Rage Against The Machine

This just popped up over at solesides.com: the vocals-included version of an instrumental track that appeared on Shadow’s 2006 album The Outsider. Zach screams over the rampaging drums, bass, and scratchy guitar, making it similar to what Zach is doing now with Jon Theodore as One Day As A Lion. There are some keyboards and [...]

The user ByteMe on rateyourmusic.com has compiled a list of band name origins. It’s far from comprehensive but it covers a wide spectrum of bands, new and old, so you’re sure to find a bunch that you know. And hey, maybe you’ll be turned on to some just based on how they got their name!

Yesterday at the Ripple Effect Music Festival (outside the State Capitol building in Minnesota), Rage Against The Machine showed up just before their 7:00pm curfew ready to perform, but without an apparently crucial item. The band did not have a proper permit, and police prevented them from taking the stage. A stage logistics manager explained, [...]

The weekend was an interesting time for rock trio We Are Scientists, who performed at the Reading/Leeds festivals Saturday and Sunday. At Leeds, the band was “caught on camera by NME as they got into a fight and trashed their own dressing room” (NME recently took down the footage). At Reading, frontman Keith Murray had [...]