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SARGENT HOUSE — MTV HIVE Interview with Omar Rodriguez Lopez about...
MTV HIVE Interview with Omar Rodriguez Lopez about Bosnian Rainbows and his emotional last year
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez’s former bands the Mars Volta and At the Drive-In are the sort of acts that fans get tattoos of. But unlike the permanent nature of inking yourself, he’s moved on to another project with his new four-piece Bosnian Rainbows. On the band’s debut (out next month), we find Rodriguez-Lopez exploring a punchy goth sound with Le Butcherettes frontwoman Teri Gender-Bender, drummer Deantoni Parks and keyboardist Nicci Kasper of Dark Angels. Hive recently caught up with Rodriguez-Lopez before the release of their debut album to talk about the “virgin” experience of playing with a new band, why the At the Drive-In reunion was emotionally tough and the Mars Volta breaking up over Twitter.
The Mars Volta and At the Drive-In are bands that people are really passionate about. Is it a different experience for you touring with a band that nobody’s ever heard?
Totally. You can’t pay for the specialness of what it is when you just go play music when nobody knows anything about it. It’s that initial experience. I hate to use the word &
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In between his work in bands including The Mars Volta and At the Drive-In, Omar Rodríguez-López has been a prolific solo artist. And not just prolific, over 50 albums in 20 years prolific.
Amor de Frances is a new vinyl box set collecting Rodríguez-López’s extensive solo work and includes a total of 57 albums that have been recorded over the past two decades, two of which are previously unreleased.
The package costs $1,599 and will be limited to just 500 copies. It’ll be released on December 4, and preorders open on October 30.
If that’s all a little rich for your blood, the 57 albums will also be available to purchase individually on vinyl.
The Mars Volta, meanwhile, put out a new, self-titled album in 2022, marking their first studio effort in 10 years. They released a reworked version of the record, dubbed Qué Dios Te Maldiga Mí Corazón, in April.
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