RATM and anything Tom Morello related

[criterionmaster]

Well, that wouldn't seem like it would need a freakin' countdown, since they have a few shows coming up anyways. It is probably something bigger.

[captainofbeef]

Well, a big festival is reason to countdown. Like one at Leeds....

[eatawiiner]

Oh fuckt yea! Im so at that fucking show. Alpine Valley is only an hour from where im at. Ozz Fest was godawful sick there back in tha day. E. Troy is gonna get siccc. Thanks for tha heads up, ima kill someone for their ticket even if i get my own.

[criterionmaster]

oh god, you are so lucky. i would kill myself to go to that. i am disappointed though, i thought it would be something bigger.

[criterionmaster]

yeah, i got an email from live nation, with a link to buy tickets for that.

here.

[captainofbeef]

Rage Against The Machine has announced three dates in Japan in February 2008, according to Blabbermouth.net.

The details are as follows:

02/07 - Osaka, Castle Hall
02/09 - Tokyo, Makuhari Messe
02/10 - Tokyo, Makuhari Messe

Tickets go on sale on November 17.

Rage Against The Machine has been officially confirmed as one of the headliners of the 2008 Big Day Out festival tour of Australia and New Zealand. The five-show run begins January 18 in Auckland.

Also scheduled to appear are Bjork, The Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem, Dizzee Rascal, Billy Bragg, The Clean, Battles, Shihad, Katchafire, The Phoenix Foundation, SJD, Grinspoon, Cut Off Your Hands, Hilltop Hood, Paul Kelly, Young Sid, Antagonist, Motocade and White Birds And Lemons.

According to Billboard.com, some acts will play their own headlining shows in the territories in conjunction with Big Day Out, including Rage Against The Machine, who will play January 22 in Sydney and January 30 in Melbourne.

Big Day Out tour dates:

01/18 - Auckland, New Zealand @ Mt. Smart Stadium
01/20 - Gold Coast, Australia @ Parklands
01/25 - Sydney, Australia @ Olympic Park Showgrounds
01/28 - Melbourne, Australia @ Flemington Racecourse
01/01 - Adelaide, Australia @ RA&HS Showgrounds
01/03 - Perth, Australia @ Claremont Showgrounds

[captainofbeef]

Tom's been busy lately, playing with Bruce twice and:
Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello chose not to comment when asked by MTV.com about rumors spreading lately that Rage is in the studio at the moment recording a new album. Morello was questioned during a shoot for "The Bright Lights of America", a new video from political punk act Anti-flag. Morello plays a cranky sports coach in the video, which is taken from the title track of the Pittsburgh act's newly released eighth album. Morello called Anti-flag "the best punk rock band of our era."

Rage reunited last year for a series of concerts and festival appearances that continues in 2008. But the group has not announced any official plans to record new music.

Morello is also heading up this spring's politically oriented Justice Tour, which will feature him performing as his political folk alter ego The Nightwatchman, along with special guests from bands like Tool and Incubus. The trek gets underway on April 15 in Los Angeles.

Morello says he's watching this year's presidential election closely, but told us he's not ready to commit himself to a candidate: "While Barack Obama and I share some eerie similarities, both having Kenyan fathers and white Midwestern mothers, and having attended Harvard and both being devastatingly handsome, it's kind of eerie. But I'm not a Democrat; the Democratic Party is about 10 miles to the right of my politics."

Meanwhile, Morello showed up on Monday night (April 7) at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California to jam with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band on Springsteen's "The Ghost of Tom Joad", which Rage Against The Machine covered on its 2000 collection of covers, "Renegades".