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Rise Against Stealth-Markets Entertainment as Activism

Rebecca Blissett

By Adrian Mack

The Georgia Straight | June 8, 2009

What would a band like Rise Against do without a war or two to bellow about, anyway, or Interscope to sell hardcore all the way into the mainstream? It's entertainment, stealth-marketed to your conscience, but it's nothing that'll ever bring an end to torture.

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Tags: Appeal to Reason, music marketing, Rise Against

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