Happy Birthday, Zack de la Rocha!

One serious motherfucker

Happy Birthday to our favorite Revolutionary! Zack, front man genius of Rage Against the Machine, turns 42 today.

Rage's rage, channeled so eloquently by Zack, was a churning political force throughout the 1990's. When they disbanded in 2000 it left an unfillable void that no other band could ever live up to. Rage was the fucking best of all time.

They have subsequently reunited for brief concerts and briefer tours and it's apparent they still love to play live. However, no more studio albums are in the works as Zack said in 2008 "We’re going to keep playing shows – we have a couple of big ones happening in front of both conventions. As far as us recording music in the future, I don’t know where we all fit with that. We’ve all embraced each other’s projects and support them, and that’s great."

The best thing that happened recently was their song "Killing in the Name" reaching NUMBER ONE on the U.K. CHRISTMAS chart in 2009. The kids of England really got The Man on this one and it was incredibly fucking awesome.

Zack had this to say about it in an interview with BBC1: "We're very very ecstatic and excited about the song reaching the number one spot. We want to thank everyone that participated in this incredible, organic, grass-roots campaign. It says more about the spontaneous action taken by young people throughout the UK to topple this very sterile pop monopoly. When young people decide to take action they can make what's seemingly impossible, possible."

Rage influenced us in so many ways it's ridiculous. They fucking rock. Happy Birthday, Zack.

"You may kill the revolutionary but you can't kill the revolution" Fred Hampton

Here's some videos. Spool 'em and then TURN IT UP!

The greatest anthem ever: "Know Your Enemy"
LOOK AT ALL THOSE PEOPLE.
"Born with insight and a raised fist! A witness to the slit wrist as we move into '92, still in a room without a view...
The land of the free?
Whoever told you that is your enemy!"




Rage's #1 Christmas song, UK 2009 - "Killing in the Name"
Again, watch the crowd. They go fucking wild! RATM RULES!
(shout out to Tommy M playing half naked!)
"FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!"



"Bombtrack"
Again, the people! Rage plays around the world and gets 100,000 people AT A TIME! They are LOVED.
"Instead I warm my hands upon the flames of the flag
As I recall our downfall And the business that burned us all
See through the news and the views that twist reality"




"People of the Sun"
"Since 1516 minds attacked and overseen
Now crawl amidst the ruins of this empty dream"




Testify" - the video version
"The movie ran through me,The glamour subdue me
The tabloid untie me, I'm empty please fill me
Mister anchor assure me, that Baghdad is burning
Your voice it is so soothing, that cunning mantra of killing"




Zack's Wiki Article
RATM.com

Happy 65th to The Thin White Duke

David Bowie turns 65 today! He is beyond legendary and one of our favorite artists of ALL TIME.

No one is cooler than Bowie. NO ONE.

One of the best movie theme songs ever:



David's Wiki article

Rolling Stone Mag's Top 100 Axe Wielders

Wow. We just went through the list of the Top 100 guitarists of all time.

Let's just say we agree with Number One. Jimi Hendrix was ruled. End of story.

It's the other 99 we have a problem with. Almost all of them deserve to be on the list, however, the order and omissions have us wondering WTF?

Omissions

Grievous Error #1:
No Kirk Hammet. Really? REALLY? Rolling Stone should team up with People and see what other lists they can fuck up.

Grievous Error #2:
We did NOT see Stevie Ray Vaughan on the list. We're starting to think this list is a joke.

Grievous Errors #3, 4 and 5:
We also did NOT see Michael Schenker, Yngwe Malmstein or Richard Kruspe. The list is officially stupid as shit.

How can you crown the top 100 and miss the 5 best guitarists in the world? Out of 100!? 100? And not even an honorable mention.

Ordering

Dimebag Darrell made the list! Only they put him at 92...? Have you even heard Pantera? 92 is an insult. Pantera.Fucking.RULES.

James Hetfield made it at 87 but since they left off Kirk Hammett does it matter?

Willie Nelson came in at 77 which is 77 higher than it should be. Then again no one's as high as Willie Nelson. We'll let it slide in a show of 420 solidarity.

Slash comes in at #65. We're not GnR fans per se, but Slash at 65?

Tom Morello is #40. Since Tom Morello is not at #2, we officially do not care anymore. The list makes no sense and makes us sad.

