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Soundgarden Tour Dates

City	Venue	Date		Tickets
Saint Louis, MO	The Pageant	Tue	May 21 / 13	Find Tickets
Kansas City, MO	The Midland by AMC	Wed	May 22 / 13	Find Tickets
Houston, TX	Bayou Music Center	Fri	May 24 / 13	Find Tickets
Austin, TX	Austin Music Hall	Sat	May 25 / 13	Find Tickets
Dallas, TX	The Palladium Ballroom	Sun	May 26 / 13	Find Tickets
Broomfield, CO	1stBank Center	Tue	May 28 / 13	Find Tickets
Mexico City	Palacio de los Deportes	Fri	May 31 / 13	Find Tickets
Helsinki	Hartwall Arena	Wed	Sep 04 / 13	Find Tickets
Stockholm	Hovet	Fri	Sep 06 / 13	Find Tickets
Oslo	Oslo Spektrum	Sat	Sep 07 / 13	Find Tickets
Copenhagen	Forum Copenhagen	Mon	Sep 09 / 13	Find Tickets

Soundgarden Biography

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Soundgarden is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1984 by singer and rhythm guitarist Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto. Matt Cameron became the band's full-time drummer in 1986, while bassist Ben Shepherd became a permanent replacement for Yamamoto in 1990. Soundgarden was one of the seminal bands in the creation of grunge, a style of alternative rock that developed in Seattle, and was one of a number of grunge bands signed to the record label Sub Pop. Soundgarden was the first grunge band to sign to a major label (A&M Records, in 1988), though the band did not achieve commercial success until they popularized the genre in the early 1990s with Seattle contemporaries Nirvana, Alice in Chains, and Pearl Jam. Soundgarden achieved its biggest success with the 1994 album ''Superunknown'', which debuted at number one on the ''Billboard'' charts and yielded the Grammy Award-winning singles "Black Hole Sun" and "Spoonman". In 1997, the band broke up due to internal strife over its creative direction. After several years working on projects and other bands, Soundgarden reunited in 2010 and their sixth studio album, ''King Animal'', was released two years later. As of 2012, Soundgarden had sold over 10.5 million records in the United States, and an estimated 22.5 million worldwide.

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