mad season

Here are the reasons we love late Alice In Chains frontman Layne Staley, who died on April 5, 2002, just eight years after Nirvana's Kurt Cobain.

Blow out the candles!

Break out the flannel and rock out once more.

Join us in celebrating Layne’s life with this list of 10 Unforgettable Layne Staley Moments.

The Soundgarden rocker would love to work with Mad Season's members, but under one very key condition.

Mad Season reunited for a special concert with the Seattle Symphony last night (Jan. 30).

With Soundgarden crooner Chris Cornell filling in for the late Layne Staley, Mad Season is coming together for one show.

Mad Season's run sadly ended before its time, as two of the band's members -- Layne Staley and John Baker Saunders -- died before a second album was ever completed. However, the group's two surviving members -- Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready and Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin -- recently decided to revisit some of the uncompleted material for a deluxe edition 'Above' album reissue packa

The Deluxe Edition of Mad Season's 'Above' is coming out on Tuesday, but we will have chances for you to win it before you can buy it on Monday!

Mad Season's tenure was short, but it's no less of a fond memory for drummer Barrett Martin. The musician, who was probably better known for his work behind the kit with Screaming Trees back in their '90s heyday, offers up a few remembrances of his late Mad Season bandmate Layne Staley in a new video posted at Diffuser.fm.

In the midst of the '90s, the grunge rock supergroup Mad Season emerged, led by Alice in Chains' Layne Staley with Pearl Jam's Mike McCready, Screaming Trees' Barrett Martin and the Walkabouts' John Baker Saunders completing the lineup. The band released one album, 'Above,' and were working on a second disc of music that was never finished before both Saunders and Staley passed away. However, just

After recent word that a new album of previously unreleased Mad Season material is in the works, the band’s drummer Barrett Martin has revealed that singer Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age) will be contributing vocals to the effort. The band’s original vocalist, Layne Staley (Alice in Chains), died in 2002.

The Layne Staley-fronted band Mad Season were one of the most under-the-radar side projects of the ’90s, and now guitarist Mike McCready reveals that there is an unreleased album on the way, as well as a reissue of their debut album ‘Above’ and a live release.