Rage Against the Machine

Obtaining the Playlist from Guantanamo

Lawrence Iser | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment


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.

Look Who's Not Talking, Bono!

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 10.27.2009 | Entertainment


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?

Friday Talking Points [99] -- Misdirection

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics


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.

Music's Biggest Quitters: 20 Who Quit

Spinner | Spinner Staff | Posted 10.13.2009 | Entertainment


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...

Tom Morello: One Man Revolution

Tom Matlack | Posted 08.28.2009 | Entertainment


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.

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

Andy Worthington | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics


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.

Musicians Protest Their Involvement In US Interrogation Methods

AP | ANDREW O. SELSKY | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics


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...

The Relentless Activism of Tom Morello

ZP Heller | Posted 10.18.2008 | Entertainment


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.

At Both Conventions, Rage Against The Machine Salutes Anarchy

NY Times | Posted 10.06.2008 | Entertainment


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

Rage Against The Machine Playing Twin Cities During RNC

Pitchfork Media | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics


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 ...