Surviving Soundgarden members Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron, and Ben Shepherd are reuniting to carry out underneath the moniker Nudedragons on the Showbox in Seattle on December 14th.
The three musicians shall be joined by singer Shaina Shepherd on the thirteenth annual SMooCH live performance benefiting Seattle Kids’s Hospital’s uncompensated care fund. Their look is described on the SMooCH web site as being a “transient encore efficiency.”
Nudedragons is an anagram for Soundgarden. The band used that very same moniker once they reunited in 2010 to play the Showbox for his or her first present since 1997.
Because the tragic passing of singer Chris Cornell in 2017, the three surviving Soundgarden members have solely carried out collectively a few instances. As soon as throughout a Cornell tribute present in 2019, and once more in 2021 once they backed up Brandi Carlile for “Black Gap Solar” and “Looking out With My Good Eye Closed” on the Gorge Amphitheatre.
Moreover, Cameron and Thayil have carried out with Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic within the band third Secret in recent times. The 2 musicians additionally appeared on The Fairly Reckless’ 2021 music “Solely Love Can Save Me Now.”
The profit present is already offered out, having introduced a lineup that features Sebadoh, Constructed to Spill’s Doug Martsch, and Weapons N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan. Final 12 months’s live performance raised $2.6 million.