AUDIOSLAVE's New Album Touches On Hurricane Katrina Disaster

September 1, 2006

Launch Radio Networks reports: With the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina having just arrived, AUDIOSLAVE addresses the disaster in a song called "Wide Awake" off the band's new album, "Revelations". While AUDIOSLAVE has stayed away from politics in the past, guitarist Tom Morello told Launch that the gloves are off this time. "'Wide Awake' is definitely the most explicitly political song that AUDIOSLAVE has done to date, regarding the Bush administration's failure in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to serve our citizens down there," he said. "And it seems that had the residents of New Orleans not been poor, not been black, that the administration would have paid a much, much greater deal of attention to them, and the song touches on that."

AUDIOSLAVE will release "Revelations" on September 5. The band isn't expected to tour until 2007.

Singer Chris Cornell plans to record his second solo album at the end of this summer, with a release scheduled for next year. In addition, Cornell has also recorded "You Know My Name" for the upcoming James Bond movie "Casino Royale", as well as a song for the independent film "Bug".

Tom Morello, a diehard Chicago Cubs fan, will throw out the first pitch before the Cubs take on the San Francisco Giants this Sunday (September 3) at Wrigley Field in the Windy City.

Find more on

Prev More News Next

Comments Disclaimer And Information

BLABBERMOUTH.NET uses the Facebook Comments plugin to let people comment on content on the site using their Facebook account. The comments reside on Facebook servers and are not stored on BLABBERMOUTH.NET. To comment on a BLABBERMOUTH.NET story or review, you must be logged in to an active personal account on Facebook. Once you're logged in, you will be able to comment. User comments or postings do not reflect the viewpoint of BLABBERMOUTH.NET and BLABBERMOUTH.NET does not endorse, or guarantee the accuracy of, any user comment. To report spam or any abusive, obscene, defamatory, racist, homophobic or threatening comments, or anything that may violate any applicable laws, use the "Report to Facebook" and "Mark as spam" links that appear next to the comments themselves. To do so, click the downward arrow on the top-right corner of the Facebook comment (the arrow is invisible until you roll over it) and select the appropriate action. You can also send an e-mail to blabbermouthinbox(@)gmail.com with pertinent details. BLABBERMOUTH.NET reserves the right to "hide" comments that may be considered offensive, illegal or inappropriate and to "ban" users that violate the site's Terms Of Service. Hidden comments will still appear to the user and to the user's Facebook friends. If a new comment is published from a "banned" user or contains a blacklisted word, this comment will automatically have limited visibility (the "banned" user's comments will only be visible to the user and the user's Facebook friends).