The infectious, riff-based "Rocksteady" appeared earlier that year and was followed in December by the comparatively tempered "Chronicles of a Fallen Love" featuring Deadmau5 associate Greta Svabo Bech on vocals. live date on New Year's Eve, setting the tone for a successful summer 2012 festival season for the DJ set show. The year culminated with a prestigious, celebratory L.A. Later that year, Refused and the (International) Noise Conspiracy vocalist Dennis Lyxzén came into the fold for Church of Noise, an anarchistic side project with a tour and single of the same name. Rifo then spent the next couple of years promoting the record with an extensive touring schedule, and by spring 2010 he had named his live act Bloody Beetroots Deathcrew '77.īy 2011 the Bloody Beetroots had not only been signed to Patrick Moxey's renowned Ultra label, but Rifo's work had also begun to appear on Ministry of Sound in Australia. Following a handful of EPs, the Bloody Beetroots' first album, Romborama, was released in 2009. Rifo began to establish the Bloody Beetroots DJ Set as a performance act in early 2008 with a short American tour that included a stop at South by Southwest as well as numerous club gigs in Los Angeles, where he appeared alongside Aoki. The Italian artist's masked appearance à la Daft Punk also garnered significant media attention. It includes The Bloody Beetroots’ remix of ‘Weather Strike’, a collaboration between Morello and Pussy Riot that was released in April.Initially releasing music on celebrity DJ Steve Aoki's Dim Mak label and often compared stylistically to French electro superstars Justice, the Bloody Beetroots - technically a solo project of one Sir Bob Cornelius Rifo - generated significant buzz in the music blogosphere from 2006 onward with both remix and production work. The 7-track project is executive produced by Tom Morello and produced by The Bloody Beetroots alongside Carl Restivo. The Catastrophists EP is set for release on June 18 via Morello’s label Comandante. The Bloody Beetroots added: “’Radium Girls’ is what happens when two punks go off to battle each with his weapon of choice.” Every year I place flowers at the small monument to these quiet heroes and this song is dedicated to their memory. The resulting court cases and publicity led to historic nationwide labor protection legislation. They were encouraged to lick the paintbrushes to a point to increase productivity and profit and in the end their bones literally fell apart from cancer and they were so toxic they had to be buried in lead lined coffins. I spent every summer as a kid near Ottawa, Illinois where these doomed girls used deadly radium laced paint to make glow in the dark watches. Morella explained in a statement about the new song:įour extraordinary women (Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova, The Interrupters’ Aimee Interrupter, White Lung’s Mish Way, The Last Internationle’s Delila Paz) and the ferocious production of The Bloody Beetroots breathe life into the true story of the Radium Girls, young Illinois factory workers who were the victims of one of the most heinous crimes in US industrial history. Check out a music video for the track, directed by Morello, below. The track was co-written with Savages’ Jehnny Beth, Carl Restivo, Pussy Riot‘s Nadya Tolokonnikova, and Simone Cogo, and features vocals from Tolokonnikova, The Interrupters’ Aimee Interrupter, White Lung’s Mish Way, and The Last Internationale’s Delila Paz. Tom Morello and The Bloody Beetroots have teamed up for a new song called ‘Radium Girls’, the lead single from their upcoming collaborative EP The Catastrophists.