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Pearl Jam lose ‘deeply important’ member after 27 years

The band called Matt Cameron a ‘singular and true powerhouse of a musician and drummer’

The Independent UK

"There was something about the way he carried himself. He quite clearly was going to shine": The early years of Soundgarden's Chris Cornell

As Soundgarden broke out of the Seattle scene, Chris Cornell stood apartfrom his peers: a rock god among grunge’s iconoclasts

Metal Hammer

"I was terrified that Ed was going to kill himself": Chaos and carnage with Pearl Jam at Lollapalooza 1992

How Pearl Jam’s out-of-control shows on the 1992 Lollapolozza tour sparked crowd frenzies verging on riots

Louder

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6 of the best genre-swerving tracks to test your hi-fi system

Forget staying in your lane, use these genre-hoppers to give your system a workout.

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A new Soundgarden album featuring late frontman Chris Cornell could see the light of day

Soundgarden bassist Ben Shepherd says there is an album featuring Chris Cornell that is "yet to be named".

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“It would be a great gift to the fans, and I don’t know how strange this sounds, but I feel like it’s a gift to Chris too”: Soundgarden's Kim Thayil gives an update on whether unreleased band material featuring Chris Cornell will see the light of day

The recordings were previously the subject of a protracted legal battl between the remaining band members and Cornell's widow, Vicky Cornell

Guitar World

“I have pride for what I did and I want to see that come out”: Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil wants to release final recordings featuring Chris Cornell

The band and the estate of late frontman Cornell have had legal disputes over the potential release of posthumous music

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Who could fill Chris Cornell’s Soundgarden shoes?: “It’s a high bar, not just technically, but emotionally”

Soundgarden will return, confirming an appearance at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony this November

MusicRadar

“I came from a subculture of rock that didn’t quite get what all the fuss is about.” Soundgarden's Kim Thayil originally didn't see the point of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, but says Chris Cornell would be “stoked” about Soundgarden being inducted

Soundgarden will be inducted into the Rock and Rock Hall of Fame in November, and they couldn't be happier about the honour

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Soundgarden have musicians in mind to take on Chris Cornell's duties at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction performance

Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil has admitted the bar is set "higher" than usual when it comes to choosing someone to represent Chris Cornell at their upcoming Rock and Roll Hall of Fame performance.

BANG Premier

“Fidel Castro hadn’t decided if it was going to work for him or not”: the time Audioslave made a historic visit to Cuba and got the green light from Castro himself

The rock supergroup became the first US band to play an open-air concert in the country in 2005, wowing Havana with the most epic show of their career

Louder

"Chris Cornell was the first rock star to consume the contents of my stomach." How Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and Soundgarden's Chris Cornell inspired the youth of America to drink vomit in the early '90s

Things got freaky on Lollapalooza 1992 thanks to The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow and their rock star friends

Metal Hammer

“I had a massive animosity towards those fans”: Soundgarden’s manager thought it would be a great idea for them to support Guns N’ Roses, the band disagreed

The grunge legends opened up for Axl & co. on the Use Your Illusion tour and came out of it with a lesson in how not to act on the road

Louder

“I’m sitting on the couch with a guitar, and Jeff is standing over me. He pulled out a notebook with lyrics and doodles, started singing, and that was Grace”: How Gary Lucas made guitar magic with Jeff Buckley, Captain Beefheart and Chris Cornell

The guitar journeyman has suffered his share of torture during a career of spreading the word about underdogs – and while he remains one himself, he’s not giving up on his mission

Guitar World

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“I never would have approached anything associated with suicide for a song, but after I heard about Chris Cornell’s passing I wrote that lyric”: Bon Jovi guitarist Phil X digs deep on his new album

“It took me ten years to make this record," he says

Guitar World

“I did a shred solo on his cover of Billie Jean. That’s controversial among the fans… but he loved it”: When Chris Cornell left Audioslave, he turned to Jeff Buckley’s guitar foil to make his mark

When Gary Lucas got the call to play guitar on Chris Cornell’s first post-Audioslave release, he was only supposed to be there for one day. But Cornell had other ideas…

Guitar World

“I’d hear it on the radio as a kid, and now I’m standing beside Don Henley playing it – I had to do both solos, Joe Walsh’s and Steve Lukather’s”: The SatchVai Band is just the latest of many high-profile stops for Pete Thorn

He’s been on the road since the ’90s with Chris Cornell, Don Henley, Melissa Etheridge and many others – now the session pro is ready to do whatever Joe Satriani and Steve Vai need him to (once they tell him)

MusicRadar

“I'd lost a close friend and a hero of mine took the time to console me”: Guitar mainstay Pete Thorn tells how Steve Vai comforted him following Chris Cornell’s death

And there’s a happy ending. Thorn and Vai are now band members in SatchVai Band, alongside Joe Satriani

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“It was two days after Chris Cornell passed. Steve said, ‘I know you lost your friend – it's too soon now, but the time will come where you think of him, and it'll be happy memories’”: Once just a hero and mentor, Steve Vai is now Pete Thorn's bandmate

“Here, I'd lost a close friend and collaborator; and a hero of mine, from the time I was 11 years old or so, took the time to console me,” the newly appointed SatchVai Band guitarist tells GW

Metal Hammer

"If Kurt Cobain and Chris Cornell were to decorate their shared home in heaven, they would use our Dirty Collection." Flexing an imaginary endorsement from two dead rock stars must surely be the weirdest and most random product launch idea ever

"These hues are our grunge heroes with a sexy AF personality." Of course they are hun

MusicRadar

Watch surviving Soundgarden members, plus GnR's Duff Mckagan kick out the jams at Seattle Children’s Hospital benefit

Reunited band play short six song set

Guitar World

Soundgarden’s surviving members reunite for charity set – with the help of Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan

Operating under the ‘Nudedragons’ name for the first time in 14 years, Matt Cameron, Kim Thayil and Ben Shepherd performed six songs for the 2024 SMooCH benefit concert

Guitar World

“I was having so much anxiety about getting a great sound that I wasn’t writing songs… I said, ‘I’m gonna stop thinking about it. This is going to be my sound’”: Tom Morello on his tone struggles and what he learned from teaching his son Roman how to play

Rage Against The Machine icon discusses his unreleased Post Malone song, being outshredded by his son, pushing Iron Maiden for the Hall of Fame and why he avoids most endorsement deals

Louder

"Chris Cornell shows why he was one of the premier vocalists of his era": Temple Of The Dog's eulogy for a fallen friend still shines

Rooted in tragedy, Temple Of The Dog's 10 original tracks are a kind of catharsis through music

Metal Hammer

“You have great voices here. We’d like to have you use them with us now.” Watch Pearl Jam's emotional cover of Temple Of The Dog classic Hunger Strike, performed for the first time since Chris Cornell’s death

Pearl Jam share rare outing of Temple Of The Dog masterpiece Hunger Strike in Sydney, Australia

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