After stomping onto the scene in ‘91 with their crushing Pitchfork EP, Clutch has spent the past 17 years in a vicious touring and recording cycle, honing their sound to the slick, snarling beast of blues-infused stomp-rock it is today.

We sat down to talk to vocalist and lyrical maestro Neil Fallon about all things Clutch, including the band’s label philosophies, how they put a song together and their future plans, as well as some promising updates on side projects The Company Band and The Bakerton Group.

Neil Fallon: The music industry followed a model that they set up in the 1920s to rip off hillbillies and black artists. They never changed their model, they made their bed and now they’re lying in it. Full Article »

We’ve only heard three tracks or so from Rage Against The Machine frontman Zack De La Rocha since the band split in 2000, and the musical dormancy has lasted far too long for a man of his abilities. The socialist rockers completely missed the most fertile atmosphere this nation’s ever had for their brand of sociopolitical protest jams, and that’s a goddamn shame.

After years of solo-album rumors, dead-end talks of DJ Shadow / Trent Reznor / ?uestlove collabs and a half-mast Rage reunion, Zack’s finally back, and he’s onto some new shit now. He’s teamed up with Jon Theodore, percussive god and former drummer for The Mars Volta, for a new project that takes both artists in exciting new directions. They call themselves One Day As A Lion. Full Article »