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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

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“When I quit my job as a scientist to be a songwriter, I was waiting tables and bartending and needing to write songs for a living”: The art of songwriting with rising country star Stephen Wilson Jr

"The bus driver only played country music, so that was three hours a day, five days a week, listening to country music. I called it emersion"

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“I thought it was the height of hilarity to promote drugs and Satan while not doing any of it”: How Monster Magnet became metal’s ultimate space lords

Monster Magnet’s Dave Wyndorf on comic books, psychedelia and near death experiences

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“Slash and I could drink anyone under the table, but Arnold Schwarzenegger was a challenge. He was smoking and swearing all the time”: Duff McKagan’s wild tales of Iggy Pop, Aerosmith, Johnny Thunders and The Terminator

Boozing with Arnie, jamming with Iggy, ignoring Aerosmith’s phone calls – Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan has done it all and more

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“Chris was in a very fragile part of his life. He started playing bass… He got so into it he started bleeding. I said, ‘This is the man you want.’ And then he died”: Alex Van Halen reveals his and Eddie’s secret jams with Chris Cornell

Eddie Van Halen and his brother tried out the Soundgarden singer shortly before his death – and at one stage, an Ozzy Osbourne-fronted Van Halen album was also on the cards

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"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

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“Grunge was a much-needed break from the corporate ’80s sound. It literally put electric guitar rock back on the map”: Nancy Wilson explains why Seattle has produced so many guitar heroes

The Heart legend looks back at the prolific musical legacy of her hometown in this exclusive excerpt from new book The Sound of Seattle

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10 iconic albums celebrating their 30th anniversary this year

1994 was a sublime twelve months for music, and we're celebrating the 30th anniversary of some of the year's finest releases.

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“I never treated bands like rock stars, I treated them as people.” Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and the stories behind some of grunge's most iconic images

Legendary photographer Steve Gullick shares his memories of shooting Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love, Eddie Vedder and more

Metal Hammer

"That extraordinary voice, switching from urgency to desolation within a few bars": The Chris Cornell albums you should definitely listen to

With Soundgarden, Audioslave, Temple Of The Dog and solo, Chris Cornell proved to be a vocalist of singular talent. Here we round up his best albums

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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

Watch previously unseen videos of Chris Cornell covering Tracy Chapman's Fast Car and the Rolling Stones' Wild Horses

Late Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell would have turned 60 on Saturday: Vicky Cornell and Nancy Wilson released videos to mark the occasion

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"I knew immediately it was a heavy-hitting song": Soundgarden on how they made Black Hole Sun

The Superunknown cut was released as a single 30 years ago and became the Seattle rockers' biggest hit

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"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

Guitar World

“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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"I must really be a witch...so rabies shots for the next two weeks": Watch The Pretty Reckless' Taylor Momsen get bitten by a bat onstage

After playing the track Witches Burn, The Pretty Reckless frontwoman Taylor Momsen gets a not-so-friendly visit from a bat during their recent show in Seville, Spain while on the AC/DC Pwr Up tour

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“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

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Listen to soul star Aloe Blacc give Soundgarden's Black Hole Sun a jazzy, R&B makeover

Black Hole Sun comes from Aloe Blacc's upcoming rock covers EP Rock My Soul Volume 1

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“Alice In Chains showed me how you can do more with less”: How Klone successfully go unplugged with their prog

As the five-piece French head out on an acoustic tour, we dig into the secrets behind their success at moving between worlds with guitarist Guillaume Bernard

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“He has that incredible baritone and that haunted, tortured persona”: these are Chris Cornell’s five favourite singers, in his own words

Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell passed away on May 18, 2017. Eight years earlier, he told Classic Rock about the singers who had inspired him

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“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

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"A guy named Alexander Dumble made the amps": Andrew Watt reveals the gear behind Pearl Jam's new album

"I have Marshalls, Fenders, Voxes, Oranges, Supros – all different kinds of amps. But since the day we got this amp I've not plugged into anything else," he said of his favourite Dumble modded amp

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"We referenced The Cure a lot while making it": Stone Gossard reveals Pearl Jam's shared inspiration, and why he feels more heard as a guitarist on new album, Dark Matter

"You could be the greatest guitar player in the world but a ten-year-old could learn to play that in an hour", he says of the "magic" melodic moments he loves to discover in songwriting

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"We went to the promoter and said, Can we go home? They were, like, 'Yeah, you can go home! But first you're gonna have to give me two millions dollars!'": Lollapalooza '92 celebrated alt. rock taking over the mainstream. But for one band, it was hell

"We were like rabbits caught in headlights. It was just traumatic for us"

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