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Eddie Vedder has said that he thinks Pearl Jam have “one or two” good records left in them, ahead of the release of their new album.The singer was speaking to MOJO Magazine a month ahead of the release of ‘Dark Matter’, their 12th studio record.“The older you get the better you are at living in the present,” he said. “The understanding you have less time is the biggest number in the quotient. The goal is to keep making music.”Vedder reflected on the fact that a number of his friends have passed away, including Chris Cornell, Mark Lanegan and Layne Stanley.

Pearl Jam have released their punky new single ‘Running’ from their upcoming album ‘Dark Matter’.The electrifying track features a deep bass line, a catchy guitar riff and a throbbing drum beat. Midway through the song it is infused with a heavy guitar solo while frontman Eddie Vedder sings: “Living in the shadows, crossing my fingers / A date with the gallows and a reprieve not looking likely”Speaking about ‘Running’ in an interview with SPIN, Pearl Jam’s lead guitarist Stone Gossard shared that the riffs in the song were created by bassist Jeff Ament.

Pearl Jam‘s Eddie Vedder has surprised young musicians based in Hawaii with brand-new guitars for Christmas.In a Facebook post uploaded by Coconut Grove Music teacher Harry Koizumi, who is based in Kailua, Oahu, the ‘Black’ singer swung by the music shop to buy three new guitars for three of Koizumi’s students.“Early this week, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam came into Coconut Grove Music and asked the salesman if there was a guitar teacher who has taught there for many years. So I got a text to come out of my teaching room and say hello,” read the post.A Christmas Story in Kailua,Oahu 2023Early this week, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam came into Coconut Grove Music and asked…Posted by Harry Koizumi on Sunday, December 24, 2023It continued: “He asked if I could help him choose some electric guitars that would be good for younger players.

Pearl Jam played their first show of 2023 on Thursday in Minnesota, playing a 24-song setlist with more than a few surprises.The band brought numerous songs back to the setlist that they hadn’t aired live in some time.

Pearl Jam‘s Jeff Ament has given an update on the band’s new album, saying it “doesn’t feel like a record yet”.Guitarist Stone Gossard confirmed in an interview last March that work had begun on the follow-up to 2020’s ‘Gigaton’ and that Andrew Watt, who has previously worked with Justin Bieber, is behind the production desk this time around.While Gossard said they were going to try and finish the record “pretty soon,” Ament has revealed in a new interview that there’s still a way to go on the new LP.“The hardest part of [finishing] a record a lot of times is figuring out which songs go on the record and do we need to record another song and what’s the artwork and what’s the title and all that stuff,” he said, revealing that the band are taking the summer off.“Come September, we’re still gonna pick up those questions we have about where we’re at and we’re gonna ask those questions again,” he added.“I think everybody hopes that we have a record out next year. If we have a record out next year, that means we’ll probably play a few more shows, and I think there’s a couple places we haven’t played in quite a while, so I think we have stuff penciled in.”Of the band’s legacy and what it affords them when making new music, Ament added: “We’ve earned the right to sort of [do whatever we want], and that’s tough because there are five of us pulling the cart.“Sometimes you end up pulling the cart in opposite directions.

LIVE BUSINESSPearl Jam have committed to offset carbon emissions on their latest tour to the tune of $200 per ton. “By committing to this aggressive pricing, we hope to amplify our efforts tenfold, highlight the most compelling avenues for carbon sequestration, mitigation and reduction, and hopefully gather many partners who share our urgency to make the enormous efforts and innovations required to move our world to a carbon balanced and more conscious economy”, says guitarist Stone Gossard.——————————————————-RELEASESStormzy has released new single ‘Hide & Seek’, the first from new album ‘This Is What I Mean’, which is out on 25 Nov.Louis Tomlinson has released new single ‘Out Of My System’.

Stevie Nicks, Jack White and Pink have been announced to headline Eddie Vedder’s Ohana Festival in California this autumn.Vedder, who will also play a solo headline set, topped the bill on all three nights of last year’s event after it returned following a one-year hiatus due to the COVID pandemic.The festival at Dana Point will also feature Broken Social Scene performing ‘You Forgot It In People’, and other sets by St. Vincent, Khruangbin, Brittany Howard, Manchester Orchestra, Kevin Morby, Gang Of Youths, Bomba Estereo, Noga Erez, Billy Strings and many others.Ohana Festival, which launched in 2016, runs from August 30-September 2, 2022. Pre-sale tickets go live tomorrow (April 13) at 10am PT/6pm BST.

Pearl Jam‘s Stone Gossard has tried to defuse the recent war of words between his bandmate Eddie Vedder and Mötley Crüe‘s Nikki Sixx.Gossard said that he was a fan of Mötley Crüe’s music, despite Vedder’s recent comments, and that he had purchased the band’s 1981 debut album ‘Too Fast For Love’ when it was still available only on the indie label Leathür Records.“Jeff [Ament, Pearl Jam bassist] and Mike [McCready, guitarist] and I loved hard rock, like, went through it all. I bought the first Mötley Crüe on Leathür Records,” Gossard told the Fan First podcast. “I thought it was, at the time, it was punk-like.

Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard has paid tribute to his friend and former collaborator Chris Cornell.In a new interview, Gossard discussed the former Audioslave and Soundgarden frontman, who died by suicide aged 52 in 2017.Speaking to Kerrang! about seeing a young Cornell performing “punk rock screaming shows,” Gossard said: “He elevated himself in a way that everyone dreams about.“It was like becoming a superhero or something, in terms of that voice and where it came from and how it was able

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Pearl Jam have penned an emotional anniversary tribute in honour of the fans who died during one of their performances at Roskilde Festival 20 years ago.

Jonathan Cohen Pearl Jam has honored the memories of the nine fans crushed to death during its June 30, 2000, Roskilde Festival performance with an emotional statement authored by guitarist Stone Gossard on behalf of the band. “It’s been 20 years since that day,” Gossard writes.

By Jonathan Cohen