Category: Music

Following are quotes from Rage Against The Machine about their lives and music: Tom Morello was born in New York City in 1964 and grew up in Libertyville, Illinois. His father was a member of the Mau Mau guerilla army which freed Kenya from British colonial rule; his mother is a founder of Parents For…

In 2001, around the time that his first child was born, Thom Yorke took the habit of spending the early evenings driving alone around the fields and by-ways surrounding his home just as dusk was drawing in. “I’ve got one of these cars with the natty blue headlights and the colours of the headlights got…

“All you MCs better stand your ground`cause when Digga come round it’s curtains.” For MCs everywhere, the revolution has just been revised. Right about now, Rah Digga, the “female” MC and only woman in Busta Rhymes’ renowned Flip Mode Squad, has given new meaning to the phrase “female MC.” “She’s the chick everybody wants in…

Tim Armstrong – guitar/vox Lars Frederiksen – guitar/vox Matt Freeman – bass/vox Brett Reed – drums If the members of Rancid seem to share a deeper bond than most bands–or most anyone, for that matter–it’s because they do. From Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman’s childhood friendship in the working class enclave of Albany, CA (a…

When he stopped running from his destiny, Jon Randall created a masterpiece. “When I moved to Nashville, it was to be a songwriter – and I did everything BUT that,” he recalls. “At first, I took jobs as a sideman because I had to eat. Nobody was going to give a song-publishing contract to an…

“We wanted to take our time and find ourselves,” says Robert Randolph. “Find out what was really inside of me and the band and bring that out. Really try to come up with the best songs, dig deep within, and let all of the experiences that we have had in the last three years come…

Stadium Arcadium: Many of the gods, goddesses, angels, demons and elementals of the universe have conspired to send messages from beyond through the Red Hot Chili Peppers for the current civilization. After a year and a half of channeling and organization, these messages have taken the materialized form of the double CD Stadium Arcadium. If…