The political activist and Grammy Award winner has teamed up with his pals at peta2--the world's largest youth animal rights organization--and signed the group's petition to KFC at peta2.com, and Tankian is asking his legions of devoted fans to do the same.

The power players have been rocking you hard for the past decade as the guitarist and drummer (respectively) for System of a Down, and all I can tell you about Scars is to expect the unexpected.

Kicking back at the Steakhouse Studio in North Hollywood, California, Daron Malakian bobs his Los Angeles Dodgers-capped head while “Funny” tumbles out of the control room speakers. A deliciously hooky pop song with a minor-key melody worthy of the Kinks or the Zombies, “Funny” is one of the tracks featured on the forthcoming self-titled debut from Scars on Broadway, Malakian’s new band with fellow System of a Down-er John Dolmayan. “I think my Sixties influence is bleeding through on this record,” Malakian says.