Another entrant in the recent-reunion phenomenon: The members of At the Drive-In are coming back with new music and live shows in 2016. The hard-rock band from El Paso teased the announcement across its social-media accounts earlier in the week, and have tipped Fuse off that this year's material could potentially go toward its first fresh studio album since 2000's Relationship of Command. "Fifteen years ago, [our ambition] was, Man, this shit sounds cool, let's make a record and go on tour," guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López told Fuse on Thursday, noting he and his bandmates have been sharing partially and fully formed songs with each other again. "That's our motivation now, too."The inventive quintet (Rodríguez-López, Jim Ward, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Paul Hinojos, and Tony Hajjar) took a prolonged, differences-and-exhaustion-fueled hiatus in the ’00s — fracturing into nearly half-a-dozen other projects including the Mars Volta, Sparta, Bosnian Rainbows, and Antemasque — before reuniting briefly in...
- 1/22/2016
- by Sean Fitz-Gerald
- Vulture
Sparta are working on a follow-up to 2006's "Threes," and new track "Chemical Feel" is the first evidence of production. The sonic space-bound track is tough, and impeccably recorded, with crisp guitar lines funneled through pirstine pedals. Jim Ward sounds uuungggh, in the good way. Tony Hajjar and frontman Jim Ward have been busy with a few dates back with reunited At The Drive-In, but hopefully not too busy. Because this sounds good, six years is too long. Sparta have a few tour dates lined up, with more info at their website.
- 5/17/2012
- Hitfix
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