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System of a Down (formed in 1994) is an American alternative-metal four-piece rock band hailing from Glendale, California, in the U.S.

Prior to forming System of a Down lead vocalist Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian created Soil with other members Dave Hakopyan, Domingo Laranio and Shavo Odadjian. Hakopyan and Laranio however soon left making way for Lebanese-born drummer John Dolmayan and from the ashes of Soil came the light and sounds of System of a Down. In 1995 the band played at the Cafe Club Fais Do-Do nightclub in Los Angeles and released the now highly-sought-after Untitled 1995 Demo Tape.

The band subsequently released three more untitled demo tapes one in 1996, two in 1997 and played a number of notable Hollywood gigs including shows at Whisky-A-Go-Go and Viper Room. This led to System of a Down meeting famed producer Rick Rubin and signing with American/Columbian Records who released their eponymously-titled debut album in 1998. The album was supported by the singles “Sugar” and “Spiders” and garnered significant radio and MTV airplay.

As a result of this success the band secured opening slots for Slayer and Metallica and toured alongside Fear Factory and Incubus, before contributing to the TV show South Park’s “Chef Aid” album.

The band’s follow-up album, the ambitious “Toxicity” debuted at No. 1 in the U.S. and Canadian charts, later achieving three-times platinum certification for over 12 million copies sold. It featured the singles “Chop Suey”, “Toxicity” and “Aerials” after which System of a Down toured alongside Slipknot across the U.S. and Mexico. The band’s third album “Steal This Album!” was a response to the lax internet copywriting laws regarding online music piracy, in the same vein as Abbie Hoffman’s counter-culture book “Steal This Book”.

In 2004 System of a Down returned with the two-part album “Mesmerize/Hypnotize” with the help once again of producer Rick Rubin. The first part of the album “Mesmerize” became the band’s second No. 1 Album after “Toxicity” and the single “B.Y.O.B” earned the group a Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance in 2005, which questions the integrity of military recruitment in the U.S. The band is well-known for their politically and socially apt lyrics covering topics from bureaucracy to the War of Drugs. The second part of the album “Hypnotize” also debuted at No. 1 putting the group alongside the Beatles and 2Pac for two consecutive No. 1 albums in the same year.

Following a nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance for their song “Lonely Day” System of a Down announced a significant hiatus during which members pursued other bands and solo efforts. In 2010 the band returned playing a number of headlining European shows including Download Festival, Greenfield Festival, Rock am Ring/Rock im Park, and a sold-out show at the Hollywood Bowl in 2013.

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The Forum, Inglewood, California

Date of Gig:

Monday 6th Apr '15

By 8.30pm the chants of “System! System!” have grown so loud that you wonder if they can be heard outside the building, perhaps even drowning out the jumbo jets that roar overhead as they come in to land at nearby LAX. With no support band tonight, System Of A Down were supposed to be on now, opening their Wake Up The Souls Tour with a sold out hometown show in front of 17,500 people, but since many of them are still trying to get in, traffic gridlocked, the set has been pushed back, and the anticipation grows and grows.

There's something very special about System Of A Down playing in LA. Hell, there's something special about System Of A Down playing anywhere, but particularly here, where the band began their career some 21 years ago, playing the Whiskey, the Troubadour and the Roxy. Not just that, but there is a huge Armenian population in Los Angeles, and, nearing the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, there is a great deal of emotion in the building, like some vast family has come together. It's kind of hard to explain, but it gives you goosebumps. System Of A Down are gods to the Armenians.

It's nearing nine o'clock when a lucky and terrified looking competition winner is lead on stage to introduce the band, and before they play we watch a short and emotive film about the genocide, part one of three. There's a palpable charge in the air, and then a deafening thunder from the crowd as Serj Tankian, Daron Malakian, Shavo Odadjian and John Dolmayan quietly take to the stage and drift into Holy Mountains. Already this is a monumental gig.

And so, for the next two hours, System Of A Down, this most unlikely of mainstream bands, keeps seventeen thousand people on their feet, mesmerized and indeed hypnotized. Aptly, given the proximity of the airport, Jet Pilot follows Holy Mountains, its first airing since 2005, then a blast of Suite-Pee that has security dealing with a tide of crowd-surfers. Already it's madness in here and the band are only three songs in, but, that said, the band themselves seem to take a couple of songs to get fully into their stride, perhaps aware that the setlist contains songs they've never played live before. The live debut of U-Fig from 2005's Hypnotize follows Prison Song, and that's just five songs into a thirty-five song set!

Like we said, it's one of those nights. Christ, they haven't played Bubbles since 2003, and CUBErt since 2002! They've never played Dreaming before tonight! And along with those rarities come all the classics like Aerials, BYOB, Radio/Video, and the beautiful Lonely Day. The thing about System Of A Down is that, for all their righteous anger, they can touch the human soul, wake the soul on a deeply personal level, even with a crowd of this size. Daron's grandmother would have been 109 years old today, nine when the genocide happened, and she escaped here, as did so many to this sprawling madhouse. Lost In Hollywood, dedicated to her and Daron's family, sends chills down your spine, so lonely in this gigantic crowd, those hustling streets, Hollywood Boulevard, Santa Monica Boulevard, Sunset Boulevard only a few miles from here.

“We've never played this long in our fucking lives!” laughs Serj, with at least a dozen tunes to go. But it's clear they're enjoying every moment, with that spark of friendship far more in evidence. And for all its melancholy and anger, and all the rest of it, there's still that quirky humour about System Of A Down, a mad genius that sets them apart from any other band. Bounce is sheer lunacy, thousands of people all leaping and down, yelling “Pogo! Pogo!” like a sea of jumping beans.

Despite chants of “One more song!” there is no encore tonight. It would be ridiculous to expect one, even with classics to spare. No-one has ever heard this much System Of A Down in one night before, a journey from those days at the Whiskey over twenty years ago to selling out the Forum with ease. Again, please!

Holy Mountains

Prison Song

Soldier Side – Intro

I-E-A-I-A-I-O

Radio/Video

Kill Rock 'N Roll

Lost In Hollywood

Chic 'N' Stu

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SOAD played an amazing show. First time seeing them, and they sounded incredible. One of my all time favorite shows so far. I was in the pit, second row, I waited 7 hours just to see them. I arrived at 3:30 and they didn’t come on until 10:30pm, but they played almost 2 hours so it was fine. I waited in the second row without moving much. Once SOAD came on, the crowd pushed like crazy and got very wild. As a 5’0 female weighing about 115lbs, I thought I was going to suffocate, get squished to death, or get a limb broken. I DO NOT recommend the pit for people as small as me. I was pushing as hard as I could just to get a breathe of air, I was legitimately fighting/pushing to survive/breathe at one point. I eventually was able to grab on to the front row rail and get some air, but even then my body was being pushed up against the rail, I wouldn’t have been surprised if I had broken a rib or an arm, because that’s how much pain I was in by being pushed against the rail/people. People did not care if they hurt others and some were extremely rude. People who were barely arriving tried to push/shove their way to the front, trying to get in front of people who had been waiting 7 hours. The crowd was very crazy, people fighting and pushing each other left and right. Dozens of people were taken out by security, either because they were being too pushy/wild or because they were suffocating. I have been to dozens of music festivals ranging from EDM, hip hop, to rock music, no crowd has ever been as bad as this. I expected the pit to be bad, but never imagined that I would be fighting for my life. Overall, system of a down played an unforgettable show, but the crowd unfortunately, greatly ruined the experience for me. Will not be buying a pit ticket again, at least not for a band like SOAD.

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System of a Down, perhaps one of the most iconic names in modern rock have accumulated a cult following since their formation twenty years ago. All fans of rock are encouraged to catch a show for the sheer excitement shared by both fan and artist which is rarely matched by other performers.

Having also had massive commercial success in their homeland, three out of five albums have topped the US Billboard charts so the gigs are full of the loyal followers from the beginning and those slightly later to the party. Either way, the instrumentals and skill of the likes of 'Psycho' and 'Hypnotise' keeps both singing the bands praises well after the show is over.

They are an incredibly well tuned and well practised live band who have an ingenious method of blending tracks from a variety of albums to sit so well beside each other the audience are barely left with time to applaud. There appears to be compensation for this in form of an eruption of adoration during the closing riffs of 'Sugar', the very first of their elusive single releases.

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Nominated for four Grammys, a live performance from System of a Down is guaranteed to be a crowd pleaser even if you’re not into rock music. Without fail, every time the lights go down at a live show, the crowd erupts into a buzzing, shouting mass of dedicated fans.

The setup of the live performances never ends to amaze me with the ease that they seamlessly flow from rocking tune and into the next. It’s the kind of atmosphere that makes the audience stay on their feet for the duration of the show, swaying and jumping around appropriately. The vocals are always clear, and the famous B.Y.O.B is an ultimate crowd pleaser every single time.

