Soundgarden

Later this month, Soundgarden will drop the box-set rarities collection Echo Of Miles: Scattered Across The Path. The album is a collection of rarities, live tracks, and unreleased material spanning the group's history. It includes previously released songs, such as "Live to Rise", "Black Rain", "Birth Ritual" and more. The collection's lead single is a cover of Sly And The Family Stone's 1969 soul-funk classic "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)," which the band recorded during a 1989 John Peel session. Soundgarden's version is proof that the band, at least during that era, could use slap-bass and still sound like howling swamp monsters.

The group was formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1984 by singer and rhythm guitarist Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto. Matt Cameron became the band's full-time drummer in 1986, while bassist Ben Shepherd became a permanent replacement for Yamamoto in 1990. Soundgarden was one of the seminal bands in the creation of grunge, a style of alternative rock that developed in Seattle, and was one of a number of grunge bands signed to the record label Sub Pop. They achieved their biggest success with the 1994 album Superunknown, which debuted at number one on the Billboard charts and yielded the Grammy Award-winning singles "Black Hole Sun" and "Spoonman". As of 2012, Soundgarden had sold more than 10.5 million records in the United States and an estimated 22.5 million worldwide.

This past summer, Soundgarden and Nine Inch Nails went on a co-headling tour of North America. The tour began in Las Vegas and played 23 dates winding up on August 25th at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Soundgarden will next be performing at the Soundwave Festival in February and the Westfest Festival in March, both in Australia.

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