This Land Is Our Land – Chicago, May 19th

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The Nightwatchman Speaks #18

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Save the Hammer for the Man- Official VEVO Premiere!

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The Nightwatchman Speaks #17

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SPIN’s 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time

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#40 Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine)

Before the ’90s devolved into a frenzy of slack-jawed, down-tuned Korn klones, Rage rose above the rap-metal riff-raff with a freakazoid guitar style that actually sounded like two turntables and a mixer going haywire. Morello cites Led Zeppelin as an inspiration for his unconventional style — which makes sense if you only consider the extended live version of “Dazed and Confused.” — but he is just as quick to shout out Public Enemy’s siren-crazed production team the Bomb Squad

Most Heroic Moment: The solo 2:10 into RATM’s 1999 wrecker “Mic Check,” at which point Morello’s guitar pretty much fully morphs into a DJ booth. A.B.

Read the full article at Spin.

This May WWRS Is Five Dollars on Amazon

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World Wide Rebel Songs is $5.00 on Amazon until the end of May!
Buy your copy today!

Fuse Interviews Tom before ‘Guitarmy’ march to Union Square

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Tom Morello at Occupy Wall Street May Day Rally

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Rolling Stone on the May Day ‘Guitarmy’

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“I traveled 3,000 miles to march with you today,” Morello told a diverse crowd of Occupiers… “It is an honor to march these streets with you, to sing these songs with you, letting the powers that be know that we will be heard.”

Read the whole story over at Rolling Stone…

WORLD WIDE REBEL TOUR DOCUMENTARY- 42 COUNTRIES- 30 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. Available TODAY for free!

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On May Day, Tuesday, May 1^st(International Worker’s Day), Tom Morello will launch his World Wide Rebel Tour documentary with 42 unique, customized versions in 30 different languages for free, worldwide. The 30-minute documentary was directed by Bobby Roth (TV’s Lost, Prison Break, The Mentalist) and was filmed at Henson Studios in Los Angeles in August of 2011. The film features a Q&A with Morello, mixed with live performances of “Black Spartacus Heart Attack Machine,” “Save The Hammer For The Man,” “It Begins Tonight,” and “World Wide Rebel Songs,” all selections featured on his acclaimed 2011 The Nightwatchman album World Wide Rebel Songs. The documentary will be available to stream or download for free in its entirety on May 1^st via the website www.worldwiderebeltour.com.

Morello created 42 country-specific versions of the World Wide Rebel Tour documentary. Each version features an interviewer asking Tom questions in their native language (including one question unique to that country that is only available on that version). All of Morello’s responses are subtitled in the native language and some of the Q&A’s are conducted by familiar faces such as Serj Tankian of System of a Down (Armenia), Sen Dog of Cypress Hill (Cuba), Thomas Gobena of Gogol Bordello (Ethiopia), Nuno Bettencourt (Portugal), as well as Kenyan Ambassadors and Dignitaries (For Kenya), and many more. The full list of country-specific versions of the World Wide Rebel Tour currently available is as follows: Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Greece, Haiti, Holland, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Malawi, Mexico, Myanmar, Palestine, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Tibet, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan.

About the project, Morello stated “The World Wide Rebel Tour is a virtual tour spanning the entire planet. No one has ever toured 42 countries in one day. Until now. From Malawi to Myanmar, from Uzbekistan to the U.S.A., people’s voices and struggles have made their way into my music. On May 1^st, I’m returning the favor with this global rebel rocking throwdown. Free. Everywhere. May Day.” He continued, “What is the World Wide Rebel Tour? Remember that old Coca-Cola commercial? ‘I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony…?’ It’s like THAT…but with class warfare.”

At 12pm On May Day, Tuesday, May 1^st, Morello will arrive at Bryant Park in NYC to help enlist thousands of guitarists, string players, and singers to take part in the Occupy Guitarmy. After a rehearsal of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land,” Sergio Ortega’s “El Pueblo Unido,” Willie Nile’s “One Guitar,” Morello’s “World Wide Rebel Songs,” and the traditional spiritual “We Shall Not Be Moved,” the Occupy Guitarmy will depart from Bryant Park at 2pm, march through midtown Manhattan and arrive at Union Square at 4pm, culminating in their performance on stage with Morello. Dan Deacon, Immortal Technique, Das Racist, JD Samson & Men, Bobby Sanabria and other special guests yet to be announced will take the stage after Morello’s set. Morello offered, “On May 1^st, I’ll be in the streets of New York City joining the Million Guitar March ‘Guitarmy’ with Occupy Wall Street. Simultaneously, The Nightwatchman’sWorld Wide Rebel Tour will be unleashed on an unsuspecting planet. It’s time to choose sides people. Are you in or are you out?” For more information on the Occupy Guitarmy, please visit: occupyguitarmy.tumblr.com

Later that evening, Morello will receive a special public service award at the annual 2012 Hillman Prizes ceremony at the TimesCenter. The Board of Directors of the Sidney Hillman Foundation will be honoring Morello with theOfficers’ Award for his advocacy for and support of working people across the world. Morello will receive the award at the ceremony and reception to honor this year’s Hillman Prize-winners for excellence in journalism in service of the common good. Previous Officers’ Awards have gone to such figures as Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr., Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Harry Belafonte, and others.

This evening, Morello can be seen performing his song “Save The Hammer For The Man,” with Ben Harper and The Roots on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon(NBC 12:35am/11:35pm Central). The duet with Ben Harper is the new single from his album World Wide Rebel Songs, which was named as one of the “Top 50 Best Albums of the Year” in 2011 from Rolling Stone magazine.

Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman