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Commentators often decry the seeming inability of today's musicians to engage their fans in political protest, but don't tell that to the organizers of this year's DNC and RNC Conventions. "For two weeks straight, both in Denver and in Minneapolis, Rage Against the Machine, a rap-metal band formed in 1991 and known for its big noise and ferocious politics, formed an ad-hoc convention in opposition...
David Carr reports on Rage Against the Machine's protests at both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. According to Rage and its delusional followers, there is no difference between Obama and McCain. I suppose they're waiting around for the Democratic candidate to champion Che and Mumia and the writing of crackpots like William Blum, as Rage's website does. Way to fight for justice —...
Rage Against the Machine taking the street after the police shut down them from playing on stage at the Republican National Convention.The Original Video
File this one under "Tell us something we don't know." On Friday, the UK's Royal National Institute for the Deaf reported that 80 percent of the 1,700 concert-goers it polled complained of hearing damage or trouble. The RNID's solution? Don't...
On Wednesday night, Republican delegates fresh off Gov. Sarah Palin's vice presidential nomination speech at the Xcel Energy Center here formed a conga line of taxis, buses and private cars to Minneapolis, where post-convention parties were firing up. At almost the same time, a huge crowd was emptying out of the Target Center after a political show of a different sort -- a concert by the band Rage...
Rage Against the Machine, a rap-metal band formed in 1991 and known for its big noise and ferocious politics, formed an ad-hoc convention in opposition to both major parties.
Photo: Brad Fedie for RollingStone.Com This week was all about rallying the troops, as Bruce Springsteen lead a bunch of biker types on a run through “Wooly Bully” during his set at the Harley-Davidson Festival in Milwaukee last weekend. A few hundred miles west in Minneapolis, Rage Against the Machine whipped up some opposition to the [...]
Radio Friendly Unit Shifter is a hip-hop-style mixtape of '90s-era alternative rock put together by Nick Catchdubs, the guy who put together those critically acclaimed Wale mixtapes, and some other hipster fellow. I'm listening to it as we "speak," and,...
Photo: Getty This week’s Republican National Convention ruffled all sorts of feathers this week, as Rage Against the Machine stirred the pot and the McCain campaign used Heart’s “Barracuda” as a theme song for VP candidate Sarah Palin, much to the chagrin of Nancy Wilson. What Palin should have done was consult the readers of Rock [...]
#787 Daily Source Code for Friday September 5th 2008 The Greatest Show On Earth Discover Simple, Private Sharing at Drop.io British Airways crash likely caused by ice in fuel A 1-in-1,000 Chance of Götterdämmerung: Will European physicists destroy the world? - Reason Magazine BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Cheney seeks to bolster Ukraine Lack of Lisbon Treaty hinders EU [...]
The police pulled the plug on Rage Against the Machine's "Anti Unjust Wars" concert outside the Republican National Convention on Tuesday. Front man Zack De La Rocha, guitarist Tom Morello & company were not going to give up so they went to the streets for an acapella performance. Man oh man, do I love this FN BAND!!! Complete coverage can be found at Above the Fold. Here is the full 10 minute long...
Rage Against the Machine (and their fans) have been extra busy this week at the Republic National Convention and doing just like their name said they would: they’re “raging” against the “machine.” The protests began Tuesday, Sept. 2, when the band attempted to play on the lawn outside of St. Paul’s capitol building. Police quickly pulled [...]
Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine is set to release the solo album, 'The Fabled City', September 30th, 2008 via Epic Records. The 11-song set is the anticipated follow up to the 2007 'The Nightwatchman' debut 'One Man Revolution' ...