Soundgarden

Soundgarden is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1984 by
singer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto.
Matt Cameron became the band's full time drummer in 1986 while bassist Ben
Shepherd became a permanent replacement for Yamamoto in 1990. Soundgarden was
one of the seminal bands in the creation of grunge, a style of ... read more

Kanye West - Kanye West Incurs The Wrath Of Soundgarden In Australia

Kanye West is in Australia at the moment and judging by the reaction hes not exactly been making many friends whilst performing down in the Southern Hemisphere Headlining...
Posted 24 January 11.46am — Comment on this

Chris Cornell - Chris Cornell: 'festival Slur Wasn't Aimed At West'

Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell has dismissed reports he slammed Kanye West for disrupting the bands set at Australias Big Day Out festival insisting his anger was aim...
Posted 24 January 11.17am — Comment on this

Soundgarden - Soundgarden Added To Download 2012 Line Up

Soundgarden have been added to the Download 2012 line up The grunge rockers - who reunited last year following a 14-year hiatus - will perform in the UK for the first tim...
Posted 17 January 8.45am — Comment on this

Soundgarden and Tenacious D Set For Download Festival

Bands join Metallica and Black Sabbath on the show...
Posted 17 January 1.16am — Comment on this

DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL 2012 Adds SOUNDGARDEN, MACHINE HEAD, LAMB OF GOD, TENACIOUS D, others To Already STACKED Lineup

Download Festival is looking pretty prettttty pretty good right about now. Besides their three headliners, The Prodigy, Metallica (playing the Black Album in full in cele...
Posted 16 January 9.34pm — Comment on this

Chris Cornell - Sick Chris Cornell Scraps Solo Show

Soundgarden star Chris Cornell scrapped a solo show in Nashville Tennessee on Wednesday 02Nov11 after falling sick with laryngitis The rocker who recently relaunched Soun...
Posted 3 November 2011 11.11am — Comment on this

Chris Cornell – “Cleaning My Gun”

Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell will release the vinyl-only double live solo-acoustic album Songbook on the day after Thanksgiving, as part of the Record Store Day Bla...
Posted 24 October 2011 7.57pm — Comment on this

Chris Cornell Plays Kimmel

One reason to go see the movie Machine Gun Preacher: Any movie with the words “machine gun” in the title is probably worth looking at. Another reason: The mov...
Posted 13 October 2011 2.14pm — Comment on this

Soundgarden's Chris Cornell: 'I can't read or write music'

Frontman says he wishes he'd stuck with piano lessons at an early age
Posted 30 September 2011 9.03am — Comment on this

Soundgarden - Soundgarden Frontman Wishes He Could Read Music

Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell wishes he hadnt given up his piano lessons when he was 10 The Spoonman singer regrets never being able to read music properly after giv...
Posted 30 September 2011 6.46am — Comment on this

ROGER WATERS Backed By FOO FIGHTERS For Performance Of "In The Flesh"

I think we need to stop asking if there is any way that Dave Grohl can be cooler, because the answer will always be yes. Whether he's hanging in the GA pit watching ...
Posted 29 September 2011 9.46pm — Comment on this

FOO FIGHTERS Serenade The Westboro Baptist Church

As if you needed another reason to think Dave Grohl is awesome. When he's not in the pit watching Soundgarden, dude is playing live shows of his own. Dave will play ...
Posted 19 September 2011 5.18pm — Comment on this

Pearl Jam Twenty – review

Film-maker Cameron Crowe goes way back with grunge outfit Pearl Jam, but this 20th-anniversary account is essentially a fans-only affairPaired together like a plaid shirt...
Posted 15 September 2011 10.20pm — Comment on this

Everybody Loves Our Town: A History of Grunge by Mark Yarm – review

An entertaining history of grunge is a drug and ego-fuelled soap opera in which key figures from the Seattle scene recall a genre riven by conflictOn 8 April 1994, the da...
Posted 15 September 2011 12.00pm — Comment on this

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Top songs

The 5 most played Soundgarden songs in the past year.

  • Black Hole Sun  259 plays
  • Spoonman  1 plays

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Absolute Radio stations playing songs by Soundgarden over the past year.

  1. Absolute Classic Rock 233 plays
  2. Absolute Radio 90s 141 plays
  3. Absolute Radio 27 plays

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