Tom Morello has announced new tour dates involving a full band lineup. The tour- titled, "Tom Morello & Friends- Electric Full Band Show," will begin on November 13th and end November 22nd, spanning seven different shows across the east coast, as well as in Chicago.
The tour dates are as follows:
Nov 13 – The Vic Theatre – Chicago, IL
Nov 15 – Lincoln Theatre – Washington, DC
Nov 17 – Paradise Rock Club – Boston, MA
Nov 18 – Warsaw – Brooklyn, NY
Nov 19 – Irving Plaza – New York, NY
Nov 21 – The Music Box at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa – Atlantic City, NJ
Nov 22 – Great Cedar Showroom at Foxwoods Resort Casino – Mashantucket, CT
This tour announcement comes just short of two weeks after Morello's latest single, "Pretend You Remember Me," was released as a standalone track. For the music video, Morello featured recently freed political prisoner and lifelong indigenous rights activist Leonard Peltier, who gave a powerful message to contextualize the politically charged song.
The anti ICE single release was put out in coordination with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles (CHIRLA), which originated in 1986 and provides legal services and resources to protect immigrant communities within Los Angeles.
In a conversation with Billboard, Morello reflected on the release, “Releasing this song now is in direct response to what we’ve seen happening, the state terror we’ve seen happening in this country of mass agents tearing families apart.." "I was on the front lines in the battles of the Marines and cops and ICE in the streets of Los Angeles and blasting out of every car were Rage songs. On placards held up at every rally are the lyrics from Rage songs — some of the Nightwatchman music I played in the streets, too. So playing this music at this time felt like it was absolutely appropriate to do.
“Like anybody else, I’m all in favor of violent criminals being arrested — but I think we should start with the violent criminals who the International Criminal Court is seeking for their wars overseas rather than hard-working people who are just trying to make a decent life for their families here. If you support anything, let it be justice."
“The reason why you saw one of the biggest protests in the history of the U.S. (against the ICE raids in Los Angeles) is there is a real fear that American fascism is about to kick down our door. We’re not at the brink of it; we’re in the middle of it. The good news is tens of millions of people were out in the streets protesting it. The band news is it’s real. Fortunately there are a lot more of us than there are of them — that’s something we tend to forget.”
