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Fans Get Punk Pearl Jam Bonus At Concert

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By Ian Gormely (CHARTattack) August 24, 2009 4:07 pm
Pearl Jam have taken a lot of flack from detractors for their "band of the people" stances over the course of their neatly two-decade career. Be it their refusal to do interviews, make videos or their ill-fated squabble with Ticketmaster, cynical backlash has dogged them. But those in attendance at the Molson Ampitheatre in Toronto...
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Eddie Vedder Not Perfect

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) August 13, 2008 11:57 am
Liam Finn nearly stole the show from Eddie Vedder on Tuesday night, and it wasn't just because he covered Neil Young's "Old Man," which had the crowd hollering. Neil Finn's son is one of the best opening acts I've seen in a while. I wasn't very impressed with his I'll Be Lightning debut when it came out earlier this year, but he's...
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Eddie Vedder at Bonnaroo 2008 (photo by Carrie Musgrave)

I Read The News Today... For May 26, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 26, 2011 3:58 pm
Dropkick Murphys! Surfing! Hollerado! Boarding! KO! Surfing! Drugs! Hopefully no rain! Wakestock has been announced! Speaking of the Dropkick Murphys, they're launching a massive North American tour this summer, which means you have no reason not to pretend you're Irish. Calgary singer/songwriter Michael Bernard Fitzgerald will play a live,...
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I Read The News Today... For March 21, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 21, 2011 4:03 pm
Tool Lite A Perfect Circle are coming to a North American city near you. It's just like 2002 all over again! Yeah!!! —Spin A man's ear is being used to blow up balloons in this Cars video, there's some sort of marble rolling around, an evil scientist and... I don't... ... ... goddamnit, just watch it: Did you miss that Yuck show in...
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I Read The News Today... For Nov. 4, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 4, 2010 1:14 pm
Crash Karma were recently in Afghanistan to perform for Canadian troops stationed there. Now that they're back, they'll head out on a cross-Canada tour this month. —MySpace Lil Wayne is a free man today after being released from New York's Rikers Island prison, where he was serving a gun possession charge. Apparently this is the biggest thing to...
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I Read The News Today... For Sept. 20, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) September 20, 2010 12:05 pm
This ought to leave you teenage ladies crying into your pillow: Kings Of Leon's Caleb Followill is engaged to model Lily Aldridge. Now maybe they can focus on making babies and Kings Of Leon can stop making shitty records (aka go away forever). —US Weekly Megadeth's Dave Mustaine has signed on to co-manage London, Ont.'s Baptized In Blood. —...
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I Read The News Today... For Aug. 24, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) August 24, 2010 1:31 pm
Kasabian celebrated the end of their tour in support of last year's West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum by gatecrashing two weddings with Noel Gallagher. We're guessing there was plenty of booze involved and the language got quite... appropriately filthy. —The Sun My Morning Jacket, R.E.M. and Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom...
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The Cult's Ian Astbury Calls Eddie Vedder, Trent Reznor, Dave Grohl "Fakes"

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) May 18, 2010 4:03 pm
Cult lead singer Ian Astbury spent five years pretending to be Jim Morrison (you could actually argue he's spent almost all of his career doing that) as a member of The Doors Of The 21st Century. That's the previous moniker of the reunited Doors featuring original members Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger, who've since renamed themselves to...
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Wilco, Eddie Vedder, Die Mannequin Get Involved With Haiti

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) January 26, 2010 3:28 pm
Wilco have joined the numerous artists that are raising money to help support Haitian earthquake relief. The band have made free downloads of live shows recorded in Brooklyn, N.Y. and London, England available through their website. In exchange, Wilco are asking their fans to donate at least $15 to Doctors Without Borders and Oxfam to help with...
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Eddie Vedder Sued Over Lyric Changes To Indio Song

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) January 4, 2010 11:31 am
Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder is being sued by Canadian singer/songwriter Indio over lyric changes to his cover of Indio's "Hard Sun." The New York Post reports Indio, whose real name is Gordon Peterson, claims Vedder "eroded" the track's integrity by changing the lyrics to his version of the song, which appears on 2007's...
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Vedder Thinks Cobain Would Have Liked Him

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) March 20, 2009 10:41 am
Although Kurt Cobain disliked Pearl Jam when he was alive, Eddie Vedder recently told the U.K.'s The Sun tabloid that the Nirvana frontman would have liked Vedder if he was still alive. "If Kurt were around today, I know he'd say to me, 'Well, you turned out OK,'" the Pearl Jam singer said. Cobain took jabs at Pearl Jam before he...
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Eddie Vedder Helps Cartoonist

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By Jason MacNeil (CHARTattack) March 18, 2009 3:12 pm
Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder posted a letter on the band's site recently to help out a friend of his, political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow, the creator of the This Modern World comic strip which was removed from 12 alternative weekly newspapers in the U.S. "Obviously that means a loss of income for him," Vedder says. "Perhaps even worse...
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Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder (photo by Richard Beland)

The Daily Spin: Eddie Vedder - Music From The Motion Picture Into The Wild

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) August 12, 2008 10:03 am
I own an iPod, but for the most part I don't use it and stubbornly cling to my nearly 10-year-old Discman. I listen to a different album every day on the old clunker, and here's today's: Eddie Vedder's songs on Music From The Motion Picture Into The Wild are more folky than anything you'll find on Pearl Jam's releases, since many feature...
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Eddie Vedder Contributes Music To Two TIFF Films

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By CHARTattack Staff September 7, 2007 5:00 pm
Eddie Vedder is going to the movies. The Pearl Jam frontman will perform at the world premiere of the documentary Body Of War on Sept. 11 as part of the Toronto International Film Festival. Another film being shown at the fest, the Sean Penn-written and directed Into The Wild, features a soundtrack that Vedder wrote and performed. Body Of War...
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Vedder And Homme Join The Strokes On Marvin Gaye Cover

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By CHARTattack Staff June 12, 2006 4:30 pm
The Strokes invited Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme to the studio to contribute to their cover of Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me." Homme joined The Strokes' Fabrizio Moretti on drums, while Vedder added his vocals to those of frontman Julian Casablancas. The song will be the b-side of The Strokes'...
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Eddie Vedder Applying For Canuck Citizenship?

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By ChartAttack.com Staff (CHARTattack) February 7, 2001 1:30 pm
A collector's wet dream is now almost completely fulfilled — that is, if you're a Pearl Jam fan. You can now log on to their fansite at tenclub.net and buy "bootleg" recordings of the first leg of the 2000 North American tour, with albums of the rest of the tour soon to follow. This is Pearl Jam's master plan for beating the bootleggers — create...
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