Guns N' Roses' 'Patience', John Lennon's 'Watching the Wheels' and Sinead O'Connor's 'Nothing Compares 2 U' are some of the songs covered by Chris Cornell on an album surprise-released today, Seattle Times reports. 'No One Sings Like You Anymore' is Cornell's “last fully completed studio album”, and it also includes Ghostland Observatory (with 'Sad Sad City') Harry Nilsson ('Jump Into The Fire'), Carl Hall ('You Don't Know Nothing About Love') Electric Light Orchestra ('Showdown'), Terry Reid ('To Be Treated Rite'), Lorraine Ellison ('Stay With Me Baby'), and Janis Joplin ('Get It While You Can').

Chris Cornell's posthumously released cover of the Guns N’ Roses classic 'Patience' has just reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Songs chart, making it the first time for a Cornell solo song to reach No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock tally, which tracks radio airplay across the United States. Cornell’s take on the GN’R ballad was released by his family on July 20th, in commemoration of what would have been the late rocker’s 56th birthday, Billboard reports. With Soundgarden, Cornell earned six No. 1 singles on the Mainstream Rock chart from 1994 through 2013. He also scored two chart-toppers with Audioslave.

Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell will be the subject of a new biopic called 'Black Days'. Actor John Holiday, who previously played Carl Perkins in the 'Walk the Line' film, will take the lead role as the late grunge icon. In other Cornell related news, the latest edition of Mind Wide Open, the weekly mental-health series hosted by Chris Cornell’s daughter Lily Cornell Silver, had Eddie Vedder as the guest. Pearl Jam singer opened up about grief, empathy, and activism, while also reflecting on his fallen peers.

56 years ago Chris Cornell was born, and in his memory, Cornell's widow Vicky Cornell and the Chris Cornell Estate have shared a previously unreleased cover of Guns N’ Roses’ 'Patience' that Chris Cornell recorded in Los Angeles in March 2016.

Lily Cornell Silver, daughter of the late Chris Cornell of Soundgarden, has launched a discussion program called Mind Wide Open to normalize the topic of mental health. She made the announcement this week on her Instagram, three years after her father has died. Cornell Silver said that her goal is to normalize mental health discussions. The new series will take place on Instagram and will feature interviews with mental health professionals, public figures and other notable guests.

Soundgarden could easily finish a new album if they just had the demo files of Chris Cornell’s vocal recordings, band's guitarist Kim Thayil said. But the problem is - "we don’t have those files”. So, will the album happen? "Yeah, definitely", he said, "and I think that will happen. It would be ridiculous if it didn’t. […]

A pretty context, and, finally, a pretty song. Toni Cornell wrote the song 'Far Away Places' when she was just 12 (she turned 15 on Wednesday). Chris Cornell produced it for his daughter, as one of the last songs he will record before his death in May 2017, Billboard reports. It is featured in a […]

Stereogum takes on a serious issue of musician committing suicides: "We continue to lose music heroes to suicide and self-medication, with no real connection between age or genre — Chris Cornell, Chester Bennington, Avicii, Mac Miller, Lil Peep, Scott Hutchison, Keith Flint from the Prodigy, Kim Jong-hyun of K-pop group Shinee, Allman Bros. Band drummer […]

Ecuadorian fan started an online petition asking NASA to name the newly photographed black hole after the late Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell, who's 'Black Hole Sun' is one the most popular rock songs of 1990s. NASA published photograph of the black star, the first black star photo, this week, and Giuliana Jarrin thinks that Cornell […]

A documentary about singer and songwriter Chris Cornell, core member of Soundgarden, Temple of The Dog and Audioslave, is being produced by actor Brad Pitt, his widow Vicky Cornell and production company Film 45 from California. The film will follow the life and career of Cornell, and will be directed by Berg ('Lone Survivor', 'Deepwater Horizon'). Variety...

A diverse array of artists honored the memory of Chris Cornell at the I Am The Highway tribute concert in Los Angeles last week. Members of Soundgarden, Audioslave, Temple Of The Dog, Foo Fighters, Metallica, Pearl Jam, Jane’s Addiction, Melvins, Queens Of The Stone Age, Black Sabbath and others took park. Rolling Stone...

The Chris Cornell estate has released 'Chris Cornell: An Artist’s Legacy', a new career-spanning box set collecting the late songwriter’s work as well as a 17-track self-titled retrospective album. It includes music from Cornell’s bands Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Audioslave, his solo work, as well as the previously unreleased original song 'When Bad Does Good, Cornell’s cover of […]