With two albums out, more than 50 songs that haven't yet been recorded and a world gone awry, Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello plans to stay politically...
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An anti-war concert headlined by the reunited Rage Against the Machine drew thousands of fans to the Denver Coliseum, many with tattoos, body piercings or "Iraq Veterans...
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Rage Against the Machine will perform at an anti-war music festival during the Democratic National Convention. The politically outspoken rap-rock band said Thursday it will...
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Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello will release his second solo album on September 30. "The Fabled City" (Epic) is the follow-up to 2007's "One Man...
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Political rock band Rage Against The Machine will headline the first day of this summer's Reading music festival, organizers said on Monday. Festival goers can look...
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Reunited rock-rap group Rage
Against The Machine brought its militant politics to New
Orleans on Friday, and urged the citizens of the ravaged city
to fight alleged...
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Having already suspended fans' belief by getting back together, the Smashing Pumpkins and Rage Against the Machine are planning to work a little Voodoo magic this...
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Rage Against The Machine have launched two mysterious countdowns on their website.
The group, who reformed for this year's Coachella Festival, are displaying both clocks on...
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One look at this weekend's lineup at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and it may seem like you've traveled back in time to the early 1990s.
Led by a...
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Rage Against The Machine members Tom Morello and Zack de la Rocha are set to play together before their high-profile festival reunion.
As previously reported the reunited...
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Apparently, it's not much fun raging against the machine all by one's self.
So, in the spirit of unified revolution-sparking, the pioneering Los Angeles quartet Rage...
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Spin magazine named Radiohead's "OK Computer" the top album of the past 20 years, praising a futuristic sound that manages to feel alive "even when its words are spoken by a...
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Like the Audioslave album title says, rock music is finally out of
exile.
The band's sophomore release, Out of Exile, has
become the sixth rock album in a row to debut...
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Audioslave is going where no American rock band has gone before.
Cuba.
The metal band will become the first
U.S. rock export to play Fidel Castro country with a...
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There is good news and bad news for
soundtrack sales in 2004.
The bad news is that 2004's soundtrack sales are down about
33% compared with last year. The good news is...
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The self-titled debut from
Audioslave -- the band comprising former Soundgarden frontman
Chris Cornell and three-fourths of Rage Against the Machine --
polarized music...
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No doubt about it, Jay-Z
rules.
The rap kingpin's supposedly final CD, The
Black Album, climbed back to number one on the album charts,
holding off a hard-charging No...
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Former Rage Against The Machine frontman Zack De La Rocha has released his first song via the Internet in response to what he believes is an unjust war in Iraq. The first...
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Reactions are still coming in about the murder of Jam Master Jay, Run-DMC's DJ. He was shot to death in his studio in Queens on Thursday (October 30), but his impact on...
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Audioslave is set to release its self-titled debut album on November 19, but for a while it looked like the supergroup might never get off the ground. The band's singer,...
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Audioslave, the new band featuring former members of Rage Against The Machine and ex-Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell, has announced the tracklist for its self-titled...
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Audioslave, the band fronted by former Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell and featuring the instrumental core of Rage Against The Machine, is now set to release its album on...
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Rapper DMX and members of Rage Against The Machine have collaborated on two songs for forthcoming soundtrack albums. "Here I Come" was recorded for the soundtrack to Cradle...
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A 20-year-old Seattle-area man is receiving the sum of $400,000 from the city of Seattle, after sustaining injuries during a 1996 Rage Against The Machine concert at Mercer...
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Chris Cornell's manager Jim Guerinot has confirmed to LAUNCH that the former Soundgarden frontman has left the unnamed project with former Rage Against The Machine guitarist...
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Reports are surfacing that the band featuring former Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell and members of Rage Against The Machine have called it quits, before it has played...
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While the group still has no official name nor release date for its debut album, the new band featuring former Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell and the three remaining...
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Former Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello will introduce a special presentation about sweatshops and globalization at the University Of Southern California (USC)...
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The 20-year-old death sentence of convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, whose claim of racial injustice has long been championed by Rage Against The Machine, was overturned...
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Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello can't make it to today's (August 17) hearing and rally in Philadelphia in support of overturning Mumia Abu-Jamal's conviction...
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Former Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell and Rage Against The Machine members Tom Morello, Tim Commerford, and Brad Wilk will enter a studio next week to begin recording...
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Former Rage Against The Machine vocalist Zack De La Rocha and Public Enemy leader Chuck D appear on 175 Progress Street, an album by convicted murderer Mumia Abu-Jamal which...
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Guitarist Tom Morello may not have Zack De La Rocha to Rage Against The Machine with anymore, but that doesn't mean his voice has quieted. Morello took to the podium in San...
