{"id":2013,"date":"2011-03-20T16:32:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T23:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2013"},"modified":"2011-03-20T16:32:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T23:32:21","slug":"soundgarden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/soundgarden\/","title":{"rendered":"SOUNDGARDEN"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>S<\/strong>OUNDGARDEN<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Live on I-5 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

[A&M]<\/p>\n

ARCHIVAL <\/strong><\/p>\n

Whether you\u2019re in a marriage or a band, breaking up is hard to do\u2014and lots of business gets left unfinished. Grunge powerhouse Soundgarden recorded several shows on the West Coast leg of its 1996 tour with an eye toward compiling its first-ever live album, but when the group announced its breakup the following April those plans were abandoned. With Soundgarden\u2019s recent reunion, this lost fragment of its history has been revived\u2014Live on I-5<\/em> has arrived, albeit 14 years later than expected. Better late than never. By the time these 17 tracks were captured over the course of six shows in November and December 1996, the band was already being driven apart by pressures both internal and external\u2014but the evidence here suggests that the foursome\u2019s unity and ferocity as a performing unit never flagged.<\/p>\n

Opening with a crashing \u201cSpoonman,\u201d Live on I-5<\/em> (named for California\u2019s Interstate 5) proceeds through a relentless 78 minutes of furious hard rock. A volcanic \u201cOutshined\u201d burns with righteous anger, \u201cBoot Camp\u201d materializes from a seething two-minute jam on the Beatles\u2019 \u201cHelter Skelter,\u201d and lead singer Chris Cornell graciously dedicates \u201cRusty Cage\u201d to Johnny Cash (who had recently covered it). Matt Cameron is the MVP here, bashing out his characteristically complex time signatures with a boldness that most drummers couldn\u2019t approach on a simple 4\/4 beat. Now that the group is at work on its first new studio album since 1996\u2019s Down on the Upside<\/em>, perhaps Live on I-5<\/em> will stand not as postscript but as prelude. \u2013Chris Neal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SOUNDGARDEN Live on I-5 [A&M] ARCHIVAL Whether you\u2019re in a marriage or a band, breaking up is hard to do\u2014and lots of business gets left unfinished. Grunge powerhouse Soundgarden recorded several shows on the West Coast leg of its 1996 tour with an eye toward compiling its first-ever live album, but when the group announced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[1553,196,1554,1059,1552,1551],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2015,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions\/2015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}