last update: April 15, 2002 - first update: March 03, 2001

MAY 20, 2002 - PLEASE READ:
Since At The Drive-In have parted into 2 bands several months ago, Sparta and The Mars Volta, this is the last update of Rolodex Propaganda. These 2 bands are living their own way now, Sparta have released a 4-titles album, Austere, and The Mars Volta a 3-titles, Tremulant and both bands plans to release a full album this summer. Sparta is an emo band, which sounds a bit like At The Drive-In during the In/Casino/Out - Vaya era, with Jim singing and playing guitar, Paul playing guitar and Tony drumming. The Mars Volta is a psyche-rock band, with Cedric singing and Omar playing guitar.

Stopping updating the site doesn't mean that I will delete the site. I will keep it to let all At The Drive-In fans view the stuff I've collected during the year and a half Rolodex Propaganda have been running. If you want fresh and up-to-date news about The Mars Volta and Sparta, here's some site you can check out:
- the official Sparta site
- Neohorizon.free.fr (an amazing french/english site about The Mars Volta with a bootleg)
- Heart Of Roulette Dares (The Mars Volta)
- the GSL site (The Mars Volta and Defacto's label)

NEWS:

03/15/02:
SPARTA TOURING THROUGH EUROPE
Sparta will come in Europe for 15 dates from mid-May to early June, all tour dates are on the official site and in the tour dates page of the site.

02/09/02:
THE MARS VOLTA LIVE MP3
On the Hellpaso website you can download an entire set of live mp3 by The Mars Volta, they are on the MAIN page [they are no longer available, they have been erased]

SPARTA
They have announced some tourdates accross the States with Thursday, you can check all dates here, or go directly on the official site. They have also put a webcam in their studio, so you can see what they are doing right now (but the frames are not refreshed regularly).

02/01/02:
THE MARS VOLTA TOUR DATES
The Mars Volta are touring troughout Europe in March, check all dates here, or on the GSL The Mars Volta tour dates page.

01/30/02:
sorry for the lack of updates these last weeks, here's the latest news:

THE MARS VOLTA & DE FACTO
The first The Mars Volta release, a 3-title EP, Tremulant, will come out on GSL on late March 2002. De Facto has already release a new LP, Légende du Scorpion à Quatre Queue, a few months ago (november/december 2001) on a french label, Modern City Records.

SPARTA
Mike Miller is the new Sparta bassist. They have also a brand new design for their official website (it seems now that DreamWorks Records manage the site, first site version was runned by the band), so check it out!

They're actually recording their debut full length album at Armoury Studios (Vancouver), the producer is Jerry Finn, and they'll probably release it on early summer. Before, on March-April, a 4-5 title EP, Austere, will be available in some stores and at Sparta shows. It will contain only new songs (not Air, Cut Your Ribbon and The Host that were available for download) and Mike Major produced it.

12/12/01:
SPARTA
Erick has left Sparta, more infos about this on Hell Paso.

11/25/01:
ROULETTE'S DARE
You can download a The Mars Volta song on Yellow Satdun.

11/14/01:
* sorry for the lack of updates these last days, i was very busy *
GABE
If you have seen Sparta on tour, you know that their friend Gabe helped them, playing guitar and piano. Did you know that he has his own band, Volador ? Their record is going to be released in the next few weeks. Check out their site, voladormusic.com to hear some mp3 samples.

SPARTA SIGNED ON DREAMWORKS
Blaze (manager) has announced on the Sparta message board (10/24/01) that Sparta has been signed on Dreamworks and that Sparta plans to record the album on January (and may tour again after this) and then release it on late spring / early summer. They are actually writing songs and re-writing the ones they played on tour.

10/06/01:
BAD NEWS
"Texan hardcore heroes At The Drive-In have confirmed to TotalRock that they have split up. Talking exclusively to us, guitarist Jim admitted that the band had decided to make their current extended break a permanent situation. Jim – along with drummer Tony and bassist Paul – are still working together in new project Sparta. This sees Jim handling all vocals, with Paul switching to guitar, and bass parts being handled by old pal Erick."

