Just because Soundgarden’s best years are behind them doesn’t mean that they (or their managers) don’t know what the kids are into these days. Though the band’s pre-Lollapalooza show at the Vic tomorrow night is beyond sold out, fans with access to mobile social networking sites and a lot of luck can still score tickets. Tomorrow afternoon a representative of the band—widely hailed as alternative rock’s answer to Van Hagar—will be going around Chicago dropping off tickets and “mementos,” as the press release says, at different sites. To find out where they are, you’ll have to follow Soundgarden on Twitter and the extremely annoying and intrusive Foursquare. To claim them you’ll need a Foursquare account yourself, so you can be the first user to check in at the drop-off site after the band.
