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Interview: Boots Riley (of Street Sweeper Social Club)

Jun 11, 2009, 3:15pm

Interview: Boots Riley (of Street Sweeper Social Club)

As some may have heard, Tom Morello's been busy with his band, and no, it's not Rage Against the Machine. It's his new gig, the rather amicably titled, Street Sweeper Social Club . Leading the pack is The Coup frontman, Boots Riley. They're hardly a small-time act, either. Currently, the group's been touring with Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction, one of the hottest tickets of the summer, and with such good fortune already, this act is poised to rock faces and stimulate the average intellectual. Recently, Consequence of Sound sat down with Riley and discussed the [...]

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