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Greek philosopher Plato once wrote, "The introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state, since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions." It is this idea that fueled the inspiration behind Rage Against the Machine. Combining the aggressiveness of metal with the vocal styling of rap, the band decided to use this hybrid to broadcast their societal message to anyone who would listen. Their self-titled debut album sold more than four million copies worldwide, and the musical message reached ears all over the world. "We’re trying to do something most bands don’t do," guitarist Tom Morello told Katherine Turman in Spin, "which is combine music and activism. The lofty goal would be bringing down an oppressive, racist, capitalistic system that feeds on the exploited and repressed."

Singer Zack de la Rocha met bassist Timmy C. (a.k.a. Tim Bob) in the sixth grade. De la Rocha and Timmy C. grew up in Orange County, California, an area known for its suburban conservatism. As a child, de la Rocha’s parents put him in the middle of a heavy custody battle. He moved back and forth between his mother’s home in Irvine, California, and his father’s in East Los Angeles. His mother worked as a teacher’s aide at the

University of California at Irvine, while his father was a first-generation Mexican muralist.

De la Rocha compared his own career to his father’s in an interview with Timothy White in Billboard. "Back in 1974, my father’s paints were part of the first Chicano art exhibit ever organized at the L.A. County Museum of Art [‘Los Four: Almarez, de la Rocha, Lugan, Romero’]. That accomplishment was really something to be proud of. I want to make music that gives people that same sense of identity, and lets them see that human rights, civil rights, and spiritual rights are part of the same struggle we all face: to take the power back."

De la Rocha and Timmy C. met guitarist Tom Morello and drummer Brad Wilk in the early 1990s. Morello’s father served as a member of the Mau Mau guerrilla organization that freed Kenya from colonial rule in the 1960s. His mother, Mary Morello, was a schoolteacher and later founded the anticensorship organization Parents for Rock & Rap. Before moving to Los Angeles, Morello, originally from Libertyville, Illinois, graduated from Harvard University in 1986 with a degree in social services. He played in a punk band called LockUp, then cofounded Rage Against the Machine in 1991.

Performed with Popular Groups
The group recorded and released a self-produced, 12-song cassette in 1992, which included the song "Bullet in the Head," which later became a single from the band’s debut album. The members sold the tape through their fan club and at live shows in the area, selling more than 5,000 copies. Before Rage Against the Machine ever hit the stores, the band had played with Porno for Pyros on that band’s debut performance, a European tour with Suicidal Tendencies, and performances on the second stage of the Lollapallooza II tour. Rage Against the Machine had received its first contract offer from a major label after its second club performance. However, the group wanted to make sure they had the freedom to express their message and took their time before inking a deal with Epic Records. They came up against controversy as well, when critics asked—and continue to ask—if a group like Rage is being hypocritical by signing with a major record label. On November 6, 1992, Epic released the record, which included the singles "Killing in the Name," "Freedom," and "Take the Power Back."

Timothy White wrote of Rage Against the Machine in Billboard, "On the strength of the Epic album, they must be viewed as one of the most original and virtuosic new rock bands in the nation, capable of a latticed wall of stridor so deftly woven that it’s destined to be the standard for any audacious headbangers who dare follow." Despite the band’s obvious rap and hip-hop influences, they stayed true to their name and shunned electronic keyboards, samples, and drum machines. "You’d assume there was a DJ in the band if you didn’t know better," Morello told Chuck Crusafulli in Guitar Player, "but all the sounds we make are guitar, bass, drums, and vocals."

Rage Against the Machine’s first video for "Killing in the Name" did not receive any airplay in the United States because of the language in the song’s refrain. However, it did receive substantial airplay in Europe and boosted the group’s popularity and sales overseas far above its home country. Right out of the gate, Rage Against the Machine stood behind its activist message by participating in and producing many benefits for political organizations. On January 23, 1993, the band headlined a Rock for Choice show in support of prochoice abortion organizations. On July 18, 1993, Rage Against the Machine created a silent protest onstage at Lollapallooza III in Philadelphia. Each member of the band stood naked without singing or playing a note for 25 minutes in a statement against censorship. With duct tape sealing their mouths, they each wore a letter spelling "P-M-R-C," for the Parents Music Resource Center. They also headlined a sold-out Anti-Nazi League benefit at Brixton Academy in London, England, to raise money and promote an anti-Nazi march that took place the next month.

