The Mars Volta

Music video by The Mars Volta performing Goliath: Web Video with Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Stephanie Scire, Matthew Lundstrom (C ... video.yahoo.com

By rss@youtube.com (CatherineVolta) Omar killing it at Voodoo Fest 2008, New Orleans. Author: CatherineVolta Keywords: The Mars Volta Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Added: January 30, 2009

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

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

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

By rss@youtube.com (SIEG32) By Omar Rodriguez-Lopez from their new album Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus Author: SIEG32 Keywords: Omar Rodriguez Lopez The Mars Volta Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus Added: October 6, 2008

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!

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

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, ...

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

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 ...

The record which is the first under just her name, was produced by Omar Rodriguez- Lopez of The Mars Volta in Brooklyn and Mexico. Lewis will tour this summer with Cat Power and The Pretenders, dates to be announced shortly. Juliette Lewis Record Gets Track List Strange Glue Music

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by Staff The Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez has slammed the media for drumming up mass hysteria during the swine flu outbreak, insisting the exaggerated reports are "an act of terrorism" against Mexico. The recent medical crisis is believed ...

 New Zealand The Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez has slammed the media for drumming up mass hysteria during the swine flu outbreak, insisting the exaggerated reports are "an act of terrorism" against Mexico. The recent medical crisis is believed to have ...

 UK - Sarah Rollo, Sarah Rollo By Sarah Rollo, Entertainment Reporter The actress-musician told NME that album Terra Incognita, which she worked on with Omar Rodriguez Lopez of The Mars Volta, is like "heaven in a vat of lava that's about to explode". She said: "I feel like this ...

 UK Lewis worked on the record, entitled ‘Terra Incognita' with Omar Rodriguez Lopez of The Mars Volta sand says that the pair instantly agreed on how they both wanted the album to sound. “He has a different groove for rock and roll, he makes you want to ...

 AR It's special purchase will be a vinyl-only solo offering from Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, guitarist for indie prog rockers The Mars Volta. cds, on the other hand, aren't going anywhere. Even though that may be the case, Thomas said the store has seen ...

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

 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, ...

 UK Anyone who ever witnessed At The Drive-In at their gymnastic prime or has felt the full force of The Mars Volta as they seamlessly segue from a meandering bongo workout into a thunderous song that you actually recognise – or indeed enjoyed affiliated ...

 UK No Twilights Within The Courts Of The Sun' seems heavily influenced (intentionally or not) by Omar Rodriguez Lopez/The Mars Volta. The guitar is played with short sharp burst of energy built up by bass and drums into a cacophony of complex melodies ...

By Doug Pullen • What's in a name: El Paso's own, Grammy-winning psychedelic rockers The Mars Volta are busy with other things these days. Guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and bassist Juan Aldrete de la Pena formed El Grupo Nuevo do Omar Rodriguez-Lopez in 2006 with Hella's drummer Zach Hill and synth ba...

 CA Instrumental in creating the sound for this new record is the album's producer Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, leader of The Mars Volta. "Because this album is so sonically different than anything I've done before and captures many flavors of my emotional life ...

Music video by The Mars Volta performing Goliath: Web Video with Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Stephanie Scire, Matthew Lundstrom (C ... uk.video.yahoo.com

 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 ...

 NM - SM) The “mad scientist” of guitarists, Omar Rodriguez Lopez (The Mars Volta) releases a sonic barrage of melodies and arrangements in Old Money. ...

 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, ...

 TX - The Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, still hurting after his father's West Side mansion burned down, will release his solo album "Old Money" Jan. ...

 UK - This guitarist’s work with former band At The Drive In led to some modern alt rock classics, while The Mars Volta have progressively pushed the boundaries ...

