A few weeks ago, an anonymous website arrived with a countdown clock, one set to hit zero on May 31. The domain, Prophets of Rage, is named for a Public Enemy song, and arrived with a red-and-black militaristic logo.
Prophets of Rage also started posting oblique Instagram photos and embeds of Public Enemy and Cypress Hill tracks. It did all this while referencing a hashtag: #takethepowerback.
It didn’t take long for sleuths to decipher the tease. This wasn’t a political movement or an armed insurrection. After all, its Twitter feed’s first tweet was posted by a publicist for a high-profile music agency.
The news was announced at 8 a.m. Pacific time when the clock ran down. Prophets of Rage is a supergroup featuring members of Rage Against the Machine, along with Chuck D of Public Enemy and B Real of Cypress Hill, and it just announced its first gig: Tuesday at the Whisky a Go Go in West Hollywood. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. and will be available only at the Whisky box office.
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