By June 11, 2020, every Rage Against the Machine album had entered the top 30 of Apple Music’s Rock Albums chart, and their debut album had entered the Billboard Top 200 at number 174. The resurgence of interest in the band’s music and politics was widely attributed to renewed worldwide…
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Despite having rescheduled all of their tour dates, Rage Against the Machine was initially still scheduled to play Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival , which had been postponed from April to October 2020 before it was officially canceled that June.
On November 23, 2019, Faith No More updated its official website and social media accounts with an image of the band’s eight-pointed star logo in front of a snow-covered mountain top, accompanied by a clock counting down to November 26, 2019; on the latter date, the band announced its first…
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They were also due to headline the Reading and Leeds Festivals , which would have been Rage Against the Machine’s first UK appearance in 10 years, but it was announced on May 12, 2020, that the festival was canceled.
On May 1, 2020, the band announced that they had rescheduled the remaining dates of the reunion tour to 2021.
On March 12, 2020, the band postponed the first leg of the reunion tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic ; this tour was eventually postponed to summer 2021.
On February 10, 2020, Rage Against the Machine announced more worldwide dates for the 2020 reunion tour, now named the Public Service Announcement Tour . It was scheduled to run from March 26 through September 12, making it the band’s first full-length world tour in 20 years, after they completed…
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On February 6, 2020, ten seconds of a song entitled “Laughing Beats” (also referred to as “Embrace the Darkness”) was played by Dave Navarro’s guitar tech Dan Cleary on Rare Form Radio. The song was recorded with Eric Avery and produced by Trent Reznor in 2009, prompting speculation that the…
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On January 1, 2020, singer Brandon Boyd announced their next single, “Our Love” will be released on January 31, 2020.
On February 8, 2020, Jane’s Addiction performed for the first time in over two years at a memorial show for Andrew Burkle, son of billionaire Ronald Burkle , who died in January 2020. The band was joined on stage by John Frusciante for “Mountain Song”. Frusciante was there performing with…
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