Debut Had Lengthy Stay on Charts
Nearly a year after the album’s release, Rage Against the Machine reached number 70 on Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart without much radio or video exposure. On December 19, 1993, Rage Against the Machine released its first MTV-aired video, "Freedom." Directed by Peter Christopherson, the video mixed live footage of the band with scenes from Robert Redford’s 1992 documentary Incident at Oglala and text from Peter Matthiessen’s In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. The video argued for the innocence of American Indian Movement leader Leonard Peltier.

In 1994, Rage Against the Machine released the song "Year of tha Boomerang" on the soundtrack for the John Singleton film Higher Learning. The following year, the group organized and headlined a benefit concert at the Capitol Ballroom in Washington, D.C. The show raised more than $8,000 for the International Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal, an activist sentenced to death. In 1996, Rage Against the Machine released their second effort, Evil Empire on Epic Records. Evelyn McDonnell wrote in Rolling Stone, "Rage’s second album, Evil Empire, may be the most politically radical album ever to hit No. 1 on the pop charts," which it did in its first week. This album again focused on political and social commentary.

Despite the fact that Rage’s motives hold them together as a band, there has been much—and greatly publicized—sparring within the band. Rage doesn’t spend too much time together when they are not at work recording or touring. In fact, their rough times interpersonally have led to sporadic album releases. They also come up with new songs only for albums and not for tours because they spend limited time together.

In 1999, Rage released The Battle of Los Angeles. Like its predecessor, it debuted at number one and went double platinum within the year. Also within a year of the release, Commerford was arrested for disorderly conduct for a disruption of a Limp Bizkit acceptance speech at the MTV awards, and de la Rocha announced intentions of doing solo work. Soon after, de la Rocha left the band, supposedly on good terms, while the rest of Rage stated they were staying together—despite the fact that de la Rocha had written a vast majority of the band’s lyrics up to that point—and continuing with a new vocalist. Renegades was released about that time, an album that uses the lyrics from songs by the likes of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Devo, and the music of Rage.

Remained Focused on Message
"We’re able to make music that can reach a lot of people and contains a really potent message," Morello told James Rotondi in Guitar Player. "It’s not merely about thinking for yourself, or supporting the occasional feel-good cause. It’s about revolutionary values…. But there is a depth and importance to our message which completely transcends the artist side of it." Some argue that the angry-music venue which Rage uses means that they reach an audience who does not really listen to their message, but just to their music. Some critics also refuse to take Rage’s political and social stances seriously. However, Mark Greif of the American Prospect writes, "The band’s politics are the product of an explicitly intellectual and credible radical past, a past largely unknown to its audience." He continues to point out Morello’s honors degree from Harvard for social studies, both Morello’s and de la Rocha’s uniquely political/liberal parentage, and Morello’s time serving under Senator Alan Cranston as an aide. Criticism of the group’s politics often result in accusations of hypocrisy, calling enemies by names such as Coca-Cola, NBC and ABC, and then appearing at venues sponsored by them. Greif says, "The contradiction mirrors the predicament of a whole generation reared by merchandisers."

Rage Against the Machine continues to stand at the forefront of rock music. Their work is consistently praised by critics and adored by fans. They are also one of the most active, outspoken, and involved bands, pioneering for many domestic and global causes "with increasing sophistication and success," as stated by Greif. They are known for their innovative music, which includes not only rock-punk-thrash hybrids, but unprecedented guitar work by Morello and the first successful introduction of rap into a rock format by de la Rocha. On top of it all, their diversity sets them apart from most of their contemporaries: de la Rocha is Irish, German and Chicano, and Morello is part African. Their backgrounds shaped them into workhorses for freedom, their similar "interest in hip hop and hard rock, coupled with… leftist political views" melded them into a group, and their musical talent has boosted them to what Rolling Stone calls "one of America’s most popular bands."

