Rage Against the Machine Were 24 Years Too EarlyIf the group’s career once illustrated music’s inability to call a political movement into being, now its straightforward rhetoric offers the left a much-needed model for a political language that addresses race and class together.
Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA Takes Us Back to 1997In defiance of all standard hip-hop show protocol, the second date of the 2007 Rock the Bells tour went off without a hitch Saturday on Randall’s Island.