Soundgarden

Live Review, 6/5/12: Sleep Forcefully Exhales at the Fox Theater

By ALEE KARIM Sleep Oxbow Kowloon Walled City June 5th, 2012 The Fox Theatre Better than: The rest. And rest. Thankfully. The San Jose-based metal band Sleep is part of a pre-Internet coterie of bands that gained an astonishing reputation in their absence. For every Soundgarden reuniting to cash ... More >>

The Brad Mehldau Trio: Show Preview

President Barack Obama Likes Arcade Fire and the Black Eyed Peas. Yes, Really.

​Yesterday, we found out from a British music news website that, like Santa Claus, Barack Obama keeps a "Nice" list -- or rather a list of people he wants to have supporting him in his re-election campaign. We've seen the list, and alongside all of the alphabetized politicians, business and sports ... More >>

Scratch Acid: Show Preview

Here's Duck Sauce's New, NSFW Video for "Big Bad Wolf," and Six Other Videos in Which the Human Face Is Absolutely Terrifying

Yesterday, Billboard.com asked its readers if they thought Duck Sauce's new video, for the track "Big Bad Wolf", was the most disturbing video of 2011. Well, we've just had a look -- and while it's definitely weird and it's definitely uncomfortable, we're just gonna go ahead and say that this scathi ... More >>

The Top 10 Hottest Men in Grunge

Sure, it was the era of long, dirty hair and long johns worn to the bar -- but '90s grunge sure did throw up some eye candy. Here, to honor the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind, as well as Cameron Crowe's new Pearl Jam documentary Twenty, are the top 10 hottest men of grunge. (Tomorrow, we'll ... More >>

Fresh Eats: We Drink Coffee with 40x the Normal Caffeine

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Coffee with 40x Caffeine: Drugs for Breakfast

50 ml does of Funranium Labs' "Black Blood of the Earth"​Thanks to the potent combination of radioactivity and government grants, the Bay Area has more than our share of mad scientists. And now, one of them has done something really useful: he created coffee with 40 times the caffeine of regul ... More >>

Soundgarden Stomps Straight from the '90s into Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

Richard HaickSoundgarden at Bill Graham Civic last night.​ Soundgarden July 22, 2011 Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Better than: Any food item you've stashed away since the '90s Soundgarden didn't experiment or branch out in any way in its first visit to San Francisco in 15 years: no ballads, ... More >>

Bake on with Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger

​Listen to this while high: Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger ​Behind the buzz: Thursday's upcoming S.F. stop on the Soundgarden reunion tour will no doubt kick a groaning board of ass, so anyone desirous of a preliminary bombardment would do well to crank up this third album and sophomore effort on ... More >>

Oops! Coheed and Cambria's Michael Todd Goes to Jail Instead of His Gig

The Salt Lake Tribune​Things not to do before your gig: cut off your fingers, get lost backstage, get arrested. The list is short, but Coheed and Cambria bassist Michael Todd allegedly forgot to follow the rules before his band was scheduled to open for Soundgarden last night in Massachusett ... More >>

The Top 10 Harshest Pitchfork Disses of 2011 -- So Far

Tthere's something undeniably juicy about reading an excoriating review of a new album -- especially on a site like Pitchfork, where a low score carries considerable weight, and where writers are given plenty of space and freedom to carve up the works they don't like. Given the choice, wouldn't you ... More >>

Mick Jagger Forms Supergroup "Super Heavy," We're Super Embarrassed

​ Mick Jagger threw his name into the running for what may become the biggest supergroup of 2011, joining Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics, Damien Marley, Joss Stone, and A.R. Rahman, composer of the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack, for what promises to be an eclectic (and hopefully not too terr ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and lows from the last week in S.F. music

One '90s Reunion That Won't Happen: The Smashing Pumpkins

The Smashing Pumpkins in 1990. Sigh.​ This '90s revival thing is off the hook. Even Soundgarden is getting back together after 14 years to drive around the U.S. and blast old, loud-ass songs like "Spoonman" and "Fell on Black Days" to apparently eager audiences. But there's one big '90s rock ... More >>

Soundgarden's Reunion Tour Will Deafen San Francisco This July

Raise your hand if you miss the real '90s. ​ Short of a zombified Kurt Cobain rising from the grave in Lolita shades to sing "Heart Shaped Box" to a bunch of kids raised on Miley Cyrus and sexting, we're pretty sure this '90s revival thing has now gotten as crazy-ridiculous as it can get: Lad ... More >>

Chris Cornell Plays Soundgarden, Led Zep, and Michael Jackson at the Fillmore (Photos Setlist)

Calibree PhotographyChris Cornell at the Fillmore last night.​ Chris Cornell Pine & Battery William Elliot Whitmore May 3, 2011 @ The Fillmore Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell's solo Songbook Tour rolled through the Fillmore last night for an acoustic foray through the singer ... More >>

Vinyl's Hidden Messages Unmasked

Photo by Qsysue for Public Collectors​Public Collectors is working on a really cool project that spotlights a small detail of what's being lost amongst so many invisible MP3s. The site is making a list of the messages bands have "pressed into the matrix of their vinyl" over the years. Apparently t ... More >>

Faith No More's second coming

Green Day, Rogue Wave, The Dodos, Morning Benders to Play Lollapalooza

The Morning Benders​While it isn't exactly a Bay Area takeover of the Chicago festival, local indie acts are making a strong showing in the 2010 Lollapalooza lineup, which was just announced last night. Rogue Wave, The Dodos, and the Morning Benders all made the cut to play the Grant Park sta ... More >>

Kinda Like Hair Club for Men

Track of the Day: Pissed Jeans

​I really miss Sub Pop's Loser days. Back before Seattle had a Sound(TM), the Northwest had a severely caustic, nihilistic musical aesthetic, egged on by punks who had beards when they didn't give a fuck about shaving. These were dudes who personified the sarcastic sneer--Green River, Mudhoney, Ta ... More >>

The Weekend Hitlist: Eddie Izzard, The Melvins, Zine Fest, Download

MP3 of the Day: Ascend

LastNight: Meat Puppets and Built to Spill at the Fillmore

Black Hole Son

Chris Cornell gets a little help from his friends

Johnny Cash

American V: A Hundred Highways (American/Lost Highway) Personal File (Columbia/Legacy)

Made in the Shade

The Jade Shader gives San Diego's washed-up scene its moment in the sun

Jack Endino

Permanent Fatal Error

Boogie-rock freakoids Green Milk From the Planet Orange and No Doctors, and the megarock of OG grunge masters Mudhoney

A Fanclub's Notes

Once hyped as a supergroup, Teenage Fanclub may have to settle for midlevel stardom, and that may be just fine

Hear This

Mike Park and pals are "Asians in Rock"; the beautiful pianist Rachel Z brings her contemporized smooth jazz to Pearl's

Dirty Power

Dirty Power

Love Plus One

Or five ways to make existing groups that much more super

The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell

Bank-robber-turned-playwright Joe Loya tells damn good stories

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Night+Day

Suspicious Minds

Hear This

Hype! Dreams

A conversation with the Seattle scene's chroniclers

Night+Day

Slap Shots

... So Why Don't You Kill Me?

Metal roolz at Lolla VI

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Heat Stroke

Pulpit-pounding with the Reverend Horton Heat

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