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Serj Tankian Talks Toxicity and Activism
FromBroken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Serj Tankian Talks Toxicity and Activism
FromBroken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
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Length:
58 minutes
Released:
Apr 20, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
System of a Down’s classic Rick Rubin-produced album, Toxicity, turns 20 this year. Released in 2001 one week before 9/11, the politically charged and wildly bizarre album provided the perfect soundtrack for a world descending into chaos. Serj Tankian, the lead singer of System, is no stranger to conflict. His family is Armenian and migrated to Los Angeles from Lebanon to escape a civil war when Serj was seven years-old. Today we’ll hear Rick Rubin talk to his good friend Serj about how hearing bombs drop outside his childhood bedroom turned him into a lifelong activist. Serj also explains how a funny line about a tapeworm almost caused System to break up, and why the first time Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine heard System play, he called it music for crazy people.
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Check out a playlist of our favorite System of a Down songs HERE . And hear a playlist Serj put together of his favorite tracks HERE.
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Subscribe to Broken Record’s YouTube channel to hear old and new interviews, often with bonus content: https://www.youtube.com/brokenrecordpodcast and follow us on Twitter @BrokenRecord
You can also check out past episodes here: https://brokenrecordpodcast.com/
Check out a playlist of our favorite System of a Down songs HERE . And hear a playlist Serj put together of his favorite tracks HERE.
Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Released:
Apr 20, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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