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Guitar manipulator Omar Rodriguez, co-frontman of the Mars Volta, swears that their new album, Frances The Mute, was completed without any needles, pipes, or bottles. This may be a rock and roll first...
Without a doubt, the Mars Volta is a self-consciously difficult band, one that has simultaneously increased the level of permutations in its sound along with the variety of its genre affiliations. The roots for the template Rodriguez and Bixler currently employ can be found on At The Drive In’s records—namely, Rodriguez’s off-the-hinges screeching and squalid guitar-wanking—without really hinting at the more drastic experimentations the two would soon dabble...
...Drive In’s songs pack a wallop, hitting the ground running in excellent form. The missteps occur when the band attempts to stretch a really great three and a half minutes into a six minute mini-epic that lacks forward motion. Bixler and Rodriguez have forgone that problem, not resting on any patterns—other than some near-patience-breaking extended stretches of ambient noise—for too long. The ambience serves as a segue between the music as they sustain one continuous unit, five segments of which make up the track listing, some with their...
Konrad pointed to the recent A-Rod affair—Jeter’s Yankee teammate Alex Rodriguez has repeatedly received verbal barbs from the Red Sox since the opening of baseball spring training camps a week ago—as proof that Red Sox fans should, wink-wink, respect his proposal for a name change...
...Regardless, I believe that my class is still the largest enrollment in the Psych. Department, and certainly among the largest non-CORE courses offered this term across the College,” Rodriguez added. “I’m gratified to know that so many students have chosen to take my course as one of their precious few electives, especially for second semester seniors...