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SENDING UP A FLARE

Tom Morello had big plans for 2020 – first and foremost, a world tour with a reunited Rage Against The Machine that would’ve seen him rocking stages from Pittsburgh to Prague, Kansas City to Krakow. Instead, like all of us, he was stuck at home. “Pretty frankly, it was a time of great anxiety and depression,” he admits. But then something shocking happened. “Weirdly,” he continues, “Inspiration came… From Kanye West.”

Let us state for the record that, no, Morello has not collaborated with the hip-hop icon. Rather, he found encouragement in something West had said in an interview. “He was talking about how he recorded the vocals to a couple of his big hit records on the voice memo of his phone,” Morello recalls. “And I thought to myself, ‘Well, I have a voice memo [app] on my

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