Absence, they say, makes the heart grow fonder. So fans of Seattle grunge-meisters Soundgarden rejoiced in 2010 when the quartet announced its comeback, began touring and released a greatest-hits collection (“Telephantasm: A Retrospective”) and a circa-1996 concert document (“Live on I-5”).
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Chris Cornell should be thoroughly exhausted right now. He just wrapped a sprawling reunion tour with his legendary Seattle grunge combo Soundgarden, and is currently tracking their 2012 comeback album, as well. On his own, he also recorded a new song called “The Keeper” for the soundtrack to Marc Forster’s “Machine Gun Preacher” biopic.
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Can’t wait to hear Chris Cornell’s new “Songbook” live album on Nov. 21, you say? Good news — the Audioslave/Soundgarden banshee is releasing it sequentially on iTunes, as three separate EPS spaced one week apart, starting with today’s “Songbook EP 1” (“As Hope And Promise Fade,” Scar On The Sky,” “I Am The Highway,” “Like A Stone”).
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One thing you can say about barnstorming banshee Chris Cornell — the guy certainly doesn’t telegraph his punches. No sooner had he finished with his recent reunion tour with Soundgarden — which precedes an upcoming album they’re currently recording — than he released a standalone new single called “The Keeper,” from the soundtrack to Marc Forster’s “Machine Gun Preacher.” It now has its own video, as well.
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Ask anybody who was there, and you’ll get a unanimous “Hells Yeah!” Recently reunited Seattle grungeslingers Soundgarden veritably ripped the roof off San Francisco’s Civic Center a few weeks ago, with feral frontman Chris Cornell booming at maximum, girder-shaking velocity, as if the band never left.
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Pearl Jam is issuing a bevy of commemorative projects. Nirvana’s definitive “Nevermind” is now a remastered box set. So if 2011 is being celebrated as the 20th anniversary of Seattle’s seismic-shift grunge movement, it’s only fair that the third member of its triumvirate — Soundgarden — get equal billing. Which they’re doing in grand style.
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Hopefully, most of you who wanted to go have procured tickets. Because Chris Cornell’s show at the Fillmore tomorrow night is — like the rest of his “Songbook Volume 1” tour — completely sold out. And it’s a great concert concept — the man acoustically paring down classic material from his catalogs with Audioslave, Soundgarden and his solo albums.
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