Guardian Music — This ambitious history of protest songs suggests their best days are over. They can, of course, be recycled…Among the challengers hoping to keep the X Factor winner Matt Cardle from topping the charts last Christmas were a new recording of John Cag... more info

Metalsucks — You’ll probably never convince me that marching bands are cool, but I guess if you gotta be in one, you might as well play something awesome (as opposed to, like, Sousa or whatever). So I found this video of The George Mason University band, The Gr... more info

Topix — Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello spent Monday at the Wisconsin protests, performing acoustic songs at a rally and delivering a fiery speech to the thousands inside of the capital rotunda who are protesting Governor Walker's attempt to e... more info

CNN Showbiz — Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello spent Monday at the Wisconsin protests, performing acoustic songs at a rally and delivering a fiery speech to the thousands inside of the capital rotunda who are protesting Governor Walker's attempt to e... more info

Guardian Music — For his final New Band as this week's guest editor, Mike Skinner has chosen these purveyors of, er, tablatronic bhangrastep?Hometown: London.The lineup: Prashant Mistry (synths, sequencers, keyboards), Paul Hemani (guitars), Chiranjiv Kainth (tabla, ... more info

411 Mania — From Metallica's Master of Puppets and Rage Against the Machine's self-titled album to Led Zeppelin II and more, 411's Andrew Moll ranks the top 10 guitar albums! Check out the full article to see which albums made the list! more info

411 Mania — Workers say they were forced out when they tried to unionize... more info

Guardian Music — Fans haven't given up on rock, despite the decline in sales. We're just waiting for the band that'll make the next leap forwardFew things have taken a battering quite like rock this week. After Music Week announced on Monday that the percentage of ro... more info

NME — Tom Morello is helping out with South Korean workers' campaign more info

Starpulse — Happy Birthday to: Shock Jock Howard Stern (1954) Spice Girl Melanie Chisholm (1974) Rapper Raekwon (1970) Rage Against the Machine singer Zack De La Rocha (1970) Rocker/horror film director R... more info