Tom Morello Releases Heaviest Solo Album, Calls Era Fascism — SkimNews
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- Tom Morello released 'Everyone Gets Everything They Want,' his first solo rock record and heaviest since the first Rage Against the Machine album, featuring Serj Tankian, Kneecap, and his 15-year-old son Roman Morello, who contributed riffs to five tracks including 'Soldier in the Army of Love'
- Morello launched his all-star 'Power to the People' festival three weeks before the midterms, with proceeds going to voting rights organizations; he called it 'a festival of peace, love, justice, and music'
- Morello told Rolling Stone that Trump's launch of a state news network proves the U.S. is living through fascism: 'if it looks like fascism, if it talks like fascism... it's fascism'
- Morello dismissed the Ed Sheeran/Macklemore concert controversy as a 'distraction' from war crimes funded by U.S. tax dollars in the Middle East, arguing billionaire control of concert-stage speech is the real issue
- Mary Morello, Tom's mother, died at 102 after hearing the finished album in her final week and giving it a 'thumbs up'
- Morello opened 2025 with a Minneapolis protest concert and toured with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band on an anti-Trump tour in March
Why it matters: Morello is using his platform as a veteran rock musician to explicitly frame current U.S. politics as fascism and channel festival proceeds into voting rights organizations three weeks before the midterms, while his 15-year-old son Roman contributed riffs to five tracks, extending the family legacy into a new generation.
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