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Chris Cornell can easily be placed among the best new rock artists. He’s been around since the Seattle music scene was first getting off the ground and played alongside some of the early grunge acts like Nirvana and Pearl Jam. Cornell played with Soundgarden in the 80’s and really made it big in the early 90’s with some great hits like “Spoon Man”, “Rusty Cage” and “Blackholesun”.  After the breakup of Soundgarden Cornell moved onto a brief solo career before emarking on a new band which would become extremely successful, Audioslave. With members of the former Rage Against the Machine including the amazing Tom Morello Audioslave was a force in new music for much of the last 6 or 7 years. Now Cornell and Audioslave have disbanded and are currently working on other  projects. Currently Cornell is working with the Timbaland, maybe the biggest name in pop music right now. At first I was a little unsure about this but looking at Timalands past record, he successfully produces music that is both critically and popularly received. As well Cornell seems to be in a positive mindset about the duo working together. Cornell has been quoted saying that Timbaland is more than a Hip-Hop, beat driven producer and has creative and original musical ambitions even describing the sound as Pink Floyd like on his latest album ”Scream” set to be released in 2009. I can`t wait to hear more from Cornell, although I was a little put off at first when I heard the news he was working with Timbaland and was reminded of Fall Out Boy`s work with the hip-hop producer which I thought was not the strongest rock performance they could have made. With Cornell I think it could be good though as Cornell has already proven to be one of the strongest writers, singers and performers in rock music as well as a highly respected artist. I`m sure that Cornell and Timbaland will find a good balance as I`m also sure everyone is excited for his latest work and is expecting another strong showing from  Cornell and company. 

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