Rage Against The Machine update

It looks as if Rage Against The Machine will be combining the live material they recently recorded, with some covers for their next release. The covers include Cypress Hill's "How I Could Just Kill A Man," Minor Threat's "In My Eyes," and the Rolling Stones' "Street Fighting Man." Rage guitarist Tom Morello recently spoke to Sonicnet about the covers: "I hate to call them covers, but we take the lyrics from other songs and write brand new Rage Against The Machine tracks underneath. Dylan's 'Maggie's Farm' sounds maybe more like a Black Sabbath song than a Bob Dylan song, and Devo's 'Beautiful World' sounds more like a Woody Guthrie campfire ballad than new wave." The tracks, produced by Rick Rubin, will be released along with the recently recorded live material. Morello said the band has not decided whether the project will turn out to be a single album or a double album featuring one live disc and one studio disc. Rage is working with roughly 30 songs for the project, with about 12 being studio covers, and the rest live tracks.