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Kim Thayil names 11 guitar players who shaped his sound
By Greg Prato published
From industrial rock titans and proto-punk pioneers to blues legends and rock ‘n’ roll royalty, the Soundgarden guitarist name-drops the players who have had the biggest impact on his playing

Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil and Matt Cameron launch new supergroup with Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic
By Michael Astley-Brown published
Hear 3rd Secret’s surprise-released debut album – which also features Bubba Dupree, Jennifer Johnson and Jillian Raye – now

Kim Thayil on performing Soundgarden material with his former bandmates: "I think we'd wanna re-explore that and do that at some time in the future"
By Jackson Maxwell published
Thayil added that he and his former Soundgarden comrades also have "an interest in doing new things"

Watch Jerry Cantrell and Kim Thayil play Alice in Chains and Soundgarden songs with fans at Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy Camp
By Matt Owen published
Ain't Like That and Slaves & Bulldozers were among the tracks jammed by fans at the guitar titans' recent Sounds of Seattle rock camp

Hear Melvins cover Soundgarden’s Spoonman with Matt Cameron
By Michael Astley-Brown published
The Soundgarden drummer joins Buzz Osbourne and co for a breakneck race through the grunge classic

Seattle production legend Jack Endino on his new solo album, recording Nirvana and Soundgarden, and his endless search for riffs he's never heard before
By Jonathan Horsley published
The prolific producer on finding the time and the guitar tones for the epic Set Myself on Fire, and how he found his aesthetic by dismantling Led Zeppelin records

Kim Thayil on 30 years of Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger: “Right before we released the album, you could feel things were ready to explode”
By Joe Bosso published
The guitarist charts the writing and recording of Soundgarden's 1991 commercial breakthrough, and explains how it ended up as his favorite of the Seattle pioneers' releases

Kim Thayil channeled the loss of Chris Cornell in his solo on the new Mastodon album
By Michael Astley-Brown published
Bill Kelliher details how he and the Soundgarden guitarist approached the recording of Hushed and Grim’s Had It All
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