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“One of my favorite memories”: Praise rolls in for Tom Morello’s 12-year-old son, Roman, as footage emerges of him nailing Killing in the Name during Rage Against The Machine soundcheck
By Matt Owen published
The youngster, who can “shred circles around” his father, filled an empty arena with Whammy-laden lead lines back in 2022 in the latest example of his impressive soloing chops

Tom Morello says his 12-year-old son “can shred circles” around him – watch Roman Morello tackle Ozzy Osbourne’s Mr. Crowley… with Jack Black on vocals
By Matt Parker published
The clip of Roman’s performance at his grandmother’s 100th birthday has gained the approval of Randy Rhoads’ sister

Gossamer tremolo picking and the stuff of Phrygian nightmares: This week's essential guitar tracks
By Matt Owen published
Unmissable new songs from Fiddlehead, HotWax, Guns N’ Roses, Emily Wolfe, Born of Osiris, Babymetal ft. Tom Morello, CLT DRP, and more

Tom Morello breaks out the Takamine and joins the Hollywood picket line as he plays Woody Guthrie for striking union members
By Jonathan Horsley published
The Rage Against The Machine guitarist dropped by earlier this week to play a short set to support striking WGA and SAG-AFTRA members

“He’s the funkiest dude in the shredder family tree”: The world’s greatest guitarists explain why Nuno Bettencourt isn’t your typical guitar hero
By Richard Bienstock published
Brian May, Zakk Wylde, Steve Vai and Tom Morello join an all-star cast to explain what makes the Extreme virtuoso one of the guitar world’s most valuable players

Tom Morello says his favorite Nuno Bettencourt solo is one you haven’t heard – and it’s “his version of Eruption”
By Matt Parker published
The Rage Against the Machine guitarist says he followed Extreme religiously on the Boston circuit before they were signed: “I was blown away by this 16-, 17-year-old guitar phenomenon”

Slash and Tom Morello recreate their epic Guitar Hero duels in live shred-off
By Michael Astley-Brown published
The pair unleashed solo fireworks aplenty as they gave their 2020 collaboration Interstate 80 its live debut

Nuno Bettencourt explains what’s underrated about Tom Morello’s guitar playing – and why it “pisses me off a little bit”
By Michael Astley-Brown published
The Extreme virtuoso voiced his thoughts on his Rage Against the Machine guitar buddy in a recent joint press conference

Watch Tom Morello trade blues licks with Buddy Guy on the Strat legend's spotted Fender
By Jackson Maxwell published
Joining Guy onstage at the Best of Blues and Rock festival in São Paulo, Morello laid down some licks far bluesier than those that populate his catalog with Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave
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