Crowning Moment of Awesome -- A grassroots movement sought to take their song "Killing in the Name" to the Christmas number one spot in Britain, and, by extension, prevent the winner of The X Factor from getting it. It succeeded, outselling the #2 by 50,000 sales with downloads alone. Made more awesome by the band donating their earnings from the sales to charity and celebrating their victory by announcing a free gig in the UK in 2010.
Face of the Band -- Both Zack de la Rocha and Tom Morello. Many people probably won't have heard of Tim Commerford or Brad Wilk until looking at this page.
What Could Have Been -- They're a hardcore leftwing rock band who broke up right after the election of George W. Bush. They reformed, just in time for Bush to leave office. Fortunately, Sarah Palin was on the campaign trail.