Selected discography
Rage Against the Machine, Epic, 1992.
Evil Empire, Epic, 1996.
The Battle of Los Angeles, Epic, 1999.
Live, Sony, 2000.
Renegades, Epic, 2000.

Sources
Periodicals
American Prospect, January 17, 2000, p. 56.
Anti-Matter, April 1993.
Billboard, December 26, 1992; July 3, 1993; July 10, 1993; February 5, 1994; March 23, 1996.

Desert Sun, June 6, 1996.
Entertainment Weekly, July 16, 1993; January 13, 1995; April 19, 1996.
Guitar Player, July 1993; June 1994; June 1996; July 2000, p. 76.
Los Angeles Times, October 31, 1993.
New York Times, November 8, 1993.
People, May 20, 1996.
Playboy, February 1993.
Rolling Stone, March 10, 1994; June 16, 1994; April 18, 1996; October 3, 1996; September 4, 1997.
Spin, November 1993; February 1994.
Stereo Review, August 1996.
Time, September 23, 1996.

Online
All Music Guide, http://www.allmusic.com (April 1, 2002).
Grammy.com, http://www.grammy.com (April 1, 2002).
MTV.com, http://www.mtv.com (April 1, 2002).
Rage Against the Machine Official Website, http://www.ratm.net (April 1, 2002).
Recording Industry Association of America, http://www.riaa.org (April 1, 2002).
Additional information for this profile was obtained from Epic Records press material, 1996.
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Rage Against the Machine earned acclaim from disenfranchised fans (and not insignificant derision from critics) for their bombastic, fiercely polemical music, which brewed sloganeering leftist rants against corporate America, cultural imperialism, and government oppression into a Molotov cocktail of punk, hip-hop, and thrash. Rage formed in Los Angeles in the early '90s out of the wreckage of a number of local groups: vocalist Zack de la Rocha (the son of Chicano political artist Beto) emerged from the bands Headstance, Farside, and Inside Out; guitarist Tom Morello (the nephew of Jomo Kenyatta, the first Kenyan president) originated in Lock Up; and drummer Brad Wilk played with future Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder. Rounded out by bassist Tim Bob (aka Tim C., born Tim Commerford), a childhood friend of de la Rocha's, Rage debuted in 1992 with a self-released, self-titled 12-song cassette featuring the song "Bullet in the Head," which became a hit when reissued as a single later in the year.

The tape won the band a deal with Epic, and their leap to the majors did not go unnoticed by detractors, who questioned the revolutionary integrity of Rage Against the Machine's decision to align itself with the label's parent company, media behemoth Sony. Undeterred, the quartet emerged in late 1992 with their eponymous official debut, which scored the hits "Killing in the Name" and "Bombtrack." After touring with Lollapalooza and declaring their support of groups like FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), Rock for Choice, and Refuse & Resist, Rage spent a reportedly tumultuous four years working on their follow-up; despite rumors of a breakup, they returned in 1996 with Evil Empire, which entered the U.S. album charts at number one and scored a hit single with "Bulls on Parade." During 1997, the group joined forces with hip-hop supergroup the Wu-Tang Clan for a summer tour and remained active in support of various leftist political causes, including a controversial 1999 benefit concert for death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal. The Battle of Los Angeles followed later in 1999, also debuting at number one and going double platinum by the following summer. In early 2000, de la Rocha announced plans for a solo project, and the band performed an incendiary show outside the Democratic National Convention in August. The following month, bassist Commerford was arrested for disorderly conduct at MTV's Video Music Awards following his bizarre disruption of a Limp Bizkit acceptance speech, in which he climbed to the top of a 15-foot set piece and rocked back and forth.

