[atlantaprog] Re: Prog in NY Times (via Mars Volta)

Yes, there's a heavy dose of indie sensibility and some dub/electronic 
elements, but I hear all those 4 bands too, plus the Doors and Santana.  It's 
prog to me, and IMO a lot more enjoyable than most of the stuff that passes for 
prog these days.  I would go so far as to call it one of my favorite albums of 
this decade so far, although others find it derivative and retro from what I 
hear.
 
Brian


Jeff Blanks <jblanks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Well, This certainly has piqued MY 
>curiousity...K.C./Zep/Yes /Rush blend....works 
>for me!!!!

Remember, though: "college-circuit emo band". 
The most "indie" of "indie-rock", so to speak. 
It's not a "K.C./Zep/Yes/Rush blend", from what 
I've heard of *De-Loused in the Comatorium* (a 
friend of mine has it); it's much more like an 
indie-rock band heavily influenced by prog than 
an Actual Prog Band . (The bassist on 
*De-Loused*, in fact, is Flea from the Red Hot 
Chili Peppers, if I'm informed correctly. I 
don't know about this new guy.) In short, The 
Mars Volta has more than enough alterna-cred for 
the likes of Jon Pareles (who's been around 
forever, BTW) to sing its praises in public 
(while still propounding the party line about 
rock in the '70s. Out of touch? Then why were 
people still buying the records?). You should 
still hear it, though. (In fact, you should also 
hear Sunny Day Real Estate's *The Rising Tide*, 
where indie/emo meets latter-day Rush, even 
though SDRE fans themselves apparently don't like 
it that much. I find it hard to imagine that 
Rush don't know of SDRE.)

It is, however, *trés* cool that Cuneiform 
Records got mentioned in the *New York Times*. 
:-)


                
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