September 28th, 2012 
Anthony Galasso Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, Tim McIlrath of Rise Against and Serj Tankian of System of a Down have released a song for the Occupy Wall Street movement’s first birthday.
The song, entitled “We Are The 99%”, is streaming on RollingStone.com and available for free download here. Read a statement from Morello below, who wrote and produced the song.
“We Are The 99%” is a song inspired by the global Occupy movement. I wanted to capture the excitement and energy of people fighting for change and make sure the song was free to anyone …
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System Of A Down Bassist Blames Frontman Serj Tankian For Lack Of New Music
System Of A Down have not released a new album since 2005. In the time that has passed since that time UTG was born, over a dozen writers for the site graduated college, and the face of mainstream rock has completely changed at least three times over. Still, even with all that has happened, fans of SOAD continue to ask the band for new material and until now they have received almost nothing in the form of a response.
Taking to Facebook recently, System Of A Down bassist Shavo Odadjian blamed the lack of new music on frontman Serj Tankian …