Next time they tour, hopefully with a new album, I will definitely be getting my hands on some tickets, and if you’re a fan of their music, I can’t advise enough how much you will enjoy the gig. The lights, music, energy, it’s all fantastic and put together brilliantly.

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Third time seeing them, they have always brought it the other two times and this was no exception, maybe even the best one. Diverse set list, getting a little off each album, sound mix was great. And more importantly they wanted to be there. Shavo and Daron interacting with the crowd, Serj smiling and laughing. John brought his kids on stage and Serj holding them while singing! It was great to see. Serj and Daron sounded great. Serj still has it. Hitting high notes, the weird vocal ticks, and then growling like on the album. Great show, whole group agreed.

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System of a Down played on the most exciting, energetic, high voltage concerts I've ever seen live.

One song leading to the next one and an amazing setlist was a sure formula to have everybody jumping around, dancing and singing along. There was a fantantic energy and nobody seemed to care we were all cold and wet from standing for hours in the rain.

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The show was incredible my second time

seeing System and man they put on a

show! Molson Ampatheatre was jam pack

with everybody rocking out,singing to

every song just having a blast. For

anyone who hasn't got to go to a

System of a down concert they are a

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Nostalgic set list. Serj seemed like he wasn’t feelin’ it. Everyone else had plenty of energy.

The light show was pretty cool. The set moved and reconfigured behind them between each song.

Sound was great from the middle of the floor area.

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Excelente energía mostraron desde el inicio... una entrega total al público... musical y vocalmente excelentes! Puedo catalogarlo como mi mejor concierto! Verlos fue un hecho convertido realidad, ojala regresen pronto!

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It was perfect one of the best concerts that i have been..unfortunatelly i was a bit disappointed with deftones due to they setlist i almost fall sleep..i"m a huge deftones fan and they could had chosen different songs

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System Of A Down Announce European Tour Dates For Summer 2020

System Of A Down have announced a full list of European tour dates.

System Of A Down Announce European Tour Dates For Summer 2020

Good news, citizens of Europe! It looks like System Of A Down are returning next year for a string of shows. You can find a list of their European headlining and festival dates below.

In a statement, the band said, "We’re happy to announce that headline dates have been added to our 2020 European Tour.

"General on-sale begins Friday, 4th October at 10am local, which will include VIP ticket packages with proceeds going to «Իմ քայլը» հիմնադրամ – My Step Foundation , a non-profit charity that champions initiatives in health, education, social welfare, environmental protection and other areas of dire need throughout Armenia.

"Visit systemofadown.com for details."

Here's the full list of dates thus far:

03 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Ziggo Dome 05-07 - Nurburg, Germany - Rock Am Ring 06-07 - Nuremberg, Germany - Rock Im Park 08 - Berlin, Germany - Waldbuhne 10-13 - Nickelsdorf, Austria - Nova Rock 14 - Donington, UK - Download Festival 16 - Prague, Czech Republic - O2 Arena 17 - Budapest, Hungary - Laszlo Papp Sports Arena 19 - Zurich, Switzerland - Hallenstadion 23 - Stockholm, Sweden - Ericsson Globe 25-27 - Seinäjoki, Finland - Provinssirock 30 - Krakow, Poland - Tauron Arena

01-04 - Viveiro, Spain - Resurrection Fest 02-03 - Lisbon, Portugal - VOA Heavy Rock

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System Of A Down haven't performed live in Europe since 2017, where they headlined a bunch of the continent's biggest fests including Copenhell, Nova Rock and Download.

Next year the band will celebrate 15 years since the release of their Mezmerize and Hypnotize albums, perhaps we'll see a special anniversary setlist? But you can probably bet against hearing any new music.

Speaking earlier this year about the possibility of a new album, guitarist and vocalist Daron Malakian said: "As friends, everything is cool and I have no problems with anybody. But then as band members, we tend to have different ways of wanting to do things. And it doesn’t seem like we meet eye to eye as band members.

"So, I never say never because you never know what happens. But at the same time, I don’t see that happening anytime soon that we’re all going to get together and make a new System Of A Down album.”

But nevertheless, a greatest hits System Of A Down set is still chock-full of legit metal ragers. Toxicity, Chop Suey!, Prison Song, B.Y.O.B., Violent Pornography, Aerials... the list goes on.

Keep your eyes locked on Kerrang! for more new about SOAD's as-yet-unannounced European dates.

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Hear Eartheater’s magnificently unique cover of System Of A Down’s Chop Suey!

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On the heels of a few overseas festival appearance announcements, the GRAMMY-winning band has revealed plans to tour Europe next June and July

System Of A Down 's gradual return continues, as the band has announced a string of 2020 European tour dates. The run will kickoff June 3 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and touch down in 12 countries in all, wrapping at VOA Heavy Rock Festival in Lisbon, Portugal one month later.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We’re happy to announce that headline dates have been added to our 2020 European Tour. General on-sale begins Fri., 4th October @ 10am local, which will include VIP ticket packages with proceeds going the non-profit charity, <a href="https://twitter.com/MyStepFund?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MyStepFund</a>. Visit <a href="https://t.co/tRgtViZ2sV">https://t.co/tRgtViZ2sV</a> for details <a href="https://t.co/6xIHaT4p5E">pic.twitter.com/6xIHaT4p5E</a></p>&mdash; System Of A Down (@systemofadown) <a href="https://twitter.com/systemofadown/status/1178581708196564992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

The new European trek comes just after the GRAMMY-winning band revealed they will make several major festival appearances overseas, including Download Festival in England and Nova Rock Festival in Austria.

In May of this year, the band reunited for Sonic Temple in Colombus, Ohio, and while it's been 14 years since their most recent album, the double-LP  Mesmerize/Hypnotize , the band has reportedly been working on new music off and on since 2011.

SOAD earned their first GRAMMY nomination in 2001 for "Chop Suey!" for Best Metal Performance. Four years later, they took home their first GRAMMY win for "B.Y.O.B." from Mezmerize for Best Hard Rock Performance. Their most recent nomination came one year later for Best Hard Rock Performance for "Lonely Day" from Hypnotize .

Tickets for the newly announced shows go on-sale Friday, Oct. 4 at 10 a.m. local time. For more info visit the band's website .

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Upon winning the GRAMMY for Best Rap Album for 'To Pimp a Butterfly,' Kendrick Lamar thanked those that helped him get to the stage, and the artists that blazed the trail for him.

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A GRAMMY veteran these days, Kendrick Lamar has won 17 GRAMMYs and has received 47 GRAMMY nominations overall. A sizable chunk of his trophies came from the 58th annual GRAMMY Awards in 2016, when he walked away with five — including his first-ever win in the Best Rap Album category.

This installment of GRAMMY Rewind turns back the clock to 2016, revisiting Lamar's acceptance speech upon winning Best Rap Album for To Pimp A Butterfly . Though Lamar was alone on stage, he made it clear that he wouldn't be at the top of his game without the help of a broad support system. 

"First off, all glory to God, that's for sure," he said, kicking off a speech that went on to thank his parents, who he described as his "those who gave me the responsibility of knowing, of accepting the good with the bad."

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He also extended his love and gratitude to his fiancée, Whitney Alford, and shouted out his Top Dawg Entertainment labelmates. Lamar specifically praised Top Dawg's CEO, Anthony Tiffith, for finding and developing raw talent that might not otherwise get the chance to pursue their musical dreams.

"We'd never forget that: Taking these kids out of the projects, out of Compton, and putting them right here on this stage, to be the best that they can be," Lamar — a Compton native himself — continued, leading into an impassioned conclusion spotlighting some of the cornerstone rap albums that came before To Pimp a Butterfly .

"Hip-hop. Ice Cube . This is for hip-hop," he said. "This is for Snoop Dogg , Doggystyle . This is for Illmatic , this is for Nas . We will live forever. Believe that."

To Pimp a Butterfly singles "Alright" and "These Walls" earned Lamar three more GRAMMYs that night, the former winning Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song and the latter taking Best Rap/Sung Collaboration (the song features Bilal , Anna Wise and Thundercat ). He also won Best Music Video for the remix of Taylor Swift 's "Bad Blood." 

Lamar has since won Best Rap Album two more times, taking home the golden gramophone in 2018 for his blockbuster LP DAMN ., and in 2023 for his bold fifth album, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers .

Watch Lamar's full acceptance speech above, and check back at GRAMMY.com every Friday for more GRAMMY Rewind episodes. 

