[Destroy Rock 'n' Roll]

www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/rage_against_the_machine_to_reunite.html

Rage Against The Machine, the seminal L.A. band that made heavy music into political manifesto, will reunite after a seven-year lull for one show as the headliners at the 2007 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Sources say Rage, which played the main stage at the first Coachella in 1999, will be joined by other familiar faces for the eighth edition of the festival, which covers three days this year and begins April 27: Red Hot Chili Peppers, which headlined in 2003, are back, as is Björk, who topped the bill in 2002.

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It's not clear which day Rage or the other acts were slotted to play; that announcement is expected in the next few days. Other acts expected in the eclectic lineup: Arcade Fire, Interpol, Willie Nelson, the Roots, Manu Chao, the Decemberists, Arctic Monkeys, Sonic Youth, Crowded House, Air, Tiësto and Kings Of Leon.
Rage, which broke through in 1992 with the defiant single "Killing in the Name," won fans across the social spectrum with singer Zack de la Rocha's rap-based lyrics backed by the band's hard-rock melodies. They topped the U.S. pop album charts in 1996 with "Evil Empire" and in 1999 with "The Battle of Los Angeles."

It's... a dream come true.

*implodes*

[flophousefloozie]

I can't stand their music. Not at all.
No offence, of course.

[jon boy]

what a suprise. does this mean another round of che guevera t shirts and middle class 16 year olds telling people 'fuck you i wont do what you tell me' after too much cheap lager on a tuesday night?

[Rob Instigator]

I am sorry to hear it.

"seminal" my ASS

they were KORN with a political button

they were LIMP BISQUICK with a che gueverra shirt from the GAP

fuck Rage agains the machine. what a waste of guitar strings.

zach de la cockroach can go fucking die and take his hack fuck "audioslave" buddy with him, and his easy, didactic polemics too.

enjoy the bullshit.

[Pookie]

What Rob & jon boy said.

[Destroy Rock 'n' Roll]

Eh...

EDIT - Actually, why do I act surprised?

[pantophobia]

it was one thing to be anti-establishment, but the communist thing and all while on Sony and being on MTV and having 2 number one albums seems a little hypocritical

and their music seems a little too dated, i can't stand them anymore

and someone else said it somewhere else, but why stop under the bush era, they let Michael Moore convince Tim to storm the stage and that broke up the band, so it's kinda dumb

[Glice]

I never understood why Rage against the machine didn't change their name to the far more appropriate 'Shit shit fucking shit'. Or was the non-descriptive name ironic?

[Glice]

I'm so cool, I'm not even going to leave an address for my hipster points.

[Glice]

Not that I want to be cool. Pssh.

[Glice]

I Am Scared At Night And My Winky Makes Water.

[SynthethicalY]

Hope they sing about sex this time around.

[kingcoffee]

Thank God!!!!!! They are finally BACK!!!!!! I think that they just couldn't take it anymore. The world needs them. RATM were borne from righteous political outrage and after 6 years of a retarded monkey that we call "Mr. President" the boys know when they are needed to cut through the bullshit.

[SynthethicalY]

Ha! that was funny.

[CHOUT]

This tread makes me wanna go buy that Che Guevera book bag for $50 from my local lifestyle outfitters.

[Alex's Trip]

Screw RATM...I believe Jesus and the Mary Chain are reuniting as well.

[Norma J]

Originally Posted by pantophobia

it was one thing to be anti-establishment, but the communist thing and all while on Sony and being on MTV and having 2 number one albums seems a little hypocritical

That's not really true. It depends how a band conducts themselves in the media and in their promotion. Being on Sony doesn't contradict what they had to say or what they stood for necessarly. Have you ever heard the saying "You have to be apart of the machine to know the mechanics of it"? Then you can truely break things down. Who do you think you're going to get your point across to if you ban major labels and play in your basement? The bigger the label the louder the voice, you could say. So perhaps that's what they were going for.

As for them reuiniting. I'm not interested. I liked their self-titled, and Evil Empire is a classic, but I lost interest after that. I think they should remain seated.

[kingcoffee]

anyone who isn't a RATM fan is a freedom-hater! You hate our freedoms!!

[Norma J]

Crypto, is that you?

[kingcoffee]

is who who?