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Posted on September 26th 2026, 2:06pm

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Soundgarden have released the full official video of their Seattle Seahawks halftime performance, seventeen days after NBC declined to broadcast a single second of it.

The set — ‘Outshined’ and ‘Spoonman’, played by Kim Thayil, Ben Shepherd and Matt Cameron with Taylor Momsen of The Pretty Reckless on vocals, Mike McCready of Pearl Jam on second guitar and the Seahawks’ 32-piece Blue Thunder Drumline behind them — went out at Lumen Field on 9 September and was seen only by the people in the building. NBC cut to studio analysis instead.

Fans have spent the two and a half weeks since sharing phone recordings and demanding the real thing. It’s now on the band’s own YouTube channel, and it was worth the wait.

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NBC Had One Job

Let’s start with why this is a story at all, because a band posting a video of themselves normally isn’t.

On 9 September, Soundgarden — a band who have played live five times in nine years — performed at the halftime of the Seahawks’ season opener against the Patriots, in their own city, with a guest vocalist and a 32-piece drumline. It was the closest thing to a genuine event that an NFL halftime slot has produced in years.

NBC aired halftime analysis.

Not a truncated version. Not thirty seconds and a cut to the studio. The broadcast went to the desk and stayed there, and the only people who saw the performance were the ones standing in Lumen Field.

The reaction was immediate and it was not gentle. One viewer: ‘Shout out to the people who got videos and are sharing with the rest of us who couldn’t see Taylor & Soundgarden, since @NBCSports had one job (to air it) they couldn’t even do that right. So irritating because they used Taylor & Soundgarden just to bring in more viewers.’

Another, and this one’s my favourite thing anybody said about it: ‘Unless it was the band’s decision, it is truly incomprehensible to me how @nbc did not televise Soundgarden’s historic halftime performance and instead platformed the same tired commentary that is about as useless as a poopy flavored lollipop.’

Worth noting that McCready’s national anthem did make the broadcast. The anthem got airtime. The band didn’t.

They Did The Exact Same Thing To Ozzy

Here’s the part that turns an annoyance into a pattern.

Four years ago NBC pulled the same trick on Ozzy Osbourne, airing a matter of seconds of his set before cutting away. Same network, same slot, same instinct — book a rock legend to sell the broadcast, then don’t broadcast the rock legend.

I’ve spent enough years around this to know exactly what happens in that control room. Music is what gets cut when a segment runs long, every single time, because the producer’s assumption is that nobody tuned in for it. And that assumption is wrong in a very specific and very expensive way: the band’s name is in the pre-game promo precisely because somebody upstairs believed it would pull viewers in. You cannot use a band to sell the broadcast and then treat them as the thing you cut for time. Pick one.

What makes it worse in this case is the rarity. This isn’t a touring act you can catch next month. Soundgarden have performed five times since 2017. There was no second chance to see this.

What’s Actually On The Video

Two songs, and they picked the right two.

‘Outshined’ opens it — that Badmotorfinger riff in dropped D, the one that had half of Seattle retuning their guitars in 1991, and it is absolutely enormous in a stadium.

Then ‘Spoonman’. Which, if you think about it for about four seconds, is the most obvious marching-drumline song ever written and nobody had ever done it. There’s a percussion break sitting in the middle of that track that has been waiting since 1994 for somebody to hand it 32 drummers. The Blue Thunder Drumline walk straight into it and the whole thing lifts off.

Taylor Momsen takes the vocals and — crucially — doesn’t attempt a Chris Cornell impression. That’s the right call and not an easy one when you’re standing in front of a full stadium singing songs that belonged to one of the greatest voices in rock history. She sings them as herself. It works.

And in a proper board mix rather than through somebody’s phone microphone, the difference is night and day. If you’ve only heard the bootleg audio that’s been going round, this is not the same experience.

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Five Shows In Nine Years

Context for why fans were so angry about missing it.

Soundgarden have played live five times since Chris Cornell’s death in 2017:

• 2019 — an eight-song set at the ‘I Am the Highway’ tribute at the Forum in Inglewood
• 2022 — the Taylor Hawkins tribute show
• 2024 — six songs at the Showbox in Seattle, billed as Nudedragons
• 2025 — the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction in Cleveland
• 2026 — this

That’s it. That’s the whole live history of one of the most important bands Seattle ever produced across nearly a decade. They are extremely selective about what they say yes to, and a hometown NFL opener was a pointed choice. Putting that in front of a national audience and then not putting it in front of a national audience is the part that stings.

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And There’s An Album Coming

The bigger picture, and the reason none of this is a farewell lap.

Thayil, Shepherd and Cameron are building a new Soundgarden album from recordings Cornell made before his death in 2017. Terry Date, who produced two of their classic records, is on it. Joe Barresi is mixing.

No release date. But that’s a real record with a real production team behind it, which means the halftime sets and tribute shows aren’t the ending — they’re what’s happening while something larger gets finished.

TL;DR

• Soundgarden have released the full official video of their Seahawks halftime performance, seventeen days after the fact.
• NBC did not broadcast the set, cutting to halftime analysis instead. Only the crowd at Lumen Field saw it.
• Fans reacted furiously and spent the following weeks circulating phone footage.
• The set was ‘Outshined’ and ‘Spoonman’.
• Lineup: Kim Thayil (guitar), Ben Shepherd (bass), Matt Cameron (drums), Taylor Momsen of The Pretty Reckless on vocals, Mike McCready of Pearl Jam on second guitar.
• The Seahawks’ 32-piece Blue Thunder Drumline backed the performance.
• McCready’s national anthem did air. The band’s set did not.
• NBC did the same thing to Ozzy Osbourne four years ago, airing only seconds of his performance.
• Only the fifth Soundgarden live performance since Chris Cornell’s death in 2017.
• A new album built from unreleased Cornell recordings is in progress, with Terry Date producing and Joe Barresi mixing. No release date.

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Emerging from Stoke-on-Trent, UK five-piece The Groves channel the gold standard of ’90s and ’00s guitar rock, taking direct cues from power-pop and slacker-rock icons like Elliott Smith, Brendan Benson, and Guided by Voices. Powered by the songwriting team of brothers Luke and Joshua Prince alongside Tom Adamson—and rounded out by vocalist Kris Morgan and bassist Harvey Brown—the band moves effortlessly between hook-laden power-pop, heavy alternative riffs, and stripped-back lo-fi textures. 

Say The Groves about their new song: ‘Yeah Yeah Yeah’ is a guitar riff driven track built up from a live studio recording. This approach ensured that we captured a raw energy reminiscent of the 60s/90s garage rock/power pop sound that influences us. Lyrically the song airs both internal and outward frustrations around artistic integrity and personal insecurities. 

I find the song fun to listen to, energetic and with pure 90s vibes. Amazingly performed, catchy and with a perfect sound for the genre (it was recorded at Sun Street Studios in Stoke-on-Trent with producer Mark Eyden). It’s got some pop elements and I find it enjoyable from start to finish. Give it a go by clicking on the Spotify player below and follow The Groves if you like what you hear.