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The Mars Volta
The Mars Volta
American rock band
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De Facto
De Facto
dub reggae band
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Cedric Bixler-Zavala
Cedric Bixler-Zavala
American singer
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Bosnian Rainbows
Bosnian Rainbows
American art rock band
4
Omar Rodríguez-López
Omar Rodríguez-López
American musician and actor
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Ash
Ash
Northern Irish alternative rock band
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Long Beach Dub Allstars
Long Beach Dub Allstars
American dub/ska rock band (formed 1997)
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One Day as a Lion
One Day as a Lion
American hip hop supergroup
8
Le Butcherettes
Le Butcherettes
Mexican rock band
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Gruppo Sportivo
Gruppo Sportivo
band
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Oceansize
Oceansize
English progressive rock band
11
The Hair and Skin Trading Company
The Hair and Skin Trading Company
12
At the Drive-In
At the Drive-In
American post-hardcore band
13
Anchor & Braille
Anchor & Braille
band
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The Subways
The Subways
English rock band
15
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
band
16
Girls
Girls
San Francisco-based indie rock band
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Atreyu
Atreyu
American metalcore band
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Talk Talk
Talk Talk
English pop and post-rock group
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John Frusciante
John Frusciante
American guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer
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The Unwinding Hours
The Unwinding Hours
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Mendeed
Mendeed
band
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Gentle Giant
Gentle Giant
British band
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Cut Copy
Cut Copy
band
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Jon Theodore
Jon Theodore
American drummer
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Alkaline Trio
Alkaline Trio
American punk rock band
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Rocket from the Crypt
Rocket from the Crypt
band
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Flea
Flea
American-Australian bassist
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Stereophonics
Stereophonics
Welsh rock band
Intro
Music

Free Moral Agents were a collective of musicians brought together by Isaiah "Ikey" Owens (keyboardist from The Mars Volta) as a means to expand the sounds of what started as a solo recording project. In the spring of 2006 the band started playing shows around Long Beach and Los Angeles.

There was a time, before I put the record out, that I wasn't playing in Mars Volta anymore, and I had just bought a bunch of recording instruments. I'd always wanted to record my own record but never did, so [Free Moral Agents] really started with just me. I knew J, who was actually my girlfriend at the time's brother-in-law, who did poetry and sang and stuff, so I got together with him. This is before the vinyl. I was working at this record store and started talking to my friend Jeff Harris, who it turns out, was really good with Pro Tools, so I added him to the group. He's really a producer and doesn't really play with us live, but he's very much responsible for the sound of the record. I knew Mendee [Ichikawa] for several years, and we had worked on and off, but I knew we needed a female element to the group, so that's basically what Free Moral Agents is right there. As far as the music goes, it started as my project, but these people who I know I can trust, really bring it together.

In April 2009, Owens released two live tracks for free. In 2010, the group released its 2nd full-length album entitled Control This for Gold Standard Laboratories.