Plans for a live album were announced shortly thereafter, but in October, de la Rocha abruptly announced his departure from the band, citing breakdowns in communication and group decision-making. Surprised but not angry, the remainder of Rage announced plans to continue with a new vocalist, while de la Rocha re-focused on his solo album, which was slated to include collaborations with acclaimed hip-hop artists including DJ Shadow and El-P of Company Flow. December 2000 saw the release of de la Rocha's final studio effort with the band, the Rick Rubin-produced Renegades; it featured nearly a dozen covers of hip-hop, rock, and punk artists like EPMD, Bruce Springsteen, Devo, the Rolling Stones, the MC5, and more. By 2001, Morello, Wilk, and Commerford had formed Audioslave with former Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell, and the group released an eponymous album by the end of 2002. With a de la Rocha solo album still not announced, Epic finally released the long-promised concert album Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium on CD and DVD in time for Christmas 2003. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi
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Rage Against the Machine at Vegoose in October 2007. Left to right : Tim Commerford, Zack de la Rocha, Brad Wilk, Tom Morello
Background information
Origin Los Angeles, California, United States
Genres Rap metal, funk metal, alternative metal [discuss]
Years active 1991 (1991)–2000, 2007–present
Labels Epic, Revelation
Associated acts Street Sweeper Social Club, One Day as a Lion, The Nightwatchman, Audioslave, Lock Up, Inside Out
Website ratm.com
Members
Zack de la Rocha
Tom Morello
Tim Commerford
Brad Wilk

Rage Against the Machine is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1991, the group's line-up consists of vocalist Zack de la Rocha, bassist and backing vocalist Tim Commerford, guitarist Tom Morello and drummer Brad Wilk. Critics have noted Rage Against the Machine for its "fiercely polemical music, which brewed sloganeering leftist rants against corporate America, cultural imperialism, and government oppression into a Molotov cocktail of punk, hip hop, and thrash."[1] Rage Against the Machine drew inspiration from early heavy metal instrumentation, as well as rap acts such as Afrika Bambaataa,[1] Public Enemy, the Beastie Boys and Urban Dance Squad.[2] As of 2010, they have sold over 16 million records worldwide.[3]

In 1992, the band released its self-titled debut album, which became a commercial success, leading to a slot in the 1993 Lollapalooza. The band did not release a follow-up record until 1996, with Evil Empire. The band's third album The Battle of Los Angeles was released in 1999. During their initial nine-year run, they became one of the most popular and influential bands in music history, according to music journalist Colin Devenish.[4] They were also ranked #33 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. The band had a large influence on the nu metal genre which emerged during the mid to late 1990s.

Shortly after breaking up in 2000, the band released the cover album Renegades. De la Rocha started a low-key solo career in One Day as a Lion; the rest of the band formed the rock supergroup Audioslave with Chris Cornell, then-former front-man of Soundgarden, which disbanded in 2007, and in April of that year, Rage Against the Machine performed together for the first time in seven years at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. The band has continued to perform at many live venues and festivals around the world since 2007.

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History

1991–1994: Early years

In 1991, guitarist Tom Morello left his band, Lock Up, looking to start another band. He was in a club in LA where Zack de la Rocha was freestyle rapping. Morello was impressed, people said, by de la Rocha's lyric books, and asked him to be a rapper in a band. Morello drafted drummer Brad Wilk of Greta, who had previously auditioned for Lock Up, while de la Rocha convinced his childhood friend Tim Commerford to join as bassist. The newly christened Rage Against the Machine named themselves after a song de la Rocha had written for his former popular underground hardcore punk band, Inside Out (also to be the title of the unrecorded Inside Out full-length album).[5] Kent McClard, with whom Inside Out were associated, had coined the phrase in a 1989 article in his zine No Answers.[6]

Shortly after forming, they gave their first public performance in Orange County, California, where a friend of Commerford's was holding a house party. The blueprint for the group's major-label debut album, demo tape Rage Against the Machine, was laid on a twelve-song self-released cassette, the cover image of which was the stock market with a triple match taped to the inlay card. Not all 12 songs made it onto the final album—two were eventually included as B-sides, with the remaining three songs never seeing an official release.[7] Several record labels expressed interest, and the band eventually signed with Epic Records. Morello said, "Epic agreed to everything we asked—and they've followed through.... We never saw a[n] [ideological] conflict as long as we maintained creative control."[8]

