RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE WILL REUNITE FOR COACHELLA

[Malcolm]

After weeks of rumors and speculation, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE has officially confirmed its only Midwest date on August 24 the Alpine Valley Music Theater in East Troy, Wisconsin. Support at the show will come from QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE. Tickets go on sale June 16.

[GeraldFord]

I wonder if a new CD is on the way...

[CheapJon]

Launch Radio Networks reports: RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE has launched two online countdowns at RATM82407.com, with one clock counting down to Monday, June 11, and the other to August 24. Sources have told Launch that if you go to the site and change the system clock on your own computer to a date after June 11, the site displays an announcement for a RAGE concert on August 24 at the Alpine Valley Music Theater in East Troy, Wisconsin. According to the site, tickets for the show will go on sale next Saturday, June 16, at 10:00 a.m.

While the Alpine Valley website has listed a RAGE concert at the venue on August 24, there has been no official confirmation of that show until now, and there is no word yet on whether it will be part of a full-fledged tour. Following the band's first performance in seven years at the Coachella Festival in April, its only other confirmed gigs are four dates on the Rock The Bells tour, in late July in New York City and in mid-August in California.

There's also been speculation that August 24 will see the release of a live album taped at Coachella or new studio material from the band, or simply an official announcement that the band is RAGE reuniting permanently.

RAGE guitarist Tom Morello recently told Launch that the initial impetus to reactivate the band was not financial but political. "People never stopped offering RAGE shows throughout the whole seven years while the band was gone," he said. "But we got together, and taking a look at the dire times that we live in and, you know, RAGE was certainly the most outspoken political voice in rock music throughout the Nineties, I mean, I think it's long overdue that RAGE comes back and has a say."

Meanwhile, Morello is keeping busy on the road as his political folk alter ago THE NIGHTWATCHMAN, with dates scheduled through this month and July.

http://ratm82407.com/

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=74166

[Malcolm]

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE has announced three dates in Japan in February 2008. The details are as follows:

Feb. 07 - Osaka Castle Hall
Feb. 09 - Tokyo Makuhari Messe
Feb. 10 - Tokyo Makuhari Messe

Tickets go on sale on November 17.

[CheapJon]

awesome for the japaneez 


hope they come to europe.. or well i hope they come to sweden or denmark

[CheapJon]

just went to the RATM web site http://www.ratm.com/ and saw that they will go to australia in january!

and appearantly they played a show last weekend in vegas i think.. at the "VEGOOSE Music Festival"
 

and here's a pretty good quality video from coachella, testify http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tfhJV9FZGAk

and as i said they will be in australia in january:

01.18.2008 Auckland, NZ Big Day Out
01.20.2008 Gold Coast, AU Big Day Out
01.22.2008 Haymarket, Ne Sydney Entertainment Centre
01.25.2008 Sydney, AU Big Day Out
01.27.2008 West Melbourne, AU Festival Hall
01.28.2008 Melbourne, AU Big Day Out
02.01.2008 Adelaide, AU Big Day Out
02.03.2008 Perth, AU Big Day Out

and then Japan as malmcolm said:

02.07.2008 Osaka, JP Castle Hall
02.09.2008 Tokyo, JP Makuhari Messe
02.10.2008 Tokyo, JP Makuhari Messe


i think there's a big chance we'll get some pro shot from "big day out" dont ya think?

and also if they tour that much i hope they go in to the studio and tour europe

morello said this about new record though:

"There are no plans to do that? That's a whole other ball of wax right there. Writing and recording albums is a whole different thing than getting back on the bike (laughs), you know, and playing these songs. But I think that the one thing about the Rage catalog is that to me none of it feels dated. You know, it doesn't feel at all like a nostalgia show. It feels like these are songs that were born and bred to be played now."

there might be a official DVD from coachella too http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gEjDVU990yM

maybe all this shit i say is old but i don't care

[crazycheryl]

Well. I thought the rumor was true and it looks to be solid! Please play more dates in the states. This is a great band.

[CheapJon]

Breaking News 12/06/07: RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE TO HEADLINE Rock Am Ring AND Rock Im Park FESTIVALS
Rage Against The Machine are back and have confirmed their headline appearances.
After a longer absence the band will finally be back at Ring & Park, after delievering legendary gigs in 1994, 1996 and the year 2000. More Info coming soon!!

Play Dates:
Rock Am Ring - June 6th
Rock Im Park - June 7th

Festival Homepages:
www.rock-am-ring.com
www.rock-im-park.com

Ticket Links:
www.eventim.de
www.tpp.de
_____________________________________

Oh my fucking god! Here's to hoping for a afull blown Europeean tour (come to sweden FFS)?

[bazgnr]

I do hope they have another album in them somewhere down the line, though.  They definitely left a unique void when they stopped recording...

[CheapJon]

all fucking right i'll see them this summer!!

[CheapJon]

as i said yesterday..

