SOUNDGARDEN To Tour Australia In 2011?

According to Australia's long-running rock station Triple M, the reunited SOUNDGARDEN will be doing shows in the country in 2011.

The station's music reporter Nui Te Koha revealed that Australian promoters were at this past weekend's Lollapalooza festival in Chicago "trying to lock down these dates but it will happen early this year."

When pressed for exact timings, Nui said it will be "January, February, March next year."

According to The Pulse of Radio, SOUNDGARDEN returned to the big stage this past weekend to close out Chicago's Lollapalooza festival, and in the words of vocalist Chris Cornell — they are back. In between performing such songs as "Blow Up the Outside World", "Let Me Drown" and "Rusty Cage", Cornell told the crowd, "It's good to be back! We just took a little break, but now we're back." That "little break" was more like 13 years, and the group seemed to have made a big return based on the overall flattering concert reviews from Sunday's (August 8) show.

Rolling Stone described SOUNDGARDEN's songs as "epic," noting, "There were no special effects during SOUNDGARDEN's performance on the last night of Lollapalooza — no lasers, no costume changes, no props or hydraulics . . . But the band didn't need any added visuals: SOUNDGARDEN delivered an explosive set of classic '90s songs in front of their biggest audience since their breakup 13 years ago." Spin noted, "SOUNDGARDEN have always been good at big — even their ballads are apocalyptic epics perfectly unsuited to lighter-waving."

The Lollapalooza festival marked SOUNDGARDEN's third gig since the reunion was announced in January. The band will release a hits collection called "Telephantasm" on September 28. There's no word on what will come next. Cornell recently told USA Today 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."