Few guitarists are as synonymous with Guild Guitars as Kim Thayil, yet owing to a series of twists of fate, a signature guitar never became a reality for the Soundgarden hero. Now, finally, Guild has ...

Kim Thayil has dismissed a review that called his guitar playing “sloppy” while detailing how his love for alternate tunings saw him disregard all he knew about shapes and scales. In an extensive ...

As fans, we look at artist’s lives through how we receive them through speaker, but it’s always more interesting to hear about an artist or musician straight from the damn source. That’s what founding ...

Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil admits he was a little skeptical the first time he heard of Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp. But after participating as a special guest last year, he jumped at the chance ...

Following Chris Cornell‘s 2017 death, Soundgarden founding guitarist Kim Thayil has been the group’s most visible and voluble member, the key player in both interviews and live performance tributes.

With Soundgarden, Kim Thayil often experimented with how he played guitar, changing the strings’ tunings and incorporating feedback into the band’s sound. He brings that sense of musical adventuring ...

Even though 30 years have passed, Kim Thayil admits that he did not want to perform this hit song at the 1995 Grammy Awards. The guitarist of the rock band Soundgarden sat down with Stereogumfor the ...

Melvins drummer Dale Crover and Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil are two guys who were there for the very beginning of the Seattle underground-music scene that came to be known as grunge. Both of ...

In a new interview, grunge music legends Krist Novoselic of Nirvana, Kim Thayil of Soundgarden, and record engineer Jack Endino talked and reminisced about songwriter and Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 16: Peter Frampton and Brandi Carlile perform with Soundgarden onstage during I Am The Highway: A Tribute To Chris Cornell at The Forum on January 16, 2019 in Inglewood ...

Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil admitted he struggled to understand the value of the band’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nomination. In a new interview with Guitar World, he said he’s made sense of the ...

Soundgarden's Kim Thayil has pushed back against the grunge label, claiming the term was a “marketing thing” rather than something ‘90s bands embraced. During a recent interview with Pete Thorn, the ...