The Mars Volta: Mean Fiddler, London
Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 16 April 2003
NO MUSICAL GENRE unites generations in revulsion quite like prog-rock. Decades on, it remains the pariah of pop, the only 1970s style that has never been excavated. Even its fashion statement, the cape, has stayed firmly in the time capsule. But now its day has come, in the form of the Mars Volta.
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