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Tom Morello and Boots Riley have
joined forces to form Street Sweeper Social Club. The
group’s anticipated
self-titled debut album will be released June 16th through
Warner Music Group’s Independent Label Group. The
11-song set was produced by Tom Morello and features
Boots Riley on vocals, Morello on guitar and bass, and
Stanton Moore (Galactic) on drums.
“It’s revolutionary party jams,” said Morello of Street Sweeper
Social Club. “It’s got huge steamroller riffs combined with depth,
charge, funk, while Boots unloads clip after clip of incendiary rhymes rich
with satire and venom.” Riley added, “This is a time when the working
class is being fleeced left and right. More families will be homeless and more
people will be jobless. They’ll need something to
listen to on their ipods while storming Wall Street.”
Street Sweeper Social Club’s debut tour will be
opening all dates in North America on the Nine Inch Nails
and Jane’s Addiction May-June Tour (confirmed dates
below). The tour will find Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s
Addiction sharing a stage for the first time since the
debut of the Lollapalooza festival in 1991 (as well as
the first tour by the original lineup of Jane’s
Addiction in seventeen years).
Tom Morello is a founding member
and guitarist of the rock bands Rage Against the Machine
and Audioslave. The two bands are responsible for multiple
Grammy Awards and a combined 30 million albums sold worldwide.
Morello has also received critical acclaim as a solo
artist known as The Nightwatchman. Widely celebrated
for his unique voice as a master electric guitarist,
he is recognized by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of
the “100 Greatest
Guitar Players of All-Time (26).” He is also one
of only two guitarists featured as a playable animated
character in the overwhelmingly popular Activision video
game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. Tom Morello graduated
from Harvard University with honors as a Political Science
major and has been a widely recognized political activist
throughout his career. With System of a Down’s
Serj Tankian, Morello formed Axis of Justice, an organization
whose purpose is to bring together musicians, music fans,
and grassroots political organizations to fight for social
justice.
Boots Riley is best known as the
leader of The Coup, the seminal Hip-Hop group from Oakland,
CA. As a producer and lyricist, Riley has crafted critically
acclaimed albums for The Coup that have graced the year-end
Top 10 lists of Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The
Los Angeles Times, and more. They have also received “Album
of the Year” honors fromThe Washington Post, Time
Out New York, while Billboard Magazine declared the group “the
best hip-hop act of the past decade.” Born in Chicago
and raised in East Oakland’s Funktown neighborhood,
Boots became a teenage community organizer. From his
history of student organizing in Oakland’s public
schools, serving on the central committee for the Progressive
Labor Party, being the President of Youth InCar (Youth
International Committee Against Racism), organizing to
build California’s Anti-Racist Farm Workers’ Union,
to developing “guerrilla hip hop concerts” (mobile
concerts on flatbed trucks), Boots Riley has been an
integral part of the progressive struggle for radical
change through culture.
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