It’s a stunning trajectory for us to be welcomed into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame. In 1991 4 folks in Los Angeles shaped a musical group to face the place sound and and solidarity intersect. We known as ourselves Rage Towards the Machine.
A band who’s as well-known for our albums as we’re for our fierce opposition to the US struggle machine, white supremacy and exploitation
A band whose songs drove different radio to new heights whereas proper wing media firms tried to purge each music we ever wrote from the airwaves
A band who shut down the NY Inventory Change for the primary time in its historical past
A band who was focused by police organizations who tried to ban us from bought out arenas for elevating our voices to free Mumia Abu Jamal, Leonard Peltier and different political prisoners
A band who sued the US State Division for his or her fascist observe of utilizing our music to torture harmless males in Guantanamo Bay
A band who wrote insurgent songs in an deserted, industrial warehouse within the valley that will later dethrone Simon Cowell’s X Issue pop monopoly to occupy the number one spot on the UK charts and have probably the most downloaded music in UK historical past
A band who funded and arranged delegations to face with Mexican insurgent Zapatista communities to reveal the Mexican authorities’s struggle on indigenous folks
A band whose experimentation in fusing punk, rock and hip hop turned a style of its personal
Many due to the Corridor of Fame for recognizing the music and the mission of Rage Towards the Machine. We’re grateful to the entire passionate followers, the various gifted co-conspirators we’ve labored with and all of the activists, organizers, rebels and revolutionaries previous, current and future who’ve impressed our artwork.
-Brad, Tim, Tom, & Zack