Pearl Jam, a band whose animosity toward Ticketmaster is well documented, are committing themselves to “fairly priced tickets,” according to an official missive, as they roll out a short run of summer tour dates. The trek kicks off at the end of August and visits St. Paul, Chicago, Indianapolis, Ft. …
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Pearl Jam are returning from a three-year live hiatus on Saturday night when they headline the Sea.Hear.Now Festival on the Asbury Park, New Jersey, beachfront. They had plans to tour the world last year in support of Gigaton, but they were forced to postpone everything due to the pandemic. That …
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Former Pearl Jam drummer Dave Abbruzzese has joined forces with the Pearl Jam France Facebook community to rerecord the band’s 1993 classic “Rearviewmirror.” The seven-minute video cuts between several fans taking turns on vocals, guitars, and bass, while Abbruzzese handles the drums, just as he did on the original recording. …
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Brandi Carlile and Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready previewed their performance of Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are a-Changin’” from the Peace Through Music virtual concert, airing Tuesday, December 1st. The 40-second clip captures the beginning of the performance, with Carlile singing lead on the song’s first verse. The accompaniment is …
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Earlier this year, conductor Keith Levenson called the shutdown of the live music industry “a clusterfuck of enormous proportions” in an interview with Rolling Stone. That off-the-cuff statement inspired him to create the charitable organization Fustercluck as a means to help people in the industry that have seen their livelihoods …
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