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SOUNDGARDEN Guitarist On Band's Reunion: 'We Had No Plans To Write A New Album'

Joshua Bottomley of Hails & Horns recently conducted an interview with guitarist Kim Thayil of reunited grunge legends SOUNDGARDEN. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Hails & Horns: How crucial was it for SOUNDGARDEN to go out and play live before getting back into the studio?...

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PORTNOY, KOTZEN, SHEEHAN Project Completes Work On Debut Album

The new project featuring Mike Portnoy (DREAM THEATER, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, ADRENALINE MOB),Billy Sheehan (MR. BIG) and Richie Kotzen (MR. BIG, POISON) has completed work on its debut album for a 2013 release. Sheehan says: "I'm really pleased with it. Richie sang his ass off and played amazingly uni...

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SOUNDGARDEN Taps DAVE GROHL For 'By Crooked Steps' Video

Reunited grunge legends SOUNDGARDEN are filming the official music video for the song "By Crooked Steps" today (Tuesday, December 18) with Dave Grohl (FOO FIGHTERS, NIRVANA) at the helm. "By Crooked Steps" comes off "King Animal", the first collection of all-new material in 16 years from SOUNDGARDEN...

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King Animal

If there's one band that mostly escaped the wrath of heavy metal's original flock, one that still laments the arrival of NIRVANA and grunge despite metal's protracted return, it's SOUNDGARDEN. The primary reason for this is their evolution from a STOOGES-meets-HUSKER DU-meets-MUDHONEY mindset that w...

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SOUNDGARDEN: New Video Interview Posted Online

Last.fm conducted an interview with reunited grunge legends SOUNDGARDEN last month before the band's "Late Show With David Letterman" appearance. You can now watch the chat below. "King Animal", the first collection of all-new material in 16 years from SOUNDGARDEN, and first since the group reunited...

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SOUNDGARDEN Interviewed On MTV's 'The Hivecast With Matt Pinfield' (Audio)

Matt Pinfield conducted an interview with reunited grunge legends SOUNDGARDEN on November 14 in New York City for the latest episode of MTV's "The Hivecast With Matt Pinfield". You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. SOUNDGARDEN was the musical guest on the November 26 edition A...

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SOUNDGARDEN Performs On 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' (Video)

Reunited grunge legends SOUNDGARDEN were the musical guests on last night's (Monday, November 26) edition ABC-TV's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" The band performed two songs — "By Crooked Steps" and "Been Away Too Long" — on the show's outdoor stage in front of a standing-room-only crowd. You can now watch v...

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SOUNDGARDEN's 'King Animal' Cracks U.S. Top 5

"King Animal", the first collection of all-new material in 16 years from grunge legends SOUNDGARDEN, and first since the group reunited in 2010, sold 83,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 5 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD arrived in stores on Nov...

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SOUNDGARDEN Interviewed By ExploreMusic (Video)

Mike Sullivan of ExploreMusic last week conducted an interview with guitarist Kim Thayil and bassist Ben Shepherd of reunited grunge legends SOUNDGARDEN. You can now watch the chat below. "King Animal", the first collection of all-new material in 16 years from SOUNDGARDEN, and first since the group...

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SOUNDGARDEN Singer Remembers Touring With GUNS N' ROSES

During a recent interview with Vulture.com, singer Chris Cornell of reunited grunge legends SOUNDGARDEN was asked what he remembers most about opening for GUNS N' ROSES in 1991. "Without saying anything negative about [GUNS N' ROSES frontman] Axl [Rose], what I remember the most was Duff [McKagan] a...

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VISION OF DISORDER: 'Hard Times' Video Released

"Hard Times", the new video from hardcore/metal veterans VISION OF DISORDER (a.k.a. V.O.D.),can be seen below. The song comes off the band's new album, "The Cursed Remain Cursed", which was released on September 18 (one day earlier in Europe) via Candlelight Records. The CD was produced by Will Put...

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SOUNDGARDEN Interviewed By NME TV (Video)

NME TV caught up with reunited grunge legends SOUNDGARDEN ahead of their Shepherd's Bush Empire show, 18 years after they were the very first band to play there live. They tell NME TV why they decided to record a new album and what it was like being in the studio together again. Check out the ...

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Up Close And Personal With SOUNDGARDEN

On November 15, reunited grunge legends SOUNDGARDEN spoke to Bookie at the 102.1 The Edge studios at Sugar Beach in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. You can now watch the chat below. "King Animal", the first collection of all-new material in 16 years from SOUNDGARDEN, and first since the group reunited in...

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SOUNDGARDEN: Footage Of Intimate New York City Show

According to The Pulse Of Radio, SOUNDGARDEN blasted through 23 songs in front of 1,000 people at New York City's Irving Plaza nightclub on Tuesday night (November 13),in the first of three such shows to celebrate the arrival of the band's first album in 16 years, "King Animal". The show included a...

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SOUNDGARDEN's 'King Animal' Projected To Sell 70K-75K First Week

"King Animal", the first collection of all-new material in 16 years from grunge legends SOUNDGARDEN, and first since the group reunited in 2010, is likely to sell between 70,000 and 75,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to industry web site Hits Daily Double. The...