Power to the People – Rock Against the TPP Tour Aims to Educate Through Music

“Music and political activism have always been really tightly bound together throughout global history,” said Ryan Harvey, the co-owner of Firebrand Records with Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, The Nightwatchman) during the Rock Against the TPP Tour press call. This Saturday, July 23 at the Summit Music Hall in Denver, is the first […]

Tom Morello, Boots Riley (of The Coup) – November 17, 2008 – Middle East – Cambridge, MA

Tom Morello

“Nylon string folk acoustic protest rock show.” Those are the words, straight from the Nightwatchman’s mouth, about what this concert was all about. Boots Riley (of funk-hop group The Coup, which also includes Morello), opened the show with a free-flow set of rhymes over an acoustic guitar. It was simple, stripped-down hip-hop at its best. […]