Bomb Track

Rage Against the Machine is playing in New Orleans. I'm so excited I don't really know how to express it. Hell yeah I'm going.

First off, they just might be my favourite rock band. That's subjective though, and my favourite bands are unique and really can't be said to be better than one another because taste changes, as does the mood for listening. But still, Rage is awesome and I love their music. It's awesome to say the word 'is'! Why? Well if you didn't know, they broke up back in 2000 after the MTV music awards had them lose their nomination to Fred Durst. There were some internal conflicts as well, but that was the catalyst I guess you could say.

They band stayed together, save the lead singer Zach de la Rocha who went underground to Mexico or something, and teamed up with former Soundgarden's Chris Cornell to make Audioslave. Which was a cute band. A softer Rage Against the Machine with the lack of political activist identity that made them famous in the first place really.....but I thought they were still a solid band.

Anywho, for whatever reason they are back, not making new music however, just playing their older music at concerts. Here's the thing, they keep adding new concerts to their list, hinting that they are 'getting along'. woohoo! For the past half decade I've always been thinking to myself "damn, I never got to see my favourite band play, I sure wish I had gotten to watch them before they broke up, shucks, darn diggly darn dang."

Now I can, and will. 100 bands are playing in this 3-day event called Voodoo fest. I found 2 other bands that will be playing that I really like, well one band and one DJ: Tiesto (if you don't know who that is, bummer. download Traffic among others) and Smashing Pumpkins, another popular 90s band that broke up and seems to be saying "Hey bro, sorry about 1990-something, I didn't mean to get with your girlfriend and pee on your guitar. We had a good thing goin, lets play again.....because whatever I'm doing now no one gives batshit about." Or so he seemed to say. Good job Billy Corgan.