Concert Review: Rock the Bells in San Bernardino, CA on August 11

Rage Against the Machine, Wu-Tang, Veteran and Underground Artists Kick Out the Jams at this Hip-Hop Festival

Rock the Bells is a hip-hop and rap festival that is slowly becoming for hip-hop what Coachella is to Indie rock. The festival, now in its fourth year is a showcase for late 80's/early 90's hip-hop, underground rap groups and a few commercial rap artists. This year's lineup brought back the pairing of The Wu-Tang Clan and the newly reunited Rage Against The Machine. Back in 1997 when these two groups toured together the result was less than successful. The tour fell apart early on. Ten years later an older and wiser Wu-Tang (minus one clan member the dearly departed and demented Old Dirty Bastard) have hooked up with the reunited rap/rockers for four of the stops on the inaugural Rock The Bells tour.