Rage Against The Machine Reunion, Tour, New Album Mp3s
August 18th, 2008 by Karen
Well, they’re as politically ineffective as President Bush, but maybe not quite as bad as the band Bush. Maybe.
During one of the most tumultuous times in US politics in recent memory, one of the most outspoken bands in recent memory has been dead silent.
Of course, we’re talking about Rage Against the Machine.
When this rap-rock band exploded onto the scene in 1992, the group became known for its fiery politics perhaps more than its music. Speaking out against censorship, racial injustice and political and economic corruption, the band seemed unstoppable.
Until it stopped.
The group folded in 2000 and, aside from guitarist Tom Morello’s lame pop sidetrip with Chris Cornell in AudioSlave (whose melodramatic pop was only slightly less annoying than U2), the members all-but-disappeared. Formerly outspoken frontman Zack de la Rocha seemed to have nothing to say until he reemerged earlier this month with tracks from his new band, One Day as a Lion.
Still, the fact that this band and its members had nothing to say about 9/11 or the Bush administration seems suspicious. Are they afraid to speak up during an actual time of conflict and crisis? Do they only raise hell when they’re preaching to the choir—reassuring wealthy white kids that Democrats rock and Republicans don’t? It all seems too easy.
If cheap shots are the name of the game, count these guys in. The band has announced plans to play a reunion concert coinciding with the 2008 Democratic Convention in Denver (no word on a new album, yet). This will give them the chance to complain about Bush (now that he’s on the way out anyway, real brave, fellas), and it will also allow them to attempt to regain some punk cred as they follow in the footsteps of punk pioneers MC5 who infamously played Chicago at the time of the violent protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. (Mc5 guitarist Wayne Kramer is also on the bill.)
Is history repeating itself? Maybe. But this seems like one rerun/reunion we could do without.
Is Rage Against the Machine too political? Not political enough?
Leave a comment and tell us what you think.
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September 5th, 2008 at 12:40 am
RAGE! RAGE! RAGE!!!
September 22nd, 2008 at 2:07 pm
If RATM really wants to be taken seriously they should start by
ditching their label and sell their music direct via Itunes or Napster.
Hard to believe all the hype they try to push when they are attached to Sony.
October 20th, 2008 at 8:49 am
a quick, simple look to the WIKIPEDIA website (wikipedia…hmm. have you heard of it?)
could tell you that the members of rage have been all over the map speaking of their political values and spreading the truth, that is suppressed by the mainstream media from attemping to shoot a music video in the NYSE, to the 2000 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION, where during the concert,Zach said to the crowd, “brothers and sisters, our democracy has been hijacked,” and later also shouted “we have a right to oppose these mother–s!” (wikipedia). They tried to play a show at the RNC also this year, but were forcefully stopped from going onto the stage, so they sang accapella in the crowd and led a march towards the convention.
ANd that is only what wikipedia says of them.
November 23rd, 2008 at 8:48 am
wow whoever wrote this is a complete idiot first off it wasn’t onlyt tom morello in audioslave, audioslave was basically rage with chris cornell singing. and they broke up, they weren’t a band durig the Bush administration so why would they say anything as a band.