Soundgarden: working on a new studio album, "Live at I5" drops March 22

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Billboard has an interview with Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron. The band is working on a new album. On the December 2010 writing session:

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 I think guitar-based music is not really as popular as it has been in the past, so it might sound kind of out of date or out of tune with what's going on right now.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."

Live on I-5
Soundgarden will release Live on I-5 on March 22. It's their first official concert album that was recorded during West Coast dates on its final tour in 1996. Pre-orders come with a bonus soundcheck CD.

Tracks:

1. Spoonman
2. Searching With My Good Eye Closed
3. Let Me Drown
   (live @ Crosby Hall, Del Mar Fairgrounds, Del Mar, CA - November 30, 1996)
4. Head Down
   (live @ Mercer Arena, Seattle, WA - December 18, 1996)
5. Outshined
   (live @ Crosby Hall, Del Mar Fairgrounds, Del Mar, CA - November 30, 1996)
6. Rusty Cage
   (live @ Pacific National Exhibition Forum, Vancouver, BC, Canada - December 7, 1996)
7. Burden In My Hand
   (live @ Salem Armory, Salem, OR - December 8, 1996)
8. Helter Skelter
9. Boot Camp
10. (live @ Crosby Hall, Del Mar Fairgrounds, Del Mar, CA - November 30, 1996)
11. Nothing To Say
    (live @ Mercer Arena, Seattle, WA - December 18, 1996)
12. Slaves And Bulldozers
13. Dusty
14. Fell On Black Days
    (live @ Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, Oakland, CA - December 5, 1996)
15. Search And Destroy
    (live @ Mercer Arena, Seattle, WA - December 18, 1996)
16. Ty Cobb
    (live @ Crosby Hall, Del Mar Fairgrounds, Del Mar, CA - November 30, 1996)
17. Black Hole Sun
    (live @ Mercer Arena, Seattle, WA - December 17, 1996)
18. Jesus Christ Pose
    (live @ Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, Oakland, CA - December 5, 1996)

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