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Artist Spotlight - Mars Volta @ Fillmore Detroit, May 15th

Written by John Louse

Tuesday, 13 May 2008

Perhaps the most popular band in the whole prog-rock genre, El Paso’s The Mars Volta prove that you can still create thought provoking lyrics and challenging musical arrangements and still win fans beyond your core following. After critically acclaimed albums Frances The Mute and Amphitecture, Mars Volta brings their diverse sound back on tour as the band heads out on the road after a early pre-release tour with a more proper tour. The band is touring behind their Bedlam In Goliath record, which debuted at #4 on the Billboard Top 200 back in February. This makes the band’s third record in a row to debut inside the upper echelons of the album charts.
Lead by former At The Drive-In vocalist Cedric Bixler and guitarist Omar Rodriquez-Lopez, the band has been rising through the rock ranks over much of this decade. Featuring 12 new songs, The Bedlam in Goliath wields an album-long story and could be the best of the band’s already critically acclaimed career. The first single “Wax Simulacra” is a quintessential piece from the band, taking the listener in many different directions in its tidy three minute structure. Bedlam lays off the 16-18 minute jams as in previous records for tighter and more concise, but just as majestic sounding tracks. Highlight tracks off the record include the frantic “Metatron” to the downright blissfully bizarre track “Soothsayer.”
The band’s 2005 album, Frances The Mute was very well thought of by My City Buzz that year, being named the #2 album of that year. The band went on to sell a half million copies of that record, which featured “The Widow” and “L’Via Vasquez.”
The band is in a midst of a tour which began in April and runs through a date at the Sasquatch Festival in Washington during Memorial Day weekend. The band rolls through Detroit on May 15^th at the Fillmore Detroit. After the U.S. tour wraps, the band is off to Japan and Europe for summer dates. So, you don’t have too many more opportunities to check out the 'bedlam' that people are raving about.
Mars Volta plays the Fillmore Detroit on Thursday, May 15^th. Tickets are $36.75 and are available at www.ticketmaster.com. Additional dates can be found at www.thebedlam.net .

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