Eddie Vedder ensured that Pearl Jam were able to play one more show in Europe after the frontman’s vocal problems — tied to the continent’s ongoing heat wave and wildfires — forced the band to cancel a handful of gigs. The band took the stage tonight, July 25, at the …
Read More »Jack Irons on His Years With Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Joe Strummer
Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their …
Read More »Pearl Jam Show How Animated 'Retrograde' Video Came Together During COVID-19
Pearl Jam have shared a new video that offers a breakdown of how their animated video for “Retrograde” came together in the middle of a global pandemic. In the “Retrograde” video, released earlier this month, a man visits a fortune teller where, in the crystal ball, he sees a series …
Read More »Seriously, You've Got to Hear This New Pearl Jam Song
Long ago, during a brief “ecstasy phase,” Eddie Vedder tried to write some techno music. “I was listening to all this stuff on ecstasy,” he told me in 2006, during an all-night chat in a Cleveland hotel room. “But I was wondering, ‘Are they writing it on ecstasy?’ I decided …
Read More »