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Classic rockers Guns N' Roses have announced a North American tour for later this year, and they're bringing along both Alice in Chains and The Pretenders.I have to say, when I first heard that these bands were going to be performing on GNR's upcoming tour, I was a bit surprised.  Although less so with Alice in Chains.  I'll explain my line of thinking here.  I'll admit that both Alice in Chains and The Pretenders are now considered classic rock, much in the same wa …

Vicky Cornell, the widow of the late Soundgarden singer-songwriter, Chris Cornell, has predicted that the last album Soundgarden were recording, before Chris Cornell's sudden and unexpected death, will eventually be released.   Although Vicky has been in the press more lately because of her dispute with the surviving members of Soundgarden, she is quoted recently telling USA Today, “All of Chris' music, including Soundgarden, will see the light of day, because ther …

                         6 1/2 years following the recording, Soundgarden are releasing: Soundgarden: Live from the Artists Den.   This concert was originally recorded on February 17, 2013, at the Wiltern Theater, in Los Angeles, California, and was the final show, of the band's winter US tour, in support of their most recent album, at the time, King Animal.  Playing to a sold out crowd, the almos …

October 8, 2016 marks the 25th anniversary of Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger, the band's 3rd studio release and the album that truly catapulted Soundgarden to international fame. Because of the focus placed on the Seattle "Grunge" scene at the time of Badmotorfinger's release, two songs from the album, Outshined and Rusty Cage, received airplay on radio and MTV, helping establish the genre that would be known as alternative rock. On November 18, Soundgarden are celebrating the anniversar …

Happy birthday to ‪Dave Grohl. The ‪Foo Fighters singer, songwriter, guitarist and founder turns 47 today. Before forming the Foo Fighters in 1995, Dave had risen to world wide popularity as the drummer for ‪Nirvana, during the height of the alternative grunge rock movement in the early-mid 1990s. …