Rage Against The Machine

Songs With Grammatical Errors We Just Can't Overlook

Yes, we are aware artists use poetic license when they are writing lyrics, but that doesn't prevent us from getting irritated when we hear grammatical errors over the radio waves. Below are ten songs with lyrics that set off our inner grammar-police sirens:

What to Look for in Rage Against the Machine's 20th Anniversary Box Set

On November 10, 1992, Rage Against the Machine released their self-titled debut assault of rap-rock radicalism upon the music world. Zack de la Rocha, Tom Morello, Brad Wilk and Tim Commerford combined their collective talents together as the Epic release would eventually peak at No. 1 on the Billbo ... More >>

All Day Santa Ana Summer Festival Puts the Movement in Music

An ambitious cultural undertaking is set to take place in downtown SanTana this Saturday as musicians, poets, activist organizations, speakers, DJs, dancers, artists will congregate for the Música en Movimiento Music and Arts Festival. The event sways heavily on local Orange County talent with acts ... More >>

On the Line: Keith Stich of Wildfish Seafood Grille, Part One

Photo by Meranda Carter​Change is inevitable when it comes to the restaurant business, and while we've previously featured Wildfish Seafood Grille for On the Line, a new executive chef means a new technique and insight on what makes him tick. Keith Stich is now at the helm, and we reel him in (pos ... More >>

Local Record Review: 'Captured American Flag Displayed Upside Down' by Kabong

​KabongCaptured American Flag Displayed Upside DownWild WarthogCall it Orange County's history of not-quite-mainstream when it comes to politics, call it a release perfectly timed for the moment given Occupy Wall Street is happening, call it a mixture of anti-authoritarian impulses over the pas ... More >>

VIDEO: L.A. Rising in Less than Five Minutes

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​Miss out on L.A. Rising this year? Over 70,000 fans flocked to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for L.A. Rising. El Gran Silencio, Immortal Technique, Rise Against, Lauryn Hill, Muse and Rage Against the Machine filled up the historic venue for nine hours of swea ... More >>

L.A. Rising at the L.A. Coliseum Over the Weekend

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​Check out our slideshow here! L.A. RISING July 30, 2011 L.A. Coliseum at Exposition Park L.A. Rising promised to be one of the biggest productions in Los Angeles' storied history of concert-going, but whether it achieved that status was due more to the music than to ... More >>

All the Bands We Love are Old: Metallica, Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine, No Doubt

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​This year, Metallica is celebrating its 30th anniversary. (Apparently, there will be a week-long celebration in San Francisco this December.) Rage Against the Machine and Pearl Jam are 20 years old this year too. No Doubt is 25. After the jump, watch clips of these b ... More >>

KROQ's Curious Five: Rise Against, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Weezer, Linkin Park, 30 Seconds to Mars

​It's not KROQ's fault copious amount of sonic garbage spew from their massive antenna on Tonga Peak in Glendale. No matter how cutting edge they purport to be, they're a mainstream radio station with salaried programming directors who strictly adhere to a business model. As such, they are going t ... More >>

Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello Reminisces on Their Early Days (20 Years Ago!): Competition with Tool and Listening to Nirvana, Ice Cube and Soundgarden

Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly​Tom Morello, Rage Against the Machine's guitarist, continues the LA Rising video series with a heavy dose of nostalgia: he talks about the beginnings of Rage Against the Machine 20 years ago in a small rehearsal space in San Fernando Valley, in August 1991.When they starte ... More >>

Immortal Technique Talks About Playing LA Rising and Rage Against the Machine

​L.A. Rising's July 30 date at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is coming up, and to get people pumped, organizers have been producing interviews with various performers on the bill. Today they dropped the interview with  Immortal Technique; last month they released interviews with Rage Agai ... More >>

Ah, the Why-Can't-They-Just Wait-in-Line Myth!

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And the securing-the-border myth! In the same week!

L.A. Rising: Get Tickets Tomorrow if You Missed the KROQ Presale

​L.A. Rising's July 30 date at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum will have performances by El Gran Silencio, Immortal Technique, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Muse, Rage Against The Machine and Rise Against. Tickets are scheduled to go on sale on tomorrow, May 13 at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster for $69.00 and $99. ... More >>

New Rage Against The Machine Album Rumors Nixed; Band's LA Show to Feature Snoop Dogg (Maybe)

Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly​Pardon the Friday buzzkill: Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello has squashed rumors about a new Rage album being in the works. "You know, the band is not writing songs, the band is not in the studio," Morello told MTV News yesterday. "We get along famously ... More >>

Travis Barker Does Mall Signing in Orange to Promote his Solo Debut

​Who remembers that Blink-182's tattooed drummer Travis Barker is a real musician? After the Meet the Barkers fiasco and his near-death experience with DJ AM, he's coming to The Block at Orange to sign copies of his debut solo album, Give the Drummer Some. Preview the sneery rap stylings of the ... More >>

