El próximo 15 de mayo, la organización Music for Occupy lanzará un inmenso compilado con música inspirada en el movimiento Occupy Wall Street . Esta compilación tendrá por nombre Ocuppy This Album. La edición digital contará con 100 tracks, mientras que la versión en CD contendrá 78 tracks, (muchos de ellos inéditos) abarcando a una enorme cantidad de artistas que de distintas formas se han involucrado con el movimiento Occupy, por ejemplo: Patti Smith, Ladytron, Willie Nelson, Anti-Flag, UNKLE, Tom Morello (The Nightwatchman), Yoko Ono, Yo La Tengo [...]
Thursday - Day Two Highlights – Bruce Springsteen's keynote speech, which should be required viewing foranyone with a passing interest in rock and roll. Part history lesson and part fatherlyadvice, Springsteen's passion for and grasp of rock history is unsurpassed. Ifyou care deeply about rock and roll, carve 50 minutes out of your life andwatch the whole thing here . Tom [...]
AISHA TYLER ASKS : "Are you, at this point in your life, with everything you've done, and the amount of political work you've put your passion and your energy into, do you feel more or less optimistic than you did, say, when you were first in Rage?" TOM MORELLO REPLIES : "I feel much more optimistic, and that has to do, principally, with fatherhood... The purity, and the innocence that I see in my kids makes me...wanna fight for their world... When I see it reflected in other things, for example... The first [...]
Tom Morello is obviously a big fan of The Clash and Woodie Guthrie. On his new album World Wide Rebel Songs he takes ai, at wold wide wrongs, using his guitar like a weapon to gun down dictators, with a choir shouting encouragement on the title track. With his new steel string guitar Black Spartacus as his main axe - the album's opener Black Spartacus Heart Attack Machine has Morello testing the strings to the limit, he approaches the world as an alternate CNN, reporting from the trenches and famished countries. [...]
Here are a few MP3s of songs from some of better albums released this week. Cymbals Eat Guitars – "Definite Darkness" from Lenses Aliens. Male Bonding – "Tame the Sun" and "Bones" from Endless Now. Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman – "It Begins Tonight" from World Wide Rebel Songs. State Bird – "Talking Real Shit" from Healin the Pain. Tinariwen – "Tenere Taqqim Tossam" from Tassili. After the jump, there is also a list of more new releases from this week (with Insound and Bandcamp links to purchase some of them). Continue reading…
Given the political upheaval this country finds itself in, he's been plenty busy, but on August 30th, erstwhile RATM fretmeister Tom Morello will trot out his Nightwatchman persona once more for World Wide Rebel Songs . Among a dozen new protopolitikal anthems is Save The Hammer For The Man , which was co-written by/feaures Ben Harper; however, the most intriguing development here is Morello's decision to utilize a full-on electric backing band, which he has dubbed The Freedom Fighter Orchestra. And while Woody asserted that even the lowliest [...]
With Rage Against the Machine possibly in flux , axe man Tom Morello has once again turned to his solo career to drop all sorts of sonic insurrection. After signing with New West Records earlier this year , Morello will release his third album under The Nightwatchman moniker when World Wide Rebel Songs hits stores on August 30th. The self-produced, 12-track effort is a change of pace from the usual acoustic offerings of past Nightwatchman albums, with the record featuring a full electric backing band called The Freedom Fighter Orchestra (comprised [...]
The Nightwatchman , which is the solo project from Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine and Street Sweeper Social Club, has announced a new full length. The record is titled World Wide Rebel Songs and is due out August 30, 2011. The 12-track set is the follow up to the 2008 album The Fabled City and was produced by Morello. The track "Save The Hammer For The Man" was co-written with Ben Harper and features Harper on vocals and guitar. While Morello's solo albums as The Nightwatchman have primarily been [...]
Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello is returning with his third full length album of rabble rousing songs as The Nightwatchman. The new album, World Wide Rebel Songs, is scheduled to come out on August 30th. You can download the first track "It Begins Tonight". Here's the track list for the album: Black Spartacus Heart Attack Machine The Dogs of Tijuana It Begins Tonight Save The
Here's some good news for those of you still planning out your summer concert schedule: for a limited time only, a special discount is available on tickets for the 50th anniversary of the Newport Folk Festival. Enter the special Promo Code: UFOLK when prompted near the end of the ticket purchasing process. http://www.folkfestival50.com/ purchase-information.html I'm definitely planning on attending at least the Saturday show (I would love to do both days if it works out with my schedule, especially to catch Neko Case's set after her incredible performance I saw in [...]
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Yesterday, September 30, marked the release of Tom Morello 's highly anticipated solo album, The Fabled City . The tour, in support of the release, wiill feature both acoustic and full band driven sets. Dates below. THE FABLED CITY TOUR (More dates to be announced) 11/1 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore 11/2 Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom 11/5 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom 11/7 Salt Lake [...]
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