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“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

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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

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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

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“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

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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

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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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“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

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“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

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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

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"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

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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

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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

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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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15 awful albums by classic bands, from Led Zeppelin to Aerosmith

Even rock’n’roll heroes can have a bad day at the office, writes Kevin E G Perry

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The 10 filthiest rock’n’roll riffs ever

Rock’n’roll is best when it’s powered by down and dirty riffs – and here are 10 of the filthiest, according to LA firebrands Dirty Honey

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Your essential guide to every The Pretty Reckless album

Taylor Momsen's band have four highly-regarded albums in their discography: here's everything you need to know

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"We had to die" - A history of The Grunge Wars, told by those who were there

Three decades ago, GN’R’s Use Your Illusion and Nirvana’s Nevermind were released just two weeks apart, setting two musical cultures against each other. We asked combatants from both sides: who won the war?

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Watch Soundgarden cover Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit at Lollapalooza 1992

Watch some true grunge history in action as Soundgarden perform the Nirvana classic as part of their festival set

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Courtney Love says Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was as ambitious and hungry for success as Madonna

Courtney Love says that the idea that her late husband Kurt Cobain didn't want to be a rock star is bulls**t

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The Story Behind The Song: Corrosion Of Conformity’s Vote With A Bullet

Pepper Keenan’s furious call-to-arms was the song that transformed Corrosion Of Conformity from hardcore bruisers into stoner metal revolutionaries

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Revisiting the seven weeks in 1991 that changed music history forever

The 80s weren’t dead and the 90s hadn’t really begun. This is the story of how seven weeks of summer in 1991 belonged to rock (and not just grunge)

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

Tracks from the session drumming ace that might surprise you

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Remembering Chris Cornell, the unsung guitarist, on the anniversary of his death - “My approach to guitar has always been, 'I don’t want to know anything'”

Six years on from the loss of one of rock's greatest voices with Soundgarden and Audioslave, we look at why Chris Cornell's legacy is also one of a consistently inventive guitar player

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The stories of 10 'regular folk' made famous by rock songs

What do Spoonman, Arnold Layne, and an unnamed security guard at Studio 54 have in common? They all inspired classic songs

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