Read 'em and weep: Rolling Stone.com Article

Tom Morello, Harvard Graduate and Rage Against the Machine Guitar God:



Kirk Hammett, Metallica's Ace W/ Lars Ulrich:



Richard Kruspe, one of Rammstein's finest:

Top Rammstein Videos

Rammstein is (from left to right):
Ollie Reidel, Paul Landers, "Flake" Lorenz, Til Lindemann, Richard Kruspe
and never last or least the drummer, Christoph Schneider

RAMMSTEIN, Germany's best band ever, released its new song Mein Land on Friday. We have of course listened to it 700 times in the last 3 days and WE LOVE IT.

The video is amazingly hilarious with the boys doing a 60's Beach Boys-esque homage ala Beach Blanket Bingo. Which makes us love them even more.

Here's Mein Land and a few other of their great videos plus a bonus fan made vid for Ich Will:

Mein Land




Sonne




Du Reichst so Gut




Du Hast




Mein Teil




Weisses Fleisch - Live au Berlin





Ich Will - Winnie the Pooh version!





Now we are free to "enjoy" our Monday morning at work..

NEW RAMMSTEIN!

Check out the video for "Mein Land" HERE!

Rammstein Beach Party video is HILARIOUS!

Best. Halloween. House. Ever.

We're not sure who these people are but they are rockin' it big time for Halloween. They went with "party house" for Halloween and not "haunted house" but because they did it right, we'll let it pass. WTG, people!

DURAN DURAN IN PHLLY TONIGHT

Roger, John, Nick and Simon - Fabulous as always

EVERYBODY'S Favorite 80's band is playing The Tower tonight.

They have been busy since releasing their debut album in 1981.

"Since the 1980s, they have placed 14 singles in the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart and 21 in the Billboard Hot 100 and have, according to the Sunday Mercury, sold more than 100 million records."

That's right. They ROCK and they don't stop!

They are touring right now to support their newest LP, All You Need is Now.

LONG LIVE THE FAB FIVE FOUR!

Here's a few faves:

Ordinary World




Sunrise




Chauffer - (live at Coachella April 2011)




Duran Duran.com

When Pigs Fly!

How do you celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Pink Floyd classic album "Animals"?

By flying a pig over the Battersea power station London!

The band recreated the cover for their iconic album today in London in a publicity event for the re-release of ALL 14 Pink Floyd studio albums including a brand new box set.

Those 14 albums include three of the most well-known rock albums of all time: The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall. Pink Floyd has sold over 200 million albums since the 1960's.

News Article

Pink Floyd transcends space and time. Their music is inspired and awesome.

God Bless The Foo Fighters

The Foo Fighters, God Bless 'em, have retaliated against the Westboro Baptist Church of Hate with song. Fightin' fire with fire.

Just watch the video attached to this Huffington Post.

News Article

Happy 65th Freddie! We Miss you...

Rock God Freddie Mercury would have turned 65 years old yesterday had he not been taken from us so soon.

Freddie, lead singer/song writer for Queen, died in November of 1991. It doesn't seem possible that it's been so long.

Freddie Mercury was a legend in his day and now almost 20 years after his untimely death his legend and legacy glows brighter than ever. As recently as 2005 he was voted the BEST male singer of ALL TIME. In 2008, Rolling Stone editors ranked him number 18 on their list of the 100 greatest singers of all time and in 2009, a Classic Rock poll saw him voted the greatest rock singer of all time. Allmusic has characterised Mercury as "one of rock's greatest all-time entertainers", who possessed "one of the greatest voices in all of music".

Amen, brother. Freddie fucking ruled.

Freddie is universally loved and hailed as the musical genius he was. He wrote "We are the Champions" the greatest rock and roll sports ballad of all time. Do you know how many drunken people have sung that song after their team won everything from Little League playoffs to The Stanley Cup to The Superbowl? Millions.

Freddie was born in Zanzibar in 1946. He grew up there and in India until his teen years when his family moved to England.

In April of 1970 he met Brian May and Roger Taylor and Queen was born. Queen's music is incomparable for their fans. Singularly unique, Queen knows how to rock out. Brian May is one of the best guitarists in history and BONUS, he's a BONA FIDE astrophysicist with an honorary PhD from Imperial College. (Jimi Hendrix, Tom Morello and Brian May - our top three)

The Queen performance at Live Aid in 1983 is considered to be one of the best live performances of anything from anyone anywhere. They rocked. They kicked ass and took names. They were THE BEST.

