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Nirvana Diary by Steve Gullick
The stories behind five killer images documenting the world-changing grunge revolution

By Paul Brannigan Published

Legendary photographer Steve Gullick shares his memories of shooting Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love, Eddie Vedder and more

Culture
Chris Cornell onstage
Watch previously unseen videos of Chris Cornell covering Tracy Chapman and the Rolling Stones

By Fraser Lewry Published

Late Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell would have turned 60 on Saturday: Vicky Cornell and Nancy Wilson released videos to mark the occasion

Tracks & Singles
Soundgarden in Japan in 1994
Soundgarden on the making of their monster hit Black Hole Sun

By Niall Doherty Published

The Superunknown cut was released as a single 30 years ago and became the Seattle rockers' biggest hit

Tracks & Singles
Soundgarden standing under an overpass in 1997
The epic story of Soundgarden, the superstar grunge band who didn’t want to be superstars

By Greg Prato Published

Late, great Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell would have turned 60 on July 20 – this is the story of the band that made him famous

Biographies
Aloe Blacc studio portrait
Listen to Soul star Aloe Blacc give Soundgarden's Black Hole Sun a jazzy, R&B makeover

By Fraser Lewry Published

Black Hole Sun comes from Aloe Blacc's upcoming rock covers EP Rock My Soul Volume 1

Bands & Artists
Soundgarden
“Some of our peers thought, ‘Are they going to be corporate sell-outs?”: the rise, fall and return of Soundgarden

By Dave Everley Published

In 2014, Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil sat down with Metal Hammer to look back over his band’s rollercoaster career

Interviews
Becky Lynch, Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder
“I guess I’m a big grunge-head!" Why WWE superstar Becky Lynch loves Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and the rest

By Merlin Alderslade Published

Multiple-time world champion and future WWE Hall Of Famer Becky Lynch on why grunge was the music she fell in love with

Interviews
Soundgarden pose on a New York street in 1994
"I don't like the production of that record. I don't like how it sounds. I don't like how it looks": Soundgarden look back at their breakthrough album Superunknown

By Ian Winwood Published

Grunge‘s founding fathers, Soundgarden watched the bands they inspired shoot past them. But with their mighty fourth album, Superunknown, they would help define the 1990s

Interviews
Ian Astbury
“Us and them doesn’t exist any more”: How The Cult's Ian Astbury tried to break down genre barriers with his pre-Lollapalooza festival Gathering Of The Tribes, and claimed he got “ripped off” for his trouble

By Paul Brannigan Published

Don't tell Ian Astbury that Perry Farrell invented the concept of the genre-fluid alt. rock festival in the US

Music Festivals
A picture of Soundgarden taken in Japan in 1994
Soundgarden's Kim Thayil says the word 'grunge' was nothing but a marketing ploy

By Stef Lach Published

Soundgarden guitarist says grunge bands never used the word – but marketing types were all over it

Bands & Artists
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