Hold on Magnolia to that great highway moon…

Take The Power Back

As you might know, Rage against the freakin Machine are re-uniting. Of what first was reported to be for one gig only it appears to be a bit more than that. There's no "one gig only" thing on RATM's website for example, only a quite mysterious message of more info being posted soon.

The timing is pretty nice as well. April is just a few months away from the festival season in Europe, and as they're re-launching their revolutionary music career together on a festival.. Who knows. I'll keep an eye on what kind of announcements Pinkpop, Lowlands and Roskilde makes at least, that's for sure.

I can't find a single reason to why Rage shouldn't re-unite either. After all, they split for a pretty stupid reason in the first place anyway. According to various sources Zack just quit and split the band when the Renegades album was released (why the hell did they record it if they didn't plan to release it?!).

I don't think the music and especially the lyrics ever has been as relevant as they are today, with Dubya being the least popular american president ever for example, no matter how you try to switch, turn and manipulate it. And that's not just outside of the land of the free of course.

Otherwise they could just call it a sell out tour, like The Pixies did a couple of years ago, and get away from elitists trying to bash them that way. Pixies made one of their first gis on their re-union tour at Coachella as well.