rage against the machine re-unite for coachella...

rezin · Post by **rezin** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 2:26 am

check the link...

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/ne ... es-entnews

Al Quandt · Post by **Al Quandt** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:53 am

f**k yeah

jewlee138 · Post by **jewlee138** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:14 pm

Now I finally have a reason to talk EDS into going to Cali

He hates me for seeing RATM & would love to see them.

Coachella was the hottest festival I have ever been to. I don't think I've ever smelled as bad as I did at the end of that 2nd day.

jewlee138 · Post by **jewlee138** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:17 pm

Rage Against the Machine will reunite for Coachella
By Geoff Boucher, Times Staff Writer
January 22, 2007

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.

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 BjÃ¶rk, who topped the bill in 2002.

Organizers were mum this weekend and it was 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, TiÃ«sto and Kings of Leon.

Tickets go on sale Saturday, via Ticketmaster. Three-day passes will cost about $250 and there will be a limited number of single-day passes available.

The headliners are not novel, but they are potent. The Peppers are up for their first best album Grammy right now, and BjÃ¶rk remains a mesmerizing figure to fans of avant pop. But in Southern California rock circles, there is very little that could compete with the excitement of a Rage Against the Machine reunion. The quartet's hybrid of funk, rap, metal and leftist ideology was as subtle as a Molotov cocktail; in the 1990s, its aggro-anthems made it the only band that mattered to a fan base that included East L.A. protest kids as well as those in Hollywood punk circles, college dorms and mainstream rock festival mosh pits, where politics were secondary to the group's feral energy.

geoff.boucher@latimes.com

bjork, crowded house, ratm, rhcp...f**k yeah