WHAT’S MORE SHOCKING AND APPALLING: THE NEW CHRIS CORNELL ALBUM IN ITSELF OR THE FACT THAT HE’S SOLD OUT TWO NIGHTS AT ONE OF NEW YORK CITY’S BIGGEST VENUES?
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 at 1:49pm by Kip Wingerschmidt
I noticed yesterday in the Village Voice that the former Soundgarden/Audioslave frontman turned top-40 hip-hop beat crooner (whose real name is Christopher John Boyle, btw) will be playing a show tomorrow night at Atlantic City’s Borgata Casino & Resort, but before I could even come up with a snappy headline mentioning Cornell’s show as a “bad gamble” or some such other terrible pun, I noticed just a few scant pages away that the once-grunge superstar wailer has two sold-out shows scheduled for next week at New York’s own Webster Hall, which is a huge general admission venue. (hmm…for some reason it says sold out in the Voice but it seems there may be some tix still available online — dunno)
And I immediately had to ask myself, who the hell is comprising that massive audience?
