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Guthrie Govan performing live at the International Music Show, Excel, London, UK on June 14 2008.
That time Guthrie Govan covered Rage Against the Machine’s Bulls on Parade and took Tom Morello’s solo to mind-boggling new heights

By Michael Astley-Brown Published

Some groundbreaking lead work – including two-hand tapping with a glass slide – highlighted the virtuoso’s awe-inspiring performance

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Tom Morello onstage in 2023
Tom Morello says he has been relegated to rhythm guitar at home as his 11-year-old son “can shred circles around me”

By Matt Parker Published

There’s fresh material on the way from the father/son duo, but the Rage Against the Machine guitarist remains tight-lipped about the band’s future

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Tom Morello says he wrote a “phat jam” with Post Malone that could be the rap superstar’s Beat It

By Jonathan Horsley Published

The Rage Against the Machine guitarist says it could be like Eddie Van Halen and Michael Jackson using rock guitar for something unexpected, and calls on Malone to finish the track and release it

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Måneskin and Tom Morello perform live on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Watch Måneskin’s Thomas Raggi trade licks with Tom Morello in fiery Gossip performance on The Tonight Show

By Michael Astley-Brown Published

The Italian rocker shone on his Strat while the Rage Against the Machine guitarist deployed his trademark Whammy tricks

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Måneskin and Tom Morello
From Periphery's jazz turn to Måneskin's team-up with Tom Morello: here are this week's essential guitar tracks

By Matt Owen, Michael Astley-Brown, Sam Roche, Jackson Maxwell Published

Killer six-string tracks to get the year started by Black Stone Cherry, Enter Shikari, Sleep Token, Etta Marcus, Daughter, The Hold Steady, H.C. McEntire and more

Music Releases
Måneskin's Victoria De Angelis and Thomas Raggi (left) and Tom Morello perform onstage
Måneskin's next single will feature Tom Morello

By Jackson Maxwell Published

The latest preview from Rush!, the band's highly-anticipated third full-length, will arrive early next year

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Audioslave during Lollapalooza 2003 - Atlanta at Hi-Fi Buys Amphitheater in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
Audioslave’s Cochise has one of the best riffs of the 21st century, but it was first recorded in 1996 with a different singer – hear Tom Morello’s radical original demo

By Michael Astley-Brown Published

The Chris Cornell/RATM supergroup’s debut album came out in 2002, but the riff from its lead single originated in Morello’s short-lived Weatherman side-project from the mid-’90s

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Rage Against The Machine, Tom Morello, Pinkpop Festival, Landgraaf, Holland, 31 May 1993.
Tom Morello’s greatest guitar solo wasn’t on any studio album – and it crammed all his tricks into one epic lead

By Michael Astley-Brown Published

Back in 1993, the Rage Against the Machine guitarist threw everything he had at this revolutionary solo

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Rage Against the Machine cancel their forthcoming 2022 UK and European tours following injury to frontman Zack de la Rocha
Rage Against the Machine cancel European tour dates following frontman Zack de la Rocha’s leg injury

By Matt Parker Published

The band have shelved dates, including festival headline slots, following medical advice

Concert, Gigs & Tours
Tom Morello performing live
Tom Morello accidentally wiped out by security guard in pursuit of stage invader

By Matt Owen Published

The guard took Morello and his Telecaster clean out, but the Rage guitarist returned unharmed to restart the band's show-closer, Killing in the Name

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