Editing Rage Against the Machine (section)

=== 2007–2008: First reunion and tours ===
{{Main|Rage Against the Machine reunion tour}}
On April 14, 2007, Morello and De&nbsp;la&nbsp;Rocha reunited to perform a brief acoustic set at a [[Coalition of Immokalee Workers]] rally in downtown Chicago. Morello described the event as "very exciting for everybody in the room, myself included".<ref name="Launch Radio Networks" /> Rage Against the Machine reunited to headline the final day of the 2007 [[Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival]] on April 29, in front of an [[Zapatista Army of National Liberation|EZLN]] backdrop to the largest crowds of the festival.<ref name="reunionnme" /><ref name="reunionyahoo" /><ref name="reunionmtv" /> Morello said they reunited to voice their opposition to the "right-wing purgatory" the United States had "slid into" under the [[George W. Bush administration]] since their dissolution.<ref name="NME"/>

[[File:Rage Against The Machine at Vegoose 2007 11.jpg|thumb|Rage Against the Machine performing in 2007]]
Rage Against the Machine continued to tour in the United States, New Zealand, Australia, and Japan.<ref name="Cecbuzz"/> They played a series of shows in Europe in 2008, including [[Rock am Ring and Rock im Park]], [[Pinkpop Festival]], [[T in the Park]] in Scotland, the [[Hultsfred Festival]] in Sweden, the [[Reading and Leeds Festivals]] in England and the [[Oxegen]] Festival in Ireland. They also performed on August 2 in Chicago at the 2008 [[Lollapalooza]] festival.

Morello said they had no plans to record a new album, and said: "Writing and recording albums is a whole different thing than getting back on the bike ... But I think that the one thing about the Rage catalog is that to me none of it feels dated. You know, it doesn't feel at all like a nostalgia show. It feels like these are songs that were born and bred to be played now."<ref name="futurealbum-bm" /> De la Rocha said, "As far as us recording music in the future, I don't know where we all fit with that. We've all embraced each other's projects and support them, and that's great."<ref name="futurealbum" />

In July 2008, De&nbsp;la&nbsp;Rocha and the drummer [[Jon Theodore]], formerly of [[the Mars Volta]], released an EP as  [[One Day as a Lion]].<ref name="Tao" /> In August 2008, during the [[Democratic National Convention]] in Denver, Rage headlined the free ''Tent State Music Festival to End the War''. They were supported by [[Flobots]], [[State Radio]], [[Jello Biafra]], and [[Wayne Kramer]].<ref name="Jefferson" /> Following the concert, the band, following uniformed veterans from the advocacy group [[Iraq Veterans Against the War]], led the 8,000 attendees to the Denver Coliseum on a six-mile march to Invesco Field, host of the DNC. After a four-hour stand-off with police, the [[Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign|Obama campaign]] agreed to meet with members of Iraq Veterans Against the War and hear their demands.<ref name="Los Angeles Times" />

In September 2008, Rage performed at the [[Target Center]] in [[Minneapolis]] during the [[Republican National Convention]]. The previous day, they attempted to play a surprise set at a free anti-RNC concert at the Minnesota Capitol in [[St. Paul, Minnesota|St. Paul]], but were prevented by the police. Instead, De&nbsp;la&nbsp;Rocha and Morello rapped and sang through a megaphone. Later that evening, Morello and Boots Reilly joined the songwriter [[Billy Bragg]] and the politician [[Jim Walsh (Washington politician)|Jim Walsh]] for a three-hour jam session at Pepitos Parkway theater in south Minneapolis.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}} In December 2008, Morello said his Nightwatchman project would be his "principal musical focus, as I see it, for the remainder of my life".<ref name="Graff" /> He repeated this point in an interview with the ''Los Angeles Times''.<ref name="Martens" />