1992–2000: Mainstream success
"Know Your Enemy"
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The band's debut album, Rage Against the Machine, reached triple platinum status, driven by heavy radio play of the song "Killing in the Name", a heavy, driving track featuring only eight lines of lyrics. The "Fuck You" version, which contains 17 iterations of the word fuck, was once accidentally played on the BBC Radio 1 Top 40 singles show on February 21st 1993.[9] The album's cover featured Malcolm Browne's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, burning himself to death in Saigon in 1963 in protest of the murder of Buddhists by the US-backed Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm's regime. The album was produced by Garth Richardson.To promote the album, the band went on tour, playing at Lollapalooza 1993 and as support for Suicidal Tendencies in Europe.[citation needed]

After their debut album, the band appeared on the soundtrack for the film Higher Learning with the song "Year of tha Boomerang". An early version of "Tire Me" also appeared during the movie. Subsequently, they re-recorded the song "Darkness" from their original demo for the soundtrack of The Crow and also "No Shelter" appeared on the Godzilla soundtrack.[citation needed]

Despite rumors of a breakup for several years, Rage Against the Machine's second album, Evil Empire, entered Billboard's Top 200 chart at number one in 1996, and subsequently rose to triple platinum status.[10] The song "Bulls on Parade" was performed on Saturday Night Live in April 1996. Their planned two-song performance was cut to one song when the band attempted to hang inverted US flags from their amplifiers ("a sign of distress or great danger"),[11] a protest against having Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes as guest host on the program that night.[11]

In 1997, the band opened for U2 on their PopMart Tour, for which all of Rage's profits went to support social organizations.[12] including U.N.I.T.E., Women Alive and the Zapatista Front for National Liberation.[13] Rage subsequently began an abortive headlining US tour with special guests Wu-Tang Clan. Police in several jurisdictions unsuccessfully attempted to have the concerts cancelled, citing amongst other reasons, the bands' "violent and anti-law enforcement philosophies."[14][15] Wu-Tang Clan were eventually removed from the line-up and replaced with The Roots. On the Japan leg of their tour promoting Evil Empire, a bootleg album composed of the band's B-side recordings titled Live & Rare was released by Sony Records. A live video, also titled Rage Against the Machine, was released later the same year.[citation needed]

In 1999 Rage Against the Machine played at the infamous Woodstock '99 concert. The following release, The Battle of Los Angeles also debuted at number one in 1999, selling 450,000 copies in the first week and then going double-platinum.[1] That same year the song "Wake Up" was featured on the soundtrack of the film The Matrix. The track "Calm Like a Bomb" was later featured in the film's sequel, 2003s The Matrix Reloaded. In 2000, the band planned to support the Beastie Boys on the "Rhyme and Reason" tour; however, the tour was cancelled when Beastie Boys drummer Mike D suffered a serious injury.[16]

2000–2006: Break-up and subsequent projects

On October 18, 2000, de la Rocha released a statement announcing his departure from the band. He said, "I feel that it is now necessary to leave Rage because our decision-making process has completely failed. It is no longer meeting the aspirations of all four of us collectively as a band, and from my perspective, has undermined our artistic and political ideal."[17] The band's final studio album, Renegades, released shortly after the band's dissolution, was a collection of covers of artists as diverse as Devo, Cypress Hill, MC5, The Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan.[1] Renegades achieved platinum status a month later.[10] The following year saw the release of another live video, The Battle of Mexico City, and 2003 saw the release of a live album titled Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium, an edited recording of the band's final two concerts on September 12 and 13, 2000 at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles.[18] It was accompanied by an expanded DVD release of the last show, and also included the previously unreleased music video for "Bombtrack".[citation needed]

Wilk, Commerford and Morello performing with Chris Cornell as Audioslave at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2005.

After the group's breakup, Morello, Wilk, and Commerford teamed up with former Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell to form a new band, Audioslave, after briefly searching for a vocalist to replace de la Rocha. The first Audioslave single, "Cochise", was released in early November 2002, and the debut album, Audioslave, followed to mainly positive reviews. Their second album Out of Exile debuted at the number one position on the Billboard charts in 2005.[19] The band released a third album named Revelations on September 5, 2006. The band vowed to have a "one-album-per-year" schedule, until the departure of Chris Cornell on February 15, 2007.[20]

Morello began his own solo career in 2003, playing political acoustic folk music at open-mic nights and various clubs under the alias The Nightwatchman. He first participated in Billy Bragg's Tell Us the Truth tour[21] with no plans to record,[22] but later recorded a song for Songs and Artists that Inspired Fahrenheit 9/11, "No One Left". In February 2007, he announced a solo album, entitled One Man Revolution, which was released in April 2007.[23] Morello followed up his first studio album with "The Fabled City" which was released on September 30, 2008. During the latter of his career as The Nightwatchman, Morello joined up with Boots Riley and formed the rap rock group Street Sweeper Social Club, which released its debut self-titled album in June 2009.

