EKAphotographySomebody's Watching You: Tom Morello
Back in the pre-Obama days, Tom Morello was like, the only guitar god with a conscience. While Slash and Jack White were doing bumps off of stripper tits, Morello was playing demonstrations outside the Democratic National Convention (with Rage Against the Machine) and becoming the first American rock band to play a free show in Cuba (with Audioslave). Morello's kept the revolutionary fervor stoked with his solo project, The Nightwatchman, which
Tom Morello, Steve Earle, Wayne Kramer, Sammy Hagar, Boots Riley (The Coup), Corey Taylor (Slipknot), Joe Satriani, and Damian Kulash (OK Go) Thursday, March 26, 2009Slim'sBetter than: Playing Guitar Hero.It was midway through the Tom Morello hootenanny when Rage's shredding machine grinned at the crowd and said, "Let me remind you, you all paid $15 to get in tonight. That's like a buck a superstar." Actually, if you were gonna do the math, by the end of the night, we'd been entertai
Caroliner @ the Lab (Sat. and Sun.)​Hardly Strictly Bluegrass @ Golden Gate Park (Fri.-Sun.)Wait, what? Steve Martin and MC Hammer and Neko Case and Steve Earle? Yeah, it's the city's biggest free hootenanny with a cross section of roots music fans. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass kicks off today at 10:30 a.m.; the last act hits the stage Sunday at 7 p.m. Inaugural Show @ Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (Friday)GAFFTA aims turn an eyesore neighborhood into a destination for rising art stars. It s