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“I wanted to be in a band that would appeal to younger musicians like Pink Floyd or the Ramones did to me. That’s the pinnacle of our success”: How Soundgarden returned from the wilderness with King Animal

Soundgarden’s 2012 comeback album King Animal was their first in 16 years –and it found the grunge pioneers finally comfortable with their legacy

Metal Hammer

"It's one thing to take off your shirt, but it's another to pre-rip the seams": How Soundgarden's dig at rock star excess helped turn them into rock stars themselves

Soundgarden were still waiting for their big break when they released Jesus Christ Pose

Metal Hammer

“At this level and price it’s a serious starter, spare or – as it ever was – a wicked slide guitar”: Guild Polara Deluxe review

Guild has revamped its ’70s-era Polara range. We spent some time with this mid-range 2024 model: a modern pawn-shop prize or a copy too far?

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“Kim Thayil is one of the coolest and most inventive guitar players ever… Chris Cornell is definitely in my Mount Rushmore of singers”: Mark Tremonti weighs in on the biggest bands of the ’90s (including Creed)

As Creed return, Tremonti shares his thoughts on Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and a host of other ’90s icons

Guitar World

"Some of his best songs are b-sides": 8 non-album Chris Cornell tracks that showcase his brilliance

On what would have been Chris Cornell's 60th birthday we delve a little deeper to celebrate his legacy with Soundgarden, Audioslave and solo

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“We didn’t meander into obscurity and make records that I wasn’t proud of. None of that ever happened”: the epic story of Soundgarden, the superstar grunge band who didn’t want to be superstars

Late, great Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell would have turned 60 on July 20 – this is the story of the band that made him famous

Metal Hammer

“It’s in a tuning that I call ‘Lazy Keith Richards’”: Melvins’ Dale Crover invents a new guitar tuning – and lands a Kim Thayil guest solo – for his new single

Thayil has consistently expressed his admiration for the Melvins, even crediting the band for introducing drop-D tuning to hard rock

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“Jimmy Page said, ‘Wow, I love the way you play that song.’ I was like, ‘God, I could die now’”: Heart’s Nancy Wilson on their long road to the top, grunge friends – and that cover of Stairway to Heaven

The band might have landed in the ’70s, but Nancy Wilson is inspiring more players than ever in 2024 –just glance at Instagram

Guitar World

“I was no fool – I’d have guitars laying around my living room and a couple of little amps”: Heart’s Ann Wilson on how she convinced Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and Alice in Chains to jam together at her house

Heart’s Ann and Nancy Wilson recount how they were embraced by Seattle’s music community after the band experienced a dip in popularity

Guitar World

“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

"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

“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 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

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

Guitar World

Eddie Van Halen's guitar rig rises again and a Seattle supergroup returns: this week's essential guitar tracks

Fresh cuts from Mammoth WVH, 3rd Secret, Becca Mancari feat. Brittany Howard, Ariel Posen, Ola Englund, L.S. Dunes… and loads more!

Metal Hammer

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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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

Guitar World

Chris Cornell’s final Soundgarden recordings will finally see the light of day – but what will the material sound like?

The iconic grunge band’s surviving members and the Estate of Chris Cornell have settled their long-running lawsuit

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Soundgarden and Vicky Cornell settle, paving way for new Soundgarden album

SEATTLE — After more than three years of contentious litigation, Soundgarden and Vicky Cornell have reached an agreement paving the way for a future Soundgarden album. Though terms of the deal were not disclosed, news of the accord was announced by Cornell, the wife of late frontman Chris Cornell, and…

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Watch Soundgarden's Kim Thayil tear through Led Zeppelin's Communication Breakdown at Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp performance

The grunge guitar legend revisited an early Soundgarden setlist standard onstage with some lucky campers at the Whisky a Go Go

Tribune News Service

The best Seattle albums of 2022 (so far)

SEATTLE — Eight short months ago, a wise Seattle man and midlevel golfer named Macklemore predicted, in song, that 2022 was going to suck demonstrably less than 2021. Dude's optimism on the evergreen New Year's Eve bop "Next Year," Mack's first track with his old producer pal Ryan Lewis in…

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