Tom Morello

Tom Morello revives mutant guitar with cartoon hippos—and a £1,699 price tag

Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello joins forces with Fender to resurrect his ‘Arm The Homeless’ guitar, a Frankensteinian contraption of misfit design elements that’s been his sonic partner across 22 albums. From its cartoonish blue hippos to a quirky “hockey-stick” headstock, each detail is reissued with surgical precision.

Retailing at £1,699, the guitar comes with pseudo-political flair and an ice blue finish. A portion of proceeds grudgingly trickles toward Midnight Mission and Covenant House, two charities picked by Morello himself.

Ozzy Thanks Tom Morello, Then Politely Tells Him to Get Lost—Rock’s Perfect Farewell

Tom Morello recounts his final meeting with Ozzy Osbourne at the afterparty following Black Sabbath’s last show, where he served as musical director. In the midst of a pinball game, he's summoned by Ozzy’s son Jack for a goodbye.

Ozzy, ever laconic, thanks Morello for the music before bluntly asking if he can "get the fuck out." Calling it “the perfect coda,” Morello reflects on the lifelong personal and artistic debt he owes to Ozzy and guitarist Randy Rhoads, after whom he named his son.

Tom Morello builds a 65-track sonic battering ram and names it “Fuck ICE”

Tom Morello unveils a 65-track playlist unambiguously titled “Fuck ICE,” stacking politically charged selections like the White Stripes’ “Icky Thump,” Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power,” and Springsteen’s “American Land.” He frames it as sonic armor for those “driving those bastards out of your neighbourhood.”

The playlist emerges after Morello joins Los Angeles protests reacting to immigration raids and National Guard deployment, part of a broader wave involving artists from Olivia Rodrigo to Kneecap.

Tom Morello chants down ICE in LA, gets cops to do an unscheduled U-turn

Tom Morello joins demonstrators in Los Angeles protesting the recent ICE raids, wearing a “Destroy American Fascism” shirt and flanked by signs like “Defend LA” and “Fuck ICE.” A video on Instagram shows him amid chanting crowds waving Mexican flags, remarking, “we got the cops to turn around.”

A graphic in the post declares, “In the shadow of fear, Los Angeles rises.” The protest comes amid Trump’s controversial use of the National Guard, labeled a “deluded fantasy” by Governor Newsom.