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A Guide To Modern Funk For The Dance Floor: L'Imperatrice, Shiro Schwarz, Franc Moody, Say She She & Moniquea

James Brown changed the sound of popular music when he found the power of the one and unleashed the funk with "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag." Today, funk lives on in many forms, including these exciting bands from across the world.

It's rare that a genre can be traced back to a single artist or group, but for funk, that was James Brown . The Godfather of Soul coined the phrase and style of playing known as "on the one," where the first downbeat is emphasized, instead of the typical second and fourth beats in pop, soul and other styles. As David Cheal eloquently explains, playing on the one "left space for phrases and riffs, often syncopated around the beat, creating an intricate, interlocking grid which could go on and on." You know a funky bassline when you hear it; its fat chords beg your body to get up and groove.

Brown's 1965 classic, "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag," became one of the first funk hits, and has been endlessly sampled and covered over the years, along with his other groovy tracks. Of course, many other funk acts followed in the '60s, and the genre thrived in the '70s and '80s as the disco craze came and went, and the originators of hip-hop and house music created new music from funk and disco's strong, flexible bones built for dancing.

Legendary funk bassist Bootsy Collins learned the power of the one from playing in Brown's band, and brought it to George Clinton , who created P-funk, an expansive, Afrofuturistic , psychedelic exploration of funk with his various bands and projects, including Parliament-Funkadelic . Both Collins and Clinton remain active and funkin', and have offered their timeless grooves to collabs with younger artists, including Kali Uchis , Silk Sonic , and Omar Apollo; and Kendrick Lamar , Flying Lotus , and Thundercat , respectively.

In the 1980s, electro-funk was born when artists like Afrika Bambaataa, Man Parrish, and Egyptian Lover began making futuristic beats with the Roland TR-808 drum machine — often with robotic vocals distorted through a talk box. A key distinguishing factor of electro-funk is a de-emphasis on vocals, with more phrases than choruses and verses. The sound influenced contemporaneous hip-hop, funk and electronica, along with acts around the globe, while current acts like Chromeo, DJ Stingray, and even Egyptian Lover himself keep electro-funk alive and well.

Today, funk lives in many places, with its heavy bass and syncopated grooves finding way into many nooks and crannies of music. There's nu-disco and boogie funk, nodding back to disco bands with soaring vocals and dance floor-designed instrumentation. G-funk continues to influence Los Angeles hip-hop, with innovative artists like Dam-Funk and Channel Tres bringing the funk and G-funk, into electro territory. Funk and disco-centered '70s revival is definitely having a moment, with acts like Ghost Funk Orchestra and Parcels , while its sparkly sprinklings can be heard in pop from Dua Lipa , Doja Cat , and, in full "Soul Train" character, Silk Sonic . There are also acts making dreamy, atmospheric music with a solid dose of funk, such as Khruangbin ’s global sonic collage.

There are many bands that play heavily with funk, creating lush grooves designed to get you moving. Read on for a taste of five current modern funk and nu-disco artists making band-led uptempo funk built for the dance floor. Be sure to press play on the Spotify playlist above, and check out GRAMMY.com's playlist on Apple Music , Amazon Music and Pandora .

Say She She

Aptly self-described as "discodelic soul," Brooklyn-based seven-piece Say She She make dreamy, operatic funk, led by singer-songwriters Nya Gazelle Brown, Piya Malik and Sabrina Mileo Cunningham. Their '70s girl group-inspired vocal harmonies echo, sooth and enchant as they cover poignant topics with feminist flair.

While they’ve been active in the New York scene for a few years, they’ve gained wider acclaim for the irresistible music they began releasing this year, including their debut album, Prism . Their 2022 debut single "Forget Me Not" is an ode to ground-breaking New York art collective Guerilla Girls, and " Norma " is their protest anthem in response to the news that Roe vs. Wade could be (and was) overturned. The band name is a nod to funk legend Nile Rodgers , from the "Le freak, c'est chi" exclamation in Chic's legendary tune "Le Freak."

Moniquea 's unique voice oozes confidence, yet invites you in to dance with her to the super funky boogie rhythms. The Pasadena, California artist was raised on funk music; her mom was in a cover band that would play classics like Aretha Franklin’ s "Get It Right" and Gladys Knight ’s "Love Overboard." Moniquea released her first boogie funk track at 20 and, in 2011, met local producer XL Middelton — a bonafide purveyor of funk. She's been a star artist on his MoFunk Records ever since, and they've collabed on countless tracks, channeling West Coast energy with a heavy dose of G-funk, sunny lyrics and upbeat, roller disco-ready rhythms.

Her latest release is an upbeat nod to classic West Coast funk, produced by Middleton, and follows her February 2022 groovy, collab-filled album, On Repeat .

Shiro Schwarz

Shiro Schwarz is a Mexico City-based duo, consisting of Pammela Rojas and Rafael Marfil, who helped establish a modern funk scene in the richly creative Mexican metropolis. On "Electrify" — originally released in 2016 on Fat Beats Records and reissued in 2021 by MoFunk — Shiro Schwarz's vocals playfully contrast each other, floating over an insistent, upbeat bassline and an '80s throwback electro-funk rhythm with synth flourishes.

Their music manages to be both nostalgic and futuristic — and impossible to sit still to. 2021 single "Be Kind" is sweet, mellow and groovy, perfect chic lounge funk. Shiro Schwarz’s latest track, the joyfully nostalgic "Hey DJ," is a collab with funkstress Saucy Lady and U-Key.

L'Impératrice

L'Impératrice (the empress in French) are a six-piece Parisian group serving an infectiously joyful blend of French pop, nu-disco, funk and psychedelia. Flore Benguigui's vocals are light and dreamy, yet commanding of your attention, while lyrics have a feminist touch.

During their energetic live sets, L'Impératrice members Charles de Boisseguin and Hagni Gwon (keys), David Gaugué (bass), Achille Trocellier (guitar), and Tom Daveau (drums) deliver extended instrumental jam sessions to expand and connect their music. Gaugué emphasizes the thick funky bass, and Benguigui jumps around the stage while sounding like an angel. L’Impératrice’s latest album, 2021’s Tako Tsubo , is a sunny, playful French disco journey.

Franc Moody

Franc Moody 's bio fittingly describes their music as "a soul funk and cosmic disco sound." The London outfit was birthed by friends Ned Franc and Jon Moody in the early 2010s, when they were living together and throwing parties in North London's warehouse scene. In 2017, the group grew to six members, including singer and multi-instrumentalist Amber-Simone.

Their music feels at home with other electro-pop bands like fellow Londoners Jungle and Aussie act Parcels. While much of it is upbeat and euphoric, Franc Moody also dips into the more chilled, dreamy realm, such as the vibey, sultry title track from their recently released Into the Ether .

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Living Legends: Billy Idol On Survival, Revival & Breaking Out Of The Cage

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Living Legends: Billy Idol On Survival, Revival & Breaking Out Of The Cage

"One foot in the past and one foot into the future," Billy Idol says, describing his decade-spanning career in rock. "We’ve got the best of all possible worlds because that has been the modus operandi of Billy Idol."

Living Legends is a series that spotlights icons in music still going strong today. This week, GRAMMY.com spoke with Billy Idol about his latest EP,   Cage , and continuing to rock through decades of changing tastes.

Billy Idol is a true rock 'n' roll survivor who has persevered through cultural shifts and personal struggles. While some may think of Idol solely for "Rebel Yell" and "White Wedding," the singer's musical influences span genres and many of his tunes are less turbo-charged than his '80s hits would belie.  

Idol first made a splash in the latter half of the '70s with the British punk band Generation X. In the '80s, he went on to a solo career combining rock, pop, and punk into a distinct sound that transformed him and his musical partner, guitarist Steve Stevens, into icons. They have racked up multiple GRAMMY nominations, in addition to one gold, one double platinum, and four platinum albums thanks to hits like "Cradle Of Love," "Flesh For Fantasy," and "Eyes Without A Face." 

But, unlike many legacy artists, Idol is anything but a relic. Billy continues to produce vital Idol music by collaborating with producers and songwriters — including Miley Cyrus — who share his forward-thinking vision. He will play a five-show Vegas residency in November, and filmmaker Jonas Akerlund is working on a documentary about Idol’s life. 

His latest release is Cage , the second in a trilogy of annual four-song EPs. The title track is a classic Billy Idol banger expressing the desire to free himself from personal constraints and live a better life. Other tracks on Cage incorporate metallic riffing and funky R&B grooves. 

Idol continues to reckon with his demons — they both grappled with addiction during the '80s — and the singer is open about those struggles on the record and the page. (Idol's 2014 memoir Dancing With Myself , details a 1990 motorcycle accident that nearly claimed a leg, and how becoming a father steered him to reject hard drugs. "Bitter Taste," from his last EP, The Roadside , reflects on surviving the accident.)