Breaking News 02/12/08: RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE RETURNS TO HULTSFRED TO HEADLINE THE FESTIVAL! June 12th, 2008
We are extremely proud to present this year's headliner - RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE Rage Against The Machine proved that you actually can change the world with music when they released their self titled debut in 1992. With their radical lyrics and progressive music they invented a totally new musical genre and made a whole generation of youth aware of all the injustices of modern society. In 2000, the same year that the band released their fourth and final album , Rage Against The Machine visited the Hultsfred Festival for the second time. During the show the moshing audience was so wild that the Seismological Institute in Uppsala (400 km away) reported that there must have been a minor earthquake in Hultsfred! We have dreamt about the day when we could announce that Rage Against The Machine would return to Hultsfred ever since they revealed their reunion plans last year. Today is that day!! Today we are extremely proud to present one of the largest, greatest, and most influencal bands, of our time, will return to Hultsfred this summer. Tickets available: www.ticnet.se www.rockparty.se

other dates:
30 May - ELECTRIC WEEKEND - Getafe (Madrid)
1 June - PINKPOP 2008
2 June - Antwerp, Belgium
4 June - Paris, France
6 June - Rock Am Ring Festival
7 June - Rock Im Park Festival
10 June - ZITADELLE
12 June - Sweden - Hultsfred Festival <- I will so be there!!
10 July - Optimus Alive!08 - Oeiras - Lisbon

[randy marsh]

come ooonnnn now.. come to finland!!!! i hope theyre coming to provinssirock.. it's right after hultsfred.. if they wont come CheapJules I'll see you then @ hultsfred 

[CheapJon]

come ooonnnn now.. come to finland!!!! i hope theyre coming to provinssirock.. it's right after hultsfred.. if they wont come CheapJules I'll see you then @ hultsfred 

sure as hell hope they come to finland then..  just kiddin'

hope they stay in europe so you can see them in finland  i've heard they having a break in the european tour due to one member in the band is gonna be a dad, so for example roskilde can't book them 

Update: i'll book the tickets in the upcoming hours

[Doc Emmett Brown]

little Axl/CD mention 


Zack de la Rocha discusses his new project, his old project and (of course) politics.
By Ann Powers
From the Los Angeles Times

August 12, 2008

THESE DAYS, the rock scene is low on mysterious figures. As the music has lost its countercultural edge, many of its champions have transformed into average celebrities, happy to speak into any microphone that wanders by. That's not true of Zack de la Rocha: The Rage Against the Machine vocalist is the rare rock star who keeps his distance from the hype.

De la Rocha is as famous for his radical politics as for incendiary poetics. Between his retirement from Rage in 2000 and his recent reunion with the band, he's limited his public appearances to the occasional rally or benefit show. His musical output has been spare too: Only a few songs have seen light.

But this summer, the 38-year-old Southland native is back and seemingly unstoppable. He has a new musical project: One Day as a Lion, which pairs him with drummer Jon Theodore. . . . One Day as a Lion's self-titled debut EP, on Anti- Records, hit No. 28 on the Billboard charts with minimal media attention and is gaining traction nationally on rock radio. A full release will come in the fall.

De la Rocha has also found a way to embrace Rage again. A 2007 Coachella appearance marked the band's return as a live unit, and its shows have become major events. Earlier this month, Rage blazed through a set at Lollapalooza in Chicago, and the band has just announced a Sept. 3 Minneapolis date, which will serve as a protest against the Republican National Convention occurring simultaneously in St. Paul.

This burst of activity has even inspired De la Rocha to break his media silence. He spoke Monday by phone about the current state of political music, his creative process, and the future of One Day as a Lion -- and Rage Against the Machine.



How did One Day as a Lion come about?

I've known Jon for several years now, and I saw some of his first performances as a member of the Mars Volta. It was clear that music in L.A. was never going to be the same now that he was here! I've worked with some great drummers, but I hadn't seen drumming like that in a long time. So I immediately felt compelled to . . . pick his brain and find out what kind of music he was interested in.

Jon had a friend named Troy Zeigler, who now plays with Serj Tankian, and Troy had this very small rehearsal space where he would teach drum lessons. A couple of summers ago, Jon and I went in there to talk to Troy. He wasn't there. Jon sat down on one of the students' kits and started playing. The room was filled with random instruments -- there was percussive stuff, these old metal amps that hadn't been used in ages, and a dusty Rhodes keyboard with some broken keys. I plugged in through an old amp and ran it through this messed-up delay pedal that had a trigger on it and we immediately started playing. It felt like two people having a conversation using whatever phrases were at our disposal. We had to document it.



The EP came out with basically no hype. What was the strategy in releasing it that way?

I wish I could say there was a strategy involved. We felt that the collection of songs we had chosen had resonated with us and it was really something we wanted people to discover on their own. That's been missing from music, in a way; we've been marketed to so much, rather than people discovering something and picking it up.

When I heard Public Enemy for the first time, it was on the soundtrack for the movie "Less Than Zero," tucked between a Madonna song and some other '80s rehash. I was in a friend's car, he put the soundtrack on and I thought, "What is this junk?" When it got to "Bring the Noise," I had that kind of urgent reaction where you just had to stop what you're doing. It sounded like breaking news.



