Seminal 90's band, Rage Against the Machine is reuniting for a special one off concert at this years Coachella Festival is Death Valley, California. Rage, the band that has been created for creating rap-rock (and the only act to be good at it), stormed onto the scene in the early 90's with their self titled debut and marched their way to the minds and fists of everyone angry with the system. The band saw much success in 1996 with their Grammy winning sophomore record Evil Empire. By the end of the century however, the machine after four albums winded down and the band broke up. Since the break-up guitarist Tom Morello, Bassist Tim Commorford, and Drummer Brad Wilk joined forces with Chris Cornell of Soundgarden and formed Audioslave. Lead singer and emcee Zach De La Rocha has been living his life these days as Boo Radily. Since the fall of Rage, he retreated to New Orleans to work on a solo record that was being produced by Trent Reznor. This record seems to be the Chinese Democracy of De La Rocha's career because nothing much has come of it. The most anyone has herd or seen or Zach was a guest vocal appearance Roni Size/Represents 2002 album In The Mode and on the Fahrenheit 911 soundtrack. This is a welcomed reunion of at a time the only band that mattered. Rage much like punk acts before them; MC5, The Clash, The Avengers took charge of issues and politics when no one was saying anything. Combining the attitude of punk and fusing it with the sound of furry of a modern Led Zeppelin and the soul and funk of Afrika Bambatta Rage was a no holds barred act that took no prisoners. If there was ever a time we needed them back with our current State of the Union, it is now. A Special thanks to the organizers of Coachella for this gift. The festival runs April 27-29 and tickets go on Sale Saturday at noon.
A full Coachella line-up will be posted soon.....