Bad Grammar in Song Lyrics, Featuring Gwen Stefani, Rage Against the Machine, Sublime and Lady Gaga

Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly​Heard Mentality stumbled upon comedy site Am I Right, which calls out bad grammar in various songs. While the list is skimpy at best, we combed through it and found a few local acts in the mix. As a grammar teacher said, "You could get lost in this...." Gwen Stefani"Bubbl ... More >>

Inside Out: Early Zack de la Rocha Band and Hardcore OC Pioneers Still Have Bestselling EP

The No Spiritual Surrender album cover ​The songs on Orange County-based Inside Out's EP No Spiritual Surrender refuse to go silent two decades after they were first recorded. A young Zack de la Rocha sang on the hardcore cult classic alongside band members Vic Dicara, Mark Hayworth, and Chris Br ... More >>

TGIF: ¡Aparato!, Exodus, the Mildreds, the Mormons and the D-Strutters Plus the Last Acrobatics Everyday This Summer

Little Teeth perform at Acrobatics Everyday​What's going on this weekend, you ask? There's jarocho rock courtesy of ¡Aparato!, '80s thrash metal care of Exodus (Kirk Hammett's old band), the Mildreds in Long Beach and the last Acrobatics Everyday set of the summer in Irvine, with Little Teet ... More >>

Zack de la Rocha's One Day As A Lion Joins Dolores Huerta Benefit

www.myspace.com/onedayasalion​Zack de la Rocha's One Day As A Lion  is joining the already-stellar line up of human rights activist Dolores Huerta's 80th birthday, at a benefit concert at the Greek Theatre tomorrow. One Day As A Lion, which takes all the energy of Rage Against ... More >>

¡Aparato! Jarocho-Rocks Santa Ana!

www.myspace.com/aparatorock​After months of warning online that "Aparato is coming" the Jarocho-Rock hybridistas finally introduced themselves for the first time to an Orange County audience on Saturday as part of the eclectic line-up assembled for Santa Ana's Downtown Summer Block Party. In a p ... More >>

Top Five Bands That Should Join the Sound Strike

Andrew Youssef/OC WeeklyRage Against the Machine at the Hollywood Palladium last Friday​The Sound Strike campaign started by Zack de la Rocha to counter Arizona's soon-to-be in effect SB1070 law reached its sonic zenith Friday night with Rage Against the Machine rocking the Hollywood Palladium. T ... More >>

Rage Against The Machine at the Hollywood Palladium Over The Weekend

Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly​Check out our slideshow here!Rage Against The Machine and Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley BandHollywood PalladiumJuly 23, 2010In 1992, I witnessed some band called Rage Against The Machine open for Pearl Jam at the Hollywood Palladium. It was an intensely riveting perfo ... More >>

What You Missed: Comic-Con International, the Devil's Playground Burlesque, Rage Against the Machine, the Offspring

Christopher Victorio/OC WeeklyMeow.​Heeeey. What'd you miss this weekend? We had a good one, with some of us down in San Diego for the 2010 Comic-Con International. We attended some panels, saw some celebrities, went to some parties, sure... but the best event of the weekend? The Devil's Playgroun ... More >>

Six Protest Songs For Zack de la Rocha's Boycott On Arizona

Lilledeshan Bose​On Tuesday, Zack de la Rocha gathered up a few of his friends to protest the Arizona state law (SB 1070) that legalizes and sanctions racial profiling on the site Soundstrike.net. Artists who joined forces to boycott Arizona (by "not allow(ing) our collective economic power to b ... More >>

Today in Music News: Rage Against the Machine, Simon Cowell, Steven Tyler, F.B.I. confirms Michael Jackson's alien ancestry

Rage Against the Machine tops U.K. chart with the classic 1992 single "Killing in the Name," pissing on Simon Cowell's parade.Speaking of Satan, is Simon Cowell leaving American Idol? Will the show go away, too? Maybe there is a God.Steven Tyler admits to popping pills, returns to rehab, and pledg ... More >>

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

Tom Morello

The Night Watchman and His Band

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

Che-ades of Gray

Gregorio Luke presents “Che Guevara”

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 sw ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 do ... More >>

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 na ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Cream of Elite

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

Rage Against Irrelevancy

Does RATMs left hook still have punch?

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 posti ... More >>

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 fe ... More >>

Talk Radios Left Echo

Why does anyone still care about Rage Against The Machine?

Barrio Punk

Over the Counter Intelligence have a new prescription for the real revolution

Coachella Rumblings

Oregon Bound

What's Humming through the skulls of Orange County?

Rage Against the Machine's Machine

Not Another #%&@$* Year-End List!

Yes, another #%&@$* year-end list!

Anger Is a Gift

Rage Against the Machine

The Aquabats are a bunch of giddy freaks

Notes From the Revolucion

The futura is now

'Blorworra Wah Wunga Wetmifmit'