Mars Volta signs to Universal, it's confirmed

The LA Times reports: "At the Drive-In broke up last year just as the edgy band was ascending the rock ladder. Then the record label and management team it had been working with, Gary Gersh and John Silva, split up in late 2001. But it's a cozy affair again: the Mars Volta, a new band featuring ATDI singer Cedric Bixler and guitarist Omar Rodriguez, is managed by Silva and has become the first signing to a new record label headed by Gersh."
You can read the rest of the article here [props go to childofpunk76 for posting this link in the "Rumor Mill" comments].