Audioslave

Audioslave

It's unfortunate that Audioslave are content with merely chucking out radio-friendly arena rockers and even friendlier ballads, because somewhere behind their well-milked pedigree lies a badass rock band. However, the only time that band show themselves is on the title track, and then it's back to resting on their laurels. As with their last two...
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Audioslave — Out Of Exile

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" seems to be the modus operandi for Chris Cornell and company on Audioslave's second disc. The former members of Rage Against The Machine and Soundgarden once again pile big bass lines and bigger guitar melodies over droning post-grunge vocals that seem fixated on repeating the song's title over and over...
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Audioslave - Out Of Exile

Tom Morello Used To Be A Stripper

Hey, kids. Just for the record, a Harvard degree might not get you employed right away when you're finished with school. Tom Morello knows that much, since the Rage Against The Machine guitarist and former Audioslave member says he worked as a male stripper after he graduated from Harvard University with a bachelors of political science degree...
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Chris Cornell Files For Restraining Order Against Associate Of His Ex-Wife

Chris Cornell's extremely strained relationship with his former wife and manager, Susan Silver, has worsened.The former Soundgarden and Audioslave singer — who released his second solo album, Carry On, this summer — has filed for a restraining order against a man he claims was hired by Silver to stalk and torment him, his new wife and their two...
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Chris Cornell Discusses Covering Michael Jackson And Audioslave Split

Chris Cornell has had a busy couple of years. He's managed to release an album every year since 2005 — Audioslave's Out Of Exile and Revelations, and his second solo effort, Carry On, which will be released on June 5. "I always felt, even in the early Soundgarden days, that bands should be able to put out a record every year or year-and-a-...
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Chris Cornell's New Revelations: He's Done With Audioslave

Ex-Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell can now also add ex-Audioslave singer to his resume. Cornell announced the departure in a media statement released on Thursday, in which he also took the liberty of reminding people about his impending sophomore solo release, Carry On. Citing the age-old excuse of "irresolvable personality conflicts as...
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Audioslave's Tom Morello Arrested At Los Angeles Protest

Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello was arrested and charged with unlawful assembly during a march in Los Angeles to raise awareness for immigrant hotel workers' rights on Thursday evening. Morello was one of approximately 400 protesters arrested for refusing to leave Century Boulevard, the main road leading to the Los Angeles International...
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Audioslave Get Funkier, Not Happier

Chris Cornell is tired. He's starting his third interview of the day — which would probably be somewhere around the 3,647th of his career — and it's easy to see that he'd probably rather have a nap. Still, he's talkative and articulate once he gets going, and there are some things he wants to address: First, those pesky break-up rumours that...
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Chris Cornell's Solo Work Doesn't Mean The End Of Audioslave

Former Soundgarden and current Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell is working on a solo LP, but dismisses speculation that his band are splitting up. Rumours have been circulating that Audioslave's forthcoming Brendan O'Brien-produced Revelations album would be the vocalist's last with the band, since he's working on his first solo album since...
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Audioslave Have Revelation About Their Third Album

Audioslave will show off some of their fondness for funk, soul and R&B in addition to their normal hard-driving rock with the September 5 Epic release of Revelations. The album is the band's third studio album in just four years of existence, and guitarist Tom Morello describes it as "Earth, Wind & Fire meets Led Zeppelin."...
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Audioslave's New LP Will Both Kick And Shake Your Ass

Audioslave's new LP doesn't have a firm title or release date yet, but guitarist Tom Morello describes it as "Led Zeppelin meets Earth, Wind & Fire." The record, which could potentially be called Revelations, will feature the trademark Audioslave heavy-riffing hard rock sound. But the inclusion of '70s funk and soul elements will...
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Chris Cornell Wants His Pieces Of Silver

Grunge godfather Chris Cornell is suing his ex-wife and former manager Susan J. Silver for more than $1 million U.S. Cornell claims that money owed to him was instead diverted by Silver to his former bandmates in Soundgarden. Billboard.com reports that Cornell filed a lawsuit on November 28 in California Superior Court in Los Angeles that...
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DMX And Audioslave Crank Out Two Songs

Remember when Zack de la Rocha left Rage Against The Machine in 2000 and we were all sad? Then Soundgarden's Chris Cornell took over for de la Rocha and we were all glad? They were in the studio by May of 2001 and things were going well until the band formerly known as Rage signed on for Ozzfest 2002 and Cornell split. Then we were sad...
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