where is zack de la rocha?

“Anger is a gift” -Zack de la Rocha





Rage Against The Machine need no explanation. (but I'll give one anyway :) They were a 90s icon of political music. Thousands of young people were inspired to political action, or at least consciousness, by their rabidly anti-status quo lyrics. The person responsible for those lyrics, their frontman, ZdlR, has been mysteriously quiet since RatM's break. I've only heard a few tracks over the last 6 or 7 years, most of which were collaborations with hip-hop artists (like KRS-One, Last Emperor, and DJ Shadow). The style may have shifted from the rap-infused hard rock of RATM, but the quality is still (judging from those few tracks, anyhow) right up there.

Longtime Rage fans around the world, maybe dismayed at the overall mediocrity of Audioslave, have been hoping for a Zack solo record. SO. Where is it? When will it be? Maybe they know here.

The few tracks he's worked on are actually pretty rare, so I haven't been able to get them all. I just have a 4-track set (including one song, the collaboration with Tool, which is chronologically before Zack was even considered a solo act).

Update: Here's another set of Zack songs. Now it adds up to about 1/2 an album! (There were also some spoken-word tracks out there, but... *cough* )

2nd Update: Zack is reuniting with Rage Against the Machine for at least one performance! This will take place April 29th at the Coachella fest, which RAGE headlined back in 1999! Also, I found some seriously lo-fi youtube clips of ZDLR, one post-rage, one pre-rage - or, what I like to call, his 'non-dreadlock' phases. Check: