RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE Playing First Hometown Show In Over 10 Years
July 16, 2010According to The Pulse of Radio, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE will play its first hometown show in over a decade when it performs at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on July 23. The gig, which will also feature CONOR OBERST and the MYSTIC VALLEY BAND, is a benefit concert protesting Arizona's controversial illegal immigration law and has been organized by Sound Strike, a coalition of artists brought together against the law by RAGE frontman Zack De la Rocha and Oberst.
The show will also be RAGE's first U.S. gig in nearly two years. The band reunited in 2007 after breaking up seven years earlier.
The band's last protest concert was outside the 2008 Republican National Convention, which almost turned into a riot.
Critics say that the Arizona law encourages racial profiling. De la Rocha told Rolling Stone in 1999 that he was faced with bigotry in his hometown of Irvine, California, saying, "I told myself that I would never be silent again. I would never allow myself to not respond to that type of situation — in any form, anywhere."
De la Rocha has called the Arizona law part of a campaign to "humiliate and to criminalize an entire population." Proceeds from the show will benefit two immigrants rights organizations, the Florence Project and Puente, Arizona.
A number of artists, including RAGE, NINE INCH NAILS, BEN HARPER, MAROON 5 and others, refuse to perform in Arizona until the law is lifted.
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