Freddie was diagnosed HIV Positive in 1987. AIDS was "new" and Freddie was mortified. Although it was said he was open in his sexual orientation, he did not publicly disclose his illness until the day before he died.

Fans were inconsolable. And still are to this day.

We will always miss Freddie. One of the true rock gods. RIP Freddie. Your music speaks for itself and lives forever.


Here's some of our favorite Queen songs:

"I'm Going Slightly Mad"




"One Year of Love"



Anything from the Highlander soundtrack:



and of course FLASH!

Happy Birthday Rudolf Schenker!

Rudolf Schenker is the FOUNDING member of The Scorpions. He turns 63 years old today.

Rudolf founded the band in 1965 at the age of 17.

Amazing!

Here's some awesome concert footage from the 1989 Moscow Peace Festival.
This one goes out to Vlad!

Nobody Does it Like Busta

We're not happy this is actually a Chris Brown song but...

WE LOVE THIS SONG.

NOBODY DOES IT BETTER THAN BUSTA RHYMES!

Remembering "Baby Girl"

It's impossible to believe that today is the TEN year anniversary of the death of singer Aaliyah. She and other passengers in her entourage had just finished filming a video on a boat in the Bahamas when the plane they chartered to return in crashed killing everyone on board on August 25, 2001. She was 22 years old.

It feels like it was just yesterday. Someone wrote "if Aayliah was still alive then Beyounce would still be with Destiny's Child and Rihanna would still be in Barbados." We like that and couldn't agree more!

Aayliah was just on the cusp of worldwide never-forget-you fame - although she achieved it a little. Her movie with Stuart Townsend "Queen of the Damned", from the vampire books by Anne Rice, had to be released posthumously. It was a major blow to the studio and was a dud at the box office. No one could watch it knowing she had died before even seeing it herself. It was to be her springboard into the mainstream.

Here are a few of her great songs:

Try Again



Yes, that's Jet Li the the video for "Try Again" with her. They had just filmed the movie "Romeo Must Die" together and we're friends.

Here's another fave, "Are You That Somebody"



And our personal favorite, "More Than a Woman"
"Because no scale can measure the secret pleasure that keeps on getting better..we can be like Bonnie and Clyde, I'll be be your side..."



From Aaliyah's Wiki Page:
"Legacy

Aaliyah has been credited for helping redefine R&B and hip hop in the 1990's, "leaving an indelible imprint on the music industry as a whole."

Steve Huey of Allmusic wrote Aaliyah ranks among the "elite" artists of the R&B genre, as she "played a major role in popularizing the stuttering, futuristic production style that consumed hip-hop and urban soul in the late '90s."

Described as one of "R&B's most important artists" during the 1990s, her second studio album, One in a Million, became one of the most influential R&B albums of the decade.

According to Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine, Aaliyah provided a "missing link" between hip hop and electronica.

With sales of 8.1 million albums in the United States and an estimated 24 to 32 million albums worldwide, Aaliyah has been named the "Princess of R&B" and "Queen Of Urban Pop" and "proved she was a muse in her own right".

Aaliyah was honored at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards by Janet Jackson, Missy Elliott, Timbaland, Ginuwine and her brother, Rashad, who all paid tribute to her.

In the same year, the United States Social Security Administration ranked the name Aaliyah one of the 100 most popular names for newborn girls.

Aaliyah was ranked as one of "The Top 40 Women of the Video Era" and "100 Sexiest Artists" in VH1's 2003 The Greatest series. She was also ranked at number 18 on BET's "Top 25 Dancers of All Time". Aaliyah has also appeared on both 2000 and 2001 list of Maxim Hot 100 in position 41 and the latter at 14.

In memory of Aaliyah, the Entertainment Industry Foundation created the Aaliyah Memorial Fund to donate money raised to charities she supported.

In December 2009, Billboard magazine ranked Aaliyah at number 70 on its Top Artists of the Decade, while her eponymous album was ranked at number 181 on the magazine's Top 200 Albums of the Decade."

Missy Elliot, her friend and collaborator, had this to say this morning:
"“It doesn’t feel like it’s been 10 years because Aaliyah’s leaving is still fresh in our minds and always will be. What I will miss the most about Aaliyah is her laugh and smile. She could light up any room. I miss that from her. I’ll also miss recording with her because she wasn’t ever scared to push boundaries as an artist.”

