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Photo by Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images Chris Cornell’s Soundgarden Bandmates Having an ‘Emotionally Difficult’ Time Finishing Their Final Album
Chris Cornell’s Soundgarden bandmates are putting touches on their final album with the last singer, and it’s been very emotional.
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Photo by Lester Cohen Legendary Grunge Guitarist Name Drops Some of the Heaviest Metal Bands Who Inspired Him, and You Can Definitely Hear It in His Songs
Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil was asked about his early days playing, and he revealed that bands like Metallica had a big influence on him.
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Photo by Gie Knaeps/Getty Images On This Day in 2017, Family, Friends, and Rock Royalty Gathered To Say Goodbye to ‘The Godfather of Grunge’
Chris Cornell’s memorial service was packed with his famous friends who mourned alongside his family, with fans crowded outside the cemetery.
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Photo by Rob Verhorst/Redferns On This Day 37 Years Apart, the World Lost Two Men Who Helped Define Rock Across Eras
Ian Curtis and Chris Cornell are enshrined in music history for their incredible work, but also the similar tragedy of thier deaths.
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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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(Photo by Lester Cohen) Soundgarden’s ‘Spoonman’ Isn’t As Illicit As Most of Us Thought in 1994
Soundgarden’s 1994 song ‘Spoonman’ is actually about a spoon-playing street performer, and not about drugs.
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(Photo: Gie Knaeps / Getty Images) 4 Grunge Classics That Just Hit Better When Wearing a Band Tee and an Oversized Flannel
You can’t tell me ‘Black Hole Sun’ song doesn’t take you right back to the best days of grunge.
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Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images Chris Cornell Wrote This Soundgarden Hit After His Producer ‘Strongly Urged’ Him Not to Write Music for Fans
One of Soundgarden’s biggest hits was written shortly after Chris Cornell received a pep talk about ignoring fan expectations.
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Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images ‘It Was a Struggle’: Soundgarden Producer Reveals the Album He Was Sure He Would Get Fired Over
Producer Michael Beinhorn recalled working with Soundgarden on their 1994 album, a process that was so difficult he feared for his job.
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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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Jerry Cantrell performing in Chula Vista, California (Photo by Daniel Knighton/Getty Images) As Jerry Cantrell Approaches the End of a Musical Chapter, He Tells Us What Is (And Isn’t) on the Horizon, Football Included
As Jerry Cantrell winds down a year and a half of activity in support of his latest solo album, he looks back at the fun and what comes next.
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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.