You've worked with many collaborators since leaving Rage, including Trent Reznor and DJ Shadow. Did what you learned from those experiments factor into Lion?

To an extent it did, and it didn't. When I left Rage . . . first off, I was very heartbroken, and secondly, I became obsessed with completely reinventing my wheel. In an unhealthy way, to a degree. I kind of forgot that old way of allowing yourself to just be a conduit. When I was working with Trent and Shadow, I felt that I was going through the motions. Not that what was produced wasn't great, but I feel now that I've maybe reinvented the base sounds that emanate from the songs.



The first single is called "Wild International." That implies global politics from the get-go. How does your work fit into that scenario?

I'm speaking toward a deeper sentiment that I feel and I know a lot of people feel. Most of the songs have to do with redemptive moments that come in the face of some real indignity. And that's the current that I'm trying to tap into, because I think that for a lot of people -- for the real participants who've been left out of the debate, who live in the shadows and work at car washes and are forced to cross the border and are struggling and facing the real economic consequences -- they're often left out of the debate, on the right and the left, because of the language they speak or even the terminology that they use. They're out working every day, facing the real consequences of living in this country.

So it stems from my own frustration. It stems from seeing how things have been developing politically, and watching so much dissatisfaction and people very upset about the way the country is going. And watching all of that frustration steered back into a more traditional political process. The problems stem far deeper than anything that Brother Obama can address, and eventually people are going to have to respond.



On the surface, some of these new songs seem very anti-religious, including the single.

I don't see it as an anti-religious song. I see it as the West has been using Christianity as a way to justify its actions when in reality, those figures, Christ and Muhammad, were rebels. These two religious figures have been co-opted to justify power, although they fought against the abuses of power and the expansion of empire. It's almost like, what would Christ and Muhammad do?

[Doc Emmett Brown]

contd...

What do you think of the state of political art now? Sometimes it seems to have really died down, what with a mainstream full of teen pop and reality television.

I'm listening to things all the time. There have been eight years of the Bush administration and the decline of real wages, and people are responding. It's unfortunate that more conscious artists or political artists in general haven't been heard in the mainstream. But I think back to when I was going to hardcore shows and I saw the Bad Brains, those moments resonate and are life-altering moments. Those people who were at those shows have become artists or activists as a result of having their perspective shifted. . . . So I don't necessarily feel that music within the mainstream is always an indication of the political frustrations that exist beneath the surface.



How do those two elements of your own life -- activism and music-making -- intersect or diverge now?

I don't think the separation is valid, especially in these times. . . .

Participating in the Son Jarochos work [his activist work with urban farmers in South Central Los Angeles, which included playing folk music with the group Son de Madera] felt more community-based, more collective. I was part of a collective voice and not on my own as an artist, and something about that attracted me.

It's so funny, I've read a couple things someone said that there were bets being placed on who would finish their album first, Axl Rose or me. One joke was that Axl was calling his record "Chinese Democracy," and that there would be democracy in China by the time he finished! I laughed when I considered calling this record "American Democracy." But I kinda spoke too soon on that!



It's an election year here in the U.S. Did that factor into your decision to debut new music now?

I'd be lying if I said it was coincidental. I think that it's an interesting moment. The lowest approval rating in the history of any presidency -- and for Congress. There's this interesting rupture developing, and I think it's a healthy one.

To watch the Democrats, who were really our only institutional obstruction to this extremely rightward swing, fall in lock-step behind this new imperial fantasy that became reality, that was a pivotal moment. A lot of people began to question the whole nature of both parties. Now more than ever, there's a more fertile ground for artists to try to reveal the nature of both parties, who are mainly the public relations team for transnational corporations.

Barack is clearly the most viable candidate, the most intelligent, the one with the most forward-thinking position, but I would hate to see the flames of discontent be watered down by rhetorical visions of hope and change, when historically those things have only come from immigrant workers or people fighting against segregation, or against the second-class position of women.

You've been touring with Rage again. What is your relationship like with those guys now?

So much has changed. When you get older, you look back on tensions and grievances and have another perspective on it. I think our relationship now is better than it's ever been. I would even describe it as great. We're going to keep playing shows -- we have a couple of big ones happening in front of both conventions. As far as us recording music in the future, I don't know where we all fit with that. We've all embraced each other's projects and support them, and that's great.



Can we look forward to some live Lion gigs in the near future?

Definitely. I've always hoped that a project I was involved in could be a little more spontaneous, set up on a block and play. Me and Jon see eye to eye on doing that.



Meanwhile, Rage is playing in Minneapolis the same night the Republican convention happens in St. Paul. What do you anticipate for that show?

You're gonna have to come and cover it. I think we both know what we expect. Good shoes would help. And you might wanna dip that bandanna in some vinegar.

[oldgunsfan]

i happen to like audioslave but... bring back rage against the machine. that's some great news. i hope it will happen

rage is fucking awesome

[Mobenrad]

THEY PLAYED A NEW SONG!!!

[CheapJon]

what the fyuck!!???

edit: was it just a "one day as a lion" song?