Tag: Cedric Bixler-Zavala

The Mars Volta’s Landscape Tantrums Deepens Mysteries of Debut LP

Remember when albums were marketed on TV commercials? (For that matter, remember commercials?) Back in 2003, flipping through channels during a vacation with friends, I was physically startled by the sound of “Inertiatic ESP” — flailing distortion, glass-shatteringly high vocals, drums as mammoth as the Smoky Mountains outside the rec room window of our rental cabin. […]

April 19, 2021
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