Happy 101st birthday to my amazing mom, Mary Morello! I asked her, Mom what are your talents? She replied, “To recognize people have needs and to help them.” Bless you, mom!

@DownloadFest review! “It's been a pleasure rocking you for all these years," grins Tom Morello as his Opus Stage showcase hits pace. "And it's going to be a pleasure rocking you for a whole lot more!" Arguably no guitarist has worked harder or innovated more over the last 30 years of heavy music, and the Rage Against The Machine legend gets his dues in the form of a colossal Opus Stage audience. Packing fragments of RATM hits Testify, Take The Power Back, Sleep Now In The Fire (and more) as well as a wrenching cover of Bruce Springsteen classic The Ghost Of Tom Joad and John Lennon's Power To The People alongside his own choice cut Hold The Line, it's a performance that deserves the adulation. And announcing Killing In The Name as "an old English folk song" is big, big banter. But then the kicker. "Audioslave actually headlined the very first Download close to 25 years ago," Tom smiles, bittersweetly at the set's emotional crescendo. "We were fronted by a man called Chris Cornell…" The sing-along version of that band's classic Like A Stone in honour of the late frontman – vocals largely supplied by the crowd – is a moment of nostalgia about as spine-tingling as music comes. Stunning. (SL)”