OMFG RATM!!!

Dude. DUDE! Listen to me. Seriously, listen. I have something very important to tell you...

Rage.
Against.
Thuh.
Machine.

... back together.

Holy effing balls!!#$&@*!#1

Now, I understand that because I have a fairly diverse readership, this may not mean much to you. And if that's the case, you're probably not listening.

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE IS BACK TOGETHER!

Dude.
Duuuude. Seriously. Seriously.

Bjork, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and RATM are set to kill Coachella on April 27 in California I may very well become bi-coastal for this shizzle. If you want to understand what's going on here, I'll give you the quick recap.




1991 - The world is done a friggin' service by Tom Morello and Zack de la Rocha getting together to strike fear in the hearts of ... okay. They formed a band.

1992, November 3 - Rage is introduced to the world with their self-titled debut album. Peaking on billboard at #45.





1996, April 16 - Sophomore? Is that the right word here? Their Sophomore release? Well... #1. On Billboard. That's "Evil Empire."





1999, November 2 - This, regrettably, is where I finally heard of the band. Like most acts, I was introduced late in the game. However, I still play this freakin' record all the time. "The Battle of Los Angeles" is one of the greatest rock records of my life time, and certainly in the top 10 of the 90's.



2000, December 5 - Rage's "last" record. Didn't have the commercial success of "battle", but I gotta say, it was no reason to go breaking up over it.






Now, I gotta admit, Audioslave was no slouch of a rock band, but that's because Tom and the gang went and grabbed the last great true-rock singer, Chris Cornell, and did some damage on the speakers in my '87 Sentra.* What we all need to be focused on now, though, is the fact that Coachella tickets just turned into Gold. Solid effing gold.

Oh yeah, and Bjork is playing. So that's gonna make it... neat, too.

Wrock.

Your friend and mine,
Meshach Jackson


* I never actually had an '87 Sentra, but I also didn't have an iPod yet, and I didn't want to have to trace back all the crappy cars I actually did have around that time, so I have referenced here the crappy car that a friend of mine had, with whom I must have listened to Audioslave and Rage at some point or another... in the aforementioned Nissan.