Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil will celebrate his upcoming induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with a memoir, A Screaming Life: Into the Superunknown With Soundgarden and Beyond. The book was co-written with Adam Tepedelen and will be released May 19, 2026, by Harper Collins. “It tells my story as an American son […]
Chris Cuffaro here tells Matt Thompson how he captured this band as the sonic storm was set to break. The shoot came through SPIN. I got a studio at the lot on A&M Records. I walked into the studio at the lot, looked around, and said, “OK, we’ve got a gray backdrop, a black backdrop; […]
R.E.M.‘s Peter Buck and Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil joined the reunited The Black Crowes at their show in suburban Seattle at Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery Amphitheatre on Tuesday. Buck joined the band for a cover of “The One I Love,” and was joined by Thayil for a cover of The Velvet Underground‘s “Rock & Roll.” The show was […]
When the most recent Pretty Reckless album was released in 2021, we went deep with singer/bandleader Taylor Momsen. In the interview, she told us influential Soundgarden was on her and how being on tour with the band in 2017 and opening for them the night of Chris Cornell deeply impacted her. In fact, Soundgarden guitarist […]
Melvins performed a cover of “Spoonman” during 2019’s “I Am The Highway” Chris Cornell tribute, and now fans will finally get to listen to the recorded version. The track, which features Soundgarden/Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron doing double duty with Melvins percussionist Dale Crover, appears on the band’s recently released Lord of the Flies EP. […]
This article originally appeared in the September 1999 issue of SPIN. “You must be high.” We heard that a lot during the time we spent preparing this issue. Which is understandable. Pronouncing the 90 greatest albums of the ’90s is a somewhat presumptuous thing to do. When you’re measuring the music this decade is offering to […]
By 1991, Soundgarden had reached a crossroads. All around them, things seemed to be in a state of flux. The Cold War had finally reached its decades-long denouement with the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, just as a new, hot one was about to kick off in the Persian Gulf. Hip hop was emerging as […]
Brandi Carlile brought out the surviving members of Soundgarden to perform a pair of songs during her show at George, Washington’s Gorge Amphitheatre on Saturday night. Guitarist Kim Thayil, drummer Matt Cameron and bassist Ben Shepherd joined Carlile and her band onstage to play “Black Hole Sun” and “Searching With My Good Eye Closed,” which were both featured […]
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 […]