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Fans of the recent Rage Against The Machine covers album, Renegades, might have taken note that one of the odder song choices by the band was the Devo classic, "Beautiful...
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Rage Against The Machine drummer Brad Wilk, bassist Tim C., and guitarist Tom Morello have booked a month's worth of studio time with former Soundgarden singer Chris...
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Rage Against The Machine has always fought for freedom of speech, and the controversy surrounding Eminem's appearance at the Grammy Awards on Wednesday night (February 21)...
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Rage Against The Machine may have gotten its final Grammy hurrah, picking up the best hard rock performance honor for the song "Guerrilla Radio," taken from 1999's The...
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Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello continues his acting streak, playing a bit part in the movie Made. Morello will act alongside rapper Sean "Puffy" Combs,...
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Rage Against The Machine's Renegades, released in December, has been certified platinum for sales of 1 million copies, as tallied by the Recording Industry Association Of...
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In 1988, mainstream British rockers Jethro Tull won a Grammy Award for best hard rock/metal performance, vocal or instrumental, when many thought Metallica should have...
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Rage Against The Machine's DVD full-length concert and video journal from its Mexico City appearance will be released February 20.
Guitarist Tom Morello said of the...
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Rage Against The Machine's Renegades debuted on the Billboard 200 album chart at Number 14, the band's second album to debut in the top 20 in two years. Rage Against The...
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Rage Against The Machine took to the streets on Sunday (December 10) with various other protesters in support of the International Socialist Organization, the Campaign To...
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A spokesperson for Q-Prime management, which handles both Metallica and Rage Against The Machine, told LAUNCH the company stands by statements made by Rage guitarist Tom...
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Initial reports that Rage Against The Machine's new covers album, Renegades, was recorded live proved to be incorrect. But there is a wealth of live audio and video...
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While Rage Against The Machine recorded the cover songs that comprise the new album Renegades, the band paid little heed to what those acts might think of the new versions,...
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Renegades, the new album by Rage Against The Machine, is out Tuesday (December 5), and it finds the modern metal quartet interpreting a dozen of its favorite songs,...
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Rage Against The Machine's new album, Renegades, arrives on Tuesday (December 5). It's the band's final studio effort with singer Zack De La Rocha. Since he announced his...
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Rage Against The Machine will release Renegades, a studio album of the band's favorite cover songs, on December 5. The first single and video from the collection is a cover...
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The remaining three members of Rage Against The Machine have vowed to "rock on" despite the announced departure of singer Zack De La Rocha (LAUNCH, 10/18).
Drummer Brad...
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After much speculation about inter-band turmoil, Rage Against The Machine singer/songwriter Zack De La Rocha announced today (October 18) that he is leaving the band.
De...
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The recent scrape with the law by Rage Against The Machine bassist Tim Commerford has been settled. Rage guitarist Tom Morello tells LAUNCH that his bandmate has been...
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Rage Against The Machine is currently in Los Angeles working on the final mixes of its upcoming live album, culled from a trio of hometown performances--two earlier this...
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Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello joined Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, and others for an evening of six-string flash at Guitars In The Round, held at the Musicians...
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Now that Rage Against The Machine's two dates at the Olympic Grand Auditorium in Los Angeles are over, the band is sifting through tapes of the two-night stand to cull the...
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Rage Against The Machine bassist Tim Commerford was released today (September 8) after serving a night in jail on charges of disorderly conduct for disrupting the MTV Video...
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The making of Rage Against The Machine's twice-postponed live album appears to be back on again, only this time the band plans on recording the performances on its home...
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Fans marked the closing of England's Leeds Festival in their own violent way Tuesday (Aug. 29) by staging a mini-riot. A spokesperson for the West Yorkshire Police...
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against The Machine, and Stone Temple Pilots are among the bands on the soundtrack to the political documentary Last Party 2000. The film is...
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Rage Against The Machine has once again canceled gigs at San Francisco's Fillmore Theater that were to be recorded for a live album. An Epic Records spokesperson tells...
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Fallout continues from Monday's (August 14) disturbance involving the Los Angeles Police Department and those in the streets near the Staples Center in downtown L.A....
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Follwing the Rage Against The Machine concert on Monday night (August 14) just outside the Democratic National Convention at the Staples Center in Los Angeles (LAUNCH,...
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In spite of reports and speculation that it would be shut down by authorities, Rage Against The Machine's much-talked about free performance adjacent to the Democratic...
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At press time it was still unclear whether Rage Against The Machine would perform a set on Monday (August 14) on the corner of 11th and Figueroa in downtown Los Angeles,...