Although Idol and Stevens split in the late '80s — the skilled guitarist fronted Steve Stevens & The Atomic Playboys, and collaborated with Michael Jackson, Rick Ocasek, Vince Neil, and Harold Faltermeyer (on the GRAMMY-winning "Top Gun Anthem") —  their common history and shared musical bond has been undeniable. The duo reunited in 2001 for an episode of " VH1 Storytellers " and have been back in the saddle for two decades. Their union remains one of the strongest collaborations in rock 'n roll history.

While there is recognizable personnel and a distinguishable sound throughout a lot of his work, Billy Idol has always pushed himself to try different things. Idol discusses his musical journey, his desire to constantly move forward, and the strong connection that he shares with Stevens. 

Steve has said that you like to mix up a variety of styles, yet everyone assumes you're the "Rebel Yell"/"White Wedding" guy. But if they really listen to your catalog, it's vastly different.

Yeah, that's right. With someone like Steve Stevens, and then back in the day Keith Forsey producing... [Before that] Generation X actually did move around inside punk rock. We didn't stay doing just the Ramones two-minute music. We actually did a seven-minute song. [ Laughs ]. We did always mix things up. 

Then when I got into my solo career, that was the fun of it. With someone like Steve, I knew what he could do. I could see whatever we needed to do, we could nail it. The world was my oyster musically. 

"Cage" is a classic-sounding Billy Idol rocker, then "Running From The Ghost" is almost metal, like what the Devil's Playground album was like back in the mid-2000s. "Miss Nobody" comes out of nowhere with this pop/R&B flavor. What inspired that?

We really hadn't done anything like that since something like "Flesh For Fantasy" [which] had a bit of an R&B thing about it. Back in the early days of Billy Idol, "Hot In The City" and "Mony Mony" had girls [singing] on the backgrounds. 

We always had a bit of R&B really, so it was actually fun to revisit that. We just hadn't done anything really quite like that for a long time. That was one of the reasons to work with someone like Sam Hollander [for the song "Rita Hayworth"] on The Roadside . We knew we could go [with him] into an R&B world, and he's a great songwriter and producer. That's the fun of music really, trying out these things and seeing if you can make them stick. 

I listen to new music by veteran artists and debate that with some people. I'm sure you have those fans that want their nostalgia, and then there are some people who will embrace the newer stuff. Do you find it’s a challenge to reach people with new songs?

Obviously, what we're looking for is, how do we somehow have one foot in the past and one foot into the future? We’ve got the best of all possible worlds because that has been the modus operandi of Billy Idol. 

You want to do things that are true to you, and you don't just want to try and do things that you're seeing there in the charts today. I think that we're achieving it with things like "Running From The Ghost" and "Cage" on this new EP. I think we’re managing to do both in a way. 

** Obviously, "Running From The Ghost" is about addiction, all the stuff that you went through, and in "Cage" you’re talking about  freeing yourself from a lot of personal shackles. Was there any one moment in your life that made you really thought I have to not let this weigh me down anymore ? **

I mean, things like the motorcycle accident I had, that was a bit of a wake up call way back. It was 32 years ago. But there were things like that, years ago, that gradually made me think about what I was doing with my life. I didn't want to ruin it, really. I didn't want to throw it away, and it made [me] be less cavalier. 

I had to say to myself, about the drugs and stuff, that I've been there and I've done it. There’s no point in carrying on doing it. You couldn't get any higher. You didn't want to throw your life away casually, and I was close to doing that. It took me a bit of time, but then gradually I was able to get control of myself to a certain extent [with] drugs and everything. And I think Steve's done the same thing. We're on a similar path really, which has been great because we're in the same boat in terms of lyrics and stuff. 

So a lot of things like that were wake up calls. Even having grandchildren and just watching my daughter enlarging her family and everything; it just makes you really positive about things and want to show a positive side to how you're feeling, about where you're going. We've lived with the demons so long, we've found a way to live with them. We found a way to be at peace with our demons, in a way. Maybe not completely, but certainly to where we’re enjoying what we do and excited about it.

[When writing] "Running From The Ghost" it was easy to go, what was the ghost for us? At one point, we were very drug addicted in the '80s. And Steve in particular is super sober [now]. I mean, I still vape pot and stuff. I don’t know how he’s doing it, but it’s incredible. All I want to be able to do is have a couple of glasses of wine at a restaurant or something. I can do that now.

I think working with people that are super talented, you just feel confident. That is a big reason why you open up and express yourself more because you feel comfortable with what's around you.

Did you watch Danny Boyle's recent Sex Pistols mini-series?

I did, yes.

You had a couple of cameos; well, an actor who portrayed you did. How did you react to it? How accurate do you think it was in portraying that particular time period?

I love Jonesy’s book, I thought his book was incredible. It's probably one of the best bio books really. It was incredible and so open. I was looking forward to that a lot.

It was as if [the show] kind of stayed with Steve [Jones’ memoir] about halfway through, and then departed from it. [John] Lydon, for instance, was never someone I ever saw acting out; he's more like that today. I never saw him do something like jump up in the room and run around going crazy. The only time I saw him ever do that was when they signed the recording deal with Virgin in front of Buckingham Palace. Whereas Sid Vicious was always acting out; he was always doing something in a horrible way or shouting at someone. I don't remember John being like that. I remember him being much more introverted.

But then I watched interviews with some of the actors about coming to grips with the parts they were playing. And they were saying, we knew punk rock happened but just didn't know any of the details. So I thought well, there you go . If ["Pistol" is]  informing a lot of people who wouldn't know anything about punk rock, maybe that's what's good about it.

Maybe down the road John Lydon will get the chance to do John's version of the Pistols story. Maybe someone will go a lot deeper into it and it won't be so surface. But maybe you needed this just to get people back in the flow.

We had punk and metal over here in the States, but it feels like England it was legitimately more dangerous. British society was much more rigid.

It never went [as] mega in America. It went big in England. It exploded when the Pistols did that interview with [TV host Bill] Grundy, that lorry truck driver put his boot through his own TV, and all the national papers had "the filth and the fury" [headlines].

We went from being unknown to being known overnight. We waited a year, Generation X. We even told them [record labels] no for nine months to a year. Every record company wanted their own punk rock group. So it went really mega in England, and it affected the whole country – the style, the fashions, everything. I mean, the Ramones were massive in England. Devo had a No. 1 song [in England] with "Satisfaction" in '77. Actually, Devo was as big as or bigger than the Pistols.

You were ahead of the pop-punk thing that happened in the late '90s, and a lot of it became tongue-in-cheek by then. It didn't have the same sense of rebelliousness as the original movement. It was more pop.

It had become a style. There was a famous book in England called Revolt Into Style — and that's what had happened, a revolt that turned into style which then they were able to duplicate in their own way. Even recently, Billie Joe [Armstrong] did his own version of "Gimme Some Truth," the Lennon song we covered way back in 1977.

When we initially were making [punk] music, it hadn't become accepted yet. It was still dangerous and turned into a style that people were used to. We were still breaking barriers.

You have a band called Generation Sex with Steve Jones and Paul Cook. I assume you all have an easier time playing Pistols and Gen X songs together now and not worrying about getting spit on like back in the '70s?

Yeah, definitely. When I got to America I told the group I was putting it together, "No one spits at the audience."

We had five years of being spat on [in the UK], and it was revolting. And they spat at you if they liked you. If they didn't like it they smashed your gear up. One night, I remember I saw blood on my T-shirt, and I think Joe Strummer got meningitis when spit went in his mouth.

You had to go through a lot to become successful, it wasn't like you just kind of got up there and did a couple of gigs. I don't think some young rock bands really get that today.

With punk going so mega in England, we definitely got a leg up. We still had a lot of work to get where we got to, and rightly so because you find out that you need to do that. A lot of groups in the old days would be together three to five years before they ever made a record, and that time is really important. In a way, what was great about punk rock for me was it was very much a learning period. I really learned a lot [about] recording music and being in a group and even writing songs.

Then when I came to America, it was a flow, really. I also really started to know what I wanted Billy Idol to be. It took me a little bit, but I kind of knew what I wanted Billy Idol to be. And even that took a while to let it marinate.

You and Miley Cyrus have developed a good working relationship in the last several years. How do you think her fans have responded to you, and your fans have responded to her?

I think they're into it. It's more the record company that she had didn't really get "Night Crawling"— it was one of the best songs on Plastic Hearts , and I don't think they understood that. They wanted to go with Dua Lipa, they wanted to go with the modern, young acts, and I don't think they realized that that song was resonating with her fans. Which is a shame really because, with Andrew Watt producing, it's a hit song.

