Reuters - Apr 8, 2009
Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder is hitting the road in June, lining up solo shows in six southern and eastern cities as well as three concerts in Hawaii. The 14-date trek starts June 8 in Albany, N.Y...
More »Reuters - Sep 18, 2008
Chicago radio stations and sports bars have begun spinning All the Way, a Chicago Cubs-themed ditty written by Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder at the request of Cubs legend Ernie Banks. The track...
More »AP - Jun 15, 2008
Destination festivals are a universe unto their own where the real world is left in the parking lot. But at this year s Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, the outside world and its problems politics...
More »Reuters - Apr 15, 2008
In a mock presentation in the middle of his set Saturday night at the Wiltern, Eddie Vedder finally received his Golden Globe for best original song for Guaranteed from Into the Wild. Vedder jokingly...
More »AP - Nov 14, 2007
In a Nov. 12 story about movie theme songs, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Eddie Vedder wrote Hard Sun for Into the Wild. While Vedder wrote several other songs for the film, Hard Sun...
More »Reuters - Oct 26, 2007
Sean Penn has wanted to make a movie based on Jon Krakauer's 1996 book Into the Wild since the moment he finished reading it. The true story of Christopher McCandless, a recent college graduate who...
More »Yahoo! Music - Jul 3, 2007
Eddie Vedder has reportedly written several original songs for a film directed by Sean Penn that is due out this fall. The Pearl Jam frontman wrote almost an entire album s worth of songs for Into The...
More »E! Online - Mar 14, 2007
Talk about the passion. Hot off an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and a shiny, happy, if temporary reunion with ex-drummer Bill Berry, R.E.M.'s remaining trio of Michael Stipe, Peter...
More »Reuters - Sep 19, 2006
Previously unreleased tracks from Jack Johnson and Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder will see the light of day on the soundtrack to the Johnson-spearheaded surfing documentary A Brokedown Melody. The...
More »Reuters - Aug 29, 2006
The Strokes cover of Marvin Gaye s Mercy Mercy Me, which features Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder and Queens Of The Stone Age principal Josh Homme, will be released September 26 as the B-side to the...
More »Reuters - Aug 28, 2006
You may have seen the recent photos of Bob Dylan looking uncannily like Charlie Chaplin, and his 44th album, Modern Times, shares a title with Chaplin s 1936 classic about automation, big business and...
More »Reuters - Jul 10, 2006
It was billed as a Pearl Jam concert, but perhaps it should have been called Sing-Along With Ed. The most memorable moments during the Seattle band s epic two-hour-and-40-minute show at the Forum came...
More »AP - May 21, 2006
Pearl Jam s new headquarters could face demolition because of the city s plans to build a dump. We hadn t even finished unpacking and moving into our new space when we heard about the city s waste management...
More »Reuters - May 10, 2006
Rock band Pearl Jam is focusing on politics and charity in its 2006 summer tour, railing against the Iraq war and promising a dollar to a local charity from every ticket sold. Pearl Jam has long been...
More »E! Online - Mar 6, 2006
Guess who s still alive? After a nearly four-year break from recording, Pearl Jam has announced plans to release its eighth official studio album on May 2, followed by a major tour. The self...
More »Reuters - Dec 4, 2005
Blasting away despite heavy rains and municipal restrictions, veteran rockers Pearl Jam delighted tens of thousands of fans in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on their first tour of Latin America. In two outdoor...
More »Reuters - Sep 3, 2005
For Ryan Shupe & the RubberBand, Dream Big is not just its first single, it could also serve as the act s motto. During a nine-year span, the Salt Lake City-based group recorded four independent albums...
More »E! Online - Jul 24, 2005
John Densmore has slammed the door on his former Doors mates. The original Doors drummer scored a permanent injunction against two of his former cohorts in the legendary 1960s rock group--effectively...
More »E! Online - Jan 11, 2005
The future is temporarily on hold for Jermaine Dupri. The star rapper-producer had been planning to record the charity single We Are the Future, a 20th-anniversary sequel to the 1980s hit We Are...
More »Reuters - Jan 3, 2005
Veteran pop star Sir Cliff Richard , flamboyant singer Boy George and other British musicians plan to release a song to raise money for victims of the devastating Asian tsunami, the tune s composer said...
More »AP - Oct 11, 2004
The Vote for Change concert tour wraps up Monday night, and Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard is calling it a success. Pearl Jam joined Bruce Springsteen , R.E.M ., Bonnie Raitt , John Mellencamp and...
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