Showing posts with label Rage Against the Machine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rage Against the Machine. Show all posts
Feb 14, 2024
Try That in Moscow
Labels:
Green Day,
Jason Aldean,
memes,
politics,
Rage Against the Machine,
Satire
Sep 10, 2020
Famous Protest Songs Updated for 2020
Fear not, this picks on everybody.
Watch the NFL My Ass (I Won't Watch the NFL)
A Can of Soup’s Gonna Fall
American Twittiot
All She Wants to Do is Tik Tok
The Cancellation Will Not Be Televised
Agent Orange Man Bad
Influencer Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
The Lonesome Death of Mr. Peanut
If You Tolerate Masks, Your Children Will Be Next
Walking on the Offended Side of Me
Defund Tha Police
Not Ready to Make Rice (Uncle Ben’s)
Meme is Murder
Working Class MAGA
Free Joe Exotic
Get Up Stand Up (is Ableist)
Mercy Mercy Me (The Quarantine)
Another Pylon in the Wall
We Shall Be Socialist
Trump Boat Parade (Bulls on Parade)
Biden in the Wind
Murder Hornet Most Foul
The Night They Drove Hobby Lobby Down
Feb 11, 2020
Nov 4, 2019
No Sleep Roundup: RATM, Cody Jinks, Lucero, Stevie Wonder
Hello friends,
It’s me, your pal Robert Dean. I’ve been MIA lately because of some pretty big life changes, making a television show is stressful, and I’ve been trying to finish my new book all while keeping my shit together. So, forgive my absence.
That aside, let’s do the dance.
My Chemical Romance are coming back. Nerds who used to wear women’s jeans in 2003 are fucking stoked. Hopefully, they write new music that’s more “Three Cheers for The Black Parade” and less of whatever the whack Queen shit was.
Rage Against The Machine are finally playing some shows. Thank god Zach has agreed to come out of hiding. I only wrote about this very thing like, three years ago or whatever. They’d better play Calm Like a Bomb or I’m going to be pissed. (Yes, I’m flying to one of the shows because I’m a fanboy.)
RANDOM THOUGHT: Go buy Joshua Hedley’s record, Mr. Jukebox. It’s a fucking crime people slept on that dude. He should be household name for dudes who wear embroidered shirts unironically. Easily one the best country records of the last five years and people don’t know it.
Sturgill and Tyler are going on tour together. That’s going to be a massive deal. They’re playing the United Center in Chicago. For context, that’s where Paul McCartney plays when he comes to town. All this for a guy who wrote a song about turtles while on acid. Shit is wild.
Clark County, NV declared November 1st ‘Five Finger Death Punch Day’ and yes, that dude still has a beard of dreadlocks.
Evan Felker apparently recorded a tune with Carrie Rodriguez before Turnpike Troubadours went on stupid hiatus. Look, man. The song was fine. It sounds like Shovels and Rope. But for fucks sake, get sober, go to church, whatever. Get Turnpike Troubadours back on track.
Cody Jinks dropped a pair of records….and they both went to number 1. In the words of the mighty Jack Nicholson, “watch out. Big balls comin’ through.”
Need a random album suggestion? Go back and listen to the first Stevie Wonder record. When he was a kid. That shit will blow your mind. “I was made to love her” is my jam.
Recently, Lucero made a bunch of the Among the Ghosts demos available for streaming. You know our nerd asses were all about that. Collectively between Trailer and I, we’ve probably seen Lucero over 30 times.
Sep 19, 2019
Famous Protest Songs Updated For Modern Times
Cracker From Muskogee
The Tide Pod and the Damage Done
Chick-fil-a Took My Baby Away
(Okay, not a protest song, but it had to be here)
Hurt Me SoulCycle
Evviva Il Papa John’s
Talkin’ Colin Kaepernick Blues
I Was a Teenage Incel
Give Hashtags a Chance
Your Punisher Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven
This Meme is Your Meme
Big Yellow Uber
Doxxing in the Name
Outrage of a Small Circle of Friends
De Keurig Man
Yasss Save the Queen!
White Claws for Peace
Would Jesus Wear a TAG Heuer?
Cancellation Song
Nike Punks F*** Off
Let’s Retweet the President
Hobby Lobby… the Punishment Due
Nov 4, 2017
Saturday Night Music: Rage Against the Machine
Nov 16, 2016
An Open Letter to Zach De La Rocha
Sup dude. The track you did with Run the Jewels was excellent. Super stoked on it. The stuff you did with the dude from Mars Volta, also badass.
But, dude. We need to talk.
There’s the elephant in the room. You know what it is. I don’t have to spell it out. We’re gonna need you to pick up the phone and give your dudes a call. This Prophets of Rage thing ain’t working. Believe me, we all love Public Enemy and Cypress Hill, but we love Rage Against The Machine more. We need you back on the microphone.
The situation is dire, and there isn’t a better voice in all of music that spits pure acidic bile like yours. For over twenty years, we’ve had Rage Against The Machine as an arbiter, a reality check of what the cultural pulse is, what we’re blind to, and whose hands have blood on them. Have you watched the news lately? We have a situation that requires a swift pen and mighty vengeance illuminating the issues at hand.
When you wrote verses during the Bush and Clinton eras they were siren songs to the masses that couldn’t grasp the world around them. You fell silent, and now, we need that fire back, and we need that vitriol. I know you didn’t write “The Ghost of Tom Joad,” but if those words aren’t poignant as ever, then what is?
Sure, many bands have a lot to say, but few have your megaphone, your stage. We need the world to feel that anger again as the streets are full of protests – who will be the soundtrack? We need Rage Against The Machine.
So, just hit me up or something….
Your pal,
Robert Dean
Jan 18, 2013
YouTube Gems: Smooth Jazz Against the Machine
Labels:
Rage Against the Machine,
YouTube Gems
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