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 ...

History, Pioneers, and Global Legacy - DancehallMag. Sound system culture is one of the most consequential musical movements ...

For more than 25 years, Serj Tankian has threaded art, activism, and Armenian identity into his career as a singer-songwriter, producer, label head, and political advocate. That perspective made his ...

System of a Down’s career-defining album, Toxicity, opens with an unflinching criticism of America’s prison-industrial complex and the war on drugs. Written by vocalist Serj Tankian and guitarist ...

Although it’s sometimes overshadowed by its landmark successor – 2001’s Toxicity – System of a Down’s 1998 debut was remarkable in its own right. The LP also led to some successful music videos on MTV ...