event Rise Against
Also Playing: Street Sweeper Social Club and AM Taxi
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Thu Dec 17
7:30 pm
http://www.ticketmaster.com/venue/32905 Rise Against, Street Sweeper Social Club, and AM Taxi at House Of Blues
For the “Perfectly Suited Collaborations” file comes Street Sweeper Social Club, a project between Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine/Audioslave and Boots Riley of long-running hip-hop outfit The Coup. Both Morello and Reilly have long track records of lefty rabble-rousing, though Riley’s sharp-tongued radicalism makes Rage’s old polemics seem a little tame by comparison. The duo’s self-titled debut dropped in mid-2009, and it sounds exactly like a collaboration between the guitarist of Rage and the voice of The Coup: guitar that coils its grooves then strikes with hard-hitting riffs, while Riley exhorts listeners to “fight, motherfuckers!”
House Of Blues 329 N Dearborn St., Chicago, IL
For the “Perfectly Suited Collaborations” file comes Street Sweeper Social Club, a project between Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine/Audioslave and Boots Riley of long-running hip-hop outfit The Coup. Both Morello and Reilly have long track records of lefty rabble-rousing, though Riley’s sharp-tongued radicalism makes Rage’s old polemics seem a little tame by comparison. The duo’s self-titled debut dropped in mid-2009, and it sounds exactly like a collaboration between the guitarist of Rage and the voice of The Coup: guitar that coils its grooves then strikes with hard-hitting riffs, while Riley exhorts listeners to “fight, motherfuckers!”
Updated 01/17/2012
