Tom Morello

Listen to Tom Morello and Serj Tankian’s Occupy Wall Street Anthem, “We Are the 99%”

By Judy Berman on Sep 27, 2012 11:30am

It’s only about a year late, but Occupy Wall Street finally has a candidate for that anthem old media Baby Boomers spent last fall demanding. (No, sorry, the Third Eye Blind one still doesn’t count.) Tom Morello has joined forces with Rise Against’s Tim McIrath and Serj Tankian from System of… Read More

News

The Morning's Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Caroline Stanley on May 1, 2012 10:01am

1. The nominations for the 2012 Tony Awards have been announced, with the new stage musical adaptation of Once leading the pack with 11 nods. The ceremony will be broadcast live from New York’s Beacon Theater on June 10. [via WaPo]

2. If you’re a guitarist, Tom Morello would like for you to… Read More

Music

5 Albums to Stream For Free This Week – Balam Acab, Wild Flag

By Tom Hawking on Aug 29, 2011 11:31am

Every Monday (even those after hurricanes/tropical storms/whatever Irene actually turned out to be), we scour the web to find five noteworthy and hopefully musically worthy records that are streaming for free this week. This week, we’re super-excited because we finally get our ears on Balam Acab’s debut album, and our first impressions are that it’s everything we’d hoped for. Yay! There’s also a new band for two-thirds of Sleater-Kinney, some leftie acoustic balladry from Tom Morello, and a stern lecture from Tom Waits. And more. It’s all after the jump. … Read More

Music

Musicians with PhDs Who Might Surprise You

By Margaret Eby on Oct 4, 2010 2:31pm

Academia and the music industry don’t seem like particularly compatible institutions. The former moves glacially slowly, the second feeds on an internet-stoked buzz cycle. Academics prize well-thought out hypotheses while musicians are all about, um, everything but that. But in spite of their differences, there are a whole host of musicians with higher degrees. Check out our list after the jump. … Read More

Music

Sounds Like Interrogation: Top 10 Torture Songs

By John Steele on Oct 26, 2009 5:33pm

Last week Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails joined Pearl Jam, the Roots, R.E.M., and other bands who support the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo’s effort to declassify documents dealing with the uses of loud music as an interrogation technique. According to previously declassified reports, interrogators have used Metallica, Britney Spears, and even Sesame Street in the past. Many artists are outraged that their music was used without their… Read More

Theatre

Exclusive Q&A: Tim Robbins Talks About the WTF?! Festival

By Shana Nys Dambrot on Oct 9, 2009 9:03am

Given that Tim Robbins founded the Actors Gang in response to a lack of opportunities for independent writers and actors to produce socially and politically salient new work, it is no surprise that his response to the threat of a paralyzing budget crunch was to curate an ambitious ten-week festival of theatre, dance, music, conversation, performance, and education. The WTF?! Festival brings together scores of voices as diverse as Tom Morello, Naomi Klein, Gore Vidal, John Doe, Sarah Silverman, anti-war Veterans, and members of Cirque du Soleil — all in the name of saving one of the country’s bravest voices for progressive art by raising not only money, but awareness. Flavorpill’s Shana Nys Dambrot caught up with Robbins on the eve of the LA festival to talk politics, art, and record… Read More

Music

Quote of the Day: Outspoken Tom Morello Not Big on Twitter

By Caroline Stanley on Mar 25, 2009 10:46am

“There’s a whole secret world of digital communication that I am wholly blind to. I have enough trouble changing the batteries in my effects pedal. I had dinner with friends the other night and they were talking about Tweeting, and it was like teaching a dog to drive a car. I understand that people do… Read More