Rage Against The Machine: Livid In The Material World
Steven Wells, NME, 13 February 1993
From Comershop to Consolidated, politics is most emphatically back on the pop agenda. And throwing up the high-wire act between semtex and spandex to beat them all are LA's RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, Molotov cocktail shaking, Establishment-baiting types with a hot line to the heart of STEVEN WELLS.
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