Reunited SOUNDGARDEN Plays Intimate Club Show In Chicago; Video Available

The reunited SOUNDGARDEN played last night (Thursday, August 5) at the intimate Vic Theatre in Chicago, just three days before it headlines the third day of the Lollapalooza festival in the Windy City's Grant Park on Sunday, August 8.

The band's setlist was as follows:

01. Searching With My Good Eye Closed
02. Spoonman
03. Gun
04. Rusty Cage
05. Let Me Drown
06. Jesus Christ Pose
07. Flower
08. Outshined
09. Fell On Black Days
10. Ugly Truth
11. Get On The Snake
12. Burden In My Hand
13. Pretty Noose
14. Head Down
15. Face Pollution
16. Superunknown
17. Black Hole Sun
18. Mailmain
19. Slaves And Bulldozers

Encore:

20. 4th Of July
21. Blow Up The Outside
22. Like Suicide

Kyle Anderson of MTV.com writes in his review of the concert, "Though the show was not without hiccups (hot microphones seemed to dog them all night),SOUNDGARDEN proved that their catalog of tunes has withstood the test of time. Old favorites like 'Let Me Drown' and 'Get on the Snake' laid out SOUNDGARDEN's whole aesthetic: thick, burly riffs, deep rhythmic thrusts and Chris Cornell's towering yelp of a voice. It's no wonder that, when combined with a killer chorus, songs like 'Black Hole Sun' and 'Pretty Noose' — both of which showed up in Thursday night's set — became such gigantic mainstream rock hits."

Cornell told USA Today in his first interview since SOUNDGARDEN reunited earlier this year that the group is taking its return one day at a time, saying, "I think our goal now is to do what we always wanted to do, which is to — at our own pace and in our own time — just do what we want when we want to do it. Whether it's shows, songs, whatever it might be, records, we'll know when we get there."

SOUNDGARDEN's gig at the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago will be only its third gig since the reunion was announced in January. The band will release a hits collection called "Telephantasm" on September 28.

The set will be bundled exclusively for one week with copies of Guitar Hero: Warriors Of Rock, marking the first time that a full-length music retail CD has been made available as part of a video game package.

Cornell said that the partnership with Guitar Hero is a way to re-introduce the band — which broke up 13 years ago — to new audiences, explaining, "There are a lot of different ways to get your music out (and) . . . this clearly to me is one way to do that. Guitar Hero has actually turned on a lot of young music fans to music that they otherwise might not have ever heard."

"Telephantasm" will include one previously unreleased song, "Black Rain", which was recorded during the sessions for 1991's "Badmotorfinger" album. Cornell said that the track captures "that super heavy version (of the band) we were finally realizing to its fullest potential about 1991." Expanded editions of "Telephantasm" will also be available on September 28.