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Saikin

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Re: Soundgarden Have 12-14 Songs Ready

Saikin wrote:

Billboard.com has a new interview up with Soundgarden/Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron about Soundgarden’s new album, here’s are a few excerpts from the interview:

Drummer Matt Cameron tells Billboard.com that “there’s a little bit of evolution going on with some of this new music, but we’re not straying too far from the formula. It has all our signature elements — and more. I think people are going to really love it.”

The writing session generated 12-14 songs that Cameron says “are kind of ready to go,” but he also expects that “once we get into a studio environment, we’ll come up with new ideas and rearrange what we have.” The existing songs, he says, are “about 90 percent new,” but some draw on ideas that date as far back as 1996′s “Down on the Upside,” as well as some riffs he wrote around 2008. “We’ve tried to update the super-old stuff,” he says. “It doesn’t sound too old and dusty and crusty to my ears — but maybe to someone else it will. I think guitar-based music is not really as popular as it has been in the past, so it might sound kind of out of date or out of tune with what’s going on right now. Or it might be a breath of fresh air to have an unabashedly loud guitar band out there.”

Axlin16

 Rep: 768 

Re: Soundgarden Have 12-14 Songs Ready

Axlin16 wrote:

Let's have less Down On The Upside, and more Badmotorfinger.

Other than that - solid news. Something tells me that even they knew interest was starting to drift, because all of the sudden, the good news just keeps breaking and fast.