Editing Soul Asylum (section)

===2000s===
Pirner became friends with the film director [[Kevin Smith]], a longtime Soul Asylum fan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.readexiled.com/whysoul.htm |title=why Soul Asylum rules |website=Readexiled.com |access-date=April 23, 2014}}</ref> Soul Asylum contributed music to three Kevin Smith films, ''[[Clerks (1994 film)|Clerks]]'', ''[[Clerks II]]'', and 1997's ''[[Chasing Amy]]'' (in which Pirner provided the score). Smith directed the music video for the song "Can't Even Tell," which was featured on the ''Clerks'' soundtrack.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://enterthesoulasylum.com/discography/soundtracks/clerks_ii/ |title=Clerks II |website=EnterTheSoulAsylum.com |date=August 22, 2006 |access-date=April 23, 2014}}</ref>

In May 2004, bassist Mueller was diagnosed with [[Esophageal cancer|throat cancer]] and underwent treatment. In October 2004, a benefit concert was held for him in Minneapolis at The Quest nightclub, featuring popular local groups and musicians, including Soul Asylum, the [[Gear Daddies]], [[Paul Westerberg]], and former [[Hüsker Dü]] bandmates [[Bob Mould]] and [[Grant Hart]], who reunited for their first performance together in sixteen years. The benefit raised over $50,000.<ref>{{cite magazine | author=Devenish, Colin | date= October 24, 2004 | title= Husker Du Men Reunite | magazine= RollingStone.com | url= https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/soulasylum/articles/story/6585758/husker_du_men_reunite | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071016074942/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/soulasylum/articles/story/6585758/husker_du_men_reunite | url-status= dead | archive-date= October 16, 2007 | access-date= June 17, 2007}}</ref> At the time, Mueller's cancer was in [[remission (medicine)|remission]], and he played with his bandmates during the show. Mueller later recorded his last Soul Asylum album, ''[[The Silver Lining (Soul Asylum album)|The Silver Lining]]''. However, the cancer returned, and he died at his home on June 17, 2005. Soul Asylum released ''The Silver Lining'' on July 11, 2006, their first album of new material since ''[[Candy from a Stranger]]'', released eight years earlier.[[File:Soul Asylum 2.jpg|thumb|right|Soul Asylum in 2010]]
In late 2005, ex-[[The Replacements (band)|Replacements]] bassist (and former [[Guns N' Roses]] bassist) [[Tommy Stinson]] and former [[Prince (musician)|Prince]] drummer [[Michael Bland]] joined Soul Asylum. The band completed its American tour in support of ''The Silver Lining'' in late 2006. In November and December 2006 they opened for [[Cheap Trick]] on that band's American tour. On March 10, 2007, Soul Asylum joined [[Cyndi Lauper]], [[Mint Condition]], and [[Lifehouse (band)|Lifehouse]] in a concert to benefit Wain McFarlane, the leader of the reggae band Ipso Facto, to help pay for the expenses of a kidney transplant.<ref>[http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/entertainment/16492644.htm]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929111257/http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/entertainment/16492644.htm|date=September 29, 2007}}</ref>