Author: Jack Crane

Tom Morello has no patience for artists who keep politics off the stage. The Rage Against the Machine guitarist and frontman unloaded on musicians who avoid political fights during a new interview with Germany’s Metal Hammer, arguing that silence during a volatile era is not neutrality but a kind of surrender. “When people say that musicians should not be involved in politics, it means they are people that disagree with your politics,” Morello told Katrin Riedl. He said the complaint tends to vanish the moment an artist echoes the listener’s own worldview. “The second that you write a song that…

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Major League Baseball is backing away from a Pride Night firestorm after San Francisco Giants players were warned for putting Bible citations on rainbow-logo caps. The dispute traces back to San Francisco’s June 12 Pride Night, when Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker marked the special caps with Bible references. Roupp wrote “Gen 9:12-16,” referring to the Genesis passage describing the rainbow as a sign of God’s covenant after the flood. The league initially treated the handwritten references as a uniform issue, saying players are not allowed to alter apparel or equipment with personal messages. https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/2069180415668326784 In Manfred’s June…

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