Filed under: News, Exclusive, I Fought the Law, Politics as Usual, Music Appreciation
Gino DePinto, AOL
Last week, a little over a year after the Occupy Wall Street movement had its first anniversary,
Tom Morello and
System of a Down's
Serj Tankian rolled out their hard-rocking protest anthem "
We Are the 99%." With its mosh-friendly riffs and chant-friendly chorus, it's a long-awaited return to form by the former guitarist of
Rage Against the Machine. Of course, it's also a reminder that in the dozen years since Rage disbanded, no artist has been quite as politically angry despite the one-two punch of the War on Terror and Great Recession. But we apparently remembered wrong, because despite a relatively lower level of outrage, a surprising number of classic political songs have indeed emerged from this messy new millennium.
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