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(Photo by Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images) On This Day in 1993, Lollapalooza Kicked off Third Year That Would See a Band Hauled off Stage by Police Exactly One Month Later
Lollapalooza 1993 featured Rage Against the Machine protesting the censorship of their recent single “Killing in the Name”.
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Photo by Brian Rasic/Getty Images On This Day in 1998, Rock’s Most Anti-Capitalist Band Was Accused of Selling Out Over a Blockbuster Movie Soundtrack Song
Rage Against the Machine turned the Godzilla soundtrack into a Trojan Horse for anti-consumerist messages.
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Photo by Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images The Rage Against the Machine Deep Cut That Won a Grammy, Despite Having No Music Video or Radio Airplay
Rage Against the Machine has been nominated for multiple Grammys, but they only won once, for ‘Tire Me’, in 1997.
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(Photo by Lindsay Brice/Getty Images) 30 Years Ago, an American Flag Projectile Gets Rage Against the Machine Forever Banned From ‘SNL’
Booking the “f*** you, I won’t do what you tell me” band with a Republican presidential candidate as host was probably SNL’s first mistake.
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How Tom Morello, Guitar DJ, Pushed His Instrument to New Levels on One of Rage Against the Machine’s Biggest Hits
Tom Morello used his guitar to craft turntable-like sounds on Rage Against the Machine’s 1996 song “Bulls on Parade”.
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Tom Morello Cited ‘Subterranean Disillusionment’ for Why Rage Against the Machine Fans Went so Wild at Their Concerts
Back in the 90s, Rage Against The Machine concerts were very intense because their politically charged music “struck a resounding chord.”
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Tom Morello Rebuilt His Iconic ‘Arm the Homeless’ Guitar With Fender, He Told Us All About Crafting the ‘Mongrel’ Instrument (Exclusive)
Tom Morello’s legendary “Arm The Homeless” guitar is one that he practically built himself, so recreating it was no easy feat.
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Screenshot: X @FF_XIV_EN, Square Enix Tom Morello Creates Epic New Song for Final Fantasy XIV Patch 7.4
Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello has made a new song for the FFXIV Patch 7.4 Into the Mist expansion.
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Taylor Hill/Getty Images Tom Morello Anoints This Controversial Irish Rap Trio ‘The Rage Against The Machine of Now’
Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello says Kneecap “are not terrorists,” but rather, the rappers “speak truth to power.”
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(Photo by Al Pereira / Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images) 5 Iconic Rap Songs From the ’90s Made With Live Instruments
As some say, hip-hop didn’t invent anything. Instead, it reinvented everything.
