The Nightwatchman

Watch Out: If the record racks are too bare for you this week, turn on your computer — there's a bit going on in the digital sphere. Tom Morello — oops, the Nightwatchman — is tacking "Alone Without You," a tune featured in pal Michael Moore's new "Sicko" flick, onto his recently released debut, One Man Revolution. "Sick 'cause this hammering litany of sins/ Is bangin' and burnin' and I can't stand the din," he sings on the...

On Patrol: Tom Morello Brings The Nightwatchman To The Bowery Ballroom By: David Schultz From the time Tom Morello found his first mechanical object to rage against, he has lived a life of civil disobedience. While his activist streak may not have been as prominent as he toiled with Chris Cornell in Audioslave, it was in no way neutered. With the recent release of One Man Revolution, Morello speaks passionately for the dispossessed and disenfranchised, voicing their dissatisfaction with...

Rage Against the Machine is one of the most political (and successful) of bands out there. Whether lead guitarist Tom Morello, aka The Nightwatchman, achieves those lofty heights in his solo career is uncertain, but there's no doubt about Morello's politics. During his 80-minute show before a packed crowd of about 300, that came through loud and clear time and time and time again, starting with "One Man Revolution." Morello focused on songs from his solo disc, "One...

Tom Morello is best known for his incendiary guitar playing with the bands Audioslave and Rage Against the Machine, but he has recently assumed a new identity. In the guise of the Nightwatchman, the fiercely liberal Los Angeleno performs folkish agitprop designed to inspire activism and spark protest aimed squarely at the current occupant of the White House.

Tom Morello loves to fight the power. Thing is, he's got the power. Tom Morello croons a Dallas bar audience into complete surrender at House of Blues. As his socio-political folk-troubador alter ego, the Nightwatchman, he did on Sunday night what countless other acoustic acts have failed to do to a Dallas bar crowd: shut them up. It took a bit of pleading and deal-making on the part of the former Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave guitarist to achieve that at House of Blues...