Remember last week's blurb that Bruce Springsteen's new album (his first with the E Street Band since losing Clarence Clemons last year) would be his "angriest", most socially conscious to date? Well, it looks like The Boss isn't messing around—in a new Rolling Stone interview, Springsteen manager Jon Landau announced that fiercely pro-Occupy Movement guitarist and activist Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine? Nightwatchman? Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock?) makes an appearance on the new album.
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Produced by Ron Aniello, the new album is described by Landau as a "big-picture piece of work. It's a rock record that combines elements of both Bruce's classic sound and his Seeger Sessions experience, with new textures and styles." The Hollywood Reporter recently got a first listen to the new material and claim it contains "loops, electronic percussion... influences and rhythms from hip-hop to Irish folk rhythms."
Rage Against The Machine semi-famously covered Springsteen's "The Ghost of Tom Joad" on 2000's Renegades, so the team-up isn't completely out of the blue. Will their collaboration be a stark, Nebraska-esque acoustic protest tune, or a rip-roaring, RATM-style hard rocker? Either way, I couldn't be more excited to hear the finished results. I wish this excited to hear the new Springsteen record... now I'm THIS excited to hear it.
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