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Rage Against The Machine will perform August 21 and 22 at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium. The shows are make-ups for canceled concerts the group had scheduled at the...
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Rage Against The Machine has been in the studio with Rick Rubin working on an album of cover songs tentatively scheduled to hit stores in November, just in time for...
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**Rage Against The Machine** has postponed its scheduled gigs Thursday (July 27) and Friday (July 28) at the Fillmore in San Francisco-- shows that were supposed to be...
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Rhyme & Reason 2000, featuring Rage Against The Machine and the Beastie Boys, has announced more dates in the Southern U.S. The mega-tour will hit Tampa, New Orleans,...
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Details of Rage Against The Machine's West Coast assault are emerging , with the band adding a Los Angeles show to warm up for likely shows in San Francisco, to be taped at...
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"If it's not on sale, I don't know anything," said an anonymous source in San Francisco's Fillmore offices about rumored Rage Against The Machine concerts there. Word on...
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Rage Against The Machine and the Beastie Boys have agreed to give $1 from each ticket sold on their Rhyme & Reason 2000 tour to charitable and social action...
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A blockbuster lineup topped by the Beastie Boys, Beck, Rage Against The Machine, the Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Smashing Pumpkins will be featured on a...
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Fans can now get tickets to the upcoming Rhyme & Reason tour featuring Rage Against The Machine and the Beastie Boys online at beastieboys.com and RATM.com through 5 p.m....
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The Rhyme & Reason 2000 tour featuring Rage Against The Machine and the Beastie Boys has announced the first set of tour dates. As previously reported (LAUNCH, 6/27),...
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Rage Against The Machine will head out on the road with the Beastie Boys starting August 2 at Toronto's Molson Park in Canada. The tour will be dubbed Rhyme & Reason 2000,...
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"Rage Against The Machine would like to congratulate the Janitors Union of Los Angeles on their victory in their struggle for better wages and dignity in the workplace,"...
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Rage Against The Machine has declared a "complete failure" the police boycott against the band, which stemmed from their support of death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, who...
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Santana and Rage Against The Machine emerged as the big winners at the California Music Awards at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco on Saturday night (4/8)....
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The 23rd Annual California Music Awards -- or the Cammies, formerly known as the Bammies (for Bay Area Music Awards) -- will take place this tonight (April 8) at the Bill...
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Rage Against The Machine and
Indigo Girls will spearhead a rally in support of convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal on May 7 at 2 p.m. ET at New York City's Theater at...
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While shooting a video for the new
Rage Against The Machine single, "Sleep Now In The Fire," the clip's director -- independent filmmaker Michael Moore -- was allegedly...
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Rage Against The Machine and Third Eye Blind lead the pack with seven nods each for the 23rd Annual California Music Awards. Smash Mouth
garnered the third most...
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The Recording Industry Assn. Of America (RIAA) has certified Rage Against The Machine's The Battle Of Los Angeles double-platinum for sales in excess of 2 million copies. ...
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Rage Against The Machine's The Battle Of Los Angeles is the one album that both fans and critics agree to be one of the top albums of 1999.
The band won accolades from...
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The Philadelphia Fraternal Order Of Police has called for a nationwide boycott of First Union banks on Thursday (Dec. 9) as a result of a recent Rage Against The Machine...
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The Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police, who requested that local police officers refuse to work security at the area's Rage Against The Machine concert Thursday (Dec....
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The battle between Rage Against The Machine and police officers is heating up again. This time the war zone is Baltimore, where local authorities are refusing to volunteer...
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Questioning the infallibility of the American judicial system and the intelligence of talk show host Howard Stern
and New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, the mother...
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Rage Against The Machine rocked the house and NBC's national television audience early Friday (Nov. 12) morning, despite opposition from the nation's largest police...
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Rage Against The Machine has once again found itself in the middle of controversy, as the United States' largest police organization has moved to protest the band's...
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Rage Against The Machine has its first No. 1 album with The Battle Of Los Angeles, which sold approximately 430,000 copies, according to SoundScan data released...
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Courtesy of RockOnTV (www.rockontv.com):
NBC:
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno - The Corrs guest.
SYN*:
Motown Live - Destiny's Child, the Emotions, and Melky Sedeck guest....
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The members of Rage Against The Machine only had two hours Wednesday (Nov. 3) in New York to greet hundreds who came to see them for a record signing session from 5 p.m. to...
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More than 400 fans waited in the rain yesterday (Nov. 2) to see Rage Against The Machine perform on 53rd Street in Manhattan as part of a special performance for The Late...