Meanwhile, de la Rocha had been working on a solo album collaboration with DJ Shadow, Company Flow, and The Roots' Questlove,[17] but dropped the project in favor of working with Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor.[24] Recording was completed, but the album will probably never be released.[25] A collaboration between de la Rocha and DJ Shadow, the song "March of Death" was released for free over the World Wide Web in 2003 in protest against the imminent invasion of Iraq,[26] and the 2004 soundtrack Songs and Artists that Inspired Fahrenheit 9/11 included one of the collaborations with Reznor, "We Want It All".[24] In late 2005, de la Rocha was seen singing and playing the jarana huasteca with Son Jarocho band Son de Madera on multiple occasions.[27] Rage Against the Machine was ranked 33rd on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock list in 2005.

Members of the band had been offered large sums of money to reunite for concerts and tours, and had turned the offers down.[28] Rumors of bad blood between de la Rocha and the other former band members subsequently circulated, but Commerford said that he and de la Rocha saw each other often and went surfing together, while Morello said he and de la Rocha communicated by phone, and had met up at a September 15, 2005 protest in support of the South Central Farm.[29]

2007–2008: Reunion and tours

Main article: Rage Against the Machine Reunion Tour

Rumors that Rage Against the Machine could reunite at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival were circulating in mid-January 2007,[30] and were confirmed on January 22.[31] The band was confirmed to be headlining the final day of Coachella 2007.[32] The reunion was described by Morello as primarily being a vehicle to voice the band's opposition to the "right-wing purgatory" the United States has "slid into" under the George W. Bush administration since RATM's dissolution.[33] Though the performance was initially thought to be a one-off,[34] this turned out not to be the case.

On April 14, 2007, Morello and de la Rocha reunited onstage early to perform a brief acoustic set at a Coalition of Immokalee Workers rally in downtown Chicago. Morello described the event as "very exciting for everybody in the room, myself included."[35] This was followed by the scheduled Coachella performance on Sunday, April 29 where the band staged a much anticipated performance in front of an EZLN backdrop to the largest crowds of the festival.[36][37][38]

Rage Against the Machine continued to tour in the United States, New Zealand, Australia, and Japan,[39] and also played a series of shows in Europe in Summer 2008 including Rock am Ring and Rock im Park, Pinkpop Festival, T in the Park in Scotland, the Hultsfred Festival in Sweden, the Reading and Leeds Festivals in England and the Oxegen Festival in Ireland. The band also performed on August 2, 2008, in Chicago as one of the headliners (Radiohead, Kanye West and Nine Inch Nails being the other three) for the 2008 Lollapalooza Music Festival. When asked in May 2007 if the band were planning on writing a new album, Morello replied:

“ There are no plans to do that... That's a whole other ball of wax right there. Writing and recording albums is a whole different thing than getting back on the bike (laughs), you know, and playing these songs. But I think that the one thing about the Rage catalog is that to me none of it feels dated. You know, it doesn't feel at all like a nostalgia show. It feels like these are songs that were born and bred to be played now. ”
 
— Tom Morello, Blabbermouth.net, May 1, 2007[40]

Morello declined to comment about the possibility of a new album when interviewed by MTV News in April 2008.[41] In July 2008, it was revealed that de la Rocha had begun a new project called One Day as a Lion with drummer Jon Theodore formerly of The Mars Volta, with an eponymous EP released on July 22, 2008.[42]

In August 2008, de la Rocha revealed his take on the possibility of new material:

“ We’re going to keep playing shows – we have a couple of big ones happening in front of both conventions. As far as us recording music in the future, I don’t know where we all fit with that. We’ve all embraced each other’s projects and support them, and that’s great. ”
 
