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Sub Pop co-founder Jonathan Poneman, left, with Soundgarden's Kim Thayil at the label's 20th birthday party at Hattie's Hat.

As we reported over the weekend , conservative media maven Glenn Beck came to TampaA on Saturday, the 2nd of 3 stops across the Sunshine State on behalf of his promoting his new tome, Arguing With Idiots .A It was in the Villages that he made his much hyped announcement - that he would, in his own way, do a Barack Obama and become a community ...

In the last few years I've been conducting filmed oral history interviews with people involved in the development of the underground music infrastructure in the Pacific Northwest from the late 1970s to today.

It's enough to make a critic regret, again, a long-ago mistake. Who? Eddie Vedder joins Roger Daltrey in surprise Seattle appearance Monday's Showbox SoDo concert seemed as much fun for the rock legends as it was for delighted fans.

When tracks from Chris Cornell's third solo album, Scream, started making the rounds last year, fans were confused.

Music: A to Z 10.30.09: S is for... Posted by Chris Crowing on 10.30.2009 ... Serj Tankian/System of a Down, Skunk Anansie, Slayer, Slipknot, the Smashing Pumpkins, Stereophonics among others including Soundgraden, Satyricon and Seether.

Chris Cornell 's latest solo album, Scream , received mostly a confused reaction from fans of the Soundgarden / Audioslave singer.

Of all the performances taking place over the course of the 11-day Tel Aviv Music Festival, none are more highly anticipated than the arrival of Mudhoney, one of the pioneers of the American grunge movement in the 1990s that spawned the likes of Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden.

It was like a museum, with chicken wings. Over there were Keith Moon's pants. A garish peach pea jacket that Usher once wore on tour hung encased in glass.

By Stephen Thomas Erlewine Soundgarden made a place for heavy metal in alternative rock.

"American Idol" winner David Cook will perform Nov. 27 at Mahaffey Theater in St.

Ozzy Osbourne , Slash , Chester Bennington , Chris Cornell , Dave Navarro , Billy Idol and Andrew Stockdale are among the musicians who are scheduled to perform at a benefit concert on November 22 at the Music Box in Hollywood, California.

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.

At Pearl Jam 's Tuesday night show in Los Angeles, a Temple Of The Dog reunion broke out, as the Grunge supergroup returned to perform their classic "Hunger Strike" onstage.

Yes the full lineup of Temple Of The Dog reunited Tuesday night in L.A. to play "Hunger Strike," and the high-school-you is flashing back to beautiful young EdVed in the tall grass and shitting its pants.

Temple Of The Dog , the early '90s grunge group that featured the current members of Pearl Jam and now ex- Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell , reunited on stage on Tuesday night.

It was a grunge rock class reunion Tuesday night in Los Angeles! During the third night of Pearl Jam's sold-out stand at the Gibson Amphitheater, former Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell strolled onstage for a rendition of "Hunger Strike," the 1991 hit from Temple of the Dog, the band fronted by Cornell and featuring the entire PJ crew.

If grunge had any chance left of holding onto the cliff of the music industry, commercialization has squashed it within the past few years.

In the '90s, the term "grunge" lumped together cult bands like Beat Happening and the Meat Puppets with soon-to-be superstars Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana.

Former Soundgarden front man, Chris Cornell has proposed that his latest solo album, Scream , would be, "an interesting sociological experiment." But, it is more of an experiment in Economics - " as in, how will his record label recover economically from the massive losses when literally the only person who likes or wants to buy this travesty is ...