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Ah, the Electric Factory. We knew it was only a matter of time before they f'ed up another concert experience for us. Last Thursday's concert, headlined by Michael Franti & Spearhead, was scheduled to begin at 8:30 p.m. With four artists on the bill, and us not really caring about the lowest-billed performer (Cherine Anderson), we figured 8:45 was a perfectly reasonable time to arrive. And it would have been, except for a couple things. The Electric Factory clearly underestimated the number of people who had purchased tickets through will-call, together with the number of night-of-show sales there would be. The upshot of the Factory's piss-poor planning is that the box office was understaffed, and we found ourselves waiting in line to pick up our will-call tickets for almost 45 minutes. On top of that, the security person who was trying to keep the line orderly seemed to delight in the fact that so many people had to wait to get into the show.

When most rock fans think of Tom Morello, they probably think of Rage Against the Machine. Some might think of Audioslave. Very few will think of Morello's folk-rock alter-ego, The Nightwatchman (MySpace). But when Rage Against the Machine—always voraciously political and activist, both personally and musically—gave way to the apolitical Audioslave, the outspoken and outrageously intelligent Morello sought an outlet to express his politics musically. That outlet first came in the form of playing original folk-inspired protest songs at a Los Angeles coffee house open mic night. And there, The Nightwatchman project came to be.