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:
Are these guys the last great American rock band? Well, probably not, there are countless great bands in the US, but there’s something about Pearl Jam and where they seem to be at as a band both musically and philosophically that separates them from the pack. They’ve been through it all and its nice to see them still at it. Plus the new album sounds killer! Watch the brief documentary that explores the recording of the new album Backspacer:
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.
The good news: Pearl Jam is recording a new album! The bad news: Jeff Ament and another person were mugged and roughed up leaving the studio late at night… uncool. Why don’t muggers hang around the studio that Nickelback records at?? Read more from CNN.com:
So much for Southern hospitality.
When Pearl Jam — the Seattle, Washington-based grunge rock band — was in Atlanta late last month, bass guitar player Jeff Ament and a band employee were mugged outside a recording studio, a police report shows.
According to the DeKalb County Police Department, Ament and Mark Anthony Smith were attacked shortly before noon on April 27 when they arrived at Southern Tracks Recording, a studio in north Atlanta.
Southern Tracks is the home base of producer Brendan O’Brien, with whom the band has worked before. According to Rolling Stone, the band is recording a new album with the producer.
Three men reportedly emerged from a nearby wooded area wearing masks and brandishing knives. They smashed windows of the rented Jeep Commander, snatched a BlackBerry phone and other belongings, and demanded money, the police report shows. The suspects allegedly got away with more than $7,300 in goods and cash.
Ament jumped from the passenger side of the vehicle and started to run, but he was chased by a suspect and knocked to the ground, said Mekka Parish, a public information officer with the police department. Video Watch surveillance video of the attack »
She said he “suffered some lacerations” on the back of his head and was treated at the scene. His backpack was also snatched, she said, and included inside was Ament’s passport.
“At this time detectives believe the victims were not specifically targeted,” Parish said. “But they believe the suspects were familiar with the studio because of its isolated location.”
advertisementThough surveillance cameras captured the incident, the masks worn by the attackers have made identifying suspects difficult.
Witnesses reported seeing the suspects flee through the woods and hop into a waiting black Maxima, Parish added. Anyone with leads on this case is encouraged to call 770-724-7850.
Wow, this years Bonnaroo had a great lineup. The performances are all over YouTube, but here are a few that I thought were great:
Metallica - Fade To Black:
Pearl Jam - Black:
Raconteurs - Carolina Drama:
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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