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The Mars Volta

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"I guess the concept of prog music is always frowned upon," says Cedric. "It was the dinosaur that the new kids wanted to take down. But I just hope people don’t picture some keyboard player in a cape trying to present this music as Mars Volta On Ice. We have our feet a little bit more planted in the ground, there is a lot more punk aesthetic involved in what we do." For Cedric and Omar, The Mars Volta also represents an escape, a way of freeing themselves from rigorous but limited music. http://www.themarsvolta.com

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THE MARS VOLTA have chosen instead to follow their instincts, simultaneously raising the bar for anyone seriously endeavoring to make ‘cutting edge’ rock music, while making it clear that whatever success lays ahead for them will most assuredly be achieved on their terms and no one else’s. They have made credibility, honesty and creativity in rock music fashionable again. They will introduce a generation to the concepts of musicianship and boundary-pushing. They are succeeding where countless others have failed. In a vast landscape of manufactured bullshit, they are real.