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February 3, 2012
Q&A: NARC's Nicky Smith On Working Alone, Writer's Block, And Korn's Badass Guitar Tone
Mister Hands, the debut album from NARC, is the sound of Balimore's Nicky Smith bisecting and pinning to cork several the electric guitar's sonic flavors: the panning-stereo patty-cake blare of "Gangrene/Snickers"; the drowsy, Drunken Master splay of "Sweater"; "Don't Touch," which bear-hugs a meat ... More >>
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April 23, 2010
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In the week SOTC blood kin Christopher R. Weingarten swore up an absolute storm in defense of music criticism, we memorialized his cascades of profanity in a very special video edit, then rode out on the battlefield once more to sort out the critical scrum that broke out in the speech's wake. ... More >>
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April 21, 2010
Interview: The Mars Volta's Omar Rodriguez Lopez on His New Film, The Sentimental Engine Slayer, Which Has Its New York Debut At The Tribeca Film Festival
Omar Rodriguez Lopez, the poofy-haired, three-piece-suit wearing, multi-instrumentalist of the Mars Volta, can now add actor, writer, and director to his extensive inventory of careers. His debut film, The Sentimental Engine Slayer, which premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival back in February, ... More >>
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March 26, 2010
Week in Review: Shut It Down
Scenes from MtyMx. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.In the week LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy told our own Michael Musto to "eat it" and Musto sensibly retaliated by telling him to "suck it" right back, we spent a good chunk of the week unpacking the twin out-of-state enterprises that were SXSW and M ... More >>
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The Mars Volta
Scenes from MtyMx. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.In the week LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy told our own Michael Musto to "eat it" and Musto sensibly retaliated by telling him to "suck it" right back, we spent a good chunk of the week unpacking the twin out-of-state enterprises that were SXSW and M ... More >>
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June 26, 2009
Week in Review: I Want to Be Michael Jackson When I Grow Up
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June 22, 2009
Interview: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez on Mars Volta's Fifth Album Octahedron and His Solo Record Cryptomnesia
"You come and see us and it's three hours of getting punched in the face." Hetero life partners Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala The Mars Volta's guitarist and co-leader, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, seems possessed by an almost demonic energy. The fifth Volta album, Octahedron, will be released ... More >>
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September 18, 2008
Mars Volta at the Hammerstein: Astronauts Going Nowhere
"You come and see us and it's three hours of getting punched in the face." Hetero life partners Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala The Mars Volta's guitarist and co-leader, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, seems possessed by an almost demonic energy. The fifth Volta album, Octahedron, will be released ... More >>
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January 22, 2008
Bate and Switch
The audience-antagonizing joy and terror of the defiant, ridiculous Mars Volta
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September 12, 2006
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March 29, 2005
Ghost Writers
Dueling divas of Latin hair-prog explode the possibilities
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November 25, 2003
Turkey Shoot 2003
Putatively musical sounds from hunger, for the fan of the future in a very disastrous year
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August 19, 2003
Saving Grace Under Pressure
Gold Standard Laboratories Clangs on a Can, All Scarred
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July 29, 2003
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Omar Rodriguez-Lopez

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Q&A: NARC's Nicky Smith On Working Alone, Writer's Block, And Korn's Badass Guitar Tone

Blogs

Week in Review: Listen to Them Goddamn Drums

Blogs

Interview: The Mars Volta's Omar Rodriguez Lopez on His New Film, The Sentimental Engine Slayer, Which Has Its New York Debut At The Tribeca Film Festival

Blogs

Week in Review: Shut It Down

Voice Choices

The Mars Volta

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Week in Review: I Want to Be Michael Jackson When I Grow Up

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Interview: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez on Mars Volta's Fifth Album Octahedron and His Solo Record Cryptomnesia

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Mars Volta at the Hammerstein: Astronauts Going Nowhere

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Bate and Switch

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Prog-Metal Wackos' Sick Chops Turn Noxious

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Ghost Writers

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Turkey Shoot 2003

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Saving Grace Under Pressure

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