But at the same time, I enjoyed doing it. It came out really good and it's very Billy Idol. In fact, I think it’s more Billy Idol than Miley Cyrus. I think it shows you where Andrew Watt was. He was excited about doing a Billy Idol track. She's fun to work with. She’s a really great person and she works at her singing — I watched her rehearsing for the Super Bowl performance she gave. She rehearsed all Saturday morning, all Saturday afternoon, and Sunday morning and it was that afternoon. I have to admire her fortitude. She really cares.

I remember when you went on " Viva La Bam "  back in 2005 and decided to give Bam Margera’s Lamborghini a new sunroof by taking a power saw to it. Did he own that car? Was that a rental?

I think it was his car.

Did he get over it later on?

He loved it. [ Laughs ] He’s got a wacky sense of humor. He’s fantastic, actually. I’m really sorry to see what he's been going through just lately. He's going through a lot, and I wish him the best. He's a fantastic person, and it's a shame that he's struggling so much with his addictions. I know what it's like. It's not easy.

Musically, what is the synergy like with you guys during the past 10 years, doing Kings and Queens of the Underground and this new stuff? What is your working relationship like now in this more sober, older, mature version of you two as opposed to what it was like back in the '80s?

In lots of ways it’s not so different because we always wrote the songs together, we always talked about what we're going to do together. It was just that we were getting high at the same time.We're just not getting [that way now] but we're doing all the same things.

We're still talking about things, still [planning] things:What are we going to do next? How are we going to find new people to work with? We want to find new producers. Let's be a little bit more timely about putting stuff out.That part of our relationship is the same, you know what I mean? That never got affected. We just happened to be overloading in the '80s.

The relationship’s… matured and it's carrying on being fruitful, and I think that's pretty amazing. Really, most people don't get to this place. Usually, they hate each other by now. [ Laughs ] We also give each other space. We're not stopping each other doing things outside of what we’re working on together. All of that enables us to carry on working together. I love and admire him. I respect him. He's been fantastic. I mean, just standing there on stage with him is always a treat. And he’s got an immensely great sense of humor. I think that's another reason why we can hang together after all this time because we've got the sense of humor to enable us to go forward.

There's a lot of fan reaction videos online, and I noticed a lot of younger women like "Rebel Yell" because, unlike a lot of other '80s alpha male rock tunes, you're talking about satisfying your lover.

It was about my girlfriend at the time, Perri Lister. It was about how great I thought she was, how much I was in love with her, and how great women are, how powerful they are.

It was a bit of a feminist anthem in a weird way. It was all about how relationships can free you and add a lot to your life. It was a cry of love, nothing to do with the Civil War or anything like that. Perri was a big part of my life, a big part of being Billy Idol. I wanted to write about it. I'm glad that's the effect.

Is there something you hope people get out of the songs you've been doing over the last 10 years? Do you find yourself putting out a message that keeps repeating?

Well, I suppose, if anything, is that you can come to terms with your life, you can keep a hold of it. You can work your dreams into reality in a way and, look, a million years later, still be enjoying it.

The only reason I'm singing about getting out of the cage is because I kicked out of the cage years ago. I joined Generation X when I said to my parents, "I'm leaving university, and I'm joining a punk rock group." And they didn't even know what a punk rock group was. Years ago, I’d write things for myself that put me on this path, so that maybe in 2022 I could sing something like "Cage" and be owning this territory and really having a good time. This is the life I wanted.

The original UK punk movement challenged societal norms. Despite all the craziness going on throughout the world, it seems like a lot of modern rock bands are afraid to do what you guys were doing. Do you think we'll see a shift in that?

Yeah.  Art usually reacts to things, so I would think eventually there will be a massive reaction to the pop music that’s taken over — the middle of the road music, and then this kind of right wing politics. There will be a massive reaction if there's not already one. I don’t know where it will come from exactly. You never know who's gonna do [it].

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Hear All Of The Best Country Solo Performance Nominees For The 2023 GRAMMY Awards

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Hear All Of The Best Country Solo Performance Nominees For The 2023 GRAMMY Awards

The 2023 GRAMMY Award nominees for Best Country Solo Performance highlight country music's newcomers and veterans, featuring hits from Kelsea Ballerini, Zach Bryan, Miranda Lambert, Maren Morris and Willie Nelson.

Country music's evolution is well represented in the 2023 GRAMMY nominees for Best Country Solo Performance. From crossover pop hooks to red-dirt outlaw roots, the genre's most celebrated elements are on full display — thanks to rising stars, leading ladies and country icons.

Longtime hitmaker Miranda Lambert delivered a soulful performance on the rootsy ballad "In His Arms," an arrangement as sparing as the windswept west Texas highlands where she co-wrote the song. Viral newcomer Zach Bryan dug into similar organic territory on the Oklahoma side of the Red River for "Something in the Orange," his voice accompanied with little more than an acoustic guitar.

Two of country's 2010s breakout stars are clearly still shining, too, as Maren Morris and Kelsea Ballerini both received Best Country Solo Performance GRAMMY nods. Morris channeled the determination that drove her leap-of-faith move from Texas to Nashville for the playful clap-along "Circles Around This Town," while Ballerini brought poppy hooks with a country edge on the infectiously upbeat "HEARTFIRST."

Rounding out the category is the one and only Willie Nelson, who paid tribute to his late friend Billy Joe Shaver with a cover of "Live Forever" — a fitting sentiment for the 89-year-old legend, who is approaching his eighth decade in the business. 

As the excitement builds for the 2023 GRAMMYs on Feb. 5, 2023, let's take a closer look at this year's nominees for Best Country Solo Performance.

Kelsea Ballerini — "HEARTFIRST"

In the tradition of Shania Twain , Faith Hill and Carrie Underwood , Kelsea Ballerini represents Nashville's sunnier side — and her single "HEARTFIRST" is a slice of bright, uptempo, confectionary country-pop for the ages.

Ballerini sings about leaning into a carefree crush with her heart on her sleeve, pushing aside her reservations and taking a risk on love at first sight. The scene plays out in a bar room and a back seat, as she sweeps nimbly through the verses and into a shimmering chorus, when the narrator decides she's ready to "wake up in your T-shirt." 

There are enough steel guitar licks to let you know you're listening to a country song, but the story and melody are universal. "HEARTFIRST" is Ballerini's third GRAMMY nod, but first in the Best Country Solo Performance category.

Zach Bryan — "Something In The Orange"

Zach Bryan blew into Music City seemingly from nowhere in 2017, when his original song "Heading South" — recorded on an iPhone — went viral. Then an active officer in the U.S. Navy, the Oklahoma native chased his muse through music during his downtime, striking a chord with country music fans on stark songs led by his acoustic guitar and affecting vocals.

After his honorable discharge in 2021, Bryan began his music career in earnest, and in 2022 released "Something in the Orange," a haunting ballad that stakes a convincing claim to the territory between Tyler Childers and Jason Isbell in both sonics and songwriting. Slashing slide guitar drives home the song's heartbreak, as Bryan pines for a lover whose tail lights have long since vanished over the horizon. 

"Something In The Orange" marks Bryan's first-ever GRAMMY nomination.

Miranda Lambert — "In His Arms"

Miranda Lambert is the rare, chart-topping contemporary country artist who does more than pay lip service to the genre's rural American roots. "In His Arms" originally surfaced on 2021's The Marfa Tapes , a casual recording Lambert made with Jack Ingram and Jon Randall in Marfa, Texas — a tiny arts enclave in the middle of the west Texas high desert.

In this proper studio version — recorded for her 2022 album, Palomino — Lambert retains the structure and organic feel of the mostly acoustic song; light percussion and soothing atmospherics keep her emotive vocals front and center. A native Texan herself, Lambert sounds fully at home on "In His Arms."

Lambert is the only Best Country Solo Performance nominee who is nominated in all four Country Field categories in 2023. To date, Miranda Lambert has won 3 GRAMMYs and received 27 nominations overall. 

Maren Morris — "Circles Around This Town"

When Maren Morris found herself uninspired and dealing with writer's block, she went back to what inspired her to move to Nashville nearly a decade ago — and out came "Circles Around This Town," the lead single from her 2022 album Humble Quest .

Written in one of her first in-person songwriting sessions since the pandemic, Morris has called "Circles Around This Town" her "most autobiographical song" to date; she even recreated her own teenage bedroom for the song's video. As she looks back to her Texas beginnings and the life she left for Nashville, Morris' voice soars over anthemic, yet easygoing production. 

Morris last won a GRAMMY for Best Country Solo Performance in 2017, when her song "My Church" earned the singer her first GRAMMY. To date, Maren Morris has won one GRAMMY and received 17 nominations overall.

