Subject: Rage Against The Machine

• Three Hot Nights

  I could never understand why the biggest Southern California music festival is in the middle of the desert. To me, enduring triple-digit temperatures to catch the Pixies reunion just seemed like pure sadism on behalf of Goldenvoice. Nevertheless, Coachella always draws a crowd. And this year, the festival has grown to epic proportions. Amidst the perpetual rumors of a Smiths reunion and the last-minute news of a possible Police show, Coachella's 2007 lineup was announced today. There's a ton of

  January 22, 2007

• In Brief: The Official Will Swaim Playlist

  I'm sure by now that most of you who read this are aware our editor-in-chief, Will Swaim, has resigned. What you may not be aware of, however, is our boss's penchant for singing—constantly. Seriously. Dude sings more than Rebecca Schoenkopf does. Which is A LOT. Anyway. In memorium, I'm posting the official Will Swaim playlist. If Will owned (and could figure out how to operate) an iPod, here's what would be on it: Elvis Costello, "What's So Funny (About Peace, Love and Understanding)?" T

  January 26, 2007

• Mike Relm, Detroit Bar, August 10, 2007

  Mike Relm looks like Central Casting's idea of an IT geek. But in reality he's a San Francisco-based laptop disc/video jockey who rocks parties with a rather shocking ferocity. Relm’s like a West Coast Girl Talk, but with shit-hot scratching and graphic skills. The Relm m.o. is to take familiar songs—mostly pop, rock, hip-hop and club bangers—and add furiously harsh scratching and deft beat-juggling to them, and then synch up the sounds to video images on a screen to his left. Sometimes

  August 14, 2007

• The Police, Daft Punk, and DethKlok Among The Top National Concerts of '07

  Village Voice Media presents the Top Concerts of 2007 featuring: Paul McCartney, Morrissey, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Interpol, Mavado, Rage Against the Machine, Queens of the Stone Age, Jah Cure, Arcade Fire, the Good, the Bad and the Queen, and other not as famous bands! (Compiled from national Village Voice Media staff by Web Music Editor David Downs) Click the photo (or this!) for some slides.

  January 2, 2008

• Coachella Guessing Games

  Around this time every year, fantastical rumors concerning the Coachella line-up begin to simmer. Last year's big "what ifs" were the Police, the Smiths—but then again, that's every year—and Rage Against the Machine. Sometimes the delusions and pipe dreams end up being the truth. Usually they don't. And every year, almost as if by tradition, faux Coachella fliers are whipped up by some dudes who hang out on the internet message boards for way too long. These are the first two I've seen ci

  January 10, 2008

• Protest a Port with Tom Morello Today!

  "Now why do I care about the Port of Long Beach?" This is something an average person in Orange County might say. Out of sight, out of mind. But in reality the busy ports of both Long Beach and Los Angeles, with all the shipping and trucking involved, generates a truly lung-busting amount of pollution. Surely people would leap at the chance to minimize such pollution and try to decrease the shocking amount of pollution-related disease in Long Beach, right? Right? Think again. Hot off the trans

  February 19, 2008

• Last night at Honda Center: Bruce Springsteen with Rage ATM's Tom Morello

  I'm still trying to absorb a lot of last night's Bruce Springsteen show at Honda Center -- I'll have more on Wednesday, a less-deadline-intensified day 'round these Weekly parts. But in the meantime, enjoy this from-the-nosebleeds clip from the gig, with special guest Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, doing Bruce's "Ghost of Tom Joad" (which Rage itself has covered many times live). Watch it all the way till the end for some of Tom's skullcrushing guitar acrobatics... Also, the setlist

  April 8, 2008

• Listen to the Band: Audible Mainframe

  When it comes to Long Beach transplants Audible Mainframe, their unique blend of charisma and conscious hip hop gives wanton O.C. hip hop fans plenty to buzz about. But here's a few words of advice before attending one of their shows: if you're not a fan of watching a cramped stage of musicians sweat their asses of to hard- hitting eclectic sounds...stay home. Since deciding unplug their amps and leave the east coast hip hop scene over a year ago, the band has been on the grind with their inf

  September 3, 2008

• 'Blorworra Wah Wunga Wetmifmit'

  February 25, 1999

• Anger Is a Gift

  November 25, 1999

• QUICKLEY, NOW!

  April 27, 2000

• Coachella Rumblings

  January 25, 2001

• SXSW Slices

  March 29, 2001

• Barrio Punk

  February 14, 2002

• Talk Radios Left Echo

  December 25, 2003

• [CD Review] The Bronx, 'The Brox III' (White Drugs Records)

  November 13, 2008

• Tom Morello's Nightwatchman Brings Chord Changes We Can Believe In

  December 11, 2008

• Tom Morello

  December 11, 2008

• Che-ades of Gray

  October 23, 2008

• Boston Transplants Audible Mainframe Are Carving a Niche for Live Hip-Hop in OC/LBC

  July 3, 2008

• Shred Cred

  WEB EXCLUSIVE! Shred Cred: You wanted the best—you got the best: Guitar Hero III

  November 15, 2007

• Cream of Elite

  Sporting perhaps the greatest hip-hop bill ever, Rock the Bells enshrines rap's history—and foreshadows its future

  August 9, 2007

• Fo' Sizzle!

  Summer concerts/festivals to heat the beat

  June 7, 2007

• Rage Against Irrelevancy

  Does RATMs left hook still have punch?

  April 26, 2007

• Zack Is Back

  November 30, 2006

• Good White Boys

  September 28, 2006

• The Principals of It

  October 28, 2004

• The New Woody Guthries

  March 11, 2004

• Triumph of Mediocrity

  August 28, 2003

• Bling Blasters

  August 14, 2003

• I

  October 24, 2002

• Rage Against the Radio

  October 4, 2001

• Irvine

  September 27, 2001

• Letters

  January 18, 2001

• Aggro-Rock Gets Aquabattered

  December 7, 2000

• The Parade Winds Down

  November 2, 2000

• Various ArtistsI [heart] SPARKLE*JETS UKCrab Apple Records

  October 5, 2000

• Oregon Bound

  September 28, 2000

• Sweatin' to the Oligarchy

  August 31, 2000

• Whats that Sound?

  August 24, 2000

• What's Humming through the skulls of Orange County?

  June 15, 2000

• Rage Against the Machine's Machine

  June 1, 2000

• Not Another #%&@$* Year-End List!

  December 30, 1999

• Computer Girls Christmas Guide

  December 16, 1999

• The Aquabats are a bunch of giddy freaks

  November 25, 1999

• I Was Just an Asshole

  November 25, 1999

• Notes From the Revolucion

  September 2, 1999

• This Year's Album That Saved OC Rock

  January 7, 1999

• A Selected OC Rock History Time Line

  November 19, 1998

• [CD Review] Street Sweeper Social Club (Warner Music/Independent Label)

  June 18, 2009