That reminds me, we should make a list of people not in the files, it would be shorter.

As GenX, Xennial, whatever we’re called these days, I miss this guy. I have to remind myself, 40s and 50s isn’t dead, yet.

Bite the Hand that Feeds comes to mind. Reznor refused to perform it at an awards show during the Gulf War because they wouldn’t let him display a giant head shot of George W. Bush during. Then there’s Bowie. Reznor was “Johnny” in the “I’m Afraid of Americans” video.

We also had Rage. What music is being produced now, rock side, that’s worth a damn?

ETA: Head. Like a Hole is fitting, in the billionaire era.

It's all underground and decentralized into its own communities. Takes a good amount of digging but its not like say the 70s-early 00s where smaller to medium sized labels were taking risks and funding all kinds of music that allowed for bands like NIN and Rage to hit the stratosphere. With all the M&A and industry contraction, risk taking is severely discouraged. Hence, the generic slop seen in the surface today.

We have those, and they can be found at any Barnes & Noble. You can find them by the stench. 🤢

Check out Rise Against. Very much a "fuck the establishment" band.

Check out run the jewels. Corporate avenger was good but didn't last very long. A lot of Slipknot is in the same vein.

RTJ make songs for Turbo Tax now. Sold out fucks.

I can’t find a direct quote from Trent saying this anywhere except reposts on various social media, none of which appear to be Reznor official.

Can anyone verify this is a real quote or is it just made up crap?

Edit: more digging…looks like the earliest edition of this was on instagram about a day ago and for some reason took off about 16 hours ago. My search-fu isn’t good enough to find the origin.

This particular quote is made up.

Just need to add church officials to that separate bathroom.

Well, that's disappointing.

I love that that song was a throwaway to make a point and it went crazy.

I can’t find it either…but I found this in The Village Voice from 2017: “the president of the United States is a complete fucking moron,” he seethes. “That’s what gets me the most — that he’s this vulgar, grotesque dope, everything I hate in people.”

Run the Jewels has collaborated with Zach De la Rocha and Nobody Speak with DJ Shadow is an anthem.

Viagra Boys has some catchy antifascist lyrics.

I kinda like the Idles’ album Tangk. It more rock and makes some good points, mainly to “fuck the king”

Know what else would make the list shorter?

Killer Mike is your textbook definition libertarian. He's capitalist af with specific interest in specific progressive policies that he is personally invested in. Especially if those interest align with his brand image.
He's was rahrah Bernie until it wasn't making him any money.

Tragic. Any possibility he said it on tour?

Probably not this exact thing, but he has said a lot against Trump and MAGA.

I'll take that over the alternative of say.... A creepy video with RFK any day.

El-P collabed with Trent on Flyentology.

Fuck I'm old now aren't I?

Proceeds to crank Thot Squad to feel young.

Parquet Courts, IDLES, Mannequin Pussy, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, black midi (recent rip), Kneecap, Turnstile, shame, Squid, Dry Cleaning, Yard Act, SPRINTS, Amyl & the Sniffers, so many more, the list goes on and on!

I saw Viagra Boys open for Queens of the Stone Age. What are their freedom oriented songs?

RTJ3 still my favorite though

Technically, they all are.

Punk was always right.

And now, here's a few non-made up words;

And they were only 16 years old when they made that album.

This the guy that sang

I left her on the bathroom floor,
I think I knew when it crossed the line,
I think I knew the whole goddamned time

That Trent?

Not let’s get back to charging fans $500+ for tickets, yay capitalism

Yeah Trent Reznor isn't a good figure head of anything...

Echoing good bands:
IDLES,
Grandson,
Turnstile,
Dropkick Murphys are still putting out stuff,
St. Vincent,
High Vis,
Knocked Loose

The entire Year Zero album was Trent's revive of what would become MAGA. Unfortunately, the only solution for the problem in his album was aliens killing everyone.

It's still a great album and very relevant today.

i know you're exaggerating but i stood in line for 4 hours to pay $150 for a ticket to the Cold and Black and Infinite tour and it was worth every second and penny

Seriously prophetic. The ARG for the album’s release was such a mind blowing experience.

Also Art.Is.Resistance. felt like what was prescriptive for the situation.

I keep wondering if the inability to understand that a character is not the artist is a particular mental illness, or just regular abject stupidity. If you ever get diagnosed, please let me know.

Did you know that Eminem wrote increasingly deranged fan letters to himself under the name Stan and killed a woman?

The Nobody Speak video is so good!

And while they’re not current, I recently discovered a late 90’s early-aughts rap group called The Coup that was basically writing the soundtrack for everything happening now (which just goes to show that these issues have been with is for a long time).

A few notable tracks that spring to mind:

• Kill My Landlord
• 5 million ways to kill a CEO
• and while the title doesn’t express it, the anti-billionaire track Pimps is as fucking hilarious as it is biting. These guys were clowning Trump back when he was just a simple civilian bigoted moron rapist.

Can’t believe I didn’t hear about this group back in the day, they’re one of my favorite discoveries in recent memory.

So, it’s a terrible lie? I’m hurt. Makes me wish this fragile society wasn’t in such a downward spiral.

Maybe not about the heroin.

Tough to peak so early.

There was also SoaD and their singer Serj Tankian, who went solo. Their songs are still fucking dead on.

Would also seem like an excellent stimulus package. Install an extra bathroom for an, type of gender identity and one more for maga

Well at least I'm mature enough not to refer to people I disagree with my childish insults.

But please, tell me, who is the character in question?

Oh man I forgot about them.

Busdriver and a bunch of his collaborators rap about similar stuff. Lots of anti rich rapper lyrics too. Indie rap has been a great fill in for the lack of RATM over the last 20 years.

Troglodyte is a pretty solid rebuke of the terminally online MAGA gun but.

Yeah I’m up there too, but missed a lot of the better early indie rap because I lived outside good radio coverage in the 90s. The college stations near me were all grunge/indie rock (and lots of Phish). So that’s what I listened to.

Oh shit, Busdriver! It’s been a minute, I got some relistening to do!