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Hear Melvins cover Soundgarden’s Spoonman with Matt Cameron
By Michael Astley-Brown published
The Soundgarden drummer joins Buzz Osbourne and co for a breakneck race through the grunge classic
Seattle production legend Jack Endino on his new solo album, recording Nirvana and Soundgarden, and his endless search for riffs he's never heard before
By Jonathan Horsley published
The prolific producer on finding the time and the guitar tones for the epic Set Myself on Fire, and how he found his aesthetic by dismantling Led Zeppelin records
Kim Thayil on 30 years of Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger: “Right before we released the album, you could feel things were ready to explode”
By Joe Bosso published
The guitarist charts the writing and recording of Soundgarden's 1991 commercial breakthrough, and explains how it ended up as his favorite of the Seattle pioneers' releases
Kim Thayil channeled the loss of Chris Cornell in his solo on the new Mastodon album
By Michael Astley-Brown published
Bill Kelliher details how he and the Soundgarden guitarist approached the recording of Hushed and Grim’s Had It All
Jerry Cantrell names Kim Thayil as the best guitar player from the Seattle grunge scene
By Michael Astley-Brown published
Although Stone Gossard and Kurt Cobain were also in the running, the Alice in Chains leader cites Soundgarden’s lead guitarist as grunge’s greatest
Brandi Carlile says she wants to be Soundgarden’s new singer
By Matt Parker published
The alt-country star wants to carry on collaborating with Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron and Ben Shepherd
Mike McCready joins Brandi Carlile for faithful cover of Soundgarden’s Searching With My Good Eye Closed
By Matt Owen published
Matt Cameron also joined the fray for the performance, which took place during Eddie Vedder’s Ohana Festival
Soundgarden's Kim Thayil: "Badmotorfinger was our interpretation of the heavy, dark and psychedelic things we liked in music"
By Amit Sharma published
On the 30th anniversary of the band's seminal album, the Soundgarden guitarist reveals the origins of his unique sound
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