Radio station plays Rage Against The Machine track non-stop

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A Canadian radio station baffled listeners when it played a Rage Against the Machine song on repeat all morning. By midday on Wednesday, the song, Killing In The Name, had been played hundreds of times on Kiss Radio 104.9 FM. Industry insiders believe it was a PR stunt to mark a format change at the station to alternative rock. Asked by The Guardian why the song was played so many times, a spokesman replied: “I’m not allowed to say. I’m just a guy in a booth, just letting the Rage play over and over.”

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.