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Photo by Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images 32 Years Ago Today: One of the Biggest Rock Songs of the 90s Was Inspired by a News Anchor’s Passing Comment
Chris Cornell wrote “Black Hole Sun” in the car driving home after mishearing a TV news broadcast.
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Kevin Nixon/Classic Rock Magazine/Future Publishing via Getty Images Dave Grohl’s New ‘Favorite Band’ Are Fellow Grunge Icons From the 90s
Dave Grohl is rediscovering one of the ‘Big Four’ of grunge.
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Photo by Paul Bergen/Redferns An Iconic Grunge Musician Was Once Robbed at Knifepoint and the Attack Led Fans To Form a Skatepark Charity
Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament was robbed at knifepoint on April 27, 2009, but that incident led to the founding of a charity in his name.
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Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder Says the Band Is ‘Woodshedding’ Again After Drummer Matt Cameron’s Exit
Pearl Jam lost longtime drummer Matt Cameron in 2025 and has not yet announced a new one, something Vedder was coy about.
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Taylor Hill/Getty Images Audioslave Has Unheard Songs They Recorded With Late Frontman Chris Cornell, but We Are ‘No Closer’ to Hearing Them
Chris Cornell passed away in 2017, but Tom Morello says Audioslave is sitting on at least an album’s worth of songs with the late singer.
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Gie Knaeps / Getty Images Soundgarden Recalls Most ‘Bizarre’ Ways Critics Described Their Music in Early 1990s (We Have Some Favorites, Too)
Late Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell once said that “Metallica meets Beefheart” was one of his favorite ways to be described.
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Gie Knaeps/Getty Images/X Pro Wrestler Steven Flowe Is the Grunge Tribute Act You Didn’t Know You Needed
Steven Flowe’s entrance music is a parody version of “Even Flow” that just says his own name over and over.
