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Thursday | Regina Leader Post

Santana expands his musical palate

What can Celine Dion possibly have in common with prog-metal freakout band Mars Volta and avant-garde jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders? How does the queen of safe, adult contemporary soft pop, the great diva of ...

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Celine Dion, Progressive-Rock, Pharoah Sanders, Jazz, Carlos Santana

Fri Aug 29, 2008

North Texas Daily

Music Spotlight

Jam bands in Denton are a dime a dozen, but Ocean Commotion tries to bring something new to the stage.

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Related Topix: Progressive-Rock, Dallas Metro, Theater

Tue Aug 26, 2008

Ultimate-guitar.com

One Day As A Lion: One Day As A Lion [Reviews]

Released: Jul 22, 2008 Genre: Alternative Hip Hop, Electronica, Rock Label: ANTI- Number Of Tracks: 5 One Day As A Lion's Self Titled five track EP is a mass fusion of grimy, soiled up keyboards with heavy ...

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Related Topix: Rage Against the Machine, Pop/Rock, Self, Progressive-Rock

Sun Aug 24, 2008

Wired News

Look Daggers Ditch Pro Tools, Rock Live Hip-Hop

Most hip-hop production today is simply overproduction, usually digital. Rare is the rap track that includes a backbeat that partially sounds like a real kick and snare, much less one that features both.

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Related Topix: The Roots, Black Entertainment, Hip-Hop, Progressive-Rock, Music, Entertainment

Fri Aug 22, 2008

105.9 The X

Wild Interna... - One Day As a L...

Raw, political, visceral, and genre-bending, One Day as a Lion is a collaboration between Rage Against the Machine vocalist Zack de la Rocha and ex-Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore.

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Related Topix: Rage Against the Machine, Pop/Rock, Progressive-Rock

Wed Aug 20, 2008

Vue Weekly

Prevue - Lint

When a band is named after the stuff you might find in your belly button, it's gotta be good right? Yes, if you're talking about Calgary's Lint.

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Related Topix: Progressive-Rock

Sun Aug 17, 2008

AMNY

King Crimson: still different after all these years

King Crimson plays the Nokia theater, starting Thursday. Like Dungeons & Dragons, progressive rock appeals to a very specific audience -- a generally male one that admires complexity, innovation and ...

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Progressive-Rock, King Crimson, Music, Entertainment

Fri Aug 15, 2008

Ultimate-guitar.com

Yourcodenameis Milo: Ignoto [Reviews]

Release Date: Apr 18, 2005 Label: Universal/Fiction Genres: Rock Number Of Tracks: 12 A mix of cutting guitars and pounding drums, the album sees the band favourably being compared to Shellac, Fugazi, and The ...

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Related Topix: Yourcodenameis:Milo, Alternative, Progressive-Rock

Sun Aug 10, 2008

Orlando City Beat

The Dear Hunter

Progressive rock group The Dear Hunter is on the road for their first ever headlining tour with guests Lydia, You Me and Everyone We Know, Eye Alaska.

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Related Topix: Progressive-Rock, Pop/Rock, Panic! at the Disco, Music, Entertainment

Wed Aug 06, 2008

C4 Music Television

-Special Features

Phil checks out a scandalous celebrity party and finds out if NZ really does have an A list - The new Beck video - Phil and Helena head back to school Helena has C4 alum and star of her own new TV3 show Jaquie ...

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Related Topix: Progressive-Rock

Sun Aug 03, 2008

Undercover

Fuji Rock Festival Day 2

Having met some cool Japanese people on our journey to get food and no real plan of who to see first, we decided to join our new friends in checking out some local bands.

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Related Topix: Progressive-Rock

Fri Aug 01, 2008

Nashville Scene

King Crimson

Some call them psychedelic. Others label them jazz-fusion or experimental. Most, however, know them as the founding fathers of prog rock.

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Related Topix: Progressive-Rock, King Crimson, The Fiery Furnaces, Indie, Pop/Rock, The Association, Watches

Wed Jul 30, 2008

Billboard.com

The Mars Volta Anchors L.A.'s Detour Festival

The Mars Volta , Gogol Bordello , Shiny Toy Guns , the Presets, Cut Copy , Matt Costa and the Black Lips will lead this year's third annual LA Weekly Detour Music Festival, to be held Oct.

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Related Topix: Progressive-Rock

BlabberMouth.net

Zack de la Rocha's One Day as a Lion Cracks Billboard's Top 30

ONE DAY AS A LION , the project featuring Zack De La Rocha and Jon Theodore , has sold more than 17,000 copies of its eponymous debut EP in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position ...

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Related Topix: Rage Against the Machine, Pop/Rock, Progressive-Rock

Sat Jul 26, 2008

NME.com

Sigur Ros, The Mars Volta close day two at Latitude

Sigur Ros brought the second day of Latitude Festival to a psychedelic close tonight .

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Related Topix: Progressive-Rock

Thu Jul 24, 2008

Prague Post

Music from another planet

Guided by a Ouija board, the band overcame studio mishaps to produce The Bedlam in Goliath, its best record yet.

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Related Topix: California, End Times, At the Drive-in, Pop/Rock, Progressive-Rock

Tue Jul 22, 2008

El Paso Times

Mars Volta to return to El Paso

The Mars Volta returns to its El Paso roots with a headlining concert at 7:30 p.m. Sept.

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Related Topix: Progressive-Rock, El Paso Metro, El Paso, TX, Entertainment

Sat Jul 19, 2008

NME.com

Sigur Ros, The Mars Volta close day two at Latitude

Sigur Ros brought the second day of Latitude Festival to a psychedelic close tonight .

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Related Topix: Progressive-Rock

Fri Jul 18, 2008

Billboard

Without a Label, BLK JKS Cuts Big Deals

Fast-rising South African rock band BLK JKS clearly knows how to make interesting music that channels the Mars Volta and more traditional sounds in equal measure.

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Related Topix: Progressive-Rock, New York Metro

Wed Jul 16, 2008

Stereogum

New One Day As A Lion (Zack de la Rocha, Jon Theodore) - "Wild International"

We got the heads up on new music from Zack a few weeks ago, when he and ex-Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore announced their One Day As A Lion project and self-titled EP along with the band bio "one day as a lion ...

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Related Topix: New College of Florida, Progressive-Rock

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