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  Reunion Renegades: Rage Against the Machine Won't Record New Album

  November 16, 2012 – Ever defiant political rockers Rage Against the Machine have taken yet another hardline stance: unlike recently reunited contemporaries Soundgarden and Nine Inch Nails (or forebears Black Sabbath), the 1990s rap-metal band won't reunite for a new album, guitarist Tom Morello told Billboard. RATM will reissue their 1992 debut for the 20th anniversary Rage Against the Machine - XX box set on November 27, but the group say t …
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  See Rage Against the Machine 'Take the Power Back' in 1993

  November 15, 2012 – Last month we broke down the upcoming Rage Against the Machine box set, which comes not only just in time for the holidays — capitalism:1; RATM: 2,673 — but on the 20th anniversary of the Los Angeles rap-metal band's breakthrough debut album, Rage Against the Machine. …
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  Tom Morello Calls Paul Ryan a 'Jackass,' Says Obama Sucks the 'Corporate Teat'

  October 15, 2012 – Tom Morello hasn't been shy about it before: He's no fan of Paul Ryan. After learning that the Republican Vice Presidential candidate considers Rage Against the Machine among his favorites, the Nightwatchman responded with an op-ed in Rolling Stone in which he described Ryan as the "embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades."Now, Morello has followed up those comments in an interview with …
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  Skanking in the Name: Rage Against the Machine and Rancid Plan 20th Anniversary Box Sets

  October 9, 2012 – Nothing says, "Fuck the Man!" like assembling a massive box set just in time for the holidays. In a strange bit of synchronicity, Nor Cal skank-punks Rancid and So Cal funk-metaleers Rage Against the Machine both announced extensive, limited edition reissue packages celebrating their respective 20th anniversaries of releasing music. Santa's elves have been busy!Rancid's Essentials project is impressive, actually. …
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  Hear Tom Morello's Occupy Wall Street Anthem 'We Are the 99 Percent'

  September 28, 2012 – Onetime Zuccotti Park occupier Tom Morello rages against the one percent in a new fist-pumping protest anthem, "We Are the 99 Percent." The Rage/Audioslave guitarist co-wrote the chant-heavy rawk track with "brothers-in-arms" Tim McIlrath of Rise Against and System of a Down's Serg Tankian as a "gift" to the Occupy Wall Street Movement on the heels of its one-year anniversary. …
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  Rage Against the Machine Fail to Return Paul Ryan's Love

  August 17, 2012 – Last week, a New York Times profile revealed that Paul D. Ryan — a Republican representative of Wisconsin, Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney's running mate, and the mastermind behind a new conservative budget — counts vehemently liberal hard rockers Rage Against the Machine among his favorite bands. …
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  Paul Ryan Digs Rage Against the Machine

  August 14, 2012 – Zach de la Rocha, Tom Morello and the rest of leftist rock agitators Rage Against the Machine are likely going to be pretty bummed to learn that MTV has spotted a recent New York Times profile of Paul D. …
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  Muse Admit There's Dubstep and a 'Jazzy Brass Number' on '2nd Law' LP

  June 28, 2012 – A few weeks after dropping a dubstep bomb on an album teaser, alerting fans they'd sort of be following in the footsteps of Korn on their forthcoming sixth studio LP The 2nd Law, Muse have confirmed there will be wub on the record — but analog wub. "We've basically tried to do what Rage Against the Machine did with hip-hop in the 1990s and take a bit of the electronic world and dubstep and play it with real instruments," frontman …
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  SPIN's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time

  May 3, 2012 – To celebrate the new generation of shredders profiled in our May/June "Loud Issue," the SPIN staff decided to find some wheedle in a haystack, taking on the impossible task of ranking our favorite guitar players of all time. …
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  Read Dave Grohl's 'Sound City' Film Announcement in His Own Handwriting

  May 1, 2012 – In case you hadn't heard over the past, oh, two decades, Dave Grohl is a 21st century analog boy. Really analog. Through and through, analog or die. Now, to personally, officially confirm that, yes, he will indeed be directing and producing that Sound City documentary we've known about for months, he's gone and emphasized how analog he truly is, by handwriting the document's official announcement. …
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