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Pearl Jam, David Byrne, Postal Service and More Contribute New Songs to Voting Rights Compilation
If you thought the first Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, which featured R.E.M., Hayley Williams, Matt Berninger, Phoebe Bridgers and more was a colossus, wait ’til you see this. Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Volume 2, featuring 77 previously unreleased songs from Pearl Jam, David Byrne, Postal Service, Mark Ronson, Big Boi and Sleepy Brown, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and many more will be available for 24 hours only on Bandcamp This Friday, Oct, 2. One hundred percent of those net proceeds go to Voting Rights Lab, a nonpartisan organization that brings state advocacy, policy, and legislative expertise to the fight for voting rights. GMTATCOAD Volume Two will feature a slew never-before-heard new songs, covers, remixes, live versions, ...
Stevie Nicks, Pearl Jam and More React to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death
The world lost a true hero on Friday night when revolutionary Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at age 87 due to complications from pancreatic cancer. When news of her passing broke, musicians flocked to social media to pay their respects. Stevie Nicks penned a poignant tribute to the “political rock star,” comparing her death to that of Nicks’ own mother and lamenting that they never met. “I so believed that she would live for a few more years,” she wrote in her lengthy statement. “I wanted to meet her. I wanted to hold her hand and give her a huge hug and thank her for all she had done for women, and for all she would continue to do.” The members of Pearl Jam took a more straightforward approach with their tribute, writing, “A life that was the very definition of servic...
Pearl Jam to Release 1992 ‘MTV Unplugged’ Session
Pearl Jam’s iconic 1992 MTV Unplugged session, previously only a special 2019 Record Store Day release, will be available on vinyl and, for the first time, on CD as well. The live session lands on the band’s 30th anniversary — Pearl Jam formed in 1990 from the ashes of Mother Love Bone, a band featuring Chris Cornell’s former roommate, singer Andrew Wood. Pearl Jam’s Unplugged will be released Oct. 23. Preorder both formats here. Unplugged was recorded a mere three days after completing their first American tour. Pearl Jam traveled to New York to record the stripped-down versions of their Ten album. All seven songs featured in the MTV Unplugged broadcast — “Jeremy,” “Even Flow,” “Alive,” “Black” and “State Of Love and Trust,” “Porch” and “Oceans” — are included. In other news, Pe...
Eddie Vedder on ‘Democratic Process’ While Recording Gigaton, Admiration for Bandmates
Eddie Vedder opened up on a variety of topics — including working on new music during the global pandemic, why he finally joined Instagram and why the “democratic process” of recording Pearl Jam’s Gigaton makes it one of his favorite records — on a special fan-driven Q&A session with SiriusXM, Faithful Forum with Eddie Vedder, on Wednesday (Sept. 3). Vedder has been deemed Pearl Jam’s frontman, but he points out how PJ co-founders Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard’s longtime musical partnership has paved the way for the foundation of the band. “I think at some point we functioned without a leader,” he said in the interview. “If I ended up in that situation, I think it was reluctantly. It was by no means a hostile takeover. It was their world that started all this. It was Green River. A...
Pearl Jam Launch Voting Rights Sweepstakes
Pearl Jam and their Vitalogy Foundation have teamed up with online fundraising platform Omaze to not only raise funds to help ensure voting access this November but also to give one lucky fan and their guest the opportunity to hang out with Eddie Vedder and Jeff Ament in their native Seattle. Pearl Jam is asking all their fans—if able—to join the band in pledging to vote by mail in the 2020 election. In addition to meeting Vedder and Ament, you’ll also get a private after-hours tour of the Pearl Jam: Home and Away exhibit at the Museum of Pop Culture and tour London Bridge Studios, where Ten was recorded. You’ll also get to ask all your big fan questions as well as potentially partake in some beers if you’re over 21. “We would answer all your questions,” Vedder said in the promo video belo...
The 25 Best Soundtrack Albums of the 1990s
In the 1980s, music and film collided for cross-promotional blockbusters both transcendent (Purple Rain) and transcendently cheesy (Footloose). In the ‘90s, soundtracks continued to sell in the millions, capturing cultural moments like the Seattle grunge of Singles or the Britpop and electronica of Trainspotting. Auteurs like Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson reached deep into their record collections to set the mood while movies like Above the Rim and Menace II Society pioneered the concept of soundtracks as hip-hop mixtapes. A great soundtrack can propel an unsuccessful single, like Seal’s “Kiss From A Rose,” to the top of the charts, or revive a decades-old hit, like Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.” It can also push a cult singer-songwriter like Elliott Smith or Aimee Mann to an Oscar perf...
