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Days after Rage Against the Machine's Lollapalooza set threatened to become a riot, the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune's website has reported [via Rolling Stone's Rock & Roll Daily] that the band will play Minneapolis' Target Center on September 3. Making this show more than just another tour date is the fact that it's happening during the Republican National Convention, which will take place in the Twin Cities from September 1-4:

So here's what we've got: a "revolutionary" band whose most recent show at a mostly peaceful music festival incited the crowd to violence, causing many injuries to concertgoers in the process, playing a show in the same city and at the same time as a huge event celebrating the political party most opposed to that band's message. (Not to mention the fact that the last time Rage played a party convention, things didn't go so well.)

Sounds like a great idea, guys! You couldn't just hand out copies of some socialist newspaper outside the RNC?

In addition to the full-on Rage show, guitarist Tom Morello will perform with Steve Earle at the SEIU Labor Day Festival in St. Paul on September 1. Rage Against the Machine also have a few European festival dates to play in August.

Rage Against the Machine:

08-20 Paris, France - Rock en Seine
08-22 Reading, England - Reading Festival
08-23 Leeds, England - Leeds Festival
09-01 St. Paul, MN - Harriet Island (Tom Morello with Steve Earle show)
09-03 Minneapolis, MN - Target Center