Willie Nelson — "Live Forever"

Country music icon Willie Nelson is no stranger to the GRAMMYs, and this year he aims to add to his collection of 10 gramophones. He earned another three nominations for 2023 — bringing his career total to 56 — including a Best Country Solo Performance nod for "Live Forever."

Nelson's performance of "Live Forever," the lead track of the 2022 tribute album Live Forever: A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver , is a faithful rendition of Shaver's signature song. Still, Nelson puts his own twist on the tune, recruiting Lucinda Williams for backing vocals and echoing the melody with the inimitable tone of his nylon-string Martin guitar. 

Shaver, an outlaw country pioneer who passed in 2020 at 81 years old, never had any hits of his own during his lifetime. But plenty of his songs were still heard, thanks to stars like Elvis Presley , Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings . Nelson was a longtime friend and frequent collaborator of Shaver's — and now has a GRAMMY nom to show for it.

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System of a Down is an Armenian American alternative metal band, formed in 1994 in Los Angeles, California, USA. All four members are of Armenian descent, and are widely known for their views expressed in many of their songs confronting the Armenian Genocide of 1915 by the Ottoman Empire and the ongoing War on Terror by the US government. The band consists of Serj Tankian (vocals), Daron Malakian (vocals, guitar), Shavo Odadjian (bass, vocals) and John Dolmayan (drums). System of a Down has achieved commercial success with five albums, and many singles such as their breakout hit "Chop Suey!", "Toxicity", "Aerials", "B.Y.O.B.", "Question!", "Hypnotize" and "Lonely Day". Their works have earned them one Grammy Award amongst three nominations. From late February to early March 2012, they headlined five dates at Soundwave festival. This was the band's first visit to Australia since 2005. The band have continued playing around the world. On August 11 and 12, 2012, they played the Heavy MTL and Heavy T.O. music festivals in Montreal and Toronto, respectively. On February 4, 2013, it was announced that System of a Down would play the UK's Reading and Leeds Festivals in August 2013, among other festivals and venues.

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System of a Down has announced five tour dates, which will mark the band’s first U.S. shows since 2015. The five shows all take place in the southwest in October and include a headline performance at the Aftershock Festival in San Bernardino, Calif., alongside Deftones , Alice in Chains , Godsmack and more. Fans can get ticket information here .

The dates are the first U.S. shows for the band since 2015’s Wake Up The Souls Tour , which wrapped at the Forum in their hometown of Los Angeles. While it’s been three years since they performed in the States, SOAD did head out on a successful sold-out tour of Europe last year.

System teased the dates with a series of social media posts showing photos (see below) of early 1960’s beachgoers. In each subsequent post the image gets more violent showing a couple playing volleyball with a mine and the addition of bombs on the beach, planes flying overhead and a nuclear mushroom cloud in the distance.

The band’s popularity has not waned, even though they have not released any new music in over 13 years. In 2005, the band released their last two efforts Mezmerize and Hypnotize . Each debuted at the top of the Billboard album chart.

A few months ago, frontman Serj Tankian said the band has new material but cannot agree on how to move forward. “We have [attempted to make an album]. We’ve discussed it and we’ve played each other songs, but we still haven’t come eye to eye on how things should be done for us to be able to move forward with it.”

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When Metal Hammer posted a news story last month confirming that System Of A Down will release a new album in 2017 , the internet went righteously berserk. And make no mistake about it: this is massive .

To put it into perspective, System’s Chop Suey! video has notched up nearly half a billion views on YouTube, despite having been released before YouTube even existed. That same track has also received more than twice as many streams on Spotify than any Slipknot song. Meanwhile, with no new album to promote, they’ve continued to sell out arenas and headline festivals whenever they’ve reconvened, and when they were revealed as Download headliners for next year, virtually no one raised an eyebrow. Despite not having released a shred of new music since 2005, System Of A Down are still a very big deal indeed, and yet they’re also one of the most eccentric, idiosyncratic and downright unlikely bands to ever reach that status. And, somewhat fittingly, it is that thread of uniqueness that has pinned their story together from day one.

“The fact that the band shares the same roots, the same Armenian heritage, is a common bond,” singer Serj Tankian suggests. “In a way we’re all outsiders and see things from the position of an outsider. We look at things from an outside perspective and that perspective is often more clear.”

Born in 1967, Serj Tankian spent the first eight years of his life in war-torn Beirut, Lebanon, a city that had long been home to many displaced Armenians, including the singer’s parents (whose own parents were victims of the Armenian genocide that took place between 1915 and 1917 at the hands of the Ottoman Empire in Turkey). “I was eight years old when I came to Los Angeles, so I don’t have a lot of memories of my time in Beirut,” Serj admits. “But I do have some visual memories. I remember the beginnings of the civil war. I’d learnt some English at school when I was young, but moving to LA was still somewhat of a culture shock after Lebanon, and one thing I can say is that if you’ve ever heard bombs fall in a city, you will have a different sensitivity to dropping bombs on a city.”

His family relocated to Los Angeles in 1975, as civil war reduced much of Beirut to rubble, and Serj found himself immersed in an alien but thrilling new world in sun-drenched California. A shy but incredibly smart child with a passion for learning, he swiftly blossomed as American life became his reality, excelling at school and developing a great interest in politics and activism along the way. Having experienced the reality of living amid military violence and social disintegration, Serj’s perspective on the world was always going to be considerably different from the young Americans he was now consorting with. Even the young singer’s taste in music set him apart from many of his peers: with no interest in rock, punk or metal, Serj instead developed an eclectic array of favourites, ranging from sitar guru Ravi Shankar to oddball goth-punks Alien Sex Fiend. As a result, when Serj’s musical abilities began to surface, he was not destined to ever toe the conformist line. All he needed was suitable partners in crime.

Seven years Serj’s junior, Shavarsh ‘Shavo’ Odadjian was born in Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan in 1974. At the age of five, his family managed to secure US citizenship and relocated to Hollywood, where he enrolled at the same Rose And Alex Pilibos School that Serj had been attending for several years. Daron Malakian – the only member of System to be born in the US, after his parents emigrated from Armenia – enrolled at the school the following year. It was almost as if fate was conspiring to ensure that their paths would cross, even though it would be much later that Serj and his future comrades would actually meet.

“My parents always tried to protect me from the evils that Hollywood holds and that is probably why I see it as a special place,” Shavo says of his adopted hometown. “Daron grew up in the same neighbourhood as me and his fondest and worst memories of all time are about Hollywood as well. Growing up there is not like growing up in any other place because you are exposed to so much shit. It definitely makes you grow up differently and think differently. There were helicopters outside every night and you’d hear gunshots.”

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Hollywood would, however, enable him to have some occasional chance encounters with his heroes…

“Mötley Crüe did their videotaping for Girls, Girls, Girls right across from where we lived,” he remembers. “My mom and I were in the parking lot there, at the supermarket across from the club. My mom says, ‘That guy next to us looks like the guy on your wall.’ I looked, and it was Nikki Sixx. I was starstruck. I went home, grabbed my Too Fast For Love album and I went and asked him to sign it. They all signed it, and Nikki asked if I’d heard Girls, Girls, Girls, which was their new song. He told me to go inside, but I was too young, so he told the bouncer that I was family and to let me in!”

While such meetings had a profound impact on the young Shavo, it was Daron who first set his heart on a career in music. A self-confessed “bad student”, he was far too enthralled by Kiss, Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe to pay much attention to his education.

“Being a musician is all I’ve ever dreamed of being and playing the guitar or drums is all I’ve ever done,” he states. “I don’t have a plan B. I don’t do anything else. I can’t repair a car. I can’t fix a leaky faucet. But I can write you a song. I realised early on that I could do something not many people could do. No one taught me how to do it – I just did it.”

The foundations for what would become System of A Down were laid in 1992, when Daron and his bassist friend Dave Hakopyan (later of The Apex Theory) formed the band Soil (no, not that one!), recruiting Serj Tankian from local mob Forever Young and a drummer widely known as Dingo. Meanwhile, Serj had already been jamming with Shavo, after the former unwitting schoolmates were newly introduced. Exuberantly combining metal riffs and weird art rock indulgence, with their Armenian folk music heritage lurking somewhere in the background, their sound was a clear forerunner of System’s esoteric racket. Keen to get involved in this exciting new project, Shavo volunteered to manage Soil and secured them their first gig, at Café Club Fais Do-Do on West Adams Boulevard in LA. In true rock’n’roll fashion, this initial lineup disintegrated soon after, by which point Shavo was now confident enough as a musician that he slotted neatly into place alongside Daron, Serj and – after a long period of drum-less frustration – new drummer Andy Khachaturian, with both Serj and Daron assuming vocal duties. To mark the solidifying of this new lineup, they ditched their old name and became first Victims Of A Down and then, after some discussion, System Of A Down.

