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  Hear Rise Against's Breakneck 'Heaven Knows' Demo

  May 28, 2013 – Last month, Rise Against's Revolutions Per Minute turned ten. And to mark the occasion, Fat Wreck Chords has opted to reissue the Chicago post-hardcore outfit's sophomore LP in full, alongside bonus demos of ten album originals. The serrated, slingshot hooks of early album highlight "Heaven Knows" somehow sounds even sharper now. Check it out: 03:21PlayRise Against — Heaven Knows (demo)  …
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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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  FestWatch: Green Day Top Voodoo Bill, Plus Riot Fest and iTunes Lineups

  May 15, 2012 – The spring/summer 2012 festival season is in full swing, and autumn fests are already starting to reveal their lineups. Yesterday, the late-blooming Voodoo Music Experience announced that its 14th installment, which hits New Orleans October 26-28, will be headed up by Green Day, whose "epic" trilogy of albums start dropping this fall. …
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  Watch Everyone From ABBA to the Chili Peppers Honor the Beastie Boys This Weekend

  May 7, 2012 – You couldn't step foot in a bar, store, or baseball stadium in New York this weekend without hearing the Beastie Boys. And as members of Generation Yauch continued to reel from the news that Adam "MCA" Yauch had succumbed to cancer Friday morning, the music world stepped up its cover game, adding heartfelt renditions of the group's tracks to live sets all over the world. …
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  Rage Against the Machine, Lauryn Hill, Rise Against Headline L.A. Rising

  August 1, 2011 –  …
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  Killers LP Update, Kid Cudi Honors Cobain + More

  June 22, 2011 – Brandon Flowers took a break from the studio to offer an update on the next Killers record. In an interview the BBC's Zane Lowe (via NME), the frontman says the group have laid down about four or five new tracks. "We've put them up on the board and they're sounding good," he says. "We think they're strong." Kid Cudi has paid tribute to Kurt Cobain in a new video posted on his YouTube. …
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  Rage Plot Summer Show, Gaga Tops Charts + More

  April 18, 2011 – After playing a benefit show for Sound Strike and doing a short tour of South America last year, Rage Against the Machine are booked to play a show on July 30 in Los Angeles with Rise Against and Muse, according to the Coachella Facebook page. The fest organizers, Goldenvoice, posted a "Save the Date," and said that more bands would be announced to the bill. …
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  Rise Against, 'Endgame' (DGC/Interscope)

  March 15, 2011 – Rise Against's strident anti-ignorance messages have coursed through several albums of tightly wound, good-intentions punk. …
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  New LPs: Black Joe Lewis, Joy Formidable & 7 more!

  March 15, 2011 – Here's our take on the best and worst albums available online and in record stores today: J Mascis, Several Shades of WhySebadoh-ish indie-folk jams from Sebadoh dude's boss.Read Review Black Joe Lewis, ScandalousSteamy Austin axeman still seeking spiritual release.Read Review The Joy Formidable, The Big RoarFemale-led Welsh alt-rockers blast into the red.Read Review Noah and the Whale, Last Night on EarthZen and the art of getti …
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  Rise Against's McIlrath on Influential Music, Books

  February 18, 2011 – For more than a decade, Rise Against have been one of punk's most visible and unapologetically political bands, delivering raging albums that have condemned the Bush Administration and the bungled war in Iraq, among other things, while supporting animal rights, veganism, and straight-edge living. They're also one of the genre's most successful acts: Their last album, Appeal to Reason, opened up at No. …
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