RAGE AGAINST (gestures at everything)

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Link to tweet

Tracey Lindeman @traceylindeman

A soft-rock station in Vancouver has been playing "Killing In the Name Of" by Rage Against the Machine for hours on a loop.

Whenever someone calls in for a request, they deny it and replay the Rage song again.

2:45 PM · Jun 29, 2022

https://www.kissradio.ca/

I just tuned in. They're still playing it.

[Bristlecone]

1. I killed my twitter. Is there an explaination for why?

I just checked it about also.

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3. RAGE AGAINST COPORATE (of course)

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/vancouver-kiss-fm-rage-against-the-machine-protest-layoffs-1376288/

Vancouver’s KISS-FM radio station 104.9 has not stopped playing Rage Against the Machine’s song “Killing in the Name” for the past 10 hours after two beloved morning show DJs were laid off on Tuesday.

Rolling Stone tuned into the station Wednesday afternoon and it was still playing the 1992 track on loop, only stopping to have two DJs mimic Zack de la Rocha’s grunts in the song — “A little lower… close enough” said a female DJ to her partner. The memorable grunts come before the singer’s scathing outro of “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me,” which of course was left off the radio replays.

Several Twitter users noted that disc jockeys had occasionally paused the loop to take call-in requests for the same song. (The same thing happened when Rolling Stone tuned in.) An NBC News reporter said a disc jockey went on air to say, “You’re probably wondering what’s going on.”

[Bristlecone]

4. Thank you! Appreciate it

[rsdsharp]

5. As someone told me very early on, if you ain't been fired,

you haven’t worked in radio.

10 hours? I think it’s a publicity stunt. Management is in on it.

[patphil]

2. The raw emotion coming from these guys is like a sword slashing the air into thunder.

[Thomas Hurt]

6. Huh, who gets upset when a co-worker gets laid off. It is sad of course if you worked with them...

but we haven't lived in a world of "one employer for life" in decades.

Besides aren't DJs like coaches...get canned at one station, another will pick you up?

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8. Okay

[Thomas Hurt]

9. Sure...

[Thomas Hurt]

10. Why not....

[Thomas Hurt]

11. Once more just for fun....

[BoomaofBandM]

7. This is posted on their Wikipedia page.

June 24, 2022, the band announced that they would donate $475,000 to reproductive rights groups in Wisconsin and Illinois after the Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade.[176]