It’s been said many times in the past 12 months or so (in reference to the Gil Scott Heron track) that this revolution will be televised. And Facebooked and Tweeted. And indeed it was on Twitter that I heard Tom Morello was going to play a gig at the Occupy movement’s London tent city...
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Last year saw a musical Christmas miracle in the form of an organic, grass-roots movement that toppled the multi-million-pound star-making machine of X Factor with an anti-establishment anthem that declared “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me”. For four consecutive years Simon Cowell’s progeny had taken the coveted Christmas number one slot....
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This year the UK has witnessed a Christmas miracle. A miracle in the form of an organic, grass-roots movement to topple the multi-million-pound star-making machine that is the X Factor with an anti-establishment anthem that declares ‘Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me’. For four consecutive years Simon Cowell’s progeny have taken...
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A series of pictures of Rage Against The Machine. South Australia – Big Day Out; 1 February 2008. Pictures by Amy Freeborn
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Tom Morello was once quoted, posing the question: “Is it just a coincidence that America has turned to such shit since Rage Against The Machine split-up?” So Morello, not one to just sit back (what member of ‘Rage ever was?!), broke out his acoustic guitar and his Johhny Cash-Woody Guthrie-cross voice and hit his...
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Coachella, California – April 2007: “Good evening, we’re Rage Against The Machine from Los Angeles, California.” Those were the words so many a music fan, political activist and disaffected youth had been waiting a long seven years to hear, and on April 29th in the Californian desert, those words were finally spoken again, by...
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Blending politics with music is nothing new – it began long before the four members of Rage Against The Machine were born. But what set RATM apart from the other rockers-with-a-cause was that they weren’t scared to stand on the front line for their beliefs, getting beaten, tear gassed and arrested. The band’s career...
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It almost looked, in 2002, that the super-group of Audioslave – featuring the instrument-playing members of Rage Against The Machine and the distinctive vocals of Chris Cornell from Soundgarden – was doomed, less than a year after the musicians had first come together. An album was recorded, but then Cornell abandoned the group and...
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