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"Judge William Yohn offered a stay of execution for Mumia [Abu-Jamal]. But it's still pertinent that we send letters to this judge forcing him to issue an evidentiary...
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Tonight's Rage Against The Machine appearance on CBS television's Late Show With David Letterman will be webcast live from outside the Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York City...
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Courtesy of RockOnTV (www.rockontv.com):
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno - Dolly Parton guests. (To read a Dolly Parton feature, click here.)
SYN*:
Rosie O'Donnell - Phil...
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Tuesday (Nov. 2) is the biggest day of the year in terms of record releases. Among the titles set for release are the Foo Fighters' There Is Nothing Left To Lose, Rage...
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Controversial rock-rap group Rage Against The Machine has tapped seminal rap group Gang Starr as the opening act for its tour, which kicks off Nov. 19 in Oakland,...
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Among the superstar guests lined up for the Late Night With Conan O'Brien's first road trip to Los Angeles are Rage Against The Machine and Smash Mouth. Rage's specific...
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Rage Against The Machine has set the dates of its forthcoming arena tour, which starts Nov. 19 at the Oakland Coliseum in California, and now the band has begun thinking...
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Since the release of Rage Against The Machine's last album, 1996's Evil Empire, there have been plenty of hard-rocking bands riding a wave of popularity in their wake, such...
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Rage Against The Machine will be headlining day two of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival this Sunday (Oct. 10) at the Empire Polo Fields, just two hours from Los...
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Mumia Abu-Jamal--the radio journalist and onetime Black Panther who was convicted in the 1981 shooting death of Philadelphia police officer, Daniel Faulkner--saw his claim...
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This past Saturday night (Oct. 2) at New York City's Roseland Ballroom, Rage Against The Machine played the first of three intimate shows this month. Opening for the band...
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Rage Against The Machine's new album, due Nov. 2, may be called The Battle Of Los Angeles, but the band isn't limiting the fight to its home turf. Back in June 1998, Rage...
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Rage Against The Machine is allowing the public to buy a little taste of its new album, The Battle Of Los Angeles, before its release on Nov. 2. The band will make...
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Rage Against The Machine's forthcoming album, set for released on Election Day, Nov. 2, is still untitled, but LAUNCH has obtained the tracklisting for the new album.
The...
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Rage Against The Machine's forthcoming album is still untitled, but the set is tentatively slated for release Nov. 9, arriving in plenty of time for holiday...
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The throng at Woodstock '99 may have been spared heavy rain on Saturday (July 24), but it was hit with a rain of debris during Limp Bizkit's set.
During the chart-topping...
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This year's Tibetan Freedom Concerts, held in Sydney, Tokyo, Amsterdam, and Chicago yesterday (June 13), sported impressive bills in each city. However, the U.S. concert...
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LAUNCH is happy to announce the debut of LAUNCH Live, a new concert webcast service that is available exclusively to owners of Pentium III processor-based PCs for...
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An all-star lineup of some of today's biggest rock acts, including Korn, Alanis Morissette, and Pearl Jam, have contributed songs to No Boundaries, a compilation due June...
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Rage Against The Machine singer Zach De La Rocha plans to address a United Nations human rights commission on Monday (April 12) in Geneva, Switzerland.
Requested to appear...
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What could be the most controversial concert of the year came and went without incident last night at the Continental Arena in East Rutherford, N.J.
Approximately 16,000...
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The New Jersey Attorney General's office may not be happy about it, but Rage Against The Machine has no plans to cancel its benefit concert for the International Concerned...
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On Jan. 28, Rage Against The Machine, the Beastie Boys, and Bad Religion will take the stage at a benefit concert for Mumia Abu-Jamal, an African-American journalist who...
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Chumbawamba isn't the only music act speaking out on behalf of imprisoned journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal (myLAUNCH, 12/9). A benefit album titled Unbound, which supports...
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Rage Against The Machine's Zack De La Rocha has announced tentative plans for what's dubbed the Spitfire tour, a spoken-word show of monologues on various issues followed...
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Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam and DJ Tricky were among the wedding guests who could claim they knew the groom when he used to rock 'n roll.
Michael Goldstone,...
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Other nominations announced yesterday for the 40th annual Grammy Awards:
BEST FEMALE POP VOCAL PERFORMANCE:
"Butterfly" - Mariah Carey, "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?" -...
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Tom Morello, guitarist of Rage Against The Machine , was one of 33 demonstrators arrested Saturday in a protest against apparel manufacturer Guess?.
Morello was among...
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Rage Against The Machine have just recorded quite an unusual cover tune: Bruce Springsteen's "The Ghost Of Tom Joad." R.A.T.M. have been performing their unique version of...
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