Consumed Links - November 25, 2011

In the midst of the holiday season some people tend to miss some of the things going on around the web. Here's a few things you may have missed. 


Who was recently voted the greatest guitarist of all time in a poll conducted by Rolling Stone? (contactmusic)


The late, great, Peter Steele has been commemorated in Brooklyn Park (metalunderground)


Spin Magazine and Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell take a look back at "Rusty Cage" after 20 years. (spin)


If what Universal alleges is true then Grooveshark may have little chance for defending themselves. (mashable)


Rowdy Roddy Piper recently uploaded this video on FunnyOrDie. Not as funny as I thought it would be. (FOD)


A woman filed a $200,00 lawsuit against American Airlines.... not for a reason you would expect. (eur)


Blogcritics tries to find out who the real drummer is on an early version of The Beatles' "Please Please Me" (blogcritics) 


Over at Slate there is a pretty good article about how drum machines changed pop music over the last 40 years. (slate)


A hand-written letter by Paul McCartney sold for way more than expected. (unkut)


And finally... for now....


Paste has a list of musicians that overcame having missing or damaged fingers. (paste)

"Black Rain" by Soundgarden

Black Rain by soundgardenworld

"Black Rain" is a new single off of the soon to be released album, titled, Telephantasm.  I have listened to the track a few times now and I cannot decide if I like it or not. It is a track from back in the Badmotorfinger days that never got finished. It has since been reworked.

I think it is going to be interesting to see how much, if any, impact this track will make. How many fans of the band were expecting a bit more from the band? Was this the right track? Did they wait too long to reunite? Only time will tell.

For more information on the band and the album release please check out:

Soundgarden World (official site)

Blabbermouth.net 

Soundgarden To Reunite?

That’s right! As per Chris Cornell’s twitter – Soundgarden has announced that they will be reuniting this year. 

The band recently reunited at one of Pearl Jam’s October Los Angeles shows. The last time that the band played together was in 1997. The last studio album was 1996’s ‘Down On The Upside.’

In the meantime, here are a couple faves.

 

 

 

If this works out… I might even forgive him for that awful album with Timbaland….