By NF(noreply@blogger.com) 41. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez - "The Power of Myth" 38. Boris - "Statement" 31. The Mars Volta - "Tourniquet Man" 29. MGMT - "Time to Pretend" 17. The Mars Volta - "Metatron" 15. Portishead - "Small" 8. Boris - "Floor Shaker" 7. Foals - "Heavy Water" 6. Kings of Leon - "Closer" 5. The Mars Volta - "Ilyena"

By NF Omar Creates. Dating back to May of 2007, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (lead guitarist, The Mars Volta) has released eight solo albums. They are:. Se Dice Bisonte, No Bufalo Omar Rodriguez Lopez & Lydia Lunch The Apocalypse Inside of an Orange ...

progressive instrumental sounds of Zechs Marquise which to some would sound reminiscent of The Mars Volta. With two of the Marquise members being brothers of Volta guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, this comparison seemed only fitting. ...

If you've heard The Mars Volta then you've heard songwriter and guitarist Omar Rodriguez Lopez. If you've heard Omar Rodriguez Lopez then you've heard intricate experimental rock improv and EPIC SHREDDING. Our pals at Stones Throw have ...

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 ...

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez is known to many as one of the creative minds behind experimental rock band The Mars Volta. The band’s latest record, The Bedlam in Goliath, was released in January 2008, but Rodriguez-Lopez is again embarking on ...

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. ...

By Doug Pullen Former El Pasoan, ex-At the Drive-in guitarist and current The Mars Volta visionary Omar Rodriguez-Lopez released his eighth solo album, "Old Money," on edgy Stones Throw Records (stonesthrow.com). It's out digitally only, ...

 CA - Nov 11, 2008 As a founding member of At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez has set the standard for post-modern squalls that combine post-punk, prog, ...

By bmuse Omar Rodriguez Lopez’s Old Money is the first album that The Mars Volta guitarist/producer/writer/arranger will release with Stones Throw Records. This isn’t hip hop but If Stones Throw puts it out, I’m going to listen. ...

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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]

 - Nov 11, 2008 The Mars Volta guitarist and all-round whiz Omar Rodriguez Lopez goes solo on the digital-only “Old Money (Stones Throw Records. ...

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By khaldub@gmail.com (khal) Omar Rodriguez Lopez "Private Fortunes": This cut is taken from Omar's Old Money. Yes, this is dude from The Mars Volta. Yes this is out on Stones Throw. Well, its available digitally - CD & vinyl will be dropping in Jan. 2009. ...

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For one thing, I am a rabid At The Drive-In fan and as such I follow The Mars Volta with a mixture of admiration and resentment for what rose out of that band’s ashes. (I’ve even got that Defacto stuff) Plus I’m [...]

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 ...

By BananaSpam to it until the cows, ducks, hens and a small number of disenchanted ponies come home. Keep ears and eyes peeled fo it. Also keep an ear and eye peeled for a new solo LP on Stones Throw from Omar Rodriguez Lopez of The Mars Volta. ...

By JP Omar Rodriguez-Lopez This is his fourth album released by The Mars Volta guitarist. The first album that will be release through Stones Throw. It is titled "Old Money". The album hase been described as having "a familiar blend of ...

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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. ...

The Mars Volta - The bedlam in goliath 07/08/08 Omar en vinyle : Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (The Mars Volta) sortira le 16 septembre prochainune édition 2xLP de son album solo Calibration (is pushing luck and key too far)(...) ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

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...

 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 ...

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. ...

 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. ...

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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By Senior Taxi Minor Cuts and Scrapes in the Bushes Ahead' is the newest in a series of archival solo releases by Omar Rodriguez Lopez of The Mars Volta. Recorded in 2001-2002, shortly after completing the Tremulant EP, The Mars Volta's debut, ...

 FL - Sep 25, 2008 The Mars Volta say the muse for their latest prog-metal opus, "The Bedlam in Goliath," was unleashed after guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez bought a ...

 TX - Sep 25, 2008 His continuing influence can be traced to guitarist and former El Pasoan Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of The Mars Volta, which plays the Abraham Chavez Theater on ...

 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 ...

 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, ...

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 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...

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...