“If Aaliyah was still with us she would be setting trends as she always did and breaking down barriers. Her music and acting career would have been exploding out the roof because she was already on her way to that place.”


We still really miss her, too..
RIP Aaliyah "Baby Girl"

The Great Ronnie James Dio's Birthday

Today would have been Dio's 69th birthday. One of the greatest heavy metal artists of all time he has been greatly missed since his passing on May 16, 2010.

He was the nicest guy and the best singer ever. We will always miss him.

Turn it up and rock out!
As always we suggest you let it spool first then listen again and enjoy...

Missy Elliot is Back

We were all wondering where Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliot has been all this time. We weren't even wondering as much as DYING for some good music!

Missy has been fighting Graves disease and was very sick for the last three years.

She explains to People magazine that the medication and radiation treatments have worked and her thyroid issues are under control.

Good to hear! Can't wait for the new beats...


Here's one of her classics: LOSE CONTROL
TURN IT UP!

R.I.P.: Clarence Clemens

The world lost its best saxophone player this weekend when 69 year old Clarence Clemens passed away from complications from a stroke. Clarence was a great guy and will be missed. His years in the E Street Band were legendary.

His latest project was playing sax for Lady Gaga for her new song "Edge of Glory."

Anyone else remember him in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure"?

“Clarence lived a wonderful life,” Bruce Springsteen said in a statement. “He carried within him a love of people that made them love him. He created a wondrous and extended family. He loved the saxophone, loved our fans and gave everything he had every night he stepped on stage." Springsteen added that the loss of Clemons, known as the Big Man, "is immeasurable" and that he and his bandmates "are honored and thankful to have known him and had the opportunity to stand beside him for nearly 40 years."

From their Anaheim, Calif., show on Saturday, U2's Bono addressed their audience: "I want you to think about a beautiful symphonic sound that came out of one man's saxophone."

It's Friday. Let's Rock Out.

It's RAMMSTEIN TIME!

Get ready to rock your brains, your mind and your head OFF!

As always, we recommend you let it spool up once,
then replay AS LOUD AS YOU CAN..

Enjoy!

Du Reist so Gut - Can we love this song anymore than we do?
We don't think so.




Sonne - The best Video of ALL TIME.
BEST. OF. ALL. TIME.
God bless Richard and his giant mountaintop guitar...




Du Hast - One of their most commercial successes...




Weisses Fleisch - LIVE AUS BERLIN!
Worship the Rock God known as Til




Fucking Rammstein was on Jimmy Kimmel Live a few weeks ago
AND WE FUCKING MISSED IT!! JEEZ!
Du Hast live
See how the crowd loves them as much as we do?
LOVE LOVE LOVE




We hope you enjoyed our Rammstein program today.
They are the one of the best bands of all time and we LOVE them. Look them up on youtube.
These 4 songs are nothing..they have so many good ones!

Tupac's 40th

Legendary rapper, Tupac Shakur, would have turned 40 today had his life not been cut short by his still unsolved murder in 1996.

2Pac has sold over 75 million records to date, being one of the most posthumously lucrative artists in history.

His shooting outside of a Manhattan nightclub sparked the infamous East Coast-West Coast gansta wars of the 90's as both sides assigned blame and retribution. Just 2 years later both Tupac and Biggie Smalls would be killed in that war.

Yesterday, Dexter Isaac, a 46 year old convicted murderer, still in prison for his other crimes, confessed to shooting Tupac, the first time, in 1994. Isaac, claimes he was a paid hitman that night for some other creepy record industry guy and that as Tupac lay shot he and his co-horts robbed Tupac of all his jewelery, then divided it amongst themselves. He also claims he still has Tupac's necklace which is proof he did it.

After languishing in prison for murdering other people, he says he wants to give closure to Tupac's and Biggie's mothers.

Either way, the murders of both Notorious B.I.G and Tupac Shakur cemented them into rap history and made martyrs and stars out of both.

Bob Marley

We lost this incredible talent 30 years ago today...

Here he is in 1979 in California, at the Santa Barbara County Bowl.

Get Up Stand Up, one of the greatest songs ever.



Stand up for your rights and don't give up the fight!

It's FRIDAY!

Time to rock out!

Because we're still celebrating that Osama is dead,
enjoy Megadeth's great song "Holy Wars"





Have you had the new Osama bin Laden drink?
It's 2 shots and a splash of water