The Ongoing History of New Music, Episode 736: Chris Cornell’s 6 Degrees of Separation
That’s a misleading title, if I’m honest. When I started writing the program, the goal was to explain Big Bang of Grunge by arbitrarily choosing Chris Cornell as its singularity. I could have picked any number of people, but since Chris just released a solo album earlier this fall, I figured he was as good a starting point as any.
Well, he was–but the degrees of separation between Chris and everything else that happened in grunge numbered fewer than six. Much fewer. Kevin Bacon has nothing on this guy.
I think you’ll be amazing at how interconnected and, frankly, incestuous the whole grunge scene was at the beginning. Everyone knew everyone else. Everyone played with everyone else. Hell, everyone slept with each other. (Well, not quite. But close.)
In the end you’ll see that it doesn’t take many people to light a musical spark that can engulf the planet. If you have the right people, of course.
If you’re interested in Chris’ current album, Higher Truth, you can find it here.
The Ongoing History of New Music can be heard on the following stations:
- 102.1 The Edge/Toronto – Sunday night at 7, Monday night at 11 with archives show Tuesday and Wednesday at midnight.
- Live 88-5/Ottawa
- 107.5 Dave-FM/Kitchener
- FM96/London – Sunday night at 7, Monday night at 11
- The Drive/Kingston
- 98.1 The Bridge/Lethbridge – Saturday night at 6, Sunday morning at 10am
- Rock 97.7/Grand Prairie – Sunday nights at 6.
- 92X/Calgary
- Sonic 102.9/Edmonton
- The Zone/Victoria
- Live 105/Halifax
We’re still looking for more affiliates in Vancouver, Kamloops, Kelowna, Red Deer, Regina, Saskatoon, Brandon, Windsor, Montreal, Charlottetown, Moncton, Fredericton, and St John’s and anywhere else with a transmitter. If you’re in any of those markets and you want the show, lemme know and I’ll see what I can do.
Things are looking good for a debut in Singapore in January. And at least one US station wants to come on board. Anyone else? Love to hear from you.
it’s called a scene loser. there’s one in toronto too, right in your own backyard, if you were cool enough to stick your head in the bovine