In his new memoir, Down With the System, Serj Tankian shares many intimate details of his personal life and the lives of his family. From the Armenian genocide to his dad dealing with lawsuits in ...

The sound of protest music used to be the gentle plucking of Bob Dylan's guitar or the smooth grooves of Marvin Gaye. But at the end of the 1990s, there was a more insistent voice, screaming through a ...

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"Addicted to Violence," the third album from the SOAD guitarist's solo project Scars on Broadway, is out July 18.

When it comes to System of a Down, the conversation lately usually revolves around differences between members and how vocalist Serj Tankian seemingly really wants to quit the band but is comfortable ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. When the band reconvened in 2010, Tankian proposed a four ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a music journalist from New York City, living in Nashville. In Serj Tankian’s new memoir, Down With The System (out now), the ...

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Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

System of a Down paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne during the band’s concert on Wednesday in East Rutherford, New Jersey, with a rendition of Black Sabbath’s “Snowblind.” The MetLife Stadium gig, the band ...

No matter how long I’ve known it to be true, it never ceases to amaze me that a band as deeply strange and abrasive as System Of A Down ever infiltrated the mainstream as much as they did in the early ...