Watch Toni Cornell Cover Pearl Jam’s ‘Black’
Toni Cornell, daughter of late Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell, covered Pearl Jam’s “Black” during the Lolla2020 livestream on Thursday. She performed a socially distanced, acoustic version of the Ten classic that was faithful to the original version. The free Lolla2020 stream, replacing the canceled Lollapalooza festival, will air July 30 to August 2 on YouTube. The event will feature over 150 archival and original performances and performances — including the first major reunion in over 20 years from Perry Farrell’s Porno for Pyros. The Chris Cornell estate honored the singer on July 20, what would have been his 56th birthday, by releasing a previously released cover of Guns N’ Roses ballad “Patience.” The song was tracked in 2016 at Los Angeles’ Henson Studios whi...
Pearl Jam, R.E.M. and More Demand Clearance for Campaign Songs
Pearl Jam, R.E.M. Sia, Lorde and more have joined forces with the Artists Rights Alliance to demand that the political parties “establish clear policies requiring campaigns to seek the consent of featured recording artists, songwriters, and copyright owners before publicly using their music in a political or campaign setting,” the Artist Rights Alliance announce in a statement. The letter also points out “the fundamental right of music creators to decide who can use their music and on what terms.” And if they do not comply, the political parties risk legal action. The ARA furthered their point in the following statement: “We’ve seen so many artists and estates dragged into politics against their will and forced to take aggressive action to prohibit the use of their music – usually songs th...
Pearl Jam Announce 2021 European Tour Dates
Pearl Jam’s plans to tour their new album, Gigaton, had to be postponed, like everyone else’s tour, due to the global pandemic. But now there’s some good news. The band has released the new dates for the European leg of their tour that will take place next year. Set to kick off on June 16, 2021, in Amsterdam, Pearl Jam are going to the same places they had initially planned to go to this and also added two new concert dates, including the Pinkpop Festival. Supporting acts will be announced in the near future. “We look forward to returning to Europe, pending these events can safely take place in Summer 2021. The safety and well-being of the band’s fans, crew and event staff continue to be priority,” the band wrote on their website. Tickets will be valid for the rescheduled shows. And i...
Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder on His Late Father, Getting ‘Gem of Advice’ From Bruce Springsteen
Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder opens up about the “spiritual energy” of his late father, being friends with his rock star heroes (including Bruce Springsteen), and navigating a “terrifying” COVID-19 reality in the latest installment of the Daddy Issues podcast, hosted by sportscaster Joe Buck and actor Oliver Hudson. Listen below. Early on in the wide-ranging segment, the frontman looks back at the mysteries of his father, who died from multiple sclerosis in the early ’80s — having only met briefly met him. (Vedder’s parents divorced before his second birthday.) “I have this image, this spiritual energy up there somewhere where I can feel him look after me,” he says. “Sometimes I’d feel I’m playing certain songs or certain places and I’d feel like his energy — like, ‘I think he’s watching h...
Pearl Jam Honors the Nine Fans Killed at 2000 Roskilde Festival
Pearl Jam honored the nine lives that were lost on the 20th anniversary of the Roskilde Festival tragedy. Guitarist Stone Gossard wrote: “It’s been 20 years since that day.A normal festival show day…show up 5 hours ahead. Wait for your slot.I barely remember it…Sunny, I think.Lou Reed played, I think.Then rain and wind. But nothing has been the same since.” On June 30, 2000, Pearl Jam took the stage at the Danish music festival. So many fans packed the crowd, especially the mosh pit, so much that Eddie Vedder implored the crowd to step back to give space to those who were all the way in the front. However, that didn’t happen, and nine men, between the ages 17-26, were suffocated or crushed by the rails and died. “An unexpected moment intervened that forever changed all involved,” Gossard w...
Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament Announces New EP American Death Squad
It’s been a topsy-turvy year for Pearl Jam, to say the least. Gigaton was released to rave reviews in March, but the band hasn’t been able to tour behind it due to the coronavirus pandemic. While in quarantine, though, bassist Jeff Ament channeled his energy into writing and recording a solo EP, which was announced today (June 26). American Death Squad features four new songs, including the moody and melodic “The Divine Perfume.” “In the days following the postponement of our tour, I found it necessary to find an outlet for the energy we had created going into the tour. Pivot was the word of March. So, every morning, I retreated to the studio with the goal of writing a song every day, no matter how shite. Days of isolating and watching the news of the destruction c...
