New EP from Zach de la Rocha
Now I know why Zach de la Rocha looked so relaxed the other day sitting outside at Oinkster in Eagle Rock with a couple of friends (one of whom, I think, was former Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore). It’s just been announced that One Day as a Lion -- the new collaboration between Rage’s erstwhile front man and Theodore -- has signed to Anti- Records, home to the rawest grown-up music in rock. And music will be available soon.
The band’s debut EP will be released July 21. (We’re not about to suggest that the quick release was a way of beating Rage guitarist Tom Morello to the punch, but his new Nightwatchman album, “The Fabled City,” is slated for release Sept. 30 on Epic Records.)
A graphically striking website offers some info, including a track listing and a statement about the band’s name, which comes from a shot taken by esteemed photographer George Rodriguez in 1970, of some graffiti reading, “It’s better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand years as a lamb.”
We hope that doesn’t mean this project will flame and burn out fast, but hey, we’ll also take what we can get from the elusive Zach.
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