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The Mars Volta
The Mars Volta Biography
The Mars Volta is neither a concept album band nor a prog band. Sure, they excel at both, but Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala formed the Mars Volta in 2001 in order to dispose of labels and limitations of any kind, to move beyond genres strip-mined into obsolescence--be they dinosaur prog or 2-D punk.
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The Mars Volta Tickets
The Mars Volta tour dates and ticket sales on Contactmusic.com. Over the coming months The Mars Volta will be touring Edinburgh, Minehead, Leeds and London. Please keep checking back as our gig service is updated all the time.
| At | In | On | Time | |
EDINBURGH | HMV Picture House | Wed, 09/12/2009 | 19.00 | Buy Tickets |
MINEHEAD | Butlins Holiday Centre | Fri, 11/12/2009 | 12.00 | TICKETS SOLD OUT |
LEEDS | Leeds University Union | Sat, 12/12/2009 | 19.00 | Buy Tickets |
LONDON | HMV Forum | Mon, 14/12/2009 | 19.00 | Buy Tickets |
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Festivals
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Music at Roskilde
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Reviews
Review of The Mars Volta's album Octahedron This album is a bit of an enigma to me. Starting with a minute's....
27/05/2009
27/05/2009
The last time Contact Music ran into The Mars Volta in early 2005, mainmen Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar....
17/07/2006
17/07/2006
This chunk of helium-fuelled Prog-Rock is as over-blown as it is complacent. Add to that the fact that it’s vaguely....
08/03/2005
08/03/2005
But how else do I describe it? It is Pink Floyd kaleidoscopic experimentalist concept and Led Zeppelin big haired....
28/02/2005
28/02/2005
So from the remains of At the Drive-in come the Mars Volta, much like the overused phoenix simile. If this track is....
30/09/2003
30/09/2003
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