RAGE OFF: KROQ-FM has banned Rage Against...

RAGE OFF: KROQ-FM has banned Rage Against the Machine from its airwaves after singer Zack de la Rocha lashed out against the station on stage on the last day of “Lollapalooza ‘93” at Santa Fe Dam. Irked that KROQ had refused to air the four-letter-word sequence of the group’s song “Killing in the Name,” the Rage leader got the crowd to chant “F--- KROQ.”

KROQ program director Kevin Weatherly says the station will “take the same air time (we would have given to Rage) and use it to help an artist that’s a little more appreciative. There are plenty of other bands out there that love the radio station and appreciate what it has done for new music.”

De la Rocha remains defiant. “We live in a country where hundreds of scenes of violent actions . . . are considered fine forms of entertainment,” he told Pop Eye. “Yet when artists use confrontational language on radio, it is considered perverse and immoral.”