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The Mars Volta

The Mars Volta

HMV Picture House, Edinburgh, Wed 9 Dec

(4 stars)15 Dec 2009

The Mars Volta are more than your average rock act - the sheer musicianship alone is staggering to witness. When Omar Rodríguez-López loses himself in protracted, complex riffs and astounding solo jams it’s utterly spellbinding. While frontman Cedric…

Hear this! - Upcoming gigs and albums Autumn 2009

Hear this! - Upcoming gigs and albums Autumn 2009

10 Sep 2009

SEPTEMBER 14 Sep Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 After ‘retirement’, Glastonbury and gigs converting Coldplay fans to the joys of rap music, his masterful album trilogy is now complete. 14 Sep Muse The Resistance The band’s fifth album, it’s tinged…

T In The Park

T In The Park – Friday

13 Jul 2009

Chris Cope reviews the acts making a big splash at the first night of T.

T in the Park: Soundtrack to the weekend

T in the Park: Soundtrack to the weekend

25 Jun 2009

Friday The whole festival starts in considerable style with The Maccabees and ‘No Kind Words’ before shifting in gloriously mental fashion with ‘Roulette Dares’ by The Mars Volta so sing along now … ‘Exoskeleton, junction at the railroad delayed!…

Further T in the Park tickets released

Further T in the Park 2009 tickets released

5 Mar 2009

T in the Park organisers will be releasing further tickets for the music festival. The tickets will go on sale tomorrow morning, Friday 6th March at 10am and will be on sale via Ticketmaster on 08444 999 990 and also online at www.ticketmaster.co.uk

Jane's Addiction and Nine Inch Nails set for T in the Park 2009

Further additions to T in the Park 2009 line up

25 Feb 2009

The Streets, Florence and The Machine, Ladyhawke and Foals have been announced as further additions to the bill of T In The Park, which takes place on Fri 10, Sat 11 and Sun 12 July 2009 in Balado, with other headliners including Kings of Leon on…

The Mars Volta

The Mars Volta

28 Feb 2008

ROCK Carling Academy, Glasgow, Tue 11 Mar Amalgamating widdly solos, psychedelic soundscape wig-outs, inscrutable lyrics, heroin abuse and big hair is bound to conjure up some Frankenstein’s monster of the worst excesses of (whisper it) prog. Yet…

The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath

The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath

(4 stars)31 Jan 2008

(Universal) ROCK Listening to the barrage emanating from the speakers for 78 minutes it’s hard to believe that Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala (for they are the heart, soul and hair of The Mars Volta) have reeled things in for album…

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