Toni Cornell, the 17-year-old daughter of the late Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell, posted a special message in honor of what would have been his 58th birthday on Wednesday (July 20). She began by talking about “Nothing Compares 2 U,” the Prince-written song that Sinead O’Connor made famous in 1990. It’s a song that the father […]
It’s difficult at times to drive around Seattle and not recognize the ultramega imprint that Chris Cornell left behind on his hometown. At least it is for me. Even for a city that’s widely known for ruthlessly tearing away and repurposing its own history in the name of “progress” – think bigger, taller, glassier high-rises […]
Toni performed her father’s own version of the Sinead O’Connor cover, off his posthumous album, No One Sings Like You Anymore. Her rendition was strongly soulful, while searing violins surrounded her gentle croon. Both Cornell’s record and its own cover of “Nothing Compares 2 U” snagged Grammy nominations for this year’s awards. The song is […]
Producer Brendan O’Brien was fresh off wrapping work on Pearl Jam’s sophomore album Vs. when he met Chris Cornell for the first time in the summer of 1993. Cornell and his bandmates in Soundgarden were nearly finished recording what would become their smash album Superunknown, and, per a recommendation from Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard, […]
Lollapalooza has defied the old F. Scott Fitzgerald adage from The Last Tycoon that “there are no second acts in American life.” Since 2005, Perry Farrell and partners have hunkered down in Chicago’s Grant Park (for the American version) to bring the once-alternative playground that spit in the face of the mainstream more into the […]
Three of the 100 are in this picture! The Rolling Stones, in 1964, from left to right: Bill Wyman, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Brian Jones. The problem with lists like this is they are invariably bullshit. So our prime objective was to make sure we didn’t do a bullshit list. I’m not saying we did a scientific one […]
Over the past few years, the surviving members of Soundgarden and Chris Cornell’s estate have been embroiled in a number of legal issues. On Tuesday, the two parties agreed to settle the issue surrounding the band’s social media accounts and control of the Soundgarden website. “Soundgarden and Vicky Cornell, the personal representative of the Estate […]
The family of Chris Cornell settled its lawsuit with defendant Robert Koblin M.D., the doctor who Cornell’s widow said overprescribed medication to the late Soundgarden singer. A confidential settlement resolved all claims asserted by each plaintiff — widow Vicky Cornell and her two children with Chris — Rolling Stone reported. After the singer’s May 2017 death, Cornell expressed her doubts that her […]
The surviving members of Soundgarden have released a new statement with regards to the lawsuit that Chris Cornell’s widow, Vicky Cornell, filed in Washington last week. “The buyout offer that was demanded by the Estate has been grossly mischaracterized and we are confident that clarity will come out in court,” the statement from Kim Thayil, […]
Vicky Cornell, Chris Cornell’s widow, who represents the deceased Soundgarden lead singer’s estate, has sued the remaining members of Soundgarden in federal court in Seattle, seeking a judicial valuation of the late singer’s interest in the band and related entities, alleging the surviving members’ “continuing pattern of unconscionable misconduct.” At the time of his death, […]