This is why Eddie is the best front man in rock music. Austin City Limits was a rain and mud fest this year and halfway through Pearl Jam’s encore performance of “Keep on rockin in the free world”, Eddie decides to join in the fun. Skip to 1:50 for the mud shenanigans:
With Backspacer due out on Sept. 20th Pearl Jam have finally released the video for lead single, “The Fixer”. Check it out:
In what is set to be one of the musical highlights of the year, Pearl Jam will release their eagerly anticipated new studio album Backspacer, Sunday 20 September through Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company.
The band has reunited with producer Brendan O’Brien, who has produced four previous Pearl Jam albums, for Backspacer.
The highly charged first single from Backspacer, ‘The Fixer’ is at Canadian radio now and debuted inside the Top 10 on the BDS Rock Radio Chart. ‘The Fixer’ will be available for digital purchase on 25 August.
The band recently premiered ‘Got Some’, one of the many highlights from their new 11-track record on the debut of US chat show, The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, 01 June. Their performance gained an unprecedented number of views on YouTube and received the biggest US chat show audience figures in 5 years.
Pearl Jam - Eddie Vedder (lead vocals, guitar), Jeff Ament (bass), Stone Gossard (guitar), Matt Cameron (drums) and Mike McCready (guitar) play 08 August in Calgary, Alberta, headlining the Virgin Festival and 21 August at the Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto, Ontario.
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Check out the single “The Fixer” here while it lasts:
‘The Fixer’ is the first single from the upcoming album, Backspacer which is due September 20th. Can’t wait for this!
Check out the new single at the bands MySpace page.
This is great! From UltimateGuitar.com:
Pearl Jam has commenced recording of its ninth studio album with producer Brendan O’Brien, guitarist Mike McCready told Seattle radio station KISW last Thursday (May 1). Though only “four or five” songs are complete so far, McCready said the band is hoping to release the record in 2008.
The new effort, a follow-up to its self-titled 2006 album, finds Pearl Jam reteaming with longtime producer Brendan O’Brien (Bruce Springsteen, Rage Against the Machine) for the first time since 1998’s “Yield.” O’Brien has produced Pearl Jam’s “Vs.” (1993), “Vitalogy” (1994) and “No Code.”
“Brendan works really fast,” bassist Jeff Ament has told Billboard.com. “He’s a super pro. I’ve always felt, working with him, that he understood me as a bass player and that’s not always easy. A lot of producers are there to please the singer. But I’ve always had a great rapport with him. I can tell him I want something to sound like the O’Jays or Led Zeppelin or PJ Harvey and he gets it.”
“We’ve always been friends,” said O’Brien. “They were great to me when we were making records together [before], and we still remained very good friends…. I still think they’re a great band. Eddie [Vedder] has one of the best, if not the best, voices out there. When he sings, people believe them.”
Pearl Jam is also about to embark on a 13-date East Coast tour that runs from June 11-30.
In an effort to support Portland, Ore., U.S. Senate candidate Steve Novick, the band has set aside special tickets to its sold-out shows in New York, Camden, N.J., and Washington, D.C., that include donations to Novick’s campaign. Novick donation tickets to the Washington, D.C., show include access to a meet-and-greet with guitarist Stone Gossard.
Last month, Gossard was among a group of musicians that also included R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, the Decemberists’ Colin Meloy, Sleater-Kinney’s Corin Tucker and Spoon’s Britt Daniel who released a letter of support for the candidate.
Pearl Jam’s eponymous 2006 album peaked at No 2 on the Billboard 200 and lead single “World Wide Suicide” reached No. 1 on the Modern Rock chart.
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