This statement was taken from totalrock.com (September 27, 2001), and if some infos are true (Jim seems to have really said this), there's still no official statement from the band about breaking up or not and their new message board is still running, so they don't have totally broke up, but chances that they will play again in a nearby future are getting thinner and thinner. I've waited a bit to publish this news to be sure that Jim really said this.

THE MARS VOLTA
They have recorded their new album but it seems they are still looking for a label to release their EP (it was planned on Grand Royal but GR is no more...). The album is likely to sound like Vaya according to the few persons who have heard their songs. The EP was produced by Alex Newport (In/Casino/Out, Vaya, other album produced here), and NO songs are available on internet (they are some songs from Mars Volta on AudioGalaxy.com, but they are from an italian electronic band).

09/12/01:
SPARTA
You can listen to 3 Sparta demo tracks (in mp3 format) on their official site. Also, they are touring in USA on October, and one date in Iceland. Click here to view all dates.

GRAND ROYAL, RIP 1993-2001
Grand Royal (At The Drive-In, Beastie Boys, ...) is closed since August 31 due to financial problems. Click here to learn more.

08/31/01:
The european "Defacto presents The Mars Volta" tour have been cancelled, it seems they have to stick around in California (thanks Genevieve).

08/25/01: Jim, Paul and Tony are playing in a band called Sparta. Here's the line-up:
Jim Ward - Vocals, Guitar
Paul Hinojos - Guitar
Tony Hajjar - Drums
Erick Sanger -Bass
They've started to write some songs this month.

08/25/01: The Mars Volta (see previous info) will play an huge amount of dates in September (with De Facto), October and November. For more infos, see the news/concerts page.

06/29/01: The new De Facto (Cedric and Omar's side-project) full-length album, Megaton Shotblast, will be released on July 24 on GSL. Announcing this new release in its newsletter, GSL has also confirmed that Cedric & Omar (ATDI & De Facto) and Ikey Owens & Jeremy Ward (De Facto) plays with 2 other guys in a band called The Mars Volta. The Mars Volta should play some shows in Europe in September, and they are said to prepare an LP on GSL. Jim, Tony & Paul may have also their own side-project band. But this DOES NOT mean that At The Drive-In have broke up, they've said that they wanted to take a hiatus for an indefinate time. They could record an album in their alternative bands, and then return playing together in ATDI. And they are still looking to their message board on Grand Royal, they have replied this week to a thread about El Gran Orgo, saying that Offtime records have screwed them up and "when you buy El Gran orgo you do not support ATDI, you support DISHONESTY!!", so don't buy El Gran Orgo, download it or grab it! (but support ATDI by buying all their others albums !)

LAST UPDATES:

03/05/02: added 4 new pics of The Mars Volta playing live @ House of Blues.
02/14/02: I HAVE SWAPPED ENGLISH AND FRENCH HOMEPAGES OF THE SITE, HERE'S THE NEW ENGLISH LANGUAGE HOMEPAGE. IF YOU'RE USING THE ROLODEXPROPAGANDA.COM URL, STOP USING IT, THE URL WILL BE DISMISSED IN A FEW WEEKS, SO UPDATE YOUR BOOKMARKS.
I have rotated the wallpapers, so there's different stuff.
01/26/02: added bass tabs
01/24/02: added guitar tabs, bass tabs coming soon.
01/20/02: the site is back with some design changes after being down 5 days, due to huge server maintenance operations. you can see a 460*68 banner on the top of each page, it's not to make cash, but to support the french site that provide me this server (platomic.com).
12/12/01: added a bunch of ATDI interviews in a single file, get this on the interview page.
11/25/01: added a The Mars Volta wallpaper in the multimedia page.
11/17/01: added a link to an interview of Omar by the Hellpaso site webmaster.