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As previously reported, Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello (a.k.a. The Nightwatchman) will release his debut solo effort later this month on Epic Records.

To support the April 24 release of One Man Revolution, Morello will take up residency tonight at Los Angeles’ famed Hotel Café, where he’ll play three shows in the next two weeks, the last of which will coincide with the album’s release.

Then the Nightwatchman will relinquish his post for the month of May before hitting the road for a string of six dates in June with bluesman Ben Harper.

Tour dates include:

April
10 - Los Angeles, Calif. @ Hotel Café
14 - Chicago, Ill. @ Immokalee Workers Rally
17 - Los Angeles, Calif. @ Hotel Café
24 - Los Angeles, Calif. @ Hotel Café
25 - Los Angeles, Calif. @ Amoeba Music
28 - Indio, Calif. @ Coachella

May
4 - Claremont, Calif. @ Bridges Auditorium at Pamona College

June
7 - Tulsa, Okla. @ Cain's Ballroom
9 - Council Bluffs, Iowa @ Stir Cove at Harrah's Casino
10 - St. Louis, Mo. @ The Pageant
12 - Cleveland, Ohio @ House of Blues
13 - Asheville, N.C. @ The Orange Peel
14 - North Myrtle Beach, S.C. @ House of Blues
16 - Manchester, Tenn. @ Bonnaroo

Related links:
Tom Morello readies debut LP as The Nightwatchman
The Nightwatchman’s homepage
The Nightwatchman on MySpace

He’s been a slave to audio and he’s raged against the machine, but now Tom Morello is finally breaking out on his own—- not in name, exactly, but at least in musical spirit.

On April 24th, 2007, Epic Records will release One Man Revolution, which Morello recorded as The Nightwatchman. This, his debut solo effort, marks the first time that Morello has sung and played acoustic guitar on a record.

Morello, who has served as main axeman for both Audioslave and Rage Against the Machine, also considers himself a political/social activist, and Revolution promises to be an exploration of both his musical and civic interests, with songs touching on issues from America’s involvement in the Iraq War to the struggles of underground political movements in the US to the ethnicity of Jesus Christ.

Audioslave was recently in the news after frontman Chris Cornell announced that he was leaving the group, although the remaining members have not yet disbanded. Rage Against the Machine’s much-hyped, one-off reunion planned for Coachella 2007 (April 27-29) may have contributed to tickets to the festival selling out after being on sale for less than one month.

Related Links:
The Nightwatchman’s official website
MTV News: Chris Cornell Talks Audioslave Split…
LA Times: Rage Against the Machine will reunite for Coachella