This past Friday morning, Tom Morello performed for around 3,000 writers who were picketing outside the Fox headquarters.

 

I'm a big fan of Tom Morello's, but come on. Is there ever a rally where he doesn't show up? If people want to strike because they're losing out on YouTube royalties, then whatever, but is that really protest-song-worthy? It seems like Morello has a bat signal that goes off every time there's a protest somewhere. If I were to start a picket line outside my local Taco Bell, protesting the 25 cent increase in the price of Chalupas, would Morello show up and play? I think I'm going to set something up, just to see what happens. If I could get an acoustic performance of "Bulls on Parade" and a Chalupa, that'd be a pretty solid day.

 

 

Rage Against The Machine is back and better than ever. The band has announced three February tour dates in Japan.

If you don't get tear-gassed at this show, you're a fucking pussy.

Finally, someone will wake up the citizens of Australia and urge them to fight back against Queen Elizabeth II and the bicameral Parliament Commonwealth!

Since Rage's breakup in 2000, De La Rocha has been busy traveling the world and inspiring political change. Or maybe he's been sleeping til noon every day. No one's really sure. What he hasn't been doing is finishing his solo album... until now.

Tom wasted no time collaborating with Eddie Temple-Morris on a new project called Losers. So far, they have remixed bands including The Gossip, Rage Against The Machine, and Gallows -- with more to come.

Apparently Morello isn't very good at the game.

Pete Rosenberg, Hot 97's newest DJ and creator of such Internet classics as "Throw Some Cheese" and "This Is Why Duke Sucks," did the man on the scene thing at last weekend's Rock The Bells shows in New York.

Go figure.