“‘System’ was chosen as a better, stronger word, and it makes it into a ‘whole’,” Serj explains. “Instead of people in particular, it’s the society.” “And our album will be under the ‘S’ section,” Daron adds. “Next to Slayer!”

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System performed their first official gig at The Roxy in LA on May 28, 1995. Despite appearing on a bill of ska bands and not even having released a demo tape, they managed to bring 175 friends to the venue with them, plus plenty more that had been enticed to the show by the posters that Daron and Shavo had plastered all over Hollywood and beyond. The Roxy was absolutely rammed , and what the assembled throng witnessed was very obviously the beginning of something huge. System simply didn’t look or sound like anything else that was going on in heavy music at that time. At that first gig, Serj sported a bizarre, corkscrew afro and his trademark beard, drummer Andy was painted head-to-toe in white, Shavo was bare-chested and faintly terrifying and Daron… well, he was wearing an Adidas tracksuit, but then this was 1995 and Korn were very much the band of the day. That said, the parallels between System’s music and the then-burgeoning nu metal movement are largely illusory. Quirky, unpredictable, both startlingly extreme and blissfully melodic, their sound was an exhilarating exercise in instinctive cross-pollination that, while not apparently exhibiting much mainstream potential, certainly felt like a breath of fresh air. A large part of that was the rather unusual approach to writing that Daron has made a hallmark of his style.

“I’m really not that focused on the guitar exclusively,” he explains. “I play five different instruments, so I’m inspired by music as a whole. A guitar is a great tool to write songs, but I don’t care whether those songs are written on a guitar, behind a keyboard or a drumkit. So long as songs come out is all that matters, rather than, you know, great guitar solos of the past or whatever.”

“I’ve been influenced a lot less by music than by life itself,” offers Serj. “However, there are a lot of singers who have influenced me over time, and my dad was an influence. My dad is an amazing singer and every time he sings it provokes a lot of emotion. It makes me want to cry. He sings mostly old Armenian folk songs. Maybe that’s where my singing comes from…”

As their reputation continued to grow, System hooked up with a management team who would oversee their subsequent rise to glory. A first demo tape was recorded, including future classics Sugar, Suite-Pee and P.L.U.C.K. , and the buzz surrounding the band rapidly grew to a deafening crescendo. By 1997, as the internet started to become ubiquitous, their notoriety began to extend beyond LA and across the globe. Two more demos cemented their status as the hottest new band in the US, with glowing reviews flooding in and mounting interest from countless labels. One final piece of the puzzle was required, however. Drummer Andy Khachaturian departed in 1997 and was replaced by John Dolmayan, who had also been born in Beirut and experienced the horrors of Lebanon’s civil war first hand. The System we know and love today was now firmly in place and all that remained was for some lucky label to make the right offer. That proposal eventually came from legendary producer Rick Rubin , who saw System at one of their sold-out hometown shows in 1997.

“I saw him from the stage and he seemed pretty much into it,” said Shavo. “Later, he told us that he was blown away, which blew us away, being 80s kids who loved all the rap stuff he came out with.”

“I remember laughing a lot because they seemed so crazy to me,” remembers Rick. “What I thought was unusual about them was that, first of all, they’re very heavy sounding, but original. System Of A Down didn’t sound like any bands I’d heard before… yet they were heavy .”

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As 1997 drew to a close, System signed to Rick’s American imprint and entered Sound City Studios in LA to begin recording their debut album. With no shortage of material, not least thanks to Daron Malakian’s prolificacy, the band made light work of the sessions and by February 1998 the album was complete. Adorned with ‘The Hand With Five Fingers’, a striking image of a sepia-coloured hand reaching out from the darkness created by prominent anti-fascist artist John Heartfelt during Hitler’s rise in 1930s Germany, it was a debut album that knowingly and aggressively demanded our attention. Released on June 30, 1998, System Of A Down was not an instant success, only reaching #124 in the US charts upon its initial release, but a lot of people recognised that this band were something special, and the album soon became the most talked-about record of ’98. It also led to System joining that year’s Ozzfest tour and being offered a support slot with Slayer, first in the US and then in Europe, where Sepultura were also on the bill. Unlike many bands that have suffered at the hands of Slayer’s vociferous fanbase, System rather enjoyed the experience and reached a huge new audience as a result.

“I got a few cassettes and beer thrown at me,” laughed Daron. “But a lot of kids came up to us at the end of the shows and said they liked our sound because it was heavy, but original.”

During the European tour with Slayer, System pulled out of a show in Turkey, unwilling to indirectly endorse that country’s government and their ongoing denial that the Armenian genocide took place. Once again, the band’s integrity and unique character was more than obvious.

“We can’t play the show without giving vent to our views, because that’s part of our music,” Serj said at the time. “If we get up onstage and talk about the Armenian genocide, we’ve been told we’ll get arrested. We’re against the Turkish government, not their people. To this day their government has denied that the genocide ever took place. Playing there and not addressing the subject would have been too hypocritical.”

And therein lies the truth about System Of A Down: here is a band that were on the cusp of commercial triumph, and yet they never wavered from their principles or compromised on anything that they felt was truly important, making music that defied description while singing about things that genuinely matter. Less the result of a calculated formula than an intuitive urge to shake things up, their music would reach a peak of efficacy three years later with the release of Toxicity , the album that would turn these resolute oddballs into superstars, eventually attaining triple-platinum status in the US. Perhaps uniquely, System have managed to sustain their appeal and their allure, even during long periods of inactivity. Ultimately, there really is something special about this band. And that’s why everyone is insanely excited about the prospect of a new album in 2017. We’re counting the seconds. Bring it on.

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A container ship crashed into a major bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday, causing its collapse into the Patapsco River.

A livestream showed vehicles traveling on the Francis Scott Key Bridge just moments before the impact at 1:28 a.m. ET.

Baltimore first responders called the situation a "developing mass casualty event" and a "dire emergency," per The Associated Press.

James Wallace, chief of the Baltimore Fire Department, said in a press conference that two people had been recovered from the water.

One was uninjured, but the other was transported to a local trauma center in a "very serious condition."

Wallace said up to 20 people were thought to have fallen into the river and some six people were still missing.

Richard Worley, Baltimore's police chief, said there was "no indication" the collision was purposeful or an act of terrorism.

Wes Moore, the governor of Maryland, declared a state of emergency around 6 a.m. ET. He said his office was in close communication with Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary.

"We are working with an interagency team to quickly deploy federal resources from the Biden Administration," Moore added.

Understanding why the bridge collapsed could have implications for safety, in both the shipping and civil engineering sectors.

The container ship is the Singapore-flagged Dali, which is about 984 feet long, and 157 feet wide, per a listing on VesselFinder.

An unclassified Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency report said that the ship "lost propulsion" as it was leaving port, ABC News reported.

The crew notified officials that they had lost control and warned of a possible collision, the report said, per the outlet.

The Dali's owner is listed as Grace Ocean, a Singapore-based firm, and its manager is listed as Synergy Marine, which is also headquartered in Singapore.

Shipping news outlet TradeWinds reported that Grace Ocean confirmed the Dali was involved in the collapse, but is still determining what caused the crash.

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Staff for Grace Ocean declined to comment on the collision when contacted by Business Insider.

"All crew members, including the two pilots have been accounted for and there are no reports of any injuries. There has also been no pollution," Synergy Marine said in a statement.

The company did not respond to a request for further comment from BI.

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Maersk chartered the Dali, with a schedule for the ship on its website.

"We are horrified by what has happened in Baltimore, and our thoughts are with all of those affected," the Danish shipping company said in a statement.

Maersk added: "We are closely following the investigations conducted by authorities and Synergy, and we will do our utmost to keep our customers informed."

Per ship tracking data, the Dali left Baltimore on its way to Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, at around 1 a.m., about half an hour before the crash.

The Port of Baltimore is thought to be the largest in the US for roll-on/roll-off ships carrying trucks and trailers.

Barbara Rossi, associate professor of engineering science at the University of Oxford, told BI the force of the impact on one of the bridge's supporting structures "must have been immense" to lead to the collapse.

Dr Salvatore Mercogliano, a shipping analyst and maritime historian at Campbell University, told BI: "It appears Dali left the channel while outbound. She would have been under the control of the ship's master with a Chesapeake Bay pilot onboard to advise the master.

"The deviation out of the channel is probably due to a mechanical issue as the ship had just departed the port, but you cannot rule out human error as that was the cause of the Ever Forward in 2022 just outside of Baltimore."

He was referring to the incident two years ago when the container ship became grounded for a month in Chesapeake Bay after loading up cargo at the Port of Baltimore.

The US Coast Guard found the incident was caused by pilot error, cellphone use, and "inadequate bridge resource management."

