigwise
• Sun, Oct 5
The Mars Volta's Cedric Bixler-Zavala Attacks Catholicism; Add to My Fav Bands List More The Mars Volta. The Mars Volta’s Cedric Bixler-Zavala has revealed to Gigwise that experiences in his youth have turned him against the Catholic ...
Opinion: The Mars Volta - Bedlam in Goliath
Original at thisishowsquaresroll.en (WordPress)
• Tue, Sep 30
By Nate S Spawned from the ashes of post-hardcore pioneers At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta is the wild product of musician eccentrics Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez. The progressive act fuses latin, jazz, punk rock, and a considerable amount of noise into a packageable form tha...
El Paso's own Mars Volta creates a little bedlam at Chavez
Original at El Paso Times
• Tue, Sep 30
• 2 related articles
By Doug Pullen / El Paso Times El Paso's own Mars Volta, including singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala, performs at the Abraham Chavez Theater. ... The Mars Volta at Club 101 Newspaper Tree Clubbing with The Mars Volta at 101 Newspaper Tree Mars Volta playing Club 101 Monday night El Paso Times
The Mars Volta | 09.17 - 09.21 | East Coast
Original at JamBase
• Mon, Sep 29
CA - Sep 29, 2008 In a rap between "Aberinkula" and the closer, lead singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala told some fighting drunks to cut the crap, and then got the audience involved ...
10/1: The Mars Volta
Original at AZ Central.com
• Mon, Sep 29
AZ - Sep 29, 2008 29, 2008 03:40 PM You might think the Mars Volta guitarist/producer Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and lyricist/vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala are always on the ...
Austin City Limits 2008
Original at ultra8201
• Mon, Sep 29
By Richard It was a good time and fun to check out while trying to find a good spot for The Mars Volta. Cedric Bixler-Zavala Omar Rodriguez-Lopez The Mars Volta. The Mars Volta - It's hard not to biased. They are my absolute favorite band. ...
Austin City Limits
Original at UT The Daily Texan
• Mon, Sep 29
TX - Sep 29, 2008 Guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, left, and singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala of The Mars Volta perform Friday night at ACL on the AMD stage. ...
The Mars Volta: Band brings avant-rock back home Sunday
Original at El Paso Times
• Sat, Sep 27
• 1 related articles
EL PASO -- Cedric Bixler Zavala said there's a good reason why The Mars Volta, the critically acclaimed and commercially successful avant-rock band he formed with fellow El Pasoan Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, was together three years before playing here.
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REVIEW: Mars Volta At The Electric Factory
Original at Phawker
• Sun, Sep 21
The Mars Volta as a live band is nothing short of jaw dropping. As a two-time veteran of the band’s live act, I can attest: seeing the Mars Volta, led by vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala and guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López, is like no other ...
Music Box: Hynde remains one of most durable, consistent rockers
Original at Annapolis Capital
• Fri, Sep 19
MD - Sep 19, 2008 Formed in 2001 by bandleader/composer/guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and lyricist/vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala, The Mars Volta creates dark concept albums ...
The Mars Volta 'Bedlam In Goliath' album - MusicRemedy
Original at MusicRemedy
• Thu, Sep 11
Back at the turn of the century guitarist/producer Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and lyricist/vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala decided to form a musical partnership called The Mars Volta. They grabbed a few other intrepid musicians and recorded The ...
The Mars Volta: The Bedlam in Goliath < Music | PopMatters
Original at PopMatters
• Fri, Jun 27
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 ...
Mars Volta Pride Themselves On Being Difficult, Prepare For Onset Of BedlamOriginal at mtv.com
• Tue, Jan 29
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...
Album Review : The Bedlam in Goliath
Original at Rolling Stone
• Fri, Jan 25
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...
Music - Singles of the Week - Monday, January 14
Original at IndieLondon
• Sun, Jan 13
By Rob THE MARS VOLTA – WAX SIMULACRA: Though Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler Zavala did time in popular Emo band At The Drive-In, their subsequent project, the Mars Volta, is a horse of an entirely different colour. Instead of punk, the pair takes their influences largely from 1970s pro...
Mars Volta To Release 'The Record That Did Not Want To Be Born'
Original at mtv.com
• Mon, Nov 5
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...