RATM site is about a concert, not a record

A commenter last night made me feel a bit why-didn't-I-think-of-that-ish in pointing out that by setting your computer calendar ahead, you can reveal the secret behind ratm82407.com, which is not actually an album as I previously supposed, but is in fact a concert announcement for a show to happen at Live Nation's venue in East Troy, Wisconsin.

Honestly, I'm a bit relieved. It's not that I don't think a new RATM record would be good. It's just that website countdowns are so 5 years ago, and I'd like to think that if Rage was going to do some clever web shit to promote a new record, it would be, well, clever.

UPDATE: Those sly foxes at Live Nation have fixed the countdown code so that you can't just set your calendar forward anymore.

RATM82407

So I guess we're meant to assume that a new Rage Against The Machine record is going to come out on August 24th. Their last real record (the one with all the cover songs doesn't count) was The Battle of Los Angeles and while it wasn't stellar, it wasn't bad.

Of course nobody will know for sure until the album leaks sometime in July, but I'm going to go ahead right now and guarantee that this will be better than anything Audioslave ever did. You have to know Zach's been spending a lot of time over the past few years scribbling into notebooks, and there's certainly been plenty of news to inspire his particular expository style.

Sign up for email updates and listen to the opening riff from "Bulls On Parade" looping forever at ratm82407.com.

Rage Against The Machine to reunite

...for one show. Check out this LA Times piece confirming the rumors that've been skittering around message boards for weeks already. RATM will be one of the headlining Coachella acts this year. I'm probably still not going to go (I got my RATM fix when they were still a real band), but can we all hold hands and pray that this brings about an end to Audiodreck Audioslave?