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Rage Against the Machine

Obtaining the Playlist from Guantanamo

Lawrence Iser | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Copyright Infringement, Guantanamo, Jackson Browne, John McCain, Music, Copyright, Rage Against the Machine, Sarah Palin, Entertainment News
Lawrence Iser

Once a prison guard purchases a copy of his favorite Nine Inch Nails CD, he is free to play it on his boombox. He is free to put a particular song on "repeat" and to play it as loud as he wants to.

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Look Who's Not Talking, Bono!

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 10.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Politics, Greil Marcus, Concerts, Animal Rights, Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails, Courtney Love, U2, Rage Against the Machine, Iggy Pop, Music, Bono, Hole, Entertainment News
Virginia M. Moncrieff

Mo longer are we content to hear the tin pot half-baked undergraduate political ramblings of some bloke who just happens to have the mic. What in the hell would he know?

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Friday Talking Points [99] -- Misdirection

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Pentagon, Troops, Medicare for All, Rumor Mongering, Guantanamo, Monopoly, Reform, Alan Grayson, Dscc, Pentagon Budget, Roger Ailes, Nixonian, Charles Schumer, President, Magic, Military, Bailout, Emanuel, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Ailes, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Health Care, Reid, Public Option, Olympia Snowe, Democrat, Congress, Playing the Victim, Close Gitmo Now, Rumor, Stage Magic, Democrats, Barack Obama, Rage Against the Machine, Executive Compensation, Calls, Schumer, Mddotw, Rahm Emanuel, Wasted, Health, Weiner, Harry Reid, Nixon, Healthcare, Senate, Orchestra Pit Theory, President Obama, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Fox, Obama, Democratic, Media, Grayson, Friday Talking Points, Republican, Pelosi, Snowe, Enemy, Organizing for America, Misdirect, Guantanamo Bay, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Orchestra Pit, Victim, Robust Public Option, Anthony Weiner, Trigger, Trust Busting, House, Tom Morello, Victim Card, War, Ad, Opt Out, 1000 Hours, Defense Appropriations, Enemy of America, Misdirection, Wall Street, Chris Weigant, Health Insurance, Health Insurers, 300000, Fox News, Medicare, Chuck Schumer, Executive Pay, Torture, Morello, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The real head-scratcher for serious media-watchers right now is what the "war" between the White House and Fox News was meant to distract us from this week. The "war" itself is laughable, for a number of reasons.

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Music's Biggest Quitters: 20 Who Quit

Spinner | Spinner Staff | Posted 10.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Steve Perry, Monkees, Prince, Zack De La Rocha, 000 Maniacs, Natalie Merchant, Michael Nesmith, Kiss, Music, Rock, Artist Formerly Known as Prince, Smashing Pumpkins, Oasis, Ace Frehley, Judas Priest, Tom Fogerty, Rob Halford, John Lennon, 10, Quitters, Jason Newsted, Brian Wilson, Metallica, Beach Boys, Cat Stevens, Rage Against the Machine, Abba, Izzy Stradlin, Holly Johnson, Fugees, D'arcy Wretzky, Dee Dee Ramone, Pop Music, Lauryn Hill, Noel Gallagher, Beatles, D'arcy, Guns N Roses, Ramones, Mase, Entertainment News

They say winners never quit, but in the music biz there's something to be said for going out at the top of your game. Whether they left for greener p...

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Tom Morello: One Man Revolution

Tom Matlack | Posted 08.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Tom Morello, State Radio, Rage Against the Machine, Rock Music, Kenya, Guitar Hero, Rebellion, Obama Kenya, Barack Obama, Rodney King, Entertainment News
Tom Matlack

In retrospect, Morello sees their success as the juxtaposition of real world events like Rodney King and massive feigned rebellion in the music world. Rage's rebellion was for real.

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A History of Music Torture in the "War on Terror"

Andy Worthington | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ruhal Ahmed, Dr. Dre, Trent Reznor, Cia, Donald Vance, Britney Spears, Music Torture, Nine Inch Nails, Eminem, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Rage Against the Machine, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Guantanamo, Tom Morello, David Gray, David Addington, Drowning Pool, Binyam Mohamed, Metallica, Pamela Anderson, Abu Ghraib, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, Guantanamo Music Torture, Dark Prison, Bob Singleton, William J. Haynes II, Iraq, Sere, Deicide, Politics News
Andy Worthington

U.S. military personnel were ordered to keep prisoners awake by blasting ear-splittingly loud music at them -- for days, weeks or even months on end -- at prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.

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Musicians Protest Their Involvement In US Interrogation Methods

AP | ANDREW O. SELSKY | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Torture, Us Interrogation, Guantanamo, Rage Against the Machine, Barney, Nine Inch Nails, Music, Politics News

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Blaring from a speaker behind a metal grate in his tiny cell in Iraq, the blistering rock from Nine Inch Nails...

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The Relentless Activism of Tom Morello

ZP Heller | Posted 10.18.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Republican National Convention, St. Paul, Progressive, Minnesota, Zack De La Rocha, The Nightwatchman, Activism, Rage Against the Machine, Grassroots, Protests, Tom Morello, Police, The Nation, The Fabled City, Entertainment News
ZP Heller

The St. Paul police should have known better than to try to stop Tom Morello. The Rage guitarist leads a growing number of musicians who have adopted an explicit antiwar, anti-Bush message.

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At Both Conventions, Rage Against The Machine Salutes Anarchy

NY Times | Posted 10.06.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Rage Against the Machine Rnc, Rage Against the Machine, Entertainment News

On Wednesday night, Republican delegates fresh off Gov. Sarah Palin's vice presidential nomination speech at the Xcel Energy Center here formed a con...

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Rage Against The Machine Playing Twin Cities During RNC

Pitchfork Media | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Republican National Convention, Music Republican National Convention, Rage Against the Machine Rnc, Rage Against the Machine, Politics News

Days after Rage Against the Machine's Lollapalooza set threatened to become a riot, the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune's website has reported [via ...

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