Soundgarden
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Interview by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 11 February 1989
Soundgarden are in the business of mocking metal's demonic conventions. But their humour goes hand in glove with a homage to rock heritage. Roy Wilkinson watches ...
Soundgarden: 'Kashmir — I Always Thought It Was A Type Of Sweater'
Interview by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 13 May 1989
SOUNDGARDEN's mutant rock springs from a post-punk mentality planted deep in trad metal. ROY WILKINSON watches them break the mould, and snaps the sonic diggers ...
Soundgarden: Washington State University, Pullman WA
Live Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 13 May 1989
America's garden culture ...
Mudhoney, Soundgarden: School of African and Oriental Studies, London
Live Review by Push, Melody Maker, 20 May 1989
THERE'S NO containing the capricious belligerence of Seattle's Soundgarden. Vocalist Chris Cornell — part monkey, part Adonis and all of a doodah — is stripped ...
Soundgarden: The Mutate Gallery
Profile and Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 10 June 1989
EVERETT TRUE MEETS THE MOST AGGRESSIVE METAL MARAUDERS TO ESCAPE FROM THE SUB POP LABEL, WHOSE NEW SINGLE, 'FLOWER', SOUNDS LIKE DAS DAMEN COVERING BIG ...
Soundgarden: Sex and Guns and Rock 'N' Roll
Report and Interview by Push, Melody Maker, 7 October 1989
"WE SIGNED WITH A&M about eight months ago, at around the same time our Ultramega OK album was released by SST. We'd been talking to ...
Soundgarden: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 9 December 1989
Moody Soundgarden Gets a Lift From Cornell's Voice at Whisky ...
Soundgarden, Silverfish: Astoria, London
Live Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 14 July 1990
HEAVY PLANT LIFE IN THE GARDEN ...
Soundgarden, Silverfish, Swervedriver: Astoria, London
Live Review by Barbara Ellen, New Musical Express, 21 July 1990
ARRIVING HALF way through Swervedriver's set I canter expectantly to the front hungry for my first encounter with Thrash Metal Sub Hardcore Pop Noise. I ...
Profile and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 25 August 1991
MIXING ENGINEER Ron St. Germain stands at a tape machine in a Tarzana studio, twisting the reels by hand until he creates the perfect space ...
Soundgarden: Badmotorfinger (A&M/All formats)
Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 21 September 1991
TWO YEARS ago, Seattle's Soundgarden were poised for a big-time putsch very similar to Nirvana's impending success story. A&M had spotted the obvious sales potential ...
Soundgarden: Daylight Shrubbery
Interview by Push, Melody Maker, 5 October 1991
With their Badmotorfinger LP being hailed as a classic, SOUNDGARDEN tell PUSH that this is their time ...
Soundgarden: Badmotorfinger (A&M)
Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 13 October 1991
Soundgarden Stomps and Soars ...
Blowing Eardrums And Blowing Minds: Soundgarden
Profile and Interview by Christine Natanael, Reflex, December 1991
GNASHING, SUBTERRANEAN youth culture on the verge of intellectual upheaval, coming to awareness in late '70s decadence, and coming of age in the post-anarcho-punk revolution, ...
Soundgarden: Nitro Grunge From Garage Heaven
Interview by Mark Petracca, Cover, January 1992
SO THERE I was in all my silly repute. Yet another late night rock and roll escapade. Same setup: Introduce the magazine, ask some questions, ...
Soundgarden: Camden Underworld, London
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 21 March 1992
CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP, swallow swallow grimace. The sound of a music journalist eating his own words. Good job my writing's normally so tasteful. Yum. Gobble ...
Report and Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 4 April 1992
LIFE FOR SEATTLE grungemeisters Soundgarden has changed dramatically in the last 12 months. Going from self-confessed underdogs to playing arenas to crowd hysteria while supporting ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 4 April 1992
Life for Seattle grungemeisters SOUNDGARDEN has changed dramatically in the last 12 months. Going from self-confessed underdogs to playing arenas to crowd hysteria while supporting Guns N' ...
Soundgarden: Whole Allotment O'Love
Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 11 April 1992
Sweet soil music! Somewhere between the excess of Heavy Metal and the austerity of alternative rock — in Seattle, in other words — lie SOUNDGARDEN, ...
Report and Interview by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 16 April 1992
For real rockers Seattle is the ultimate wet dream. By Michael Azerrad ...
Soundgarden: Horticulture-Shock
Interview by Cathi Unsworth, Melody Maker, 6 June 1992
Soundgarden provide proof positive that you can be a successful metal band without being sexist and racist dickheads. Seattle's finest have already conquered the US ...
Soundgarden: "I Get It A Lot, That Paranoid Feeling"
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 20 June 1992
And SOUNDGARDEN'S charismatic singer CHRIS CORNELL ain't talking about those ever-present Black Sabbath comparisons either. He might not be the new Ozzy Osbourne, argues PAUL ...
Report by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 8 August 1992
The LOLLAPALOOZA II festival winds its way around America with a bill as exotic as its name. Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry and Pearl Jam ...
Soundgarden: Down On The Upside
Review by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 18 May 1996
WHEN THEIR CHILDREN ask what they did in the grunge cred wars of the early '90s, Soundgarden will claim that they were conscientious objectors. ...
Soundgarden: 'We're not dead yet'
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 25 May 1996
Kurt may be gone and grunge may have copped it, but SOUNDGARDEN live on, louder and fiercer than ever, ready to blow the likes of ...
Interview by Paul Elliott, Select, June 1996
Soundgarden's Chris Cornell muses on alcohol, nuns and The Presidents of The United States of America. ...
Soundgarden: Apollo, Manchester
Live Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 28 September 1996
PERFECT. AS only the superficial can be. ...
Soundgarden: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 5 October 1996
DESPAIR-SHAPED ...
Review by Ben Myers, Melody Maker, 22 November 1997
IT SEEMS LIKE Soundgarden's rich and fruitful career falls into two distinctive camps, reflected quite clearly on this, their first post-split release. ...
Interview by Pete Makowski, unpublished, Spring 2011
NOTE: This is an uncut version of an interview I did with Chris Cornell in Los Angeles in Spring 2011 for MOJO. Soundgarden had reformed ...
Soundgarden: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 11 November 2012
A HOT TICKET and a guaranteed sell-out, this rare intimate show by recently reformed Seattle veterans Soundgarden was essentially a launch party for the band's ...
Review by Luke Turner, bbc.co.uk, 12 November 2012
A superb comeback, 16 years after their last studio LP, from the big-riffed Seattle band. ...
Soundgarden: Beast Kings of NY
Report and Interview by Alan Light, MOJO, February 2013
NOTE: This is Alan's "Director's Cut" version of the piece that ran in MOJO. ...
The 'Black Hole Sun' Also Rises: Soundgarden's Superunknown At 20
Retrospective by Juliette Jagger, Huffington Post, 13 March 2014
BY EARLY 1994, Grunge had already changed the mainstream musical landscape forever. At the decade's onset, the success of albums such as Nirvana's Nevermind and ...
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