My final music based list for a bit, until I unleash my top albums of 2009 upon your asses, is a simple top ten pick of the best albums released in my life time, with some notable mentions thrown in for good measure. I am aware that the title of this post makes it look like I'm dead but I'm not, not yet anyway. 10. PEARL JAM – TEN (1991) 9. THE STREETS – A GRAND DON'T COME FOR FREE (2004)...
by David ColyerI’m very sad to hear that Chris Harman, one of the leaders of the British Socialist Workers Party has recently .Chris Harman has always been my favourite among the many fine authors in the SWP.His writing, as editor of the British Socialist Worker newspaper until 2004 and as the author of many books and longer articles have had a profound impact on my own political though, and...
Some artists are more than merely great. There are some artists that for a period of years, a period that is finite, consistently produced music that, it can be argued, far exceeded the work of their peers. For that brief period of time they were definitely Masters of the Form. "Anger is a gift." -- Rage Against the Machine, "Freedom" Anger was a pretty standard component of popular...
If Diablo Cody doesn’t fit your fantasy of an educated, literary celebrity stripper, maybe the thought of Tom Morello dancing on a pole will get your heart rate—among other things—up. The former guitarist of Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave, who currently performs as The Nightwatchman , admitted in his NME column that he made cash after getting a Harvard BA by working as an...
So Tom Morello — mostly known as guitarist for Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, but now one of the forces behind snorecore act Street Sweeper Social Club — recently admitted that he did a lot of crap jobs when he first moved out to L.A. And that included a stint as a banana [...]
On November 20, 2009 , Dutch vinyl speciality label Music on Vinyl Records will be releasing Rage Against The Machine 's influential 1992 full length debut, Rage Against the Machine , on vinyl. According to the listing at the distributor , the record will be pressed on 180g vinyl and will feature a Picture Disc.
Dhani Harrison (left) talks with Ringo Star, center, and Tom Petty in 2003. (Mark J. Terrill, AP)There was a bit of disconnect between the sleepy debut album by Dhani Harrison’s band Thenewno2, (Vagrant), and the galvanizing performance the band put on last summer at Lollapalooza in Grant Park. The album was slow-moving and introspective, tinged by psychedelic textures and electro rhythms, while...
The Odyssey is the site of Graham Hughes, a man who loves the world so much he’s going to visit every country. In doing so he’ll be stepping foot in 200 sovereign states, raising £1,000,000 for WaterAid and all without flying or driving – public transport only. This epic adventure ...
Filed under: News , Holy Hell In a startling revelation, outspoken musician Tom Morello has revealed that he once worked as an exotic dancer. In a new guest column for NME.com , the Rage Against the Machine guitarist said that when he first moved to California, he was forced to shake his moneymaker to afford food. "When I graduated from Harvard and moved to Hollywood, I was unemployable,"...
Today’s the big day kids. We, the people, get to choose between a jackass and an elephant plutocrat for mayor. The 34th City Council district has an incumbent running against a puppet of her former mentor: the inimitable Vito Lopez. Behold, the Davilamobile! As witnessed by yours truly yesterday on the Southside. As the 33rd, well, we have this [...]
In honor of Halloween, our weekend Rock List was devoted to haunting Ghost Songs — or songs that just have the word “ghost” in the title. We counted the votes, and Johnny Cash’s terrifying retelling of “(Ghost) Riders in the Sky” beat out other poltergeist-inspired tracks from Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins and Bruce Springsteen. Cash’s [...]
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