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“Some of our peers thought, ‘Are they going to be corporate sell-outs?’ I don’t know if was jealousy or a feeling of betrayal”: the rise, fall and return of Soundgarden

In 2014, Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil sat down with Metal Hammer to look back over his band’s rollercoaster career

Metal Hammer

"A guy named Alexander Dumble made the amps": Andrew Watt reveals the gear behind Pearl Jam's new album

"I have Marshalls, Fenders, Voxes, Oranges, Supros – all different kinds of amps. But since the day we got this amp I've not plugged into anything else," he said of his favourite Dumble modded amp

MusicRadar

"We referenced The Cure a lot while making it": Stone Gossard reveals Pearl Jam's shared inspiration, and why he feels more heard as a guitarist on new album, Dark Matter

"You could be the greatest guitar player in the world but a ten-year-old could learn to play that in an hour", he says of the "magic" melodic moments he loves to discover in songwriting

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"We went to the promoter and said, Can we go home? They were, like, 'Yeah, you can go home! But first you're gonna have to give me two millions dollars!'": Lollapalooza '92 celebrated alt. rock taking over the mainstream. But for one band, it was hell

"We were like rabbits caught in headlights. It was just traumatic for us"

Louder

“I guess I’m a big grunge-head!" Why WWE superstar Becky Lynch loves Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and the rest

Multiple-time world champion and future WWE Hall Of Famer Becky Lynch on why grunge was the music she fell in love with

Metal Hammer

“I don’t think there was a single riff I wrote after 1992 that Zack de la Rocha even liked”: how Audioslave saw Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello escaping his own past

In 2006, Audioslave’s Tom Morello and Chris Cornell sat down with Classic Rock to reveal all about their third album, Revelations

Metal Hammer

"I don't like the production of that record. I don't like how it sounds. I don't like how it looks": Soundgarden look back at their breakthrough album Superunknown

Grunge‘s founding fathers, Soundgarden watched the bands they inspired shoot past them. But with their mighty fourth album, Superunknown, they would help define the 1990s

Metal Hammer

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The 20 greatest rock supergroups ever

From Cream and ELP to Temple Of The Dog and Velvet Revolver, these are history’s greatest supergroups

Louder

“I am honoured to be joined by dozens of my favourite artists”: Slash, Corey Taylor, Serj Tankian and more will appear on a new album by composer extraordinaire Bear McCreary

Members of Anthrax, Meshuggah and Soundgarden will also join the Walking Dead/Godzilla/God Of War composer’s all-star lineup

Metal Hammer

The Rejects by Jamie Collinson review – almost famous

From Pete Best to Florence Ballard and the guy who managed to get fired from both Nirvana and Soundgarden, a history of rock and pop’s also-rans

The Guardian - UK

“I didn’t play with a Big Muff for a long time and felt like a fraud”: Mudhoney’s Steve Turner and Mark Arm like to lose control, but without straying too far from their comfort zone

What’s hardcore? What’s grunge? Why have a huge pedalboard? What’s happening with the Melvins? The legendary alt-rock guitar duo ponder all of this and more as they go deep on Mudhoney's new album, Plastic Eternity, and their past and future

Guitar World

“Just the ticket for those aspiring to recreate the monstrous riffs from across Thayil’s remarkable discography”: Guild Polara Kim Thayil review

It took three decades, but the wait is finally over, the Soundgarden icon has got his name on a Polara. Was it worth it? You bet

Guitar World

NAMM 2024: Guild updates its Kim Thayil-approved Polara range, including a Vintage White refresh of the former Soundgarden guitarist's signature model

The Polara is wearing some hot new finishes and fresh specs across the 2024 Night Edition, Deluxe and Standard models, and all these new models retail for under $1,000

MusicRadar

Soundgarden's Kim Thayil says the word 'grunge' was nothing but a marketing ploy

Soundgarden guitarist says grunge bands never used the word – but marketing types were all over it

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"I feel like I'm hallucinating and all of a sudden I've listened to this song 15 times in a row. I called Chris Cornell and said, You're a genius": producer Michael Beinhorn on the tensions and triumph of Soundgarden's Superunknown

How forcing Chris Cornell to be more selfish sparked the creation of Soundgarden's finest work

MusicRadar

“For better or worse, you’re gonna hear a lot more lead guitar from me… I went crazy”: Mike McCready offers update on “heavier” new Pearl Jam album

McCready says it is heavier, it has the “melody and energy” of Ten and Vs, and we all might just hear it this year

MusicRadar

5 songs featuring Josh Freese on drums (that you might not know were him)

Best of 2023: Tracks from the session drumming ace that might surprise you

What Hi-Fi?

14 best grunge tracks to test your hi-fi system

Dig out that flannel and put your hi-fi system through its paces with our playlist of favourite grunge test tracks.

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Guitar World

“I played about eight different guitar tunings – I threw the idea of patterns and scales out the window”: Kim Thayil hits back at being called a “sloppy” guitarist

The grunge icon details how the pros and cons of alternate tunings defined Soundgarden’s career, and how his “spontaneous wildness” saw Chris Cornell reposition his amp

Louder

“If I ever run into him in a dream again, I hope I remember to apologize”: the time Chris Cornell revealed he’d been dreaming about Layne Staley

Cornell wrote that he’d been angry at Staley’s funeral and wanted to say sorry

Metal Hammer

Soundgarden dispute with Chris Cornell's estate is not over after all – and late frontman's last batch of songs remain shelved

Don't hold your breath for those seven unreleased Chris Cornell songs, says Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron

Louder

"I looked to John Lennon as a father figure when I was a kid": watch Chris Cornell discuss the influence of John Lennon, and perform a beautiful acoustic version of Imagine, on the Howard Stern show in 2011

The Beatles, and specifically John Lennon, had a huge influence on late Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell. Watch him explain why to Howard Stern

Guitar World

The electric guitar shredded itself to death in the ‘80s. It had to start over, but the ‘90s grunge revolution didn‘t just change the face of guitar playing – it changed the world

Guitar World presents a grunge guitar guide to the ‘90s, the decade when Seattle became the epicenter of the musical universe, and resurrected the electric guitar with a raw, dirty sound that gave birth to a whole new generation of guitar players

The Independent UK

How to spend a day in Capitol Hill, Seattle’s trend-setting neighbourhood

This neighbourhood is one of the coolest on the US west coast, and a microcosm of modern, innovative Seattle – Richard Franks discovers superb drinking dens and a vibrant LGBTQ+ scene in the home of grunge

Metal Hammer

10 hard rock and heavy metal music videos that got banned for the dumbest reasons

Classic songs by Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Slipknot have all been taken off the airwaves with the most frivolous excuses

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