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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.
"We are really tired of those labels and questions," says guitarist,
c ...more
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