PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
The live album proves an expressive challenge for the Mars Volta guitarist. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez has tricks aplenty. His guitar playing has yet to become exquisitely lyrical, but this umpteenth solo venture shows that it’s certainly still an explosive tool. At its most potent, it provides subtle bedding for the vocals of young starlet Ximena Sarinana, whose contributions make for...
Kaedrin Weblog (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... Arcade Fire - "Intervention" The Animals - "House of the Rising Sun" The Mars Volta - "Aberinkula" The Mars Volta - "Metatron" Sufjan Stevens - "Come On! Feel The Illinoise!" Sufjan Stevens - "They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From The Dead!! Ahhhh!" Modest Mouse - "Paper...
Kicking Your Fucking Face In (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... to all you electronic music deniers out there. Shit, let's write off Pink Floyd. Along with The Mars Volta, Incubus, Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead. They all play traditional instruments too, but would their music be the same if it was only that? 'Kid A' wouldn't exist in this scenario, neither would most NIN tracks. Why not write off amps and electric guitars too? The guitarist didn't...
The Manipulation (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... but I've got next week to get out of the way first, which is a real pain in the arse. CBA with it. Mars Volta are playing in edinburgh on Wednesday night and I really want to go. I'm about 95% sure I'll buy a ticket on monday... We're playing at Harley's with some cracking touring bands on Thursday. Everything else is fucking brammer... there's just the small shitter of these exams...
The Musings of Samuelj (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... of Deftones . On a similar vein, I discovered a band called Strata , who are a cross between The Mars Volta , Too l and Deftones . Very atmospheric and powerful. Sadly they've split up, which is annoying cos I've just got into them! In other news, I've completely changed my writing project idea for university course. I was going to write the first 10,000 words of a sci-fi novel, but...
Punknews.org (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Omar Rodríguez-López of The Mars Volta and At the Drive-In has posted the new video from his latest solo release, Xenophanes .
