HIGH TIMES' music awards are back!. This year's winners are Damian Marley (pictured on the cover), System of a Down, Sean Paul, String Cheese Incident, Ying Yang Twins, Bonnaroo and, yes, the Kottonmouth Kings!

Down at the crossroads of music and marijuana, great things are known to happen. Toke a joint and new lyrics flow effortlessly. Inhale a hit and a song pours out like syrup onto pancakes.
Bill Hicks nailed it when he said that all the Beatles’ music was created under the influence of drugs. He joked that they had to pull Ringo off the ceiling when they wrote “Yellow Submarine.”

For years, we’ve cataloged marijuana music in the pages of HIGH TIMES. Not only do musicians write better stoned, but readers also enjoy listening better high. It’s that simple !!

Armenian Americans from across the United States joined today with System Of A Down's Serj Tankian and John Dolmayan at a Washington, DC "Rally for Justice," urging the Turkish Government to end its worldwide campaign of Armenian Genocide denial.

Organized by the Armenian National Committee of Greater Washington (ANC-GW) and the Armenian Youth Federation Washington Chapter, the protest attracted over 1,000 activists to the Turkish Embassy, as Armenians worldwide marked the 91st anniversary of this crime against humanity. Among the participants was DC United star player Alecko Eskandarian, who was MLS Cup Champion and MVP in 2004.

Care to take a guess about who were talking about? If you guessed System of a Down you are absolutely right.
The LA based band SOAD has been setting standards in the Rock scene for several years now, they have inspired many of today’s top bands and new bands who are just starting out from their garage.
Armed with the ability to fuse rock, pop and world music all in one to create tunes that can restart a failing heart, System of a Down has become a legendary force to be reckoned with.

Be the first to watch the new System of a Down's video, Lonely Day, click HERE to download a low quality version (Hi quality version will be available soon).

The new video is directed by 'Josh Melnick' and 'Xander Charity', the new single should be released within the upcoming 2 weeks and will have Vartan Malakian artwork as the cover.

You can also watch the video online on Yahoo music videos, no word yet on the premiere date for TV or the official site.

His son has got him covered. System of a Down's artist of choice is Vartan Malakian, the guitarist's dad.

On the walls of a quiet Spanish-style house in suburban Glendale hang two paintings that, although largely unknown to art critics, are million-sellers.
Titled "Mezmerize" and "Hypnotize," the works are the source images for the covers of two albums released in 2005 by the hard-rock band System of a Down. The originals might constitute an odd choice of home décor for Vartan and Zepur Malakian — except that Vartan, 59, is the artist who created them, and the couple's son, Daron, is System's guitarist, co-vocalist and principal tunesmith.

John Dolmayan from System of a Down Searches His Soul.
When we last visited our hero, John Dolmayan of metal eccentrics System of a Down, he was not really very concerned with drums, music, albums, or chart positions.
The year was 2002, and he and his bandmates were preoccupied with slightly larger things, namely The End of the World. Back then, SOAD's conviction that Judgement Day was eminent had wide-ranging impacts, not the least of which was that they were tricky to get on the phone for interviews. Today, Dolmayan is as freaked out as ever, but happily his obsessions with Armageddon are having less of an impact on his day-to-day operations, as he settles in for a winter talk at one of New York City's hippest hotels.
"You're always concerned that the end of the world is coming," he says in his intense, animated manner. "Every generation is concerned with it, as they see the values they have disappear. But some of the sickest societies existed in the past - what happened is that people got tired of living that way, and they developed societies with different levels of depravity, depending on which one you live in.