Soundgarden - Sixth Album (The Band is Back!)

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From Chris Cornell's Twitter (www.twitter.com/chriscornell):

December 31, 2009

The 12 year break is over & school is back in session. Sign up now. Knights of the Soundtable ride again! www.soundgardenworld.com

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Yay !

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news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100217/music_nm/us_lollapalooza_1

Lady Gaga, Soundgarden tipped for Lollapalooza

By Monica Herrera – Tue Feb 16

NEW YORK (Billboard) – Lady Gaga, Green Day and recently reunited rockers Soundgarden were widely tipped Tuesday as headliners for the annual Lollapalooza music festival set for August 6-8 in Chicago.

Arcade Fire and the Strokes are also rumored to be joining the lineup.

The news first surfaced on The Daily Swarm, which cited "multiple industry sources" as confirming the Gaga-Green Day-Soundgarden configuration. The music news Web site also reported that three additional headliners would be confirmed when the full Lollapalooza lineup is officially announced, which in past years has typically occurred in April.

Lady Gaga is set to begin a run of dates in the U.K. on February 18, followed by shows in Australia, New Zealand and Japan. She is expected to play North American arenas in the summer. She previously played Lollapalooza as a virtual unknown on a side stage in 2007.

Soundgarden's Lollapalooza appearance could possibly be the first by the Seattle rock quartet -- frontman Chris Cornell, guitarist Kim Thayil, bassist Ben Shepherd and drummer Matt Cameron -- since splitting up in 1997. But a Soundgarden tour routing is still a work in progress, due to Cameron's prior commitments with Pearl Jam in the spring and summer. The band played Lollapalooza in 1992 and 1996.

The Chicago Tribune, meanwhile, reported that the aforementioned three headliners are "nearing confirmation" along with the Arcade Fire and the Strokes, who themselves are returning from a long hiatus and recording their first album since 2006's "First Impressions of Earth."

A representative from C3, Lollapalooza's promoter, declined to comment on any of the rumored headlining acts.

Last year's Lollapalooza, headlined by Depeche Mode, Tool and the Killers, was the third highest grossing music festival of 2009, according to Billboard Boxscore. The festival grossed $14 million and was attended by 225,000 people over three sold-out days.

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Chris Cornell finally came to his senses after that horrible last album.

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www.billboard.com/#/events/reunited-soundgarden-to-do-seattle-club-1004083608.story

Reunited Soundgarden To Do Seattle Club Show

by Monica Herrera | April 15, 2010

Newly reunited Soundgarden will play its first show since 1997 on Friday (April 16) at the Showbox at the Market in its Seattle hometown, Billboard.com has learned. It is unknown if the event is private or will be open to the public.

Vocalist Chris Cornell, guitarist Kim Thayil, bassist Ben Shepherd and drummer Matt Cameron have been rehearsing in Seattle in recent weeks as a precursor to their first confirmed reunion performance at Lollapalooza in Chicago in early August.

No other dates have been announced for Soundgarden, who split up after headlining Lollapalooza in 1996 but confirmed a reunion on January 1. The group is expected to plan activity around Cameron's previously confirmed schedule with Pearl Jam, which includes short North American and European tours through July.

There's no word yet if the band is planning to record new material. But on Saturday as part of National Record Store Day, Soundgarden will re-release its first 7-inch vinyl single, "Hunted Down" b/w "Nothing To Say," which originally came out in 1987 on Sub Pop.

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Out last Tuesday!

Best Buy: $14.99 for the deluxe edition

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new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/live/12188/soundgarden-speak-the-yahoo-music-reunion-interview/

Soundgarden Speak! The Yahoo! Music Reunion Interview
Posted Thu Oct 14, 2010 by Lyndsey Parker

Grunge godfathers Soundgarden split up pretty much at their peak, in 1997 shortly after storming offstage at an infamous gig in Hawaii, and fans of the band were left to wonder what might have been...and if the four flannel-flying rock legends would ever share a stage or studio again. Massive-lunged frontman Chris Cornell, one of the finest and mightiest singers ever in rock 'n' roll history, went on to success in Audioslave (and, somewhat surprisingly, lesser success as a solo artist), while drummer Matt Cameron became a permanent member of fellow Seattle pioneers Pearl Jam and guitarist Kim Thayil and bassist Ben Shepherd played in more under-the-radar projects. But the possibility of any future reunion seemed, well, superunknown.

However, last October all four Soundgarden members were present at a Pearl Jam concert in Los Angeles, and when Chris surprised everyone by getting onstage for an impromptu rendition of "Hunger Strike" (by the 1990s Soundgarden/Pearl Jam supergroup Temple Of The Dog), and this turned out to be a precursor to a long-awaited Soundgarden reunion. While the band has yet to record any new material (their just-released single, "Black Rain," is an outtake from 1991's Badmotorfinger), they have played a handful of well-received comeback gigs (including a headlining Lollapalooza slot), and their new best-of package, Telephantasm, is a welcome reminder of just how mighty the band's louder-than-love rock sound was--and still is.

Perhaps one of the reasons Soundgarden's music still sounds so current is its inclusion in Guitar Hero games, which have introduced their classic material to kids who weren't even alive back when Soundgarden were feeling Minnesota. So it makes sense that for Telephantasm, Activision packaged the CD with the new Guitar Hero game, Warriors Of Rock (an unprecedented move) and invited Soundgarden to play the Hollywood launch party for the game on September 27, when the band performed "Black Rain" live for the first time.

That day before this rare one-off gig, the members of band sat down with Yahoo! Music to discuss their legacy--past, present, and future. While it's unclear whether or not Soundgarden will launch a full-scale reunion tour or release an album of all-new material someday, they seemed to get along here so well, it seems promising. Let the 'Garden rebloom!

VIDEO new.music.yahoo.com/videos/--218712390 (Maximum Performance Exclusive Interview)