Soundgarden News

Jack Endino got famous by recording a slew of early records from then-burgeoning grunge superstars, including Nirvana, Soundgarden and Mudhoney.

Soundgarden frontman and former frontman for the band Audioslave, Chris Cornell will bring his solo acoustic tour to Rio's Vivo Rio stage on Saturday, June 15th.

Chris Cornell and Tom Morelle 9lead guitar), Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk then-former Rage Against The Machine band mates.

As we look to begin another week here on the Cockfight, it looks like there won't be any changing of the guard as Device makes short work of Motionless In White.

Soundgarden played a sold-out show on May 25, to 4,600 enthusiastic Austin fans.

Janet Weiss, Zach Hill, and Matt Cameron all featured prominently on SPIN's 100 Greatest Drummers of Alternative Music list.

Jack White has been outed as the anonymous donor who paid the $142,000 in taxes needed by Detroit's Masonic Temple to stave off foreclosure, the Detroit Free Press reports today.

Emily Robison and Marie Maguire pushed through some tough emotional times on their first album as Court Yard Hounds Robison's 2008 divorce, in particular but now the Dixie Chicks offshoot is back with a new perspective on their new album Amelita , which is due out July 16th on Columbia Records.

Maxwell's, the beloved rock club, restaurant and longtime anchor of the rock scene in Hoboken, New Jersey, will close when its lease is up at the end of July.

One of Gibson 's latest guitar mash-ups is a collaboration with Soundgarden and Audioslave guitarist/vocalist Chris Cornell .

Nirvana almost had Soundgarden bassist Ben Shepherd as their lead guitarist. Shepherd says that he made an impression on late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain at a party one night, which led to him being considered for a role in the group.

Did you know that Soundgarden bassist Ben Shepherd nearly became a member of Nirvana ? Before either Soundgarden or Nirvana became grunge legends, Shepherd almost became Nirvana's second guitarist, but the band chose instead to remain a three-piece until the addition of Germs strummer Pat Smear .

Cornell put his mic toward the crowd during the choruses, and the crowd vigorously carried the melody.

When Soundgarden first emerged from the grunge scene way back in 1984, they were the odd stepbrother to the Nirvana/Pearl Jam dynamic duo.

Soundgarden always felt like an unlikely candidate for stardom. The reunited Seattle quartet writes challenging songs in time signatures that make more use of dissonant textures than catchy hooks.

Soundgarden formed in 1984 as a three-piece with Chris Cornell on drums on vocals, Kim Thayil on guitar and Hiro Yamamoto on bass.

Soundgarden made a place for heavy metal in alternative rock. Their fellow Seattle rockers Green River may have spearheaded the grunge sound, but they relied on noise rock in the vein of the Stooges.

Legendary rock band Soundgarden have announced they will release a brand new repackaged edition of 'King Animal', their critically acclaimed album released in November last year.

Grunge sounded old even when it was new. This misbegotten mutation of metal and alt-rock tapped into such primordial angst and soul-suffering it seemed world-weary even as bands like Soundgarden acted as the genre's midwife in the late '80s and early '90s. Today it sounds pretty much the same, so even after a layoff of approaching 20 years, ... (more)

Classic rock guitar hero Peter Frampton closed out Riverfest in Little Rock , Arkansas on Sunday, May 26, 2013 at the Miller Lite/Arkansas Federal Credit Union stage.