Claudia Norrgren, from the maritime research firm Veson Nautical, told BI: "The industry bodies who are here to protect against incidents like this, such as the vessel's flag state, classification society, and regulatory bodies, will step in and conduct a formal investigation into the incident. Until then, it'll be very hard for anyone to truly know what happened on board."

This may not have been the first time the Dali hit a structure.

In 2016, maritime blogs such as Shipwreck Log and ship-tracking site VesselFinder posted videos of what appears to be the stern of the same, blue-hulled container vessel scraping against a quay in Antwerp.

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The Dali is listed as being built in 2015 by Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea.

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In honour of a joke courtesy of Sir Keir Starmer today, Sophy and the panel are road testing deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner's unusual cocktail of choice. 

The "venom" got a shout-out at Labour's local election launch today.

Introducing Sir Keir, Ms Rayner quipped that Rishi Sunak, who is teetotal, is "like that friend from back home who says he'll get the first round in if you pay for the taxi, and yet when you get to the bar he's nowhere to be seen".

She said Sir Keir, on the other hand, was a man "who does always get his round in". 

When he took to the stage, Sir Keir replied: "Some advice for all of you - if you are thinking of getting a round with Ange, don't be tempted by her favourite drink, the venom cocktail, or you will live to regret it". 

So what is in this heady cocktail? 

Well, it's a blend of vodka, Southern Comfort, orange juice and WKD blue. 

And in case you'd like to play along at home, please drink sensibly.

Next on the show is  Louise Haigh , the shadow secretary of state for transport.

Sophy asks her whether nationalisation should be on the table for water companies in light of possible bill increases of up to 40% for customers.

"We don't have the time, or frankly the money, to be nationalising water companies right now because it would take far too to unpick the very complex regulatory and privatised system that we have," she says. 

She says it is the government's "regulatory system that has allowed companies like Thames Water to get into huge amounts of debt".

She says Labour has set out plans to "radically reform" regulatory systems, and to "put proper sanctions" on water company bosses. 

That is Sophy's next question of Conservative Party chairman Richard Holden.

It comes after the chief executive of Thames Water refused to rule out bill increases of up to 40% for customers.

The business, which serves nearly a quarter of the UK's population, is struggling with more than £15bn of debt and the huge interest payments required to service it.

Mr Holden says: "It's a highly regulated sector, and that's because it's essentially a privatised monopoly."

He says that is "why we're doing things which we wouldn't do with other companies, such as totally monitoring everything they now do, [their] ability to stop them paying dividends, which we wouldn't do to the private companies, [their] ability to issue unlimited fines, which we wouldn't do with other sectors". 

He adds: "What I'd say is that, I don't think that when you look at other parts of the world or the parts of the UK, which don't have exactly the same system, that you see a vastly different outcome."

Conservative Party chairman Richard Holden tells Sophy Ridge that a vote for Reform UK amounts to a vote for Labour.

"It's quite clear that a vote for Reform, all it's going to do is help Keir Starmer get into Downing Street," he says.

Sophy had asked him about reports in POLITICO this evening that some Tory MPs are suggesting the prime minister should try and buy off Nigel Farage and the threat of Reform by offering him an appealing job, such as ambassador to Washington. 

Asked whether he thinks that would be a good idea, Mr Holden points to the recent Rochdale by-election, at which he says the vote for Reform "went backwards" compared to the last one. 

Pressed further, he says he believes the question is "irrelevant to what people are talking about on the ground".

"What they're interested in is their lives, what's happening in their communities, and what they want to see is the Conservative party, working together, united, delivering as we have done since 2010 on the people's priorities such as now cutting tax for the future," he says. 

Sophy's first guest on the show is  Richard Holden , the Conservative Party chairman.

Sophy starts by asking him about Sir Keir Starmer's comments today that Rishi Sunak "strangled" levelling up "at birth" and that if the public want to level up, they should vote for Labour. 

"Well, what I'd say is that over the last 14 years, we've actually delivered devolution in England, something which Labour failed to do over their 14 years in office," he says. 

"That's delivering huge amounts of spending power to fantastic mayors up and down the country." 

He contrasts that with Labour's performance in Wales, which he says is "not going that well". 

Sophy challenges him by saying only 10% of the funding that was earmarked for levelling up projects has been spent, according to the Public Accounts Committee, and highlighting a £4bn funding gap. 

After an initial deviation to talk about the police, he says: "Those levelling up projects are only a part of that overall levelling up agenda that we're doing right across the country."

By Sharon Marris, business reporter

The chief executive of Thames Water has refused to rule out bill increases of up to 40% for customers as the troubled company tries to secure its future.

It comes as the business, which serves nearly a quarter of the UK's population, struggles with more than £15bn of debt and the huge interest payments required to service it.

Earlier on Thursday, its situation got worse when it was revealed that a £500m funding injection from shareholders expected by the end of this month would not be forthcoming.

When asked by Sky News' Ian King if bills could be hiked to fill the gap, Thames Water chief executive Chris Weston replied: "I don't think we have been at all secretive about that.

"But the plans that we have put forward - which are very much in accordance with what customers are asking us to do - require an investment of around £20bn in that 2025-2030 period, and that would result in a bill (increase) of around 40%."

Mr Weston added: "It is very clear listening to our customers that what they value most is high-quality clean drinking water and that we do all that we can to protect the environment.

"Those two things are primarily what is driving the investment that we are having to make in our network in that five-year period."

The rise in bills would - if approved - come at a time when the cost of living is still rising, albeit at a slower rate than in recent months.

Read more here:

Our political editor Beth Rigby  was at Labour's local election launch in Dudley today - and she interviewed Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer. 

She says the message we are seeing increasingly from Labour is that change is going to "take time".

The launch today focused on devolution, but councils are facing "pressing" financial problems, she says. 

What emerged today was the acknowledgement that it would take a Labour government time to address these issues as there is "no magic money tree". 

She said it was an admission that "change means patience".

You can watch Beth's interview with Sir Keir here:

By Alexandra Rogers , political reporter

Sir Keir Starmer has admitted Boris Johnson was "right" to propose levelling up but said he was "frustrated" by the former prime minister's "unforgivable" failure to deliver.

The Labour leader also claimed the policy, which defined Mr Johnson's premiership, was "strangled at birth" by his successor, Rishi Sunak.

Speaking to Sky News' political editor Beth Rigby at the launch of Labour's local election campaign in Dudley, Sir Keir said "the idea" of levelling up that was put before the electorate in 2019 by Mr Johnson was "right".

But he added: "What that requires - and this is where I get frustrated - is if you really believe that... I'm afraid you've got to roll your sleeves up, you've got to put a plan on the table, you go the hard yards.

"And so what is unforgivable about Boris Johnson is, having made that the focus, he didn't do the hard yards of delivery and that's why people feel even more let down."

The Labour leader was equally critical of Mr Sunak, whom he said had "strangled levelling up at birth because he wouldn't put the funding behind it - and we know what the consequences are."

However, despite criticising the Conservatives for their failure to put money behind the policy, Sir Keir refused to commit any new funding to local councils, which are straddling an estimated funding gap of £4bn over the next two years. 

Read more here: 

Tonight we're talking levelling up.

It was the flagship policy of Boris Johnson - who stormed to victory in 2019 promising to level up.

And now Sir Keir Starmer is staking his claim on the concept, telling Beth Rigby that Rishi Sunak "strangled the idea at birth" but he wants to bring it back to life.

And why wouldn't he put it at the heart of his pitch? The Conservatives showed previously that it was an election winner. A campaign slogan that says you'll listen to people who feel they've been forgotten. Everyone agrees with the principle of levelling up, of opportunity for all.

But I've got a question. What does levelling up actually mean?

Devolution? Social mobility? Job opportunities? Redeveloping high streets? Improving transport links?

All that takes time, reform - and money. The one thing there won't be a lot of after the election.

Levelling up is a great campaign slogan. But it's a damn hard thing to actually pull off. Perhaps it's no wonder nobody has managed it yet.

Politics Hub With Sophy Ridge   is live now on Sky News.

The fast-paced programme dissects the inner workings of Westminster, with interviews, insights, and analysis - bringing the audience into the corridors of power.

Sophy will be joined by  Richard Holden , the Conservative Party chairman.

Also on the show is  Louise Haigh , the shadow secretary of state for transport.

On Sophy's panel tonight are:

  • Jacqui Smith,  former Labour home secretary and chair of the Jo Cox Foundation;
  • Tim Montgomerie,  founder of Conservative Home.

Watch Politics Hub  from Monday to Thursday on Sky channel 501, Virgin channel 602, Freeview channel 233, on the  Sky News website  and  app  or on  YouTube .

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