— Zack de la Rocha, Los Angeles Times, August 11, 2008[40]

In August 2008, Rage headlined the free Tent State Music Festival to End the War in Denver during the Democratic National Convention. The band was supported by Flobots, State Radio, Jello Biafra, and Wayne Kramer.[43] Following the concert, the band, following uniformed veterans from Iraq Veterans Against the War, led the 8,000 attendees to the Denver Coliseum on a 6 mile march to Invesco Field, host of the DNC. After a 4 hour stand-off with police, Obama's campaign agreed to meet with members of Iraq Veterans Against the War and hear their demands.[44]

In September 2008, Rage performed at the Target Center in Minneapolis during the Republican National Convention. The previous day, they attempted to play a surprise set at a free anti-RNC concert at the Minnesota Capitol in St. Paul, but were prevented from doing so by the police. Instead, de la Rocha and Morello rapped and sang through a megaphone.

In December 2008, Tom Morello revealed that Rage Against the Machine shows in 2009 were a possibility, although plans for the band to record a new studio album were very unlikely. When asked by Billboard.com whether they planned to head to the studio in 2009, Morello stated that: "we've had a wonderful year and a half of playing shows, and I don't see any reason to not play more shows. The thing is there's only so many hours in the musical day, and mine are very occupied right now."[45]

Morello elaborated that The Nightwatchman is now "my principal musical focus, as I see it, for the remainder of my life. From the earliest days of playing open mic nights at coffee houses, it was apparent to me that this music was as important to me as any music I've ever been involved in. It really encapsulates everything I want to do as an artist."[45] He repeated this point in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.[46]

However, After the "Rage Factor" celebratory show in Finsbury Park on June 6, 2010, after the campaign to get Killing in the Name to Christmas Number 1, Zack de la Rocha stated that it was a "genuine possibility". Stating that they may use the momentum from the campaign to get back into the studio and write a follow-up record to 2000s Renegades after 10 years. When talking to NME, Zack de la Rocha said: "I think it's a genuine possibility, We have to get our heads around what we’re going to do towards the end of the year and finish up on some other projects and we’ll take it from there."[citation needed]

2009–2011: Killing in the Name campaign, subsequent European tour and L.A. Rising

In December 2009, a campaign was launched on Facebook by Jon and Tracy Morter, from South Woodham Ferrers, which generated nationwide publicity and took the track "Killing in the Name" to the coveted Christmas Number One slot in the UK Singles Chart, which had been dominated for four consecutive years from 2005 by winners from the popular TV show The X Factor.[47] Before the chart was announced on December 20, 2009 the Facebook group membership stood at over 950,000, and was acknowledged (and supported) by Tom Morello,[48] Dave Grohl,[49] Paul McCartney,[50] Muse, Fightstar,[51] NME, John Lydon,[33] Bill Bailey,[33] Lenny Henry,[33] BBC Radio 1,[52] Hadouken!,[53] The Prodigy,[54] Stereophonics,[54] BBC Radio 5 Live,[55] and even the 2004 X Factor winner Steve Brookstein,[56] amongst numerous others. On the morning of December 17, Rage Against the Machine played a slightly censored version of "Killing in the Name" live on Radio 5 Live, but four repeats of 'Fuck you I won't do what you tell me' were aired before the song was pulled.[57] During the interview before the song they reiterated their support for the campaign and their intentions to support charity with the proceeds. The campaign was ultimately successful, and "Killing in the Name" became the number-one single in the UK for Christmas 2009.[58][59] Rage's Zack de la Rocha spoke to BBC1 upon hearing the news, stating that:

"We're very very ecstatic and excited about the song reaching the number one spot. We want to thank everyone that participated in this incredible, organic, grass-roots campaign. It says more about the spontaneous action taken by young people throughout the UK to topple this very sterile pop monopoly. When young people decide to take action they can make what's seemingly impossible, possible."[59]

The band also set a new record, achieving the biggest download sales total in a first week ever in the UK charts.[59] de la Rocha also promised the band would perform a free concert in the UK sometime in 2010 to celebrate the achievement.[59] True to their word, the band announced that they would be performing a free concert at Finsbury Park, London on June 6, 2010.[60] The concert, dubbed "The Rage Factor", gave away all the tickets by free photo registration to prevent touting over the weekend of the February 13–14, followed by an online lottery on February 17. This proved to be overwhelmingly popular, with many users facing connection issues. The tickets were all allocated by 13:30 that same day.[61] After allowing ticket holders to vote for who they wanted to be the support acts for "The Rage Factor", it was announced that Gogol Bordello, Gallows and Roots Manuva would support Rage Against the Machine at this concert.[62]

In addition to the free gig at Finsbury Park, the band headlined European festivals in June 2010 including the Download Festival at Donington Park, England, Rock am Ring and Rock im Park in Germany and Rock in Rio Madrid in Spain.[63] They also performed in Ireland on June 8 and The Netherlands on June 9. [2] Zack de la Rocha has stated that it is a definite possibility that the band will record a new album, the first time since 2000's Renegades [64] Morter has confirmed this, stating the discussions he and the band had backstage before the Finsbury Park gig saying the band did write new material, but they had no motivation to release them until now. De la Rocha mentioned the very strong reaction from the Download Festival 2010 audience as an incentive for releasing new material.[65] In addition, the band returned to Los Angeles on July 23, 2010 for their first US show in two years and their first hometown show in 10 years.[66] The concert benefited Arizona organizations that are fighting the SB1070 immigration law. On the night of the show, a spokesperson announced to the crowd that ticket sales—all of which are non-profit to the bands—had raised $300,000. The band has been confirmed to do a short South American tour in October, performing at venues such as the SWU Festival in Brazil, the Maquinaria Festival in Chile, and Pepsi Music Festival in Argentina. It was the first time the band played on that continent.

During an interview with the Chilean newspaper La Tercera in October 2010, Rage frontman Zack de la Rocha allegedly confirmed that a new album is in the works, with a possibility of a 2011 release. De la Rocha is reported as saying, “We are all bigger and more mature and we do not fall into the problems we faced 10 or 15 years ago. This is different and we project a lot: we are working on a new album due out next year, perhaps summer for the northern hemisphere."[67] However, in early May 2011, guitarist Tom Morello said that the band were not working on a new album, but would not rule out the possibility of future studio work. "The band is not writing songs, the band is not in the studio," Morello told The Pulse of Radio. "We get along famously and we all, you know, intend to do more Rage Against the Machine stuff in the future, but beyond sort of working out a concert this year, there's nothing else on the schedule (for 2011)." [60] As Morello stated, the only Rage appearance for 2011 was a performance on July 30 at the L.A. Rising festival with Muse and Rise Against.[60]

Political views and activism

Main article: Political views and activism of Rage Against the Machine

Members

Discography

Main article: Rage Against the Machine discography

Awards and nominations

Rage Against the Machine has received two Grammy Awards; Best Metal Performance for the song "Tire Me" and Best Hard Rock Performance for "Guerrilla Radio". The band has also received three nominations from the MTV Video Music Awards, but has yet to win an award. In 2008 the band were given a special "Hall of Fame" award from Kerrang!.

Grammy Awards
Year Nominated work Award Result
1997 "Tire Me" Best Metal Performance Won
"Bulls on Parade" Best Hard Rock Performance Nominated
1998 "People of the Sun" Nominated
1999 "No Shelter" Best Metal Performance Nominated
2001 "Guerrilla Radio" Best Hard Rock Performance Won
The Battle of Los Angeles Best Rock Album Nominated
2002 "Renegades of Funk" Best Hard Rock Performance Nominated
MTV Video Music Awards
Year Nominated work Award Result
1996 "Bulls on Parade" Best Rock Video Nominated
1997 "People of the Sun" Nominated
2000 "Sleep Now in the Fire" Nominated
NME Awards
Year Nominated work Award Result
2010 Rage Against the Machine Heroes of the Year Won
Kerrang! Awards
Year Nominated work Award Result
2008 Rage Against the Machine Hall of Fame Won
Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards
Year Nominated work Award Result
2010 Rage Against the Machine Band of the Year Nominated
2010 Christmas Number One and Free Concert Event of the Year Nominated

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