Pearl Jam

Fans Get Punk Pearl Jam Bonus At Concert

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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Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder (Photo by Carrie Musgrave)

Pearl Jam Ten Reissue's For Completists

Brendan O'Brien's visionary remix of Ten breathes new life into Pearl Jam's classic debut, and reinvents it for the 21st century... Just kidding, it basically sounds the same. Kurt Cobain once called Pearl Jam "sellouts" because he thought they were jumping on the grunge bandwagon just to make money. If Cobain were still alive, would...
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Pearl Jam's reissued version of Ten

Eddie Vedder Not Perfect

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)

Pearl Jam Doing It All For You

(Note: If you are a Pearl Jam superfan and belong to the Ten Club, this review is not for you. Though it is entirely positive, the ignorance displayed here will likely anger you and I encourage you to stop reading.) There are bands you grow up with who you think you might want to see once in your life. For me, Pearl Jam were always one of...
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Eddie Vedder

Pearl Jam — Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam have a message for any fans who might not have followed their excursions into experimentalism in the past decade: It's time to come back to the fold. This self-titled release rocks harder and better than anything they've done in years, with an assured simplicity that makes for the best back-to-front listen in the band's catalogue. The...
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Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam — Lost Dogs

It should come as a surprise to no one that a band who officially released their entire 2000 concert tour on CD would also unleash a double disc compilation of odds, sods, lost tracks, b sides, Christmas singles and whatever else they could save from the cutting room floor. Luckily, this new collection of Pearl Jam rarities doesn't suffer from...
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Pearl Jam - Lost Dogs

Pearl Jam — Binaural

Binaural is Pearl Jam's sixth full-length studio album and it's a somewhat typical and obvious extension of the Yield recordings. The band doesn't really take any chances with this new record, except for the introduction of ukuleles on the second last song "Soon Forget." Thank god the song doesn't last for too long because you start to...
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Pearl Jam - Binaural

U2, Pearl Jam Films Coming To TIFF

Rock fans will have plenty to get excited about at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, which will feature documentaries about U2 and Pearl Jam.From The Sky Down, a David Guggenheim-directed (An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud) film about U2, will open TIFF on Sept. 8, marking the first time a documentary has done so. Meanwhile,...
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I Read The News Today... For June 2, 2011

It's not every day you pick up Bono hitchhiking, like Edmonton Oiler right winger Gilbert Brule did. Kittie are touring the U.S. this summer. Appropriately, their website still looks like it's from 2001. Edmonton singer/songwriter Eamon McGrath is taking his tunes on the road this summer. If the upcoming Holy Ship! cruise isn't your thing, maybe...
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I Read The News Today... For June 1, 2011

The Dears' Natalia Yanchak has published a short story called Final Fridays, which you can read by checking out her blog. CHARTattack contributor Steve McLean gives you a Stanley Cup finals playoffs playlist consisting of hockey songs. Brian Wilson stopped by George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight to talk about his dad, who used to beat him as a child,...
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Pearl Jam Documentary Coming To Theatres

Those of you who thought you wouldn't be lining up outside a movie theatre to see the Pearl Jam documentary when it comes out this fall were wrong.Well, maybe not every Pearl Jam fan will line up to see the flick... but some will.Pearl Jam Twenty is still airing on PBS Oct. 21, but will have its world premiere in September, getting a limited...
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I Read The News Today... For May 19, 2011

People! The Sheepdogs made the final round of Rolling Stone's choose the cover contest! Clear your fucking cookies like crazy and go vote like crazy over here! Hey! Apparently the world is ending on Saturday (what a damper on your long weekend)! So CHARTattack contributor Steve McLean has made the perfect playlist for you. Montreal singer/...
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Pearl Jam Announce Anniversary Canadian Tour

Rumblings first surfaced on the interwebs about a Pearl Jam Canadian tour with Mudhoney opening about a month ago. That jaunt's now been confirmed, since Pearl Jam have announced they'll be heading through Canada in September with fellow grunge pioneers Mudhoney in September.Mudhoney will also play their own individual dates between gigs with...
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I Read The News Today... For April 28, 2011

Missed the Foo Fighters' Back And Forth documentary when it screened in theatres recently? No biggie; you can get it on DVD and BluRay on June 14. Halifax's Rebekah Higgs will release her as-yet-untitled sophomore album sometime this summer, and she's heading out on tour next week to play songs from it. It might not be Halloween, but that's no...
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Pearl Jam Documentary Due In September

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Pearl Jam's Ten debut album. Last year, it was reported that director Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous, Fast Times At Ridgemont High) was helming a documentary about the band, which would be released to coincide with the aforemenioned anniversary. We now know the film's called Pearl Jam Twenty,...
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I Read The News Today... For April 15, 2011

The Beastie Boys' Fight For Your Right Revisited 30-minute film is screening at Toronto's Royal Cinema on Wednesday. (More Canadian screenings will be held soon.) Hopefully, you get a ticket, otherwise your "future you" is stupid. —MuchMusic Bruce Peninsula member Neil Haverty's cancer is in remission! So to celebrate, the band have started...
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I Read The News Today... For March 16, 2011

In case you've been wondering what Feist has been doing, she showed up randomly at Chilly Gonzales' show in Los Angeles on Saturday, covered a Tweet song and then dunked Peaches in a pool. Good for her. —The Hollywood Reporter Turns out Ezra Levant doesn't like Matthew Good very much. —Toronto Sun Hamilton, Ont.'s Sandman Viper Command are...
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Pearl Jam Planning 20th Anniversary Festival, Box Set, Documentary

This year marks Pearl Jam's 20th anniversary of the release of their Ten debut album. They've outlasted the mighty days of grunge, the post-grunge of the mid-'90s and early 21st century nu-metal and now they're going to celebrate in grand fashion.The band are planning their own, self-curated festival that will take over a venue somewhere in the...
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I Read The News Today... For Dec. 13, 2010

Dallas Green has announced his first ever Australian tour with his City And Colour project. He'll head down under in April. —cityandcolour.ca A Place To Bury Strangers have remixed Holy Fuck's "Red Lights." Hear a whole bunch of screaming, distorted guitars overtop of it below: Julie Doiron's announced a brief tour of the Maritimes, Ontario...
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City And Colour's Dallas Green (File photo by Chris Ramey)
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