Yes, you read that correctly. Joe Perry and Tom Hamilton have written a track on Aerosmith’s upcoming record “Music From Another Dimension” (Nov 6 | Columbia) entitled Freedom Fighter, inspired by the film KONY 2012 and its makers. The song features the beautiful Johnny Depp and producer Jack Douglas on background vocals. And yes, you did read “Johnny Depp” correctly.

Listen to the track here.

Rolling Stone writes: “Perry sings ‘Freedom Fighter’ himself, growling across jagged layers of rock guitar of the documentarians he calls ‘freedom fighters.’  Kony has been indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court. In the song, Perry attacks the warriors behind him who are kidnapping children and spreading death: ‘The guns you carry and the bombs you make / Cause too many tears, too many hearts to break.'”

And Mr. Perry himself was quoted in saying: “We don’t really get into politics and stuff, but I felt so strongly about this guy [Kony], and the freedom fighters that are out there who do so much good by going to the front lines with cameras and tape recorders. They’re freedom fighters, and it was a tip of the hat to those kind of people. I was really so moved.”

Cool.

We are so honored and thankful to Joe and the band for using their talent and their platform to bring awareness and eventual justice to the atrocities of the LRA, and to finally bring the existing abducted child-soldiers home. Once